Took Them Stacks And Ran

Lil Kim can add her name to the already long list of artists that have been paid to perform and then skipped out leaving the promoter looking crazy.

Took Them Stacks And Ran: $8 billion of Them

These thieves are thick as hell. R. Allen Stanford is being accused of stealing more than $8 billion in a scam. Smh @ this level of thievery during an economic crisis.

Via Yahoo:

Being a Texas billionaire who loved cricket should’ve raised some red flags immediately. Now Robert Allen Stanford may be charged as the newest scam artist on the financial block…once the Securities and Exchange Commission finds him.

Not that Searchers haven’t been looking for the money manager themselves. Queries for “allen stanford” (also known—and misspelled—online as “robert allen stanford,” “r allen stanford,” “sir alan stanford,” and the like) popped up into the top 5,000 searches after a “caravan” of feds drove up February 17 and took over the headquarters of his financial services company, the Stanford Group, under charges of old-fashioned fraud.

Sir Stanford, however, wasn’t there to hand over the keys and to face charges, although his cohorts were. His whereabouts were unknown. One report says he tried to hire a private jet to fly to his Caribbean home but ignominiously failed due to a rejected credit card. It appears only wire transfers are acceptable from sweaty-palmed financiers.

Took Them Stacks And Ran

Lil’ Wayne has fallen into the Took Them Stacks And Ran category for doing what else but taking them stacks and running.

Via Perezhilton:

Lil’ Wayne has found himself in the middle of a lawsuit!

The rapper turned diva was set to perform at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, NY in October, but cancelled due to the sound system at the venue not being up to his “standards.”

Took Them Stacks And Ran

Neyo is being sued for pulling a no show on some concert promoters who payed him quite a bit of cash.

Via TMZ:

Happening hot spot Bellevue, Wa. was supposed to be the scene for a big New Year’s Eve shindig hosted by Ne-Yo. And it probably would have been awesome … if only he showed up.

According to a lawsuit filed last week in Maryland, Wet Entertainment booked Ne-Yo for the NYE gig and paid him $95,000 up front. The organizers claim they made all sorts of arrangements for the show — promotion, travel, hotel, etc.

Took them stacks and ran

Michael Jackson is turning out to be a real sheisty summumaB*tch. In this issue of Took Them Stacks And Ran MJ is being sued by John Landis who co-wrote and directed Michael Jackson’s Thriller back in 1983. Landis is saying that Jacko has refused to pay him his portion of the profits which acocording to him is % 50.

Via Eurweb:

Lawsuits seem to follow Michael Jackson around like those zombies did in his iconic “Thriller” video. The latest legal snag comes from the clip’s director, John Landis, who claims the singer owes him profits from the video for the last four years.

 

Landis – who co-wrote and directed the 14-minute video in 1983 – filed the suit last week in Los Angeles Superior Court through his company, Levitsky Prods., against Jackson and Optimum Prods.