Mike Miller Considering Lawsuit Against Heat

[KingLeBronJames]

[quote]Mike Miller, a popular and contributing piece of two Heat championship teams before the team released him in July, is strongly considering filing a lawsuit against the team because he believes the franchise bears some responsibility for him being swindled by a con man, his attorney tells us.

Miller, who now plays for the Memphis Grizzlies, lost $1.7 million in a scam allegedly orchestrated by Haider Zafar, a South Beach bling king who presented himself as a member of a wealthy Pakistani family.

According to Miller's complaint that has been drawn up but not yet filed, a Heat employee introduced Miller to Zafar, and Zafar used $700,000 of the money he stole from Miller to pay for courtside Heat tickets.

Settlement talks between Miller and the Heat have stalled. Miller asked for that $700,000 back from the Heat, plus attorney

[TheReal Kendall]

[ProfessorMurder]

Newsflash to scammers:

It's not the best idea to scam a dude and then buy courtside season tickets to watch the guy play, by using his money. Get out of town instead of wasting 700k.

[plowking]

So hes suing and blaming someone else for his stupid decision?

So typical of today's society as a whole. Always wanting something from someone and blaming someone else. People can't take responsibility for their actions anymore.

[Droid101]

Hope Miller's lawyers rip that asshole a new one.

****ing scammers like this piss me off.

[Droid101]

So hes suing and blaming someone else for his stupid decision?

So typical of today's society as a whole. Always wanting something from someone and blaming someone else. People can't take responsibility for their actions anymore.

Come on man, the Vice President of the Miami Heat urged him to invest in this fraud. This is grounds for a lawsuit against the Heat, no questions asked. How can you be so obtuse?

[LosBulls]

So hes suing and blaming someone else for his stupid decision?

So typical of today's society as a whole. Always wanting something from someone and blaming someone else. People can't take responsibility for their actions anymore.

Miller determined that Zafar was a fraud in late April. Until that point,

[ZMonkey11]

So hes suing and blaming someone else for his stupid decision?

So typical of today's society as a whole. Always wanting something from someone and blaming someone else. People can't take responsibility for their actions anymore.

Yeah why did Bernie Madoff even go to prison? Indigents, all of them.

[plowking]

Come on man, the Vice President of the Miami Heat urged him to invest in this fraud. This is grounds for a lawsuit against the Heat, no questions asked. How can you be so obtuse?

No one can make you do anything.
The guy is obviously a scum bag and what not, but take some responsibility. So what he urged him. You're a grown man, and if you can't make a good decision, then its on you.

[poido123]

Come on man, the Vice President of the Miami Heat urged him to invest in this fraud. This is grounds for a lawsuit against the Heat, no questions asked. How can you be so obtuse?

Dead on. He has every right to pursue this matter.

Heat were responsible for leading him to this blackhole.

They have some responsibility in it too.

[Wally450]

SamuraiSwoosh never told us about this when he had drinks with mike millers brother.

[CavaliersFTW]

No one can make you do anything.
The guy is obviously a scum bag and what not, but take some responsibility. So what he urged him. You're a grown man, and if you can't make a good decision, then its on you.

I hope you get scammed one day and lose money from some investor or family friend or w/e that you trusted with a huge sum of your money so that you'll realize that contacting a lawyer after something like is a much better option than shrugging your shoulders and thinking 'oh em gee lyfe's a b*tch this was all my fault heh he got me good!'. Scams like that warrant immediate legal action. Scams involving that kind of money are quite serious. If he does nothing about it he looses 700k and a scammer lived like a king off a huge sum of his money and is still on the loose able to do it again to whomever else he and his contacts can lure into a false sense of security. This isn't some pr*ssy McDonalds hot coffee incident, which is how it seems like your treating it. I agree some people sue over stupid sh*t, but this? Somebody needs to make a settlement to Miller to get his 700k back and a scammer needs to be dealt with. Can't have people like that taking advantage of other peoples money just because you think Miller and the rest of America should 'accept' scams as a fact of life and do nothing about them.

[La Frescobaldi]

No one can make you do anything.
The guy is obviously a scum bag and what not, but take some responsibility. So what he urged him. You're a grown man, and if you can't make a good decision, then its on you.

Clear off-base. You should examine Enron or Worldcom lawsuits, where executives urged employees to maintain their 401(k) accounts despite the executives knowing they were bad investments.
This is the same reason Eric Holder deserves contumely if not literal tar and feathering, for finding no illegality in the Wall Street debacle of 2008. They knowingly sold terrible investments, just like Enron, but holder is such a witless fool that in spite of Congress providing him with tens of thousands of cite-able cases... he couldn't find anything to charge them with.

[plowking]

I hope you get scammed one day and lose money from some investor

Of course you do.

You're a scumbag who takes the internet too seriously and clearly still upset I owned you in another thread or something.

The fact that you wish ill fortune on someone over the internet who you don't even know shows your lack of integrity and maturity.

[plowking]

Clear off-base. You should examine Enron or Worldcom lawsuits, where executives urged employees to maintain their 401(k) accounts despite the executives knowing they were bad investments.
This is the same reason Eric Holder deserves contumely if not literal tar and feathering, for finding no illegality in the Wall Street debacle of 2008. They knowingly sold terrible investments, just like Enron, but holder is such a witless fool that in spite of Congress providing him with tens of thousands of cite-able cases... he couldn't find anything to charge them with.

That strikes me as something entirely different.

Having someone vouch for someone else, isn't the same as knowingly distributing terrible investments or dodgy products.