LAS VEGAS - For the entire length of the Kirk Henry federal case, the United States Federal Court for the District of Nevada has handled defendant Rick Rizzolo with kid gloves. In the meantime, quadriplegic Kirk Henry is still waiting to be paid for the injuries he suffered at the hands of one of Rizzolo’s thugs back in October 2001.
Henry's neck was broken after he disputed a padded bar tab at Rizzolo's now-defunct Crazy Horse Too topless bar in Vegas. Henry was not Rizzolo's first victim.
Instead of going after racketeer Rizzolo for using the court to stall this case, the federal court is going after Rizzolo's jail house lawyer James “Spud” Kimsey for allegedly practicing law without a license -- at Rizzolo’s behest!
Instead of throwing the book at RIzzolo for knowingly hiring a non-lawyer like Kimsey, then signing his name to fifteen bogus court filings Kimsey authored including a subpoena commanding Kirk Henry’s attorney appear for a deposition at one in the morning, the federal court seems obsessed with punishing the easiest target, an ex-con biker who's kept his nose clean for the past fourteen years.
This is another example of why Kirk Henry has had to wait so long for justice.
Kimsey’s inclusion in this case was intentional -- to stall the case for at least an additional six months. It worked. The case has gone nowhere since last summer and Henry still sits in his electric wheelchair waiting for justice that seems more elusive with each passing day. And now the court is taking even more time away from Kirk Henry’s plight, to attend to this latest waste of time -- punishing Kimsey for doing Rizzolo's bidding.
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Steve Miller, is a former Las Vegas City Councilman. In 1991, the readers of the Las Vegas Review Journal voted him the “Most Effective Public Official” in Southern Nevada. Miller writes internationally syndicated columns on organized crime and political corruption for Rick Porrello’s AmericanMafia.com.
