Khaled Ghandour, a Lebanese businessman, who went into business with Dr. Munir Uwaydah in 2001, while in Lebanon, invested $300,000 at that time into Uwaydah’s alter-ego Prometheus Health Imaging. 

It was a business that allowed patients to have body scans without a doctor’s prescription.  It ultimately failed and was banned in the United States, in Pennsylvania in particular, where Uwaydah first established it.

Then, after years of fumbling and bumbling, and a game of hide-and-go-seek from Uwaydah who was ditching Khaled Ghandour, Dr. Uwaydah did the outrageous.  He sued Ghandour in Santa Monica Superior Court on two counts alleging libel, slander, misappropriation of funds, abuse of trade secrets and a couple other things.  Then he hired an actor to pretend he was Khaled Ghandour in the court room—in a bench trial. 

This actor admitted to full liability and Dr. Uwaydah wound up with a $6,000,000 judgment against Ghandour and in favor of himself and Prometheus Health Imaging. 

One of the myriad outrages is that Khaled Ghandour has never even been to California in his whole life.  So, the jurisdiction issue was one of the many things that was very wrong.

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Imagine you’re a defendant in a case filed against you. But then imagine an actor hired by the Plaintiff comes into the court room and you have absolutely no idea. You’re somewhere else. You live in Lebanon and have never been to... Read More