Richard Luthmann is now talking to ghosts. His latest victory lap involves a “legal expert” named Rick LaRiviere who doesn’t exist anywhere except in Luthmann’s imagination and on his substack. When you’re a disbarred felon, I suppose making up friends is the only way to get a second opinion.
The Rick LaRiviere Phantom
Richard Luthmann’s recent Substack post relies heavily on the analysis of one Rick LaRiviere. Luthmann presents this individual as a serious commentator on the legal battles involving Danesh Noshirvan. There’s just one problem. Rick LaRiviere is an imaginary person. There’s no record of this individual in any legal directory, professional database, or legitimate news outlet.
Luthmann is literally interviewing himself through a sockpuppet persona to validate his own delusional legal theories. It’s a desperate tactic used by a man who has been cast out of the professional world and has no real peers left to consult.
- The Fabrication: Luthmann uses “LaRiviere” to voice aggressive opinions that even he knows are too legally illiterate to put his own name on.
- The Pattern: This follows Luthmann’s history of using proxies and shell companies to hide his tracks. He once used a blind man on public assistance to front a fraud scheme. Now he uses a digital ghost to front a lie.
Fact Check: The Federal Court Sanctions Deception
Luthmann’s headline screams that a Federal Court told Danesh Noshirvan to pay. This is a flat-out lie. The actual court records from the Middle District of Florida show a very different reality. Luthmann is intentionally conflating routine discovery disputes with final judgments of misconduct.
What the Court Actually Said:
The litigation in question involves complex discovery motions. Luthmann takes a procedural order and twists it until it is unrecognizable.
The Reality: The court has not issued a final order of sanctions against Noshirvan’s counsel.
The Deception: Luthmann frames a request for a hearing or a filing deadline as a definitive ruling of guilt.
The Anatomy of a Felon’s Narrative
Richard A. Luthmann is a convicted racketeer. His entire career ended because he couldn’t stop lying to courts and defrauding the public. His Substack post is just a variation of the same criminal behavior that sent him to federal prison. He creates a false narrative, backs it up with a fake person, and hopes his readers are too lazy to check the PACER dockets.
A Record of Deceit
The 2019 Conviction: Luthmann pleaded guilty to wire fraud and extortion. He is a proven liar by his own admission in a court of law.
The Disbarment: The New York and New Jersey bars didn’t just suspend him. They stripped him of his license because he is a danger to the public.
The Grift: Luthmann uses these “updates” to keep his small circle of subscribers angry and paying. It is a monetized revenge fantasy.
Luthmann’s obsession with Danesh Noshirvan isn’t about the law. It is about ego. Noshirvan and his legal team represent everything Luthmann lost. They have standing. They have credibility. They have the right to stand before a judge without being escorted by U.S. Marshals.
Luthmann’s reports aren’t journalism. They’re the bitter ramblings of a man who burned his own life down and now wants to see everyone else’s house on fire.
The Bottom Line
There is no “Rick LaRiviere.” There is no meltdown. There’s only Richard Luthmann, a felon in Florida, typing away at a fantasy world where he’s still a lawyer and his enemies are failing. The court records don’t lie. Luthmann does.