Complaint Review: Darryl Mitchell PA - Fort Lauderdale Florida

Darryl Mitchell PA, Darryl G Mitchell PA, Law Office of Darryl Mitchell, Law Office of Darryl G Mitchell advertises himself as a lawyer. Although he is an actual lawyer, he has been reprimanded by the Florida Bar for stealing money from clients and lying about the services he can provide. He was recently arrested in Broward County on February 3, 2012. Please google and you will see his mug shot.

He took $5000 from us for immigration paperwork. When a month had gone by and he never sent us a copy of the paperwork we questioned him and he admitted that he did not file any paperwork and pretended he didn't know who we were. Then he mailed us a partial refund and the check bounced (even though he still claimed to not know who we were). To this day he has not paid us back and is still getting away with this.

His partner in crime is OJ Odunna, who also has a criminal record. OJ had his license revoked and falsely advertises himself as a lawyer. Darryl Mitchell lets OJ do his dirty work and he allows it since he has a law degree. OJ was also indicted for stealing thousands of dollars for filing fake paperwork in connection to a mortgage scheme in Florida in 2008.

This unethical behavior needs to be stopped. Please warn all your friends and family to steer clear of these two crooks. Please do your research before hiring a lawyer. Log onto any state bar website and type in the lawyer's name and you can view all disciplinary actions against them. We filed a complaint with the better business bureau as well as the Florida bar and will also file a police report.

If you google OJ Odunna's name, he was one of the 25 lawyers disbarred for committing fraud and scamming people out of $374,000 in 2008. Darryl Mitchell was arrested in Broward County in February 2012. His father Marzell Mitchell was also disbarred for setting up false trust accounts and falsely underreporting income from his law office. This information is all available on the Florida Bar website as well as google.

Specifically, these two prey on immigrants who do not know any better and are looking for a change in immigration status. They will take their money and promise them a green card, but do not file any paperwork. In addition, they will never give you an itemized receipt or detailed costs. They will ask you for large lump sums of money. OJ is known to disappear - when he calls you back, you will see he only calls from a Skype account and constantly changes his phone number. When he feels you realize he is stealing your money, he flies back to Nigeria and will not call you back. Darryl Mitchell will pretend he does not know who OJ is and will claim they are not partners since he knows it is illegal to have a non-lawyer practicing law under his law firm. These two have their scam down to a science. They know immigrants have so much to lose that they will not report them to the police, etc, so they continue to scam them out of their life savings since they cannot afford to hire an attorney to get their money back and they fear for deportation. 

They owe us $5000.00 total and have not paid us pack although they admitted to wrongdoing and agreed to pay us back after we threatened legal proceedings.

I have personally written the Florida Bar, contacted several lawyers about these two con artists. I have taken to Yelp!, Merchant Circle and any other avenue to expose these guys. They are unethical, unlawful and need to be stopped.