BOCA RATON, FL -- Richard Lehman is a tax attorney in a small corner office overflowing with paperwork and right now he's preparing to sue the nation of Panama for violating his human rights.
"This is what can be done under a judicial system gone wild," says Lehman.
Lehman had a wealthy client, Wilson Lucom who lived in Panama and who had cut his wife's children out of his will.
Instead, Lucom had decided to donate 50-million dollars to the starving children of Panama.
When Lehman went there to execute the will however, the attorney was charged with the murder of Wilson Lucom.
"Can you imagine waking up and your lawyer calls and says 'Guess what they just accused you of murdering Mr. Lucom, who's 89-years old, in the hospital, who was hooked up to tubs and died."
Since 2006, Lehman has been falsely charged with dozens of crimes in Panama, from murder to extortion.
He's even been named by Interpol as one of their most wanted. All of this he says started because Lucom's family in Panama has produced two former presidents of the nation and they want that money.
He says they are creating false criminal charges in an effort to prevent the will from being executed.
Even though all of the charges had been dropped against him for lack of evidence in February Lehman was still arrested, and held at gunpoint for 14-hours.
"You were scared?" asks Holmes.
"S--t, yeah I was scared," says Lehman.
He was detained in a hotel for five days and was only able to get out through a border town and cross into Costa Rica.
All this because a powerful family thinks where there's a will there's a way, and an attorney and the starving children of Panama are paying the price.
"You can't stop somebody from being a fiduciary across borders by using criminal laws against them. What kind of world would you have?"
