Gameplayer Lanny Davis Can't Quite Game The International Scene

Boo, the freakin' hoo! Washingon insider (and Democrat) Lanny Davis can game all the angles on the domestic scene, but the international scene is still a world of anarchy. Davis can't get paid. The authority of the courts wanes at the coast. Serves overconfident Davis right!:

Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has been accused of a lot of things: torturing political opponents, overseeing a corruption-filled regime and living a lavish lifestyle as most of his people languish in poverty. Now he can add not paying his legal fees to an American lawyer to his list.

Lanny Davis, who previously represented the government of deposed Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo, is suing the Republic of Equatorial Guinea for stiffing him on a legal bill.

Davis says that he helped Obiang in "instituting comprehensive political, legal and economic reforms," but hasn't been paid $142,000 he's owed, Legal Times reported. His lawsuit says that he wasn't reimbursed for expenses from four trips to the country, including his airfare and hotel accommodations which totaled $55,569.

...A 2008 Slate story made the case that Obiang's life "seems a parody of the dictator genre" and that he was arguably the worst dictator in Africa:

Years of violent apprenticeship in a genocidal regime led by a crazy uncle? Check. Power grab in a coup against the murderous uncle? Check. Execution of now-deposed uncle by firing squad? Check. Proclamation of self as "the liberator" of the nation? Check. Govern for decades in a way that prompts human rights groups to accuse your regime of murder, torture, and corruption? Check, check, and check.