Nicholas Robert Rekieta / Rekieta "Law" / Actually Criminal / @NickRekieta - Polysubstance enthusiast, "Lawtuber" turned Dabbleverse streamer, swinger, "whitebread ass nigga", snuffs animals for fun, visits 🇯🇲 BBC resorts. Legally a cuckold who lost his license to practice law. Wife's bod worth $50. The normies even know.

[Scary Bread]

"I just learned that I shouldn't be driving with these wheels under 40 degrees".

Is he fucking serious? He's lived in Minnesota for how long and the thought of, "Oh yeah, WINTER TIRES," never crossed his mind? Does he think that because the tires he had were on his fancy new muscle car that they must magically be better under all conditions? How sheltered and underdeveloped is this man?

Dude shits on how inept public school teachers are. (And I have no love for the public school system myself.) But, if you're so mentally deficient that you never even grasped such basic day-to-day life knowledge, I'd trust them to teach my kids ten days out of ten over your retarded ass.

 

[JackoVerde]

Feel free to call me a seething prude but it's not really common for young professionals to be able to afford a down payment + mortgage on multiple pieces of property BEFORE and very soon after finishing their schooling, while also having multiple kids to take care of. If Nick has some sort of financial wizardry going on I'd like to know how to afford school + 2 properties + 5 kids (with nannies) in 10 years. He could sell a master class and fund another Mustang with the profits

well unless lady rackets was a software programmer or something, no way nicks income could have achieved that, we know what jobs he was doing. he was bouncing around between bank jobs and he almost became a mortgage loan guy until he left to audition for a game show, i think it was "want to be a millionaire"
imagine throwing away a decent job just to get on a game show and that wasn't even guaranteed
Nick literally said he was fully trained and all he had left was to do the final test and he had the license, he skipped the test just to audition for a game show.
i think daddy and mommy rackets were funnelling money into nickz bank balance because there's no way he could just fuck around the way he does if they weren't.

 

[northstar747]

However, I suspect Nick was in high school right as the ass-kicking was getting cracked down on to prevent "bullying", but the spicey shit-talking didn't get you assigned to the short bus yet. A deeply troubled time...

I assume nick graduated in 1999.

columbine happened in 04/99. so unless he pulled shit 2 months before graduation then most likely he skated by.

 

[Not Who You Think]

Feel free to call me a seething prude but it's not really common for young professionals to be able to afford a down payment + mortgage on multiple pieces of property BEFORE and very soon after finishing their schooling, while also having multiple kids to take care of. If Nick has some sort of financial wizardry going on I'd like to know how to afford school + 2 properties + 5 kids (with nannies) in 10 years. He could sell a master class and fund another Mustang with the profits

So, I guess the options for Nicks wealth seem to be inheritance, income from previous employment, loans/gifts/support from family, content creation (online), and maybe gambling profits? Another option would be income through illicit means, unreported/under the table stuff, depending on which circles he runs in professionally and/or personally. All this weighed against his expenses of course (debts, education, house, food/restaurants, vehicle, family, nannies, pro bono cases, etc.) and of course, all over the span of a couple decades.

Of course we don't have all the details, but his conduct invites speculation when his responses don't add up. Nick should not have directly addressed his finances at any time, even if he's got a great deal with locals or the like. Begging/bragging in regards to one's financial situation usually does not bode well. Modesty is the best policy. Just find a way to say that you're doing well without antagonizing people with a "screw you, I'm rich" attitude.

Unnecessarily large purchases due to sudden influx of money (or prospect of money) is consistent with poor impulse control (rich or poor). This seems to be compounded by the high of coming back to Youtube (just in time to start turning his back on his audience there). Nick has definitely shown that he doesn't handle this level of success very well/responsibly. Sort of a 'Nick likes success, but success doesn't like Nick' deal.

 

[JackoVerde]

I assume nick graduated in 1999.

columbine happened in 04/99. so unless he pulled shit 2 months before graduation then most likely he skated by.

well he would have been a senior on his way out
also his parents had money, im guessing if there was a problem they could pay his way out of it with lawsuits and free speech stuff.

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

well he would have been a senior on his way out
also his parents had money, im guessing if there was a problem they could pay his way out of it with lawsuits and free speech stuff.

Tell me you have not paid attention, without telling me... It is well documented when he went and where he went to law school--years after finishing his undergraduate degree.

There is no need to speculate on this. STOP stupidly speculating and do basic research in this thread. JFC.

 

[JackoVerde]

Tell me you have not paid attention, without telling me... It is well documented when he went and where he went to law school--years after finishing his undergraduate degree.

There is no need to speculate on this. STOP stupidly speculating and do basic research in this thread. JFC.

i was going off a previous comment that said he graduated high school in 99
why are you mad at me and not the comment that implied it.

 

[Captain Manning]

The house is owned by a trust because he's a lawyer, he was on the verge of becoming internet famous, and there are advantages to putting your home in a trust.

I'm pretty sure that's the discrepancy people are pointing out here. He had both houses, and a brood of children, before he became e-famous.

How?

Sure, lawyers can make pretty good money... but in Spicer, MN? With his level of experience? Nick might be a Youtuber of some repute, but he was NEVER a high profile attorney.

For what it's worth, the Minnesota Judicial Branch allows you to search case records by attorney. If you plug in his name, you'll find he has some case experience, but it's not terribly long or impressive. It's mostly misdemeanors, DWIs, and low-end felony shit. All of those ended in dismissals or convictions (he has seemingly never had an acquittal). I would also note his case load was never particularly high.

I've postulated for years Nick was a better Youtuber than he was a lawyer, and I stand by that. All the available evidence supports that conclusion. Hell, I'm not even sure he'd dispute that. The money speaks for itself.

That being said, his parents are stacked with cash, and I think it's not unlikely that they've been giving him considerable help over the years.

This. He can simultaneously not be a trust fund baby, but still come from money. Indeed, I think it's indisputable his parents are loaded.

I'll give Nick all the credit in the world for building up his online brand (which he now seems hell bent on destroying), and making damn good money off that, but his spiel about him being an entirely self-made man has a smell wafting off it. It doesn't comport with what we know about his past. He almost certainly had help to get where he is today.

 

[Not Who You Think]

Maybe relevant to the speculation of Nick's economic state:

He describes having been in abject poverty with Kayla at some point. Sounds hyperbolic of course. Even if he had to move back in with his parents at one point, that's still a far cry from abject poverty... but then I don't know how he actually defines "abject poverty" any more than how he would define "prude", "degenerate", or "monogamous sex".

What I'm getting at is that the words that Nick uses may not be as relevant as how he chooses to define them. This could apply to everything from social/sexual relationships to finances. In this way, Nick is further establishing himself as an Unreliable Narrator regarding his own life.

 

[Fat Gay Riker]

Nick's sister might not be a tranny but she has the weird jaw for it.

 

[JackoVerde]

He describes having been in abject poverty with Kayla at some point. Sounds hyperbolic of course. Even if he had to move back in with his parents at one point, that's still a far cry from abject poverty... but then I don't know how he actually defines "abject poverty" any more than how he would define "prude", "degenerate", or "monogamous sex".

i actually kind of took his word at face value for a while, but i think nicks perspective of abject poverty is different from many peoples
im not even just talking 3rd world shit holes.
someone who grew up in the ghetto in america might describe that as abject poverty.
did nick ever live in a bad neighborhood with kayla where crackheads and prostitutes hung around the apartments.
dude fucked around in jobs just because he could before going to law school, i mean someone in abject poverty usually wouldnt be in a hurtty to get fired from a job or quit job opportunities. or major in english, then decide on a whim to go to a d tier law school

edit: i did grow up poor, though not food insecure or anything, if my girl ever suggested we have a litter of kids before id even finished law school i might have to go upside her head.

 

[ShinyStar]

I'm pretty sure that's the discrepancy people are pointing out here. He had both houses, and a brood of children, before he became e-famous.

How?

Sure, lawyers can make pretty good money... but in Spicer, MN? With his level of experience? Nick might be a Youtuber of some repute, but he was NEVER a high profile attorney.

For what it's worth, the Minnesota Judicial Branch allows you to search case records by attorney. If you plug in his name, you'll find he has some case experience, but it's not terribly long or impressive. It's mostly misdemeanors, DWIs, and low-end felony shit. All of those ended in dismissals or convictions (he has seemingly never had an acquittal). I would also note his case load was never particularly high.

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I've postulated for years Nick was a better Youtuber than he was a lawyer, and I stand by that. All the available evidence supports that conclusion. Hell, I'm not even sure he'd dispute that. The money speaks for itself.


This. He can simultaneously not be a trust fund baby, but still come from money. Indeed, I think it's indisputable his parents are loaded.

I'll give Nick all the credit in the world for building up his online brand (which he now seems hell bent on destroying), and making damn good money off that, but his spiel about him being an entirely self-made man has a smell wafting off it. It doesn't comport with what we know about his past. He almost certainly had help to get where he is today.

Not all attorney work is going to show up in that sort of search. Things like creating trusts, powers of attorney, wills and the like are all things that an attorney can get paid to do without ever showing up in court.

However, those also aren't going to be raking in the big bucks. It does seem like his assets outstrip his likely earnings from the employment he's disclosed.

 

[AnOminous]

I've postulated for years Nick was a better Youtuber than he was a lawyer, and I stand by that. All the available evidence supports that conclusion. Hell, I'm not even sure he'd dispute that. The money speaks for itself.

He's one of the most successful (if not the most) law-related YouTubers of all time, whereas he was always just a small potatoes lawyer in a small town previously.

I think the Mignogna shit broke his brain. That had me seething and I don't even have any personal stake in it whatsoever. I don't even care about anime. It also makes him look stupid, even if that's unfairly. He had no reason to think a lawyer like Ty, who routinely handles high dollar transactional law, would make an utterly baffling amateur hour mash of everything with a $100 mistake (not getting a real notary) that blew a million dollar lawsuit out of the water.

But now he gets to look like an idiot for literally saying that a man knowingly falsely accused of multiple rapes and being a pedophile probably has a defamation case. If a man in that position doesn't have a defamation case, who does?

 

[JackoVerde]

Not all attorney work is going to show up in that sort of search. Things like creating trusts, powers of attorney, wills and the like are all things that an attorney can get paid to do without ever showing up in court.

However, those also aren't going to be raking in the big bucks. It does seem like his assets outstrip his likely earnings from the employment he's disclosed.

so was Nick doing elder law like Saul or something before he did youtube.
maybe he raked in a ton of money from that, not likely but imagine.

 

[Cin Red]

It does seem like his assets outstrip his likely earnings from the employment he's disclosed.

If anyone doubts mommy and daddy were paying the bills, you can find Nick and Kayla Rekieta listed as regular donors to the Minnesota zoo. Mom and pop made a donation in their name in the amount of $10,000–$24,999 in 2016. They have their own separate donation in excess of $100,000. In 2017, Nick and Kayla are listed at $2,500-$4,999. Both are on the donor list for 2022 as well, so it may be an annual contribution. Ain't no way grandparents with that kind of cash just let their grandkids live in abject poverty, not if they ever want to see them.

 

[Captain Manning]

He describes having been in abject poverty with Kayla at some point. Sounds hyperbolic of course. Even if he had to move back in with his parents at one point, that's still a far cry from abject poverty... but then I don't know how he actually defines "abject poverty" any more than how he would define "prude", "degenerate", or "monogamous sex".

The thing thing is, unlike his insults, poverty is quantifiable. In the U.S. it's legally defined by the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).

For example, right now, assuming a family of seven (Him + Kayla + 5 kids), he'd have to have a household income of under $41,910 in order to be considered impoverished. COLA will push that limit higher beginning tomorrow.



Obviously, he doesn't give a time-frame for when this alleged impoverishment happened, or what his household size was, and FPL figures are tied to to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and therefore subject to inflation. Suffice it to say, he would have had to have an exceeding low income at some point in his life order to be in poverty.

Given who his parents are: I think he's either full of shit here (again), or he wasn't in that state for very long.

I think the Mignogna shit broke his brain. That had me seething and I don't even have any personal stake in it whatsoever. I don't even care about anime. It also makes him look stupid, even if that's unfairly. He had no reason to think a lawyer like Ty, who routinely handles high dollar transactional law, would make an utterly baffling amateur hour mash of everything with a $100 mistake (not getting a real notary) that blew a million dollar lawsuit out of the water.

Ty's done probate work for Nick's family, agreed to be on his show (which he knew would draw big numbers), and he's licensed to practice law in Texas.

I'm convinced there was absolutely no analysis undertaken by Nick beyond that to determine whether Ty was an appropriate fit for Vic's case. At no point do I think Nick wanted Vic to get fucked, and he probably honestly thought Ty could do the job (as did many of us at the beginning), but there is definitely a nepotism angle that becomes more apparent in hindsight.

I don't think Nick should be given too much shit for referring Vic to Ty (it think it was technically above board), but I do think, to some extent, he was trying to balance what was good for his online career with what was good for Vic. In the end, I wish he erred more towards Vic and made a better referral.

Ain't no way grandparents with that kind of cash just let their grandkids live in abject poverty, not if they ever want to see them.

Exactly. Like maybe he and his were technically in poverty for like a minute, but I don't buy for a second he was in that state for very long.

 

[Balldo's Gate]

The house is owned by a trust because he's a lawyer, he was on the verge of becoming internet famous, and there are advantages to putting your home in a trust. Aside from the fact that it makes it harder to dox through property records, it can also specify what happens to the house in the case of a divorce. Or even something catastrophic, like the death of both parents. A trust could protect the house from probate and ensure that the kids would have somewhere to live.

That was their previous home. He talked about the move but he tried to avoid having his new home doxed. It worked for a while.

I mean the relevant question isn't really why the house is owned by a trust but where the money came from. Though the answer to one might also be the answer to the other.

Back of the envelope math suggests property purchases and law school tuition alone set back the Rekietas over $1,000,000 over a decade.

If you guess that Nick was making around $50,000 a year before law school and around the same after after netting out business expenses you're looking at a figure that probably wouldn't even cover family living expenses for that decade, let alone making a dent in the cool million in property and law school spending. To my knowledge Kayla's only source of income during the period was participating in an MLM so that's probably a net negative. Where's the money from?

I find that to be the most likely scenario. Based on the YouTube comment he left on one of the clips channels (posted a couple pages back), it sounds like his grandparents' inheritance probably went to their immediate children. He said that he stands to inherit a large amount when his parents die but said he'll hopefully be into his own self retirement by that time.

The relevant part of Nick's comment on Elissa clips (with my emphasis):

"I received zero dollars when my grandfather passed, I received a total of about $12,000 when my grandmother passed. The will made it pretty clear what happened to the actual money, and was much news over twitter by obsessed, angry lawyers."

This sounds like a bait and switch, since there is the direct inheritance part of the estate and then the trust part. I have no problem with believing that Nick received nothing directly from the estate of the wealthy grandfather (the one who made 8 figure hospital donations). However, Nick is correct in saying that Louis Walter Owen's will was obtained and posted several years ago by the obsessed, angry lawyers on Twitter. Link rot has set in to the Google Drive link but a quote purporting to be from Section IX the will was posted:

"The Trustee shall pay so much or all of the annual net income of the trust estate to or for the benefit of my spouse and any one or more of my descendants in such amounts and proportions as the Trustee in its sole and absolute discretion shall deem necessary and appropriate (without regard to equality of distribution) for the health, education, support, and maintenance of such beneficiaries according to their accustomed standards of living, considering all other sources of income available to such beneficiaries."

As a "descendant" of Owen, Nick would be eligible to receive funds from the estate if the "Trustee in its sole and absolute discretion" deemed it "necessary and appropriate". So even if he has gotten funding from this trust, he could also make a technically-correct claim that he doesn't have a trust fund for his exclusive benefit. While he is eligible to be a beneficiary, the fund is for all of Owen's descendants and Nick would have to convince the trustee to release funds to him.

Now the executor of Louis Owen's estate was the one and only Ty Beard. Not only that, it seems a codicil was filed a few years before Owen's death which allowed Ty Beard to also serve as the Trustee of the trust estate instead of Nick's grandmother if she so chose. She died only a few years after her husband and her obituary mentioned "various ailments", so it doesn't seem a stretch that that happened.

And it was in November 2018 an entity called "The Robert Lord Property Trust" purchased a home for $650,000 for Nick to live in. Nick's described the purchase as "free and clear, I have no mortgage". He continued to hold on to the adjoining property he used to live in after the sale concluded, so it is unclear where the $650,000 came from.

Now, it seems that Law Twitter did not pick up on at the time the fact that "The Robert Lord Property Trust" was in fact a cut-out for Nick Rekieta, because if they had realized that the home was purchased barely 2 months before Nick started the Vic Mignogna GoFundMe with Beard and Harris as the beneficiary, they would have had an absolute field day.

 

[dustnight]

Maybe relevant to the speculation of Nick's economic state:

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He describes having been in abject poverty with Kayla at some point. Sounds hyperbolic of course. Even if he had to move back in with his parents at one point, that's still a far cry from abject poverty... but then I don't know how he actually defines "abject poverty" any more than how he would define "prude", "degenerate", or "monogamous sex".

What I'm getting at is that the words that Nick uses may not be as relevant as how he chooses to define them. This could apply to everything from social/sexual relationships to finances. In this way, Nick is further establishing himself as an Unreliable Narrator regarding his own life.

abject poverty = no whiskey

 

[Captain Manning]

@Balldo's Gate says:

And it was in November 2018 an entity called "The Robert Lord Property Trust" purchased a home for $650,000 for Nick to live in. Nick's described the purchase as "free and clear, I have no mortgage". He continued to hold on to the adjoining property he used to live in after the sale concluded, so it is unclear where the $650,000 came from.

Now, it seems that Law Twitter did not pick up on at the time the fact that "The Robert Lord Property Trust" was in fact a cut-out for Nick Rekieta, because if they had realized that the home was purchased barely 2 months before Nick started the Vic Mignogna GoFundMe with Beard and Harris as the beneficiary, they would have had an absolute field day.

You're doing some good detective work here, but your dates here at the end are borked.

Funimation opened their "investigation" into Vic on January 22nd. He was let go a week later.
Subsequently, he was let go from Rooster Teeth on February 5th.
The GFM started up on February 19th.

Understand, I think there was probably some nepotism in Nick's referral of Vic to Ty, but the timeline simply doesn't support the idea there could have been a quid pro quo thing tied to a real estate purchase concluded in November of 2018. Even if the faggots at Funimation were plotting against Vic in 2018, neither Nick nor Ty could have known about the shitshow that was about to happen.

Basically, if Lawtwitter were to make that claim, they would also have to prove Nick is a psychic, or has a time machine.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Is he fucking serious? He's lived in Minnesota for how long and the thought of, "Oh yeah, WINTER TIRES," never crossed his mind? Does he think that because the tires he had were on his fancy new muscle car that they must magically be better under all conditions? How sheltered and underdeveloped is this man?

Dude shits on how inept public school teachers are. (And I have no love for the public school system myself.) But, if you're so mentally deficient that you never even grasped such basic day-to-day life knowledge, I'd trust them to teach my kids ten days out of ten over your retarded ass.

I'll let you be the judge of that:

5:30 mark

I learned today like uh, that you shouldn't even drive if it's under 40 degrees, even if it's dry with the tires that I have.

Word-for-word. Eat shit Nick for saying we twist your words!

Understand, I think there was probably some nepotism in Nick's referral of Vic to Ty, but the timeline simply doesn't support the idea there could have been a quid pro quo thing tied to a real estate purchase concluded in November of 2018.

I noted that in my short pseudo-update meant to supplement the OP. Plus I think Rekieta (back then) was still smart enough to avoid what would appear to be an obvious quid pro quo. I think that's also a poor choice on Vic's part, he should have asked Ty to recommend an attorney that specializes in defamation and does actual trials. Ty to his own acknowledgment has stated he generally does estate planning and corporate deals, both of those generally the party(s) are willing to work with each other.

I mean the relevant question isn't really why the house is owned by a trust but where the money came from. Though the answer to one might also be the answer to the other.

I have come to the same conclusion you did. He states that he did not receive anything when his grandfather passed. He does not state he did not receive money that originated from his grandfathers estate (which passed to his parents presumably).
Unless the Nose is gunrunning, trafficking people/crack by the short ton or being a democratic party donor (No matter what he says, selling his wife would not earn that much) there's not a lot of ways you can pay for that.