Southern Electric Co. Sued Kine Thiame Gueye After She Stopped Paying Them For Work On Family’s Manse
Not paying for building work must run in in Akon’s family.
Fans may come to that conclusion after an arbitrator slapped the rapper/producer’s mother with a judgment for more than $160,000 for electrical work she agreed to have done on her massive Milton, Ga. mansion, but never paid for.
Kine Thiame Gueye has to pay the Southern Electric Company $95,000 for the electrical work it did, plus $32,775 in interest and $32,201 lawyer’s fees, her Dec. 1 judgment, obtained by BOSSIP, shows.
“Akon himself is not (a cheat), but his mom is an absolute crook,” Southern Electric Company president Jalil Poorak told BOSSIP. “She brings people in, leads them on, and doesn’t pay them.”
Kine initially agreed to pay the electric company $237,650 to wire her palatial spread in suburban Atlanta back in 2011, but didn’t pay, so the company stopped work in the middle of the project. Kine eventually paid some of the money back, which must’ve persuaded the company not to sue her earlier.
Two years later, Kine once again agreed to pay $125,000 for the remaining electrical work, but when Southern Electric sent an invoice for $95,000, Kine straight up refused to pay. The company then sued the mom and slapped a lien on the property, which is now going into foreclosure.
Kine countersued the electric company, and later testified at an arbitration hearing back in October that she didn’t owe the company a dime. But the arbitrator thought differently, and hit her with the judgment.
“Refusing to pay any amount for work performed demonstrates Kine’s bad faith,” the Dec. 1 judgment reads. “Causing this dispute to be protracted for more than two years has caused (the company) unnecessary trouble and expense.”
The arbitrator’s ruling is binding and cannot be challenged.
Although Akon has donated millions to Africa, including a recent project to bring solar energy to 600 million on the continent, the “Smack That” rapper is battling several separate lawsuits and liens for not paying for work on the mansion.
Poorak, the company president, told BOSSIP that he tried to settle the case for $50,000 out of court, but Kine wouldn’t budge. He had some advice for Akon and his mom: “You need to pay your bills,” he said. “To do this repeatedly, I don’t know how they can live with themselves, when they have the resources to pay for it.”
We’ve called Kine for comment.
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