United States Court of Appeals
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
Argued March 14, 2005 Decided May 27, 2005
Nos. 04-7044 & 04-7067
THE GOVERNMENT OF RWANDA,
APPELLEE/CROSS-APPELLANT
v.
ROBERT WINTHROP JOHNSON II,
APPELLANT/CROSS-APPELLEE
Appeals from the United States District Court
(USDC) for the District of Columbia
(No. 97cv01550)
James R. Atwood argued the cause for appellant/cross-
appellee Robert Winthrop Johnson II. With him on the briefs
was Heidi C. Doerhoff.
David J. Farber argued the cause and filed the briefs for
appellee/cross-appellant The Government of Rwanda.
Before: EDWARDS, TATEL , and GARLAND, Circuit Judges.
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
TATEL, Circuit Judge: As Rwanda’s bloody civil war drew
to a close, with rebel forces controlling Rwanda’s capital and the
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retreating government accused of genocide, the embattled
regime retained appellant, a Washington lawyer, to help
improve its image and cast the rebels as terrorists. Roughly a
week later, after the United States ordered Rwanda’s embassy
closed, appellant entered a second agreement, this time to
provide (among other things) immigration help to Rwanda’s
ambassador and other embassy diplomats, who feared reprisals
if they returned home. Pursuant to these agreements, Rwanda
paid some $80,000 into appellant’s client trust account, and after
the war a new government formed by the victorious rebels sued
to get the money back. Following a bench trial, the district court
found appellant liable for conversion and breach of fiduciary
duty, explaining that appellant had performed virtually no work
under the first contract and treated the second as a personal
account with Rwanda’s former ambassador rather than an
agreement with Rwanda itself. The court also awarded $10,000
in punitive damages. For the most part, we affirm.
I.
Some of the late twentieth century’s most horrific events
form the background of this litigation. On April 6, 1994, a
surface-to-air missile from an as-yet unidentified source shot
down an aircraft carrying Rwanda’s president, Juvenal
Habyarimana. Stepping into the power vacuum, extremists from
Rwanda’s majority Hutu ethnic group formed an interim
government and unleashed genocidal violence that over the next
100 days claimed the lives of some 800,000 Rwandans, most of
them ethnic Tutsis, a minority group historically dominant in
Rwandan politics. As ill-equipped United Nations peacekeepers
stood by, powerless to contain the bloodshed, a Tutsi rebel force
called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (“RPF”) canceled a 1993
ceasefire and resumed its offensive against the government.
While civil war and genocide raged, Rwanda’s embassy in
Washington entered into the two agreements at issue in this
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case. First, on July 8, 1994, four days after RPF forces captured
Rwanda’s capital Kigali, Rwanda’s United States Ambassador
Aloys Uwimana, a representative of the Hutu government,
signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” with three
Americans—appellant Robert W. Johnson II; Timothy Towell,
a retired U.S. diplomat; and Edward van Kloberg III, a
Washington lobbyist. Under this agreement, the three
Americans, termed the “Rwanda Working Group” or “RWG,”
were to “assist the Government of Rwanda, through Ambassador
Aloys Uwimana in Washington, to get its views clearly and
dramatically presented to the international community.” In
particular, the RWG would “[e]ncourage the comprehension and
support of American authorities of Rwanda’s cause,” aiming to
“isolat[e]” the RPF and foster the perception that it constituted
“a marginal group, perhaps even a minority, foreign-
manipulated, terrorist group.” The MOU, which called for
payments totaling $70,000, required an initial deposit of
$28,000. On July 13, Rwanda’s embassy cut a check for that
amount to the “Robert W. Johnson II Trust Fund.”
But it was soon too late for lobbying. On July 15—just one
week after Rwanda signed the MOU and two days after
Rwanda’s $28,000 payment—the United States issued a “Note
Verbale” requiring, given “the uncertain and untenable situation
which has existed in Rwanda since April 6, 1994,” that the
embassy terminate all “operations of the diplomatic mission,
other than activities relating to the closure of the mission,
effective July 22, 1994.” Though one embassy official,
Boniface Karani, was “permitted to remain in the United States
for the present to oversee the closing of the Embassy,” the note
ordered Ambassador Uwimana to leave the country “no later
than July 22, 1994.” “All remaining members of the mission
and their family members (other than any who may be citizens
or legal permanent residents of the United States), including
Mrs. Uwimana and children,” were to “depart the United States
no later than August 14, 1994.”
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The Note Verbale precipitated Johnson’s second agreement
with Rwanda. In a letter to Ambassador Uwimana, Johnson
offered to help with the embassy’s closure, providing in
particular “continued oversight and assistance” regarding
immigration requests by embassy employees hoping to remain
in the United States instead of returning to the chaos in Rwanda.
Johnson proposed:
[W]e will work with the State Department to ensure that
their recommendations to the Immigration and
Naturalization Service are favorable, and we will obtain
testimony from experts that conditions in Rwanda are
presently life-threatening. Also, we shall supervise and
coordinate the activities of [two immigration attorneys] in
the preparation of the asylum requests and the handling of
the cases to ensure that the work is thorough and cost-
effective.
Claiming that “[a]ll the $28,000.00 [paid under the MOU] has
been disbursed or obligated,” Johnson’s letter requested $55,000
for the new work—$30,000 for the immigration attorneys and
$25,000 for the RWG. On July 22, the day the embassy closed,
Ambassador Uwimana signed Johnson’s proposal and
authorized a check for $55,000, again payable to Johnson’s
client trust fund.
The following month, Johnson learned that the United
States had recognized the RPF as Rwanda’s legitimate
government. Soon afterwards, Karani, by then newly
reappointed to the embassy, wrote “to confirm the termination”
of the July 22 agreement and demand return of $17,475, the
amount Karani calculated to be left in the account. Apparently
referring to immigration work performed on Uwimana’s behalf,
Karani observed that “necessary steps have been taken for only
one diplomat family,” making Johnson’s retention of the full
$55,000 unnecessary. Nonetheless, Johnson refused to make
any refund, insisting in two response letters that only Uwimana
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could direct his expenditures. Two months later, another
embassy official demanded return of the entire $55,000. Again,
Johnson refused.
Having thus failed to obtain a voluntary refund, Rwanda
sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,
asserting D.C. law claims of conversion and breach of fiduciary
duty against Johnson, Uwimana, and Johnson’s two RWG
colleagues. Uwimana declared bankruptcy, obtaining an
automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. § 362, and Johnson’s two
partners settled, paying Rwanda $26,200 out of the $28,000 paid
under the MOU. After denying Johnson’s motion to dismiss and
Rwanda’s motion for summary judgment, see Gov’t of Rwanda
v. Rwanda Working Group, 150 F. Supp. 2d 1 (D.D.C. 2001),
the district court held a two-day bench trial. Based on extensive
factual findings, the district court concluded that “none of the
lobbying or other work for Rwanda ever took place under the
July 8 MOU” and that Johnson “used $55,000 from the July 22
Letter Agreement almost exclusively for Mr. Uwimana’s asylum
request and for other immigration services,” undertakings the
district judge believed were “against the interest of [Johnson’s]
client, the Government of Rwanda.” See Gov’t of Rwanda v.
Rwanda Working Group, 227 F. Supp. 2d 45, 63 (D.D.C. 2002)
(“RWG”).
The district court held Johnson liable for conversion and
fiduciary breach as to both the MOU and the July 22 agreement,
imposing liability in the amount of $56,800—$1,800 as the
balance from the MOU payment following the two RWG
members’ settlement, plus $55,000 based on the July 22
agreement. Id. at 72-73. In addition, finding that Johnson’s
“actions in this case were accompanied by gross recklessness
and a willful disregard of the rights of his rightful client—the
Government of Rwanda,” the district court imposed $10,000 in
punitive damages. Id. at 72. Finally, the court referred claims
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for prejudgment interest and attorney’s fees to a magistrate
judge, id. at 73, who awarded interest but not fees.
Johnson now appeals the district court’s judgment in
Rwanda’s favor on the conversion and fiduciary breach counts
as well as its award of punitive damages. Rwanda cross-appeals
the denial of fees and calculation of prejudgment interest.
II.
We begin with Johnson’s challenges to the conversion and
fiduciary breach claims, reviewing the district court’s factual
findings for clear error and its legal conclusions de novo, see,
e.g., Singletary v. District of Columbia, 351 F.3d 519, 523 (D.C.
Cir. 2003); see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a) (indicating that
following trial without a jury, “[f]indings of fact, whether based
on oral or documentary evidence, shall not be set aside unless
clearly erroneous, and due regard shall be given to the
opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the
witnesses”). In addition to disputing the legal sufficiency of the
district court’s findings, Johnson argues that notwithstanding
Rwanda’s later demand for the full $55,000, Karani’s earlier
letter ratified all but $17,475 of his expenditures pursuant to the
July 22 agreement—a proposition Johnson says is conclusively
established by In re Uwimana, 274 F.3d 806 (4th Cir. 2001), a
Fourth Circuit case involving former Ambassador Uwimana’s
personal bankruptcy. Because we agree with the district court
that Johnson breached his fiduciary duties with respect to both
agreements, we will affirm the district court’s judgment without
considering the conversion claims. But because we agree with
Johnson that the Fourth Circuit’s decision has preclusive effect,
we will reduce the amount of Rwanda’s recovery.
The MOU
Starting with the $1,800 left over from Rwanda’s MOU
payment, we have little trouble upholding Johnson’s liability.
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Though the record indicates that Johnson disbursed Rwanda’s
entire $28,000 payment, himself pocketing a $3,000 fee plus $41
in expenses, the district court found that neither he nor anyone
else performed any of the lobbying services called for in the
MOU, see RWG, 227 F. Supp. 2d at 54. Indeed, according to
district court findings unchallenged by Johnson, “the only work
Mr. Johnson performed pursuant to the July 8 MOU was to
administer the contract, disburse the $28,000, and make sure that
the checks disbursing the $28,000 would not bounce.” Id. at 55.
Yet Johnson told his client otherwise, stating in the proposal that
became the July 22 agreement that “[a]ll of the $28,000 has been
disbursed or obligated for work performed thus far on various
projects” and that Johnson’s two colleagues had “maintained
continuous liaison with State Department officials to provide
accurate information and to persuade the State Department to
modify the White House’s hard line with respect to the closure
of the embassy and the expulsion of the diplomatic
staff”—assertions the district court found to be “blatant
misrepresentations,” id.
As Rwanda’s agent under the MOU and as trustee of
Rwanda’s $28,000, Johnson owed a fiduciary duty to “deal in
the principal’s interest” and put Rwanda’s interests before his
own. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Cheng, 901
F.2d 1124, 1128 (D.C. Cir. 1990); see also Maxwell v.
Gallagher, 709 A.2d 100, 102 & n.4 (D.C. 1998) (affirming
liability for fiduciary breach where the lower court found in a
bench trial that defendants “placed their private interest . . .
above the interest of the . . . client”); Aronoff v. Lenkin Co., 618
A.2d 669, 687 (D.C. 1992) (noting that agents “owe[] a duty of
good faith and candor” to their principal). Johnson’s deception
of the Rwandan embassy regarding the RWG’s work breached
that obligation. So did Johnson’s disbursal of the entire
$28,000—including over $3,000 for himself—despite the
RWG’s failure to perform its side of the contract. We thus find
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no error in the $1,800 award, barely half the amount Johnson
pocketed and far less than he disbursed.
The July 22 Agreement
We also agree with the district court that Johnson breached
his fiduciary obligations with respect to the July 22 agreement,
though we depart somewhat from its reasoning. Relying on
what it called “the common-sense notion that it is not in a
government’s interest to have one of its ambassadors choose to
seek asylum in another country, whatever the merits of the
asylum request might be,” the district court held that Johnson’s
immigration assistance to embassy staff necessarily conflicted
with the interests of the state of Rwanda, Johnson’s client under
his two agreements with Rwanda’s embassy. See RWG, 227 F.
Supp. 2d at 63, 64-65. Insofar as the district court expressed a
categorical view about ambassadorial authority, we hesitate to
endorse its reasoning, for we think that in some circumstances
it may serve a war-torn state’s interests to allow key embassy
personnel to remain safely in the United States if their lives
would be threatened back home. Moreover, while the Note
Verbale’s one-week closure deadline certainly “underscored that
[the United States] would no longer recognize Mr. Uwimana as
Ambassador after July 22, 1994,” id. at 68, it also required quick
decisions regarding use of the embassy’s soon-to-be-
inaccessible funds. In this context, a reasonable attorney may
well have believed that Uwimana, even on his last day in office,
could expend state money to protect embassy staff.
The problem for Johnson is that Uwimana did more than
just protect his staff—he also spent Rwanda’s money on
himself. Whatever the scope of an ambassador’s authority to
order immigration services in general, such self-dealing
breached a critical obligation that Uwimana owed to Rwanda as
steward of its United States embassy, namely, “the age-old
principle applicable to fiduciary relationships that, unless there
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is a full disclosure by the agent, trustee, or attorney of his
activity and interest in the transaction to the party he represents
and the obtaining of the consent of the party represented, the
party serving in the fiduciary capacity cannot receive any profit
or emolument from the transaction.” McGinnis v. Rogers, 279
A.2d 459, 470 (Md. 1971); cf. Urban Invs., Inc. v. Branham, 464
A.2d 93, 96 (D.C. 1983) (per curiam) (holding that agents must
obtain “full[] and free[]” consent to any dual representation).
Indeed, citing this rule, the Fourth Circuit concluded in
Uwimana’s bankruptcy case that Uwimana owed Rwanda a non-
dischargeable debt for “defalcation,” i.e., “failure to meet an
obligation,” because he “used at least some of the funds
belonging to the Republic of Rwanda to purchase a substantial
benefit—preparation of a case for asylum—for himself and his
family, without disclosing his act to the government of the state
he represented or seeking its consent.” See Uwimana, 274 F.3d
at 811, 812 (internal quotation marks omitted).
Given Uwimana’s conflict of interest, Johnson, an attorney
presumably familiar with agency principles, should have not
only questioned Uwimana’s authority, but also demanded
evidence that Rwanda consented to its ambassador’s apparent
looting of state coffers. To be sure, the chaos in Rwanda,
coupled with the Note Verbale’s short time-frame, may have
limited Johnson’s ability to verify Uwimana’s authority. But
Johnson could have at least made some effort. Instead,
according to district court findings—again, unchallenged
here—Johnson “never took any steps to determine the extent of
Mr. Uwimana’s authority.” RWG, 227 F. Supp. 2d at 68. It thus
makes no difference whether, as the parties debate, Johnson’s
client at the time was merely the interim government or the
Rwandan state as a whole (soon to be controlled by the RPF),
for Johnson sought clarification from neither. Indeed, Johnson
even failed to ask the State Department which government the
United States recognized. See id. at 58.
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The same problem carries through to Johnson’s
implementation of the July 22 contract. In addition to
immigration services, the agreement did call for “continued
support to Embassy personnel on governmental and personal
matters during the transition” as well as help managing embassy
bank accounts. But with respect to “services supposedly
involved in closing down the Embassy,” the district court found
that Johnson “spent less than half an hour” on certain
administrative tasks and “never completed or submitted a list of
Embassy debts to the Department of State, or took care of
Embassy vehicles, insurance policies, addresses, or leases,
among other things,” id. at 57, apparently because the State
Department told him such measures were unnecessary. What
Johnson did do was expend large sums on Uwimana’s
immigration requests—precisely the problematic aspect of the
July 22 agreement. Indeed, Johnson refused to change course
even when Rwanda’s new government, which by then Johnson
knew the United States recognized, demanded return of $17,475.
In short, although Johnson should have been circumspect
from the start about Uwimana’s authority, he instead took the
view, convenient for his own interest, that Uwimana could use
state money to buy himself tens of thousands of dollars in
immigration services. Johnson insisted, moreover, that
Uwimana retained that authority long after Uwimana ceased to
hold any official position—indeed, long after the government
Uwimana represented had ceased to control Rwanda. Thus
complicit in Uwimana’s self-dealing, Johnson again breached
his duty to “deal in the principal’s interest.” Merrill Lynch, 901
F.2d at 1128.
How much, then, does Johnson owe? Were the full $55,000
in play, we might need to decide whether Johnson’s breach
covered that entire sum or only a portion of it. But we think the
Fourth Circuit’s decision in former Ambassador Uwimana’s
personal bankruptcy case limits Rwanda to a far smaller amount.
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The Fourth Circuit held that by demanding only $17,475 in
Karani’s letter, Rwanda ratified expenditures beyond that
amount and thus could recover no greater sum in its defalcation
action. See Uwimana, 274 F.3d at 813. The doctrine of issue
preclusion bars parties from relitigating any issue “contested by
the parties and submitted for judicial determination in [a] prior
case,” so long as “the issue [was] actually and necessarily
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in that prior
case” and “preclusion in the second case [would] not work a
basic unfairness to the party bound by the first determination.”
Yamaha Corp. of Am. v. United States, 961 F.2d 245, 254 (D.C.
Cir. 1992). Here, the district court, reasoning that the Fourth
Circuit’s decision involved a different claim (defalcation rather
than fiduciary breach or conversion) and a different defendant
(Uwimana rather than Johnson), denied preclusive effect to the
prior judgment against Rwanda. See RWG, 227 F. Supp. 2d at
68-69. We disagree.
As the Supreme Court made clear in Blonder-Tongue
Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation, 402 U.S.
313 (1971), issue preclusion does not require mutuality of
parties. “In any lawsuit,” the Court explained, “where a
defendant, because of the mutuality principle, is forced to
present a complete defense on the merits to a claim which the
plaintiff has fully litigated and lost in a prior action, there is an
arguable misallocation of resources.” Id. at 329. According to
Johnson, any reconsideration of the effect of Karani’s letter
would entail just such a misallocation. In other words, he argues
that because Rwanda already litigated ratification and lost, it
shouldn’t get to do so again. Responding, Rwanda asserts that
this case involves no second bite at the apple because the theory
in In re Uwimana (the ambassador’s defalcation) differs from
the claim here (Johnson’s fiduciary breach). The defect in this
analysis is that the Fourth Circuit’s ratification holding, while
directly addressing only Uwimana’s liability, depended on a
refund request written to Johnson. See Uwimana, 274 F.3d at
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813. Had Rwanda demanded the funds directly from Uwimana,
its argument might have some force, for in that case Rwanda
could have intended to forgive Uwimana’s payment but not
necessarily Johnson’s use of the money. But Karani’s letter to
Johnson never even mentions Uwimana by name. It deals
entirely with Johnson’s expenditures, removing from the refund
tally “steps . . . taken for . . . one diplomat family,” i.e.,
Uwimana’s. To find ratification as to Uwimana, then, the
Fourth Circuit must also have found ratification as to Johnson.
Any other result would attribute to Rwanda an entirely illogical
intention, i.e., approving Uwimana’s authorization of the steps
in question but not Johnson’s performance of those very same
steps, even though Karani’s letter refers only to Johnson’s
performance.
The Fourth Circuit thus “actually and necessarily
determined” Rwanda’s ratification of Johnson’s expenditures.
See Yamaha, 961 F.2d at 254. In addition, we see no “basic
unfairness” in precluding relitigation, see id., for the prior
proceedings gave Rwanda every incentive to dispute the letter’s
significance vis-à-vis Johnson’s possession and use of state
funds. Indeed, because Uwimana’s ratification theory depended
on Karani’s letter, Rwanda could have prevailed in the Fourth
Circuit only by contesting Johnson’s liability. Where, as here,
“there is no prejudice to the plaintiff, no forfeiture of the res
judicata issue has yet occurred, the relevant facts stand
uncontroverted in the record before us, and denial would only
engender delay,” we ourselves may resolve a preclusion claim
without remanding to the district court. See Baker v. District of
Columbia, 326 F.3d 1302, 1308 (D.C. Cir. 2003) (internal
quotation marks and brackets omitted). Accordingly, though we
will affirm the district court’s finding of fiduciary breach, we
will reverse its preclusion holding and limit Johnson’s liability
on this count to a maximum of $17,475.
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With Johnson’s exposure thus restricted, the amount of
Rwanda’s damages becomes obvious. In disbursing the
$55,000, Johnson paid $24,500 to Van Kloberg (the RWG
lobbyist) and Van Kloberg’s lobbying firm. See RWG, 227 F.
Supp. 2d at 56. As to the July 22 agreement, the district court
found that any work Van Kloberg or his organization performed
“would have been of a private nature and for Mr. Uwimana’s
personal benefit, rather than work for the Government of
Rwanda.” Id. at 57. Clear, unchallenged findings thus establish
that Johnson expended at least $24,500 on personal services for
Uwimana. Because Johnson’s fiduciary breach—assisting
Uwimana without proper authorization—caused all these
expenditures, totaling well over Rwanda’s maximum recovery,
we will direct entry of judgment for $17,475 based on the July
22 counts.
III.
The remaining issues—attorney’s fees, punitive damages,
and prejudgment interest—need not long detain us. Because
Rwanda failed first to appeal the magistrate’s denial of
attorney’s fees to the district judge, it has forfeited its right to
appeal that issue here. Though it is true, as Rwanda points out,
that the applicable referral order cited a local rule that says
nothing about objecting in the district court, local rules must be
“consistent with” the federal rules, Fed. R. Civ. P. 83(a)(1), and
the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure on magistrate referrals
makes plain that objections to magistrate rulings are forfeited
absent timely challenge in the district court, see Fed. R. Civ. P.
72; see also CNPq—Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Cientificio e Technologico v. Inter-Trade, Inc., 50 F.3d 56, 59
(D.C. Cir. 1995) (per curiam).
As to punitive damages, “[i]n a case tried without a jury,
whether an award of punitive damages is warranted is a matter
committed to the discretion of the trial court.” Wash. Med. Ctr.,
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Inc. v. Holle, 573 A.2d 1269, 1284 (D.C. 1990). Given the
serious fiduciary breaches discussed above, the district court’s
decision to award punitive damages could hardly have
constituted an abuse of discretion. Nevertheless, and without
suggesting that $10,000 is necessarily inappropriate, we will
remand the amount of the award for reconsideration in light of
our reduction of Johnson’s underlying liability from $56,800 to
$19,275 ($1,800 plus $17,475).
Finally, the magistrate judge, believing that a District of
Columbia statute constrained his choice of interest rate, awarded
Rwanda prejudgment interest at six percent per year. Yet the
law in question merely sets the default interest rate “upon the
loan or forbearance of money, goods, or things in action in the
absence of an expressed contract.” See D.C. Code Ann. § 28-
3302(a). As the D.C. Court of Appeals has held, this provision
has no bearing on prejudgment interest in actions, like Rwanda’s
tort claims against Johnson, that involve neither loans nor
forbearances. See In re Estate of Jung, 801 A.2d 59, 60 (D.C.
2002) (addressing claims against an estate and finding section
28-3302(a) inapplicable because the claimant’s “share of his
mother’s estate was not a loan from him to the Estate[,] [n]or did
his waiting to receive that share constitute a forbearance on [his]
part”); cf. Duggan v. Keto, 554 A.2d 1126, 1140-41 (D.C. 1989)
(allowing award of prejudgment interest in a tort action “to the
extent that it will make the injured party whole” but remanding
the question whether section 28-3302(a) governed the interest
rate). Accordingly, we will remand the award so that the district
court can select an interest rate without regard to the D.C.
statute.
We will also remand the principal amount, though not for
the reason Rwanda suggests. Whereas Rwanda argues that
Johnson must pay interest on portions of the MOU payment
covered by the other defendants’ settlement, we review denial
of prejudgment interest only for abuse of discretion, see Bucheit
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v. Palestine Liberation Org., 388 F.3d 346, 351 (D.C. Cir.
2005), and the district court can hardly have abused its
discretion by ordering Johnson to pay interest only on amounts
he himself owes. But because our reduction of Johnson’s
primary liability may require recalculation of the interest award,
we will nonetheless remand this issue as well.
IV.
In sum, although we affirm the judgment against Johnson
for breach of fiduciary duty as to both the MOU and the July 22
agreement, we limit Rwanda’s recovery under the latter to
$17,475, resulting in a total award of $19,275. We also affirm
the award of punitive damages, but remand for reconsideration
of the amount. With respect to Rwanda’s cross-appeal, we deem
forfeited the appeal of attorney’s fees and remand the award of
prejudgment interest for recalculation consistent with this
opinion.
So ordered.