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A former lawyer for the Chicago Park District is suing Lori Lightfoot after the Chicago mayor chewed him out on Zoom, allegedly claiming to have the “greatest dick” within the Windy Metropolis.
George Smyrniotis, who labored for the park district as deputy normal counsel earlier than he stepped down final month, says in his lawsuit that the difficulty started over a plan to incorporate a controversial statue of Christopher Columbus throughout an annual parade organized by town’s Italian American group.
The outstanding statue, which stood close to Lake Michigan downtown, was one in all a number of Columbus statues across the metropolis that Lightfoot had ordered eliminated within the wake of social-justice protests in the summertime of 2020. After the mayor’s order, the Joint Civic Committee of Italian People sued the Park District.
Smyrniotis alleges that he was then requested by the district’s chief lawyer and a metropolis superintendent to collaborate with the Italian group to discover a answer and settle the go well with “as quickly as attainable.”
As reported by the Chicago Tribune, Smyrniotis and legal professionals representing the Italian People got here to an answer: the group could be allowed to incorporate the statue of Columbus throughout their annual parade, butColumbus must experience final—and could be stored hid till the very finish.
However earlier than the deal was finalized, Smyrniotis claims Lightfoot abruptly referred to as him right into a Zoom assembly.
“You dicks, what the fuck have been you pondering,” the mayor started, based on Smyrniotis’ criticism. “You make some sort of secret settlement with Italians... You're on the market measuring your dicks with the Italians seeing who's bought the largest dicks.”
“You're on the market stroking your dicks over the Columbus statue,” she continued. “My dick is greater than yours and the Italians, I've the largest dick in Chicago.”
In accordance with the criticism, the mayor was irate as a result of Smyrniotis hadn’t run the deal previous a metropolis lawyer. She went on to assault the Park District legal professionals’ credentials, he claimed.
“The place did you go to regulation faculty? Did you even go to regulation faculty? Do you also have a regulation license?” she allegedly requested.
Lightfoot allegedly then advised the staff to get that “fucking statue again earlier than midday” and likewise threatened in some unspecified time in the future to yank the Italian People’ parade allow.
The lawsuit claims Smyrniotis—who resigned from the Park District final month—was defamed by the aggressive, condescending feedback.
A Legislation Division spokeswoman advised the Chicago Tribune: “The town has not but been served with a criticism and can have no additional remark because the matter is now in litigation.”