From ThePostMillennial.com…
A new lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blocked a deal reached between the Chicago Park District and an Italian American group regarding a Christopher Columbus statue, and that she berated lawyers with obscene remarks in a meeting.
The lawsuit, obtained by the Chicago Tribune, was filed by former Chicago Park District deputy general counsel George Smyrniotis, naming Lightfoot and the City of Chicago as the defendants. The statue of Christopher Columbus in Grant Park was the subject of frequent protests during the summer of 2020, when the US saw civil unrest grip many major cities.
The lawsuit alleges that Smyrniotis was told by the district’s then top lawyer Timothy King and then-superintendent Michael Kelly that they wanted a previous lawsuit over the Columbus settled “as soon as possible.”
