Posted on 01/13/2022 6:51:21 PM PST by lowbridge
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot allegedly called the owner of a high-end exotic car dealership an "idiot" during a heated meeting after the store was targeted in an armed smash-and-grab robbery, according to a report.
Lightfoot allegedly "got into a fight and walked out" of Gold Coast Exotic Motor Cars during a meeting with store owner Joe Perillo, according to sources who spoke to CWB Chicago.
One of the sources told the outlet the mayor called Perillo an "idiot" as she left the showroom, though Perillo told Fox News he did not hear her call him that.
"I’m not aware that she called me an idiot… at least she did not say that to me," Perillo said about the conversation.
"In her heart, I believe she is trying her best. That said, we are both passionate individuals and have different views of how to deal with theft. I can report that there was nothing I said that in any way was foolish! I simply wanted to know what her future plans were going forward!"
Days after Lightfoot met with Perillo, an inspector with the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection also visited the store and ticketed them with six violations, CWB Chicago reported.
The inspector cited Gold Coast on Dec. 17 for violations such as employees and a customer not wearing face masks, for "storing, receiving, possessing, selling nineteen bottles of liquor," and for "interfering with or obstructing the commissioner’s designee in the performance of duties," CWB Chicago reported.
"It was unrelated to the mayor’s meeting with Mr. Perillo," a Lightfoot spokesperson told the outlet.
A Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection spokesperson told Fox News on Thursday that an "anonymous complaint about a public health order violation" at Gold Coast spurred the inspection.
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Diss da Mayor? Meet da bureaucracy.
Chicago politics.
“Nice little car dealership you got here. Would be a shame is something happened to it...”
“She’ll have to assemble a blue-ribbon panel with all the integrity of a Chris Christie-traffic investigation to clear herself.”
It will never get even close to approaching the need for one.
Chicago, the city that worked.
Of that there is no doubt. The question is ,which one dis they work on the most? Robbery, Rape, Larceny, or murder?
didn’t there use to be mafia in Chicago?
When the claim it’s unrelated, it’s related.
“Lightfoot’s leadership, always a class act”
You misspelled ass.
Smash-and-Grab = Democrat Equity
It is okay for a consumer to spend over $100k for a vehicle, it just better be an EV.
Yes. But they no longer can compete with government, which has perfected the technique.
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