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An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday granted Edelson PC's bid to add fraud claims to its lawsuit against ex-Girardi Keese partners David Lira and Keith Griffin, despite concerns from the former partners that it would force them to litigate the same issues in two different states.
The former CEO of industrial sterilization company Sterigenics testified Friday that he knew ethylene oxide was a dangerous chemical when he became the company's top executive in 2011, but he issued no directive to tighten up inconsistent emissions controls across the firm's facilities.
The developer of Nobu Hotel Chicago knew about accounting problems and delays in the project and knew it couldn't be built with a $48 million budget, but it refused to sacrifice quality and luxury to save money, wrongly claiming instead that it was damaged by the project's design contractor, an Illinois federal jury heard Wednesday.
A construction company tasked with designing and building the Nobu Hotel Chicago and two of its executives are liable for fraud over misrepresentations it made during the project, an Illinois federal jury found Thursday, awarding the hotel's developer nearly $23 million in total damages.
An Illinois contractor spun a web of lies about the construction progress of a Chicago hotel operated by a hospitality company co-owned by actor Robert De Niro, seeking money for work that wasn't being performed and for subcontractors who were not being adequately paid, an Illinois federal jury heard Friday.