The unending criminal troubles of the Friars Membership are raging on — with former boss Michael Gyure submitting a brand new swimsuit in opposition to board contributors over what he claims was once “a frivolous and vindictive” swimsuit filed in opposition to him final yr.
The papers are about as entertaining as a Borscht Belt regimen.
However there's a notable element within the new swimsuit, during which Gyure claims the membership went out of its strategy to harass him by means of claiming he owed tens of millions in an try to get him to drop his first swimsuit, which requested for cash he claimed the membership owed him.
The brand new swimsuit claims Gyure and his circle of relatives “first found out about the Friars’ [lawsuit] when a reporter for the NY Post repeatedly called [Gyure’s] wife, who is a doctor, while she was working during surgery in the operating room.”
The papers proceed, “When she finally picked up, the NY Post reporter wanted a quote from [Gyure] about the Friars suing [him] for [$2.3 million] for grand larceny, embezzlement and other things.” That’s when “she nearly fainted,” because the couple didn’t know “anything about the suit.”
Gyure’s swimsuit additionally says his spouse and son suffered “extreme stress and anxiety” concerning the swimsuit — which the membership’s board later dropped — and that they needed to transfer the child to a UK college.
The mythical fifty fifth Side road personal membership employed Gryure in 2012. In 2019, he pleaded to blame to submitting false tax returns, which concealed from the IRS just about part 1,000,000 greenbacks paid to him by means of the membership. However he stayed at his submit there till 2020.
Gyure’s first swimsuit concluded this August, when it was once dominated the membership owed him $1.68 million.
In the newest swimsuit, filed by means of criminal eagle Robert Hantman, he's requesting $5 million for emotional misery and different allegations.
In April, we reported that the membership went up on the market amid a debt disaster. The 125-year-old establishment has counted Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers and Jimmy Fallon amongst its contributors.
A Friars rep didn’t right away get again to us.