Saturday, 8:30 a.m.: A motion by the attorney for the ex-student who got a $250,000 jury award in November in a lawsuit against Charles Pugh, states that Pugh operates two restaurants in Manhattan owned by by Harlem Jazz Enterprises.
Well, that's apparently not the case, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Pugh no longer has those jobs and was really mostly a server, not a manager, Tresa Baldas writes.
"He may have had some management responsibilities from time to time, but he was a server," Deena Siegelbaum, a publicist for Harlem Jazz Enterprises, told the Free Press. "They decided to let him go more than eight months ago."
Pugh is now a server at another restaurant in New York, the Freep says.
Original article from Friday
A lawyer for the ex-student who successfully sued Charles Pugh last year, wants to start garnishing the ex-Detroit City Council president's wages in New York as quickly as possible "before Pugh has further opportunity to hide or conceal assets."
In a motion filed in federal court Friday, attorney Bill Seikaly asked U.S. District Judge David Lawson permission to go after Pugh's wages to satisfy the $250,000 a jury awarded his client, an ex-student, who accused Pugh of sexually harassing him while Pugh was a mentor at the Frederick Douglass Academy.
The motion states that Pugh operates two restaurants in Manhattan -- The Cecil and Minton's -- for a company called the Harlem Jazz Enterprises.
"As Pugh resides and works in Manhattan, it is likely that he has wages subject to garnishment and property subject to execution there in order to satisfy plaintiff's judgment," the motion says.
Meanwhile, on Friday Seikaly blasted Pugh for filing an appeal this week in federal court in Cincinnati in an effort to avoid paying the $250,000 jury award.
"It is amazing to me the similarities between Pugh and Gov. Snyder," said Seikaly of Farmington Hills. "These guys just apologize for what they did and they think it's OK not to take any real responsibility."
Deadline Detroit left a voicemail Friday seeking comment from Pugh's attorney, Marc Deldin of Mount Clemens.
So far, the student hasn't collected any money.
The Detroit Public Schools, which was a defendant in the case, along with some administrators and former emergency managers, bowed out of the trial on the second day and agreed to pay $350,000. So far, DPS has yet to pay.
Judge Lawson has ruled that if DPS fails to pay the full $350,000 by Nov. 1, the ex-student can seek the money not just from the school district, but also the individual defendants: former DPS emergency managers Robert Bobb and Roy Roberts and school administrators Berry Greer and Monique McMurty.
If the district doesn't pay, Seikaly says he would gladly go after Roberts, who was the emergency for DPS from 2011-2013.
"In some ways, it would seem more just, rather than requiring the tax payers of the city of Detroit to pay, that the money come from Roy Roberts, who ignored pleas of the school board members to stop what was happening."
In court affidavits, three Detroit School Board members said they expressed concerns to Roberts about Pugh's mentoring program at Douglass, citing his reputation for dating "underage boys." But they said he did nothing.
In a court deposition, Roberts denied being warned.