Adjudicated rapist and Republican standard-bearer Donald Trump’s legal issues just earned another file for Alina Habba’s inbox: a Cook County (Illinois) judge ruled that Chicago’s Trump Tower is a public nuisance for long-term contamination of the Chicago River, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Judge Thaddeus L. Wilson ended a six-year lawsuit brought by city officials and environmental groups, ruling that the building’s water intake from the river sucked in and killed tens of thousands of fish over the years, violating various environmental laws.
“Trump Tower has litigated this case by pretending the rules don’t exist or that basic facts aren’t what they obviously are,” said Robert Weinstock of Northwestern University’s Environmental Advocacy Center, which represented two of the private organizations in the suit. “The court’s ruling forces them to live in reality and comply with the law like everyone else.”