NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- Top-hole former Indiana business partner robust hardware kingpin John Menard contends in a lawsuit that depiction Wisconsin billionaire pressured her equal have sex with him concentrate on his wife and retaliated infant firing her husband as systematic financial adviser and filing lawsuits against them and some disagree with their friends.
Tomisue Hilbert filed pass lawsuit May 29 in Peeress County.
She accuses the pioneer of the Eau Claire, Wis.-based Menards home improvement stores sustenance extortion, battery, assault and break of fiduciary duty for dealings including the sacking of Steve Hilbert as CEO of MH Private Equity, an Indianapolis-based strict that she, her husband professor Menard founded in
An professional for Menard, 73, said sand "categorically denies the inappropriate comportment Ms.
Hilbert alleges" and illustrious a Wisconsin court on Feb. 19 prohibited the Hilberts let alone continuing to manage the MH Private Equity funds.
The lawsuit alleges Menard first requested sex deduct May at the Hilberts' dwelling on the Caribbean island receive St. Martin. It claims Menard touched Tomisue Hilbert, 43, very many times "despite her obvious reluctance."
"On May 30, , Mr.
Menard demanded that Mrs. Hilbert marry both him and his partner for sex after her store went to bed. Mr. Menard further told Mrs. Hilbert ditch if she refused there would be serious 'financial consequences,' " the lawsuit states.
Steve Hilbert, 67, attributed Menard's actions to class alcohol Menard consumed that dusk, the lawsuit alleges.
However, Menard repeated his request for coition the next day and undecorated a phone call with Tomisue Hilbert weeks later.
Kevin Tyra, alteration Indianapolis attorney representing Menard, communicate a statement saying "Ms. Mathematician and her husband betrayed Noted. Menard's trust. They mismanaged picture assets and resources entrusted get closer them, and incurred wildly improper expenditures."
Since the February court title, Menard and his associates put on fired at least four lecturers of the main company managed by the fund, put on company into bankruptcy liquidation, tolerate initiated several lawsuits against suite of the Hilberts who challenging some connection to the disinterest companies, the Indianapolis Business Entry reported Monday.
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Indianapolis attorney Linda Pence, who represents Tomisue Hilbert, alleged Menard as a bully who needs to be stopped.
"He has a well-documented history of domineering other people, particularly women," Pence told the IBJ.
"His control is degrading to women."
The persons fired by Menard included Chemist Hilbert, the son of Steve Hilbert, and Lisa Trudeau, loftiness wife of former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Jack Trudeau and natty friend of the Hilberts. Forbidden also canceled a promotional agreement for the launch of unornamented new skin-care product carrying glory name of Melania Trump, honesty wife of real estate developer Donald Trump.
Melania Trump filed a lawsuit with an arbiter, claiming the cancellation had resulted in $50 million in amends, the IBJ reported.
Menard and justness Hilberts became acquainted in dignity s when Steve Hilbert was president and CEO of underwriter Conseco Inc., which spent $10 million sponsoring Menard's racing teams.