Fired financial adviser flooded with bad reviews after racist smoothie shop tirade

The Connecticut monetary adviser who was arrested and fired for happening an alleged racist tirade in a smoothie store is being flooded with unhealthy on-line evaluations.

James Iannazzo, 48, was hit with greater than 1,000 one-star rankings on Google after he was caught on digital camera throwing a smoothie at a teenage worker and calling her a “f—ing immigrant” in a wild scene at a Robeks in Fairfield.

“I might price zero stars if I may. Take pleasure in being within the unemployment line whereas the ‘immigrants’ are out right here really incomes their cash,” one evaluate stated.

“So want I used to be there to assist. What a giant man, yelling at 3 or 4 faculty women,” one reviewer wrote, whereas one other stated: “Horrible man! Thank God he misplaced his job. Towering over these women! Disgusting.”

One other one-star evaluate stated: “I might give him a zero however my solely possibility is a 1. Pungent.”

The evaluations pop up on Google’s major search outcomes for Iannazzo’s identify, the place he's listed as a monetary advisor. They seem alongside a enterprise deal with in Stamford that's linked to Iannazzo and several other different brokers tied to Merrill Lynch.

James Iannazzo was hit with greater than 1,000 one-star rankings on Google.

“I might give him a zero however my solely possibility is a 1. Pungent,” a 1-star evaluate learn.

“Thank God he misplaced his job,” one particular person wrote.

Iannazzo was let go from his job as a managing director at Merrill Lynch after footage began going viral of the wild encounter on the Robeks simply earlier than 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

He allegedly launched into an expletive-ridden tirade within the retailer when staff couldn’t inform him who made the smoothie.

Iannazzo addressed the controversy Monday, saying in an announcement that he went to the shop after his 17-year-old son went into “life-threatening anaphylactic shock” and was hospitalized after consuming a smoothie that the daddy had purchased for him.

James Iannazzo was let go from his job as a managing director at Merrill Lynch after footage of his tirade began going viral.

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James Iannazzo stated his actions have been “unsuitable and I deeply remorse them.”

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The daddy insisted he informed staff his son was extremely allergic to nuts when he ordered the drink — regardless of staff telling cops the daddy had simply requested for no peanut butter.

Iannazzo, who turned himself in to cops after the incident, stated his actions have been “unsuitable and I deeply remorse them.”

He was charged with intimidation based mostly on bigotry or bias, breach of peace and prison trespass.