Baltimore Orioles CEO John Angelos was accused in a lawsuit this week of seizing management of the staff on the expense of his brother Lou — and in defiance of their father Peter’s needs.
Peter Angelos grew to become the Orioles’ proprietor in 1993, however his public position has diminished lately and he turns 93 subsequent month.
John Angelos is the membership’s chairman and CEO, with Peter and Lou listed on the staff’s web site as a part of its restricted partnership group. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Baltimore County Circuit Court docket, Lou Angelos mentioned John has tried to take management of their father’s property whereas excluding Lou.
“In 2018, (Peter) Angelos grew to become disabled,” the swimsuit mentioned. “Shortly thereafter, John launched into a collection of steps to arrogate to himself full management over Mr. Angelos’ belongings. He achieved this by manipulating his mom, Mrs. Georgia Angelos, who's now eighty years outdated, thereby bending her to his will.”
Lou Angelos is the plaintiff within the lawsuit. John and Georgia Angelos are defendants.
In accordance with the swimsuit, Peter Angelos had surgical procedure after his aortic valve failed in 2017. Round then, he executed a revocable belief and sturdy energy of lawyer.
“A precept goal of those paperwork was to make sure that Mr. Angelos’ sons labored collectively in help of their mom, shared decision-making and loved equal rights of inheritance,” the swimsuit mentioned. “Mr. Angelos by no means supposed that one son ought to wield management over his property to the exclusion of his different son.”
The swimsuit accuses John Angelos of working to undermine Georgia Angelos’ confidence in Lou, and to exclude him from the Orioles’ enterprise issues.
“The corrupting impact of John’s actions has been to completely frustrate Mr. Angelos’ intentions,” the swimsuit mentioned. “John intends to take care of absolute management over the Orioles — to handle, to promote or, if he chooses, to maneuver to Tennessee (the place he has a house and the place his spouse’s profession is headquartered) — with out having to reply to anybody.”
The swimsuit didn’t elaborate on whether or not there’s any vital probability of the staff shifting. It did declare Mrs. Angelos felt it was within the belief’s greatest curiosity to promote the staff — however that John Angelos has tried to forestall that.
The lawsuit additionally claims that in 2019, John Angelos ordered former Orioles outfielder Brady Anderson fired as a part of an effort to take away individuals who would oppose his actions. Anderson, who spent nearly all of his 15-year taking part in profession with Baltimore, had returned to the group and turn into a vice chairman of baseball operations.
The Orioles declined remark Friday when requested if the staff or John Angelos had any response.
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