City Hall Politics

The man who Rahm and Ari Emanuel bullied and beat up: His story

By Sun-Times staff

Alan Goldsher in the Jewish Daily Forward writes about being beat up by Rahm Emanuel and his brother Ari as a kid–when he would go to their Wilmette home to get an allergy shot from their physician father. Read the account HERE.

Hat tip to Carol Felsenthal who spotted this story and highlighted in in her Chicago Magazine blog which is HERE.

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