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Chad Johnson Sued For Bogus Raffle

May 5, 2007 – 5:15 AM
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Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson has been added to a lawsuit for allegedly not giving away a Lexus that was supposed to be raffled off. The original suit surrounds a guy named Thomas J. Monahan, who sued the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Cincinnati last month for, essentially, holding a bogus raffle. Monahan bought 20 raffle tickets at the club for $17 a pop [that's $340 to you and me], yet no one in the raffle won the car.

The amended suit claims the club was selling out every Tuesday during football season as word spread last year about Johnson's giveaways as host of a comedy showcase. In the past, Johnson had given away trips to Atlanta for the Falcons-Bengals game, according to the suit. At the center of the suit, however, is a claim that Johnson offered to raffle a Lexus he got as a gift from a Florida dealership. Monahan claims Johnson changed his mind and gave the car to a female friend.
This suit keeps adding plaintiffs, with at least two of the them claiming that they have won trips from Johnson [one to Europe; one to Hawaii] that Johnson never made good on. Stayed tuned for this one.

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