Daley ordered to give deposition

The head of the Chicago empire is making news today.The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting:

In an unusual move, Mayor Daley has been ordered by a federal judge to give a sworn, pretrial interview to his cousin Mark Gyrion's lawyers in a lawsuit against the city and Daley.

Daley fired Gyrion last year after Gyrion was tied to the scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program. Gyrion is suing for wrongful termination and defamation and wants Daley to sit for a deposition.

Normally, "the mayor of Chicago should not . . . be burdened with the time that a deposition would take," U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo wrote in denying the mayor's bid to be excused. "In this case, however, I cannot determine from the record . . . that he has no relevant information; indeed the opposite appears more likely."