Atlanta businessman J. Michael Robison, acquitted on rape charges last month in Massachusetts, has filed a lawsuit against his accuser.
On May 12, a Nantucket, Mass., jury found Robison not guilty on charges stemming from 2014 rape allegations made by a "family friend." Robison, the founder of Lanier Parking Solutions and a former chairman of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, had maintained since his August arrest that the encounter at his vacation home was consensual.
He’s now filed a “malicious prosecution” suit in Fulton County.
In the suit, Robison argues that his accuser’s actions constituted slander and “exposed (him) to public embarrassment and ridicule.” Among other requests, Robison asks that the court award him attorneys fees and any “further relief it deems just.”
Andre T. Tennille III, an attorney for the accuser, released a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday, saying they were unaware of a malicious prosecution lawsuit and calling Robison’s claims “frivolous.”
The statement said, in part: “(Robison’s) counterclaims are not only untimely but meritless, so we will ask the Court to disallow them.”
Robison, 50, founded Lanier Parking in 1989 as a Georgia Tech student and built the firm into a national and international parking management giant. The company manages lots and decks at high-profile office towers, shopping malls and arenas, and also managed parking during the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games and several PGA championship tournaments.
Robison's accuser filed her own civil suit in December.
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