False DUI arrests. Made up traffic violations. Excessive force. Derogatory slurs. These are just some of the allegations against Chicago police officer Richard Fiorito, who faces seven separate lawsuits claiming he targeted gays and lesbians. And there could be more to come. And was it all done in the name of billing the city for overtime pay?

Fiorito, 60, who refused comment to the Chicago Tribune, “allegedly rang up false charges so frequently against lesbian and gay drivers in the heart of the gay North Halsted entertainment district that out of his earshot, his fellow officers disparaged the charges to the people he pulled over,” claims a release from the Chicago-based Gay Liberation Network.

Reports the Tribune: “In some of the lawsuits, the plaintiffs have also said excessive force was used against them, including in a suit filed in February, which alleges Fiorito grabbed Shawn Rauch by the throat in the police station, shoved him against a wall and called him a slur for a homosexual. Of the cases filed, prosecutors dismissed DUI charges against two plaintiffs, and a jury found another not guilty of DUI. In another case, a judge ruled the officer had no grounds to arrest the plaintiff for DUI, Erickson said.”

Among the allegations, says GLN: