Now that Busy Chef co-owner Dan Kaufman has been very publicly nabbed for allegedly stealing credit card information from his customers, other people who’ve been burned by the suspected Brooklyn Heights con man in Vermont and Boston have come forward. But Homer Fink at Brooklyn Heights blog, in a long post published Friday, says these former associates have been warning the world about Kaufman for some time now. And he blames the Brooklyn Paper and other media outlets for ignoring the story for too long:
Earlier in 2007, we thought it would be in the public interest to share the information we had with “professionals” who we felt would be better equipped to investigate and present the story. After all, we were a bunch of BLOGGERS doing this for fun and to meet our neighbors, not Woodward and Bernstein. We thought, the Mainstream Media would know how to handle a potentially juicy story like this, especially if it meant saving the citizens of Brooklyn Heights from becoming victims of fraud. Right? Not so much.Fink goes on to recall his failed story pitch to Brooklyn Paper editor-in-chief Gersh Kuntzman, and hint that the allegations were ignored because “Busy Chef’s advertising was extremely prominent in the online and print editions of the Brooklyn Paper. Kaufman was, until his arrest, featured in the paper’s marketing materials.”
