Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'dankaufman'
August 7, 2008
Dan Kaufman, the man accused of stealing customers’ credit card info at several Brooklyn Heights eateries, now knows what it feels like to be on the wrong end of crime. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Kaufman returned home to find the locks changed at his apartment on Pierrepont Street. When a locksmith finally came and opened the door, he discovered that the place had been “ransacked.” The article doesn’t definitively say who’s responsible, but one......
Continue Reading "Alleged Busy Chef Con Man Finds Apartment Trashed"July 28, 2008
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......
Continue Reading "Brooklyn Paper Denies Ignoring Early Leads on Busy Chef Fraud Scandal"July 24, 2008
Dan Kaufman, the co-owner and manager of Busy Chef in Brooklyn Heights who stands accused of identity theft and credit card forgery, is out on bail thanks to his girlfriend, who put up $50,000 after a judge refused to believe that Kaufman's own bail money was obtained legally. A grand jury convened this week to hear the 19 charges against Kaufman, who allegedly charged a total of $24,978.53 to 19 customers' credit card accounts. The......
Continue Reading "More Victims Come Forward in Case of Brooklyn Heights Identity Theft"July 18, 2008
This is any credit (or debit) card user's worst nightmare: Dan Kaufman, who manages Blue Pig ice cream, Oven pizza, Busy Chef and Wine Bar in Brooklyn Heights, was arrested for taking $25,000 from customers' credit cards. According to the Post, Kaufman would take "credit card slips from Wine Bar and Oven, and then ran them through again at his Busy Chef stores and an outlet on Court Street, pocketing the dough." Kaufman surrendered yesterday......
Continue Reading "Brooklyn's "Chef Dan" Arrested for Credit Card Identity Theft"
