-Los Angeles
-A statement was released early Wednesday by Daved Leineken, the scouter fired for trying to bribe and blackmail former chef Brianna Galen-Ames to return in 2012.
In the statement, Leineken heavily defends his actions across seven densely printed pages, calling Brianna Galen-Ames "a chef of truly undeniable and immense talent and...one of vigor we have never seen before at Feast Fest."
Leineken did admit to the bribery and blackmail, but said in the letter that he should be hailed as a hero for the actions. "Should Galen-Ames re-sign, and Heaven Forbid she does not, my actions will have both saved this fantastical event from economic and [chef-scouter] relational disaster and elevated it to a brand new height, one neither seen nor even thought of or imagined before."
"It's just words," says Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt. "Just words without weight. We're not paying any attention to them. For this person to call himself a hero...it's disgusting. We don't want any scouter to justify their greed as a heroic action. That's simply heinous."
Brianna Galen-Ames had no comment to the statement Wednesday.
Vanderbilt assured, "I wouldn't think that someone like Brianna would agree with the statement, though. She's more humble than she's being made out to be."
Amidst the confusion regarding the Galen-Ames matter, Vanderbilt's approval rating among FF workers has fluctuated wildly, from 96% to 89% to 92% to 87% to 93% today.
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