-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Stephen Dreim has been officially cleared of any and all involvements in a bribery scandal that involved two Feast Fest newcomer chefs that won't even see action Nov. 22 due to their firings Monday.
The independent investigation concluded that Dreim's $52,750 raise had been failed to be preannounced to execs due to "a clerical error", and that of the six scouters accused of taking bribes from Dutch chefs Anah di Vri and Peter di Vris in August, only one worked as part of a four-scouter team negotiating Dreim's raise. "The three other scouters...were not even aware of the di Vris/de Vri scandal at the time they negotiated with Dreim," said Head Scouter Jim Dall, joining the investigation fresh off a private jet from Tunbridge, Vt., where he finished a four-day, four-state chef contract negotiation trip Thursday.
So Dreim's name is cleared, and now both parties can put this behind them and go off all happy into Nov. 22, right?
Wrong.
That WOULD be the case, only Dreim resigned Thursday morning, a mere eight hours before his name was cleared, incensed with the allegations of bribery being put to his name. "Dreim felt his image and name were being slandered, and we understand that," Dall said. "Now we must work on patching up our relationship with him."
But, should he wish not to return, feeling permanently alienated, "we must respect that decision."
FF will meet with Dreim Friday.
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