-Marina del Rey, Ca.
-Two of FF's biggest offseason catches have been fired and a third chef previously widely considered as a 2013 addition possibility has been placed on a barred list after a bribery incident surfaced, Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt announced late Monday.
The chefs are members of a prominent Dutch culinary threesome. Feast Fest fired Monday Anah de Vri and Peter di Vris (no relation in spite of their similar surnames) and placed on a barred list Keneth de Röuterdäam. FF signed de Vri and di Vris in June. They planned to sign de Röuterdäam as well, but, due to contractual disagreements, he was dissolved as a potential addition for this year's event. However, de Röuterdäam said he would hire a new agent in hopes of bolstering talks between the two sides, and thus de Röuterdäam was then highly regarded as one of Feast Fest's main pursued chefs in the 2012-2013 offseason, which begins December 4.
The aspirations of all three were crushed Monday upon de Vri and di Vris's firing and de Röuterdäam's barring. De Fri and di Vris had filed checks of upwards of $25,000 to seven separate scouters in hopes of upping their contractual offers. Originally signed to $531,000 each, it was announced on August 26 that their contracts had been upped to $1,000,000, the maximum amount allowable under the salary cap and the largest contract amount in FF history. The yet-to-be-signed de Röuterdäam also bribed scouters with $25,000 in order to procure a $1,000,000 deal in the 2013 offseason when scouters pursued him.
FF responded to their actions by firing and barring them.
Vanderbilt said no scouters who accepted the bribes have been as of yet identified.
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