FISH KICKBACK PROBE INCLUDES PARIS CHEFS.Byline: Craig R. Whitney The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times A hoax Hoax Balloon Hoax, The news story in 1844, reporting the transatlantic crossing of a balloon with eight passengers. [Am. Lit.: The Balloon Hoax in Poe] Piltdown man missing link turned out to be orangutan. [Br. Hist. , the stink of corruption in the kitchen, even a possible death by arson: these are troubled times in some of the finest restaurants in France. An investigating magistrate confirmed press reports Friday that he had 30 Paris chefs under scrutiny for possibly taking kickbacks from a wholesale fish dealer. Among those being investigated are Manuel Martinez, the chef at La Tour d'Argent, which is more famous for pressed duck Pressed duck, or canard au sang (literally "duck in its blood") is a famous traditional French dish. In the 19th century, the Tour d'Argent restaurant in Paris, France developed a complex dish called Canard à la presse, Caneton à la presse, Caneton Tour d'Argent, or than fish dishes, and Christian Constant of Les Ambassadeurs Les Ambassadeurs is a restaurant in Paris, France. It is situated in the Hotel Crillon. The chef is Jean-François Piège. The restaurant was voted 50th best in the world in Restaurant (magazine) Top 50 2007. in the Hotel de Crillon. La Tour d'Argent has three stars, the highest rating, in the Michelin guide and Les Ambassadeurs has two. The main focus of the magistrate, Judge Eric Halphen, is a wholesale company called Scotfish. Its chairman, Patrick Perrin, is suspected of making monthly payments of $30 to $600 to restaurant chefs who ordered his fish, said his lawyer, Guy Nicolas. Nicolas said police had found envelopes stuffed with cash at the company's premises at the Rungis wholesale food markets south of Paris in November after getting a tip from a cashier who had lost her job. "It's an old tradition, a tip or a commission," Nicolas said. "That's how chefs were paid in the Middle Ages." The Hotel de Crillon made no comment, but the manager of La Tour d'Argent, Pierre Leconte, said that though Scotfish was not the restaurant's main fish supplier, where price, quality, and billing procedures were concerned, there was nothing fishy fish·y adj. fish·i·er, fish·i·est 1. Resembling or suggestive of fish, as in taste or odor. 2. Cold or expressionless: a fishy stare. 3. about the company. "La Tour d'Argent is in no way implicated im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. in the affair," Leconte said. Neither was the French Foreign Ministry, but a spokesman said that it had allowed Marcel Le Faou, its head chef for 10 years, to take early retirement after he was informed that he, too, was under investigation in the fish kickback The seller's return of part of the purchase price of an item to a buyer or buyer's representative for the purpose of inducing a purchase or improperly influencing future purchases. investigation. Le Faou's lawyer, Gilles-Jean Portejoie, said that the practice was "traditional," and the amounts were extremely modest - "a sort of tip," he said. |
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