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March 14, 2006
Ratner Files Suit Over Rude E-mails Sent in His Name
The NY Sun
By Joseph Goldstein
Ratner responds to a dirty-tricks campaign by filing suit:
Before Bruce Ratner proceeds with his $3.5 billion plan to rebuild a portion of downtown Brooklyn, he first must deal with an unanticipated obstacle: a pesky e-mailer.
In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, lawyers for Mr. Ratner claim that someone has been sending insulting e-mails in Mr. Ratner’s name to at least one prominent Brooklyn resident. The writer of the emails is not yet known, but whoever hit the send button did so with the intent of “undermining public support” for the Atlantic Yards Development Project, the complaint states.
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So far, the only public evidence of the alleged anti-Ratner e-mail campaign is a fragment of a disparaging email purportedly sent on March 3 by the developer to the president of Brooklyn Brewery, Steve Hindy.
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“Just a friendly messag [sic] to let you know I will not be selling any Brooklyn lager at the Brooklyn Nets Stadium,” court papers quote the email as reading.“Nothing personal, but I have to make a deal with the larger suppliers — Anheuser Busch for one — in order to really do the right thing. You’re small time and always will be.”
NoLandGrab: Who needs petty dirty tricks when Brooklynites are faced with the one of the dirtiest tricks yet, taking people's homes for a private project that the tapayers get to subsidize without any local input?
Brooklynites are definitely frustrated. We hope everyone can keep it clean and give that spell-check thingie a try.
Posted by lumi at March 14, 2006 8:29 AM