New York Attorney General Letitia James has launched a fraud and deceptive trade practices lawsuit against the producer of three Brooklyn-based food festivals that it says were “well-publicized disaster[s]” and actually became “food festivals without food.”
The festivals at the center of the action are the 2016 NYC African Food Festival, the 2017 NYC Pizza Festival and the 2017 NYC Hamburger Festival. And according to the Attorney General Office’s 29-page the complaint, lodged late last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court, the producer of the festivals, defendant Ishmael Osekre, engaged in deceptive trade practices, false advertising and fraud, with a reckless and indifferent abandon that “caus[ed] hardship to virtually everyone who is unlucky enough to become involved with him.”
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