Did Kerry steal the cookies? Yes, so says the founder of David's Cookies chain
Taken from article by Thomas Lifson in August 6, 2004 American Thinker
Interestingly enough, Kerry just this week in Davenport, Iowa spoke of his career as a small businessman. He and a friend started a cookie store in Boston’s Faneuil Hall Market. But this, too, is controversial. The founder of the David’s Cookies chain claims that Kerry stole the plans for the store from him:
“Some guy who called me up was John Kerry, in ’79 or ’80,” Liederman recalled. “He said he wanted to come down and talk to me about franchising. He came to the office and said he had an incredible space in Boston, which was Faneuil Hall. He said he needed some plans and some layouts and all sorts of things to get the approval of the landlord.”
“So I gave him the layout, the package, and he went back and I didn’t hear from him for six or seven months.”
Then one day Liederman got a call from someone who said they’d seen one of his stores in Faneuil Hall. Not having a store in Boston, Liederman decided to have a look for himself.
“It was a direct, 100-percent knock off of David’s Cookies,” said Liederman, from the appliances to the shop’s design to the cookies themselves. “If you had walked into a David’s Cookie’s store in Manhattan at the same time he opened ‘John’s Cookies’ in Boston, you couldn’t tell the difference |
