John Mims Update: The Trash-Talking Begins
In my Tuesday post announcing the departure of John Mims from Carmine’s Creole Café and its Center City spinoff, Les Bons Temps, Mims said of his split with partner Howard Taylor: “It’s going to be a really ugly divorce.”
He wasn’t kidding. After the foodie blog Foobooz picked up my story, a visitor calling herself “Carol” commented on that site that Mims “had been embezzling thousands and thousands of dollars.” Keeping in mind the anonymity of the Internet, which makes a simple task of spreading rumors and making unsubstantiated accusations, I called Taylor to ask him if the comment was accurate. He responded, “This Carol person, I don’t know who she is, but she certainly knows what she’s talking about. There were some problems, and some things went missing.”
For his part, Mims calls the allegations “utterly untrue” and adds, “I’m surprised that Howard would say that. We’re not supposed to be trash-talking each other right now. It’s in the hands of the lawyers.”
August 28th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Just look at John’s picture………………..no other words needed