Jeffrey Chodorow (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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Jeffrey Chodorow is a financier, restaurateur, and convicted felon. He is best known for two different activities:

• In 1991, Chodorow attempted to resurrect the defunct Braniff International Airways as "Braniff II". The airline only lasted a year, and he spent jailtime for his illegal activities while head of the company. He was convicted in 1994 of defrauding the U.S. Department of Transportation and obstructing a pending proceeding of the DOT. In return for his guilty plea to these charges, the government dropped charges that Chodorow committed bankruptcy fraud and fraudulently concealed assets from creditors.
• Chodorow was the financier for the restaurant in the reality TV show The Restaurant in 2003 and 2004.

Chodorow formed Core Group Inc., a real estate syndicate in Philadelphia. Chodorow runs China Grill Management, a collection of high-end restaurants. He splits time at various properties he owns in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Miami, Florida, New York City, and the Hamptons.

In a full page ad taken out in the February 21, 2007 dining section of the New York Times, Chodorow declared figurative war on critic Frank Bruni for giving him a poor review weeks earlier. Chodorow advised that this was a personal attack and that he would follow up Bruni's reviews with visits to the restaurant himself, with his own review to follow on his blog.

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