NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A pair of elected officials are
blasting the New York Post’s cover Sunday as “offensive” and “insensitive.”
The cover, about the body of Brooklyn real estate developer
Menachem “Max” Stark being found burned and suffocated in a Long Island Dumpster,
included the headline: “Who didn’t want him dead?”
The article, quoting police sources, said Stark, who the
paper described as a “slumlord,” had a list of enemies so long that
investigators don’t know where to begin in solving his slaying.
State Sen. Simcha Felder, D-Brooklyn, demanded the tabloid
apologize.
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms the incredibly
insensitive and crass cover of today’s New York Post which mocks the kidnapping
and brutal murder of Menachem Stark,” Felder said in a statement.
“The Post
must issue an immediate apology to the Stark family and to all New Yorkers for
its egregious behavior and failure to exercise any judgment whatsoever in this
matter.”
City Councilman Stephen Levin, D-Brooklyn, also condemned
the cover.
“The New York Post’s unbelievably offensive headline this
morning comes the day after Mr. Stark’s family and children, as well as an
entire community, laid him to rest and are still mourning his death,” he said
in a statement.
“For the New York Post to suggest that a person deserved to be
murdered is sickening and reaches a new low.
The entire community is outraged
by such a vulgar headline that is so offensive and horrific. The New York Post
should pull their story and issue an apology to the family and community that
are still in mourning.”
Stark was deep in debt before he was killed and had many
shady real estate transactions, the Post reported.
“Any number of people wanted to kill this guy,” a
law-enforcement source told the newspaper.
Surveillance video shows Stark being kidnapped late Thursday
night. The 39-year-old victim left his Southside Associates real estate office,
at 331 Rutledge St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when two suspects struggled with
him and forced him into a light colored 2006 or 2007 Dodge Caravan.
Stark was likely duct-taped, police said.
The suspects drove off with the victim inside. The minivan
was last seen heading east on Broadway in Brooklyn, police said.
A day later, his partially burned body was found inside a
Dumpster at a Getty gas station on Cuttermill Road in Great Neck, L.I.
Police are asking anyone with information about the case to
call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-8477 or to submit a tip online at NYPDCrimeStoppers.com.
All communications are kept confidential.
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