Brookline, MA – The owner of a Boston-area restaurant has been charged with secretly video recording customers using the bathroom in his establishment, and police say it may have been going on for years.
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
Brookline police say Tze Chung, owner of Taam China, was arrested Thursday and faces arraignment Friday.
Police say the video camera may have been in place since 2015 and the 63-year-old Chung may have recorded multiple victims on as many as 20 different days. They released a list of dates and are asking people to contact them if they were in the restaurant on any of these days.
Chung’s sister, Connie, says she doesn’t believe the allegations and thinks her brother was set up, pointing out that other employees and patrons have access to the bathroom.
According to the restaurant’s web site they are are under the hashgacha of New England Kashruth Lemehadrin “Crown-K” under Rabbi Aaron Hamaoui.
In their post Thursday, Brookline police issued a call to the public for help identifying victims.
“The police need your help, we are trying to identify victims. If you were in this establishment on the following dates and used the restroom, kindly give us a call,” police wrote. “Please check credit card receipts or your calendar to help confirm one of these dates.”
The dates in question are May 27, 2016; June 10, 2016; Sept. 18, 2016; Sept. 22, 2016; Sept. 23, 2016; Oct. 9, 2016; Nov. 1, 2016; Dec. 1, 2016; Dec. 30, 2016; Jan. 10, 2017; Jan. 23, 2017; Feb. 6, 2017; May 14, 2017; May 25, 2017; July 12, 2017; July 18, 2017; Jan. 10, 2018; Jan. 25, 2018; Feb. 12; 2018; Feb. 15, 2018, according to police.
Anyone who may have been victimized is urged to call detectives at 617-730-2243.
Does it really make a difference that it was a kosher establishment and which Rabbi gave a kosher certification?
Please dont make this into a ” kosher ” thing like when you headline”jewish” thing. So that his perversions are kosher..if he is perverted, kosher has nothing to do with it. Why the KOSHER HEADLINE. . would you write, NON Kosher for an ordinary joint? Wow.
Heard they’re renaming the restaurant Peeking Tom.
Are the people really victims? Seems a little strange to call them victims when they would have never known (and hopefully still don’t know) that anything was done.
His sister is Connie Chung? Talk about small world!
I visited their previous second location and it seemed they yelled at clients a lot, not pleasant people.
It was all a misunderstanding. Owner told his Chinese waiter to take a photo of the PooPoo platter.
Reply to Anonymous, posting three times15, 16, 17: I see you forgot to take your meds today. Try chilling and get a life. There are very few things in life, if any, worth going ballistic over. VIN comments are certainly not one of them.