The owner of a Brooklyn coffee and barber shop, who was accused of sexually assaulting one of his former employees, came under fire this week after a federal judge ruled he destroyed video evidence vital to an ongoing lawsuit.
And Brian Burnam’s excuse for not preserving evidence after one of his employees at Cotter Barber sued him in 2019? He thought it was a gag.
“This is this person that has gone unchecked for a very long period,”the employee, Joshua “Jude” Ahamed told The Daily Beast on Friday. “He did something fucked up and it’s all so wrong. It feels good to get a win.”
The ruling capped Ahamed’s five-year legal battle against Burnam, whom he alleges repeatedly groped him during work hours, monitored his movements on the store’s security camera, and called him a gay slur during New York City’s Pride parade weekend. During his two-month employment in the summer of 2019 as a Cotter Barber barista, Ahamed alleges Burnam non-consensually touched his butt at least four times—and once even tapped his........