[2] As an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency, Kaufman has repeatedly been a whistleblower,[3] including matters relating to the Rita Lavelle convictions and the post-9-11 cleanup of Ground Zero.

[citation needed] Kaufman got a master's degree in engineering administration from George Washington University.

[12] Kaufman "suggested" that the Bush Administration was putting pressure on the EPA to not release information about the environmental impacts of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina.

"[12] However, water was pumped into Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River, a decision Kaufman criticized for possibly endangering people downstream.

[15] Additionally, he criticized the lack of personal protective equipment and training for workers and citizens, due to the high levels of mold and asbestos; he believed that many would get cancer as a result.

Kaufman gave him a serving of his Jewish grandmother's chicken soup from a 19th century Hungarian recipe.

"[1] In May 2012, when the Nationals were a slump, Nats manager Davey Johnson was asked whether the team was "snakebitten" after several injuries.

[21] Kaufman answered Johnson's call by sacrificing a rubber chicken outside the stadium, as he had done numerous times over the previous ten years.

[21] Kaufman follows the orthodox Jewish tradition of Kaporos, in which chickens were ritually sacrificed before Yom Kippur.

On June 11, Washington Post reporter Neil Greenberg wrote that they had "brought their record to 9–3 since fans sacrificed a rubber chicken.