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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Hello Kay I wanted to send in this story to put on your blog site…
Well here it goes…
My first day of stripping… I am 21 and started at a small club in town. As I walked into the club it was very dark and had lots of black lights.. I looked around the best I could but I had to let my eyes adjust…. it was really scary and exciting all rolled up in one….I looked around the club and some of the girls just peered at me with a look of why is she here and then one walked up to me and was a waitress … she asked how she could help me and I said I was there to enquire about a dance job… She was really nice and had taken me to see the dayshift manager… it was a man and he was about 6 foot 2 and stocky looking… he was decked out in gold jewlery and had a nice voice … and a soft smile… I can only imagine what he would be like if he was made angry… well he took me into the office to talk to me … it was a large desk in there and other furniture .. he asked me if I had danced before… I replied no.. but was a quick to learn it… he went on with some corny jokes and I just chuckled at them… He is finally done with the questions and he shows me around the club… the stage looked so big and scary… so as we walk to wards it I could feel the eyes of the guys on me… one walked up to Howard and asked him if I was working yet.. He said not yet but would most likely be starting soon… I just smiled and introduced myself to him… He was about 50 or 55 years old.. but seemed to be a professional type of man… some type of manager or owner of some type of store… he was tall and look nice for his age.. well built… Howard excuses us and takes me back to the dressing room where there were at leat 15 girls there getting dressed.. the hair spray and perfume was a little over whelming … but I guess it goes with the territory … most of the girls were nice and were saying how much money I could make … but it was all in the hustle of it all… Howard let me stay in the dressing room to ask the girls working questions… one of the girls there her name was Alexa … she kinda took me under her wing to show me around …. She said the job can be chanlenging … it is not just the dancing but it is the hustle and trying to get the guys to by dances and drinks… that is how you make the money… you get half of what you make…. which sounded pretty good to me if I could make it work… as I sat there and talked to Alexa she was so cool… she was honest that there could be some bad days and walk out with bare minimum but there were other times you could make a few hundred dollars a day.. but there was no gaurentee’s … it was luck, talent and having the gift to gab… since I loved to talk I thought WOW this may be a great job for me… So to cut to the chase I decided to start working there… I went with Alexa and she showed me how to get back to the office to talk to Howard… I said I wanted to give it a shot and wanted to know what all I needed to start… He said he would see if Alexa had anything I could wear to get up on stage with… Well she did and by luck she had a pair of heels that fit too… Yeah! Well as I got dressed in this sexy yet sleezy outfit that bairly covered the bod … but I guess it was no worse than a bikini on the beach… just no sand and sun …
all eyes would be on me on stage… how scared was I… I was shaking so bad that i could not statnd up.. well Alexa said lets have a shot or a drink to relax me.. so I had a fuzy navel… I am a light weight and that is all it took to give me a buzz… anyways… It was about an hour and I was called up on the stage… I had them play a easy yet fun song and got up on stage for the first time… I walked straight to the pole and did this cute but clumsy walking spin…
Well the song seemed to last forever… but as I got into the music and started to thrust my hips and butt and stood in front of the customers waiting for that all mighty dollar tip… the guy reaches up to tip me in my garter and I could feel my legs start to shake a little so I turned aroung bent over and did what I thought was a good move by reaching down and my ass was up in the air and did a sexy thrust of up and down… and as I looked at him between my legs I took my hands starting at my ankle and caressed my legs up tho my ass.. it was alot easier than I thought it would be… I was not really creative but for my first time I think I did ok… he tipped me a $10 and I took my hand to my lips and blew him a kiss.. as a thank you … then I moved on to the next customer… I was so nervous but it was fun too.. because Alexa was really nice to get some of the girls at the stage to tip me too… they would also get the guys wound up to tip… one of the girls laid on the stage on her back and said take the dollar from her lips with my breast… so I did just that… the gentelmen around the stage went wild… it was so much fun… but I am sure It will not always be this much fun… I hope but you have to think 20 to 30 women there for the same thing I am … MONEY…. well as the song ended I got off the stage walled up to Howard to see if I had a Job and he said I could start… So I did stay and worked the remaining part of the evening…. As I was walking back to the dressing room I was trying to be really gracefull in the heels but I did stumble a little as I made my way back there… There was a guy there that caught me to keep me from falling flat on my face.. talk about my face being red from the embarassement of coming close to ending my dancing days before they even started… I thank him and walked on to the back… I stood in there looking in the mirror for a few moments wondering if I could pull this off… and I decided Yes I could… so I freshin up and headed back out to the floor… as I started to head for the bar, a customer stopped me and asked me if I wanted a drink… Of course I did… so the waitress came back and asked him if he wanted to buy me a drink and he said yes… he ended up buying me a bottle of champain for $160.00.. I was amazed he went for that … well we had drinks together and drank it for about an hour and finally the waitress asked him if he wanted to buy another one… he said no But if I was coming in tomorrow he woudl be back… I thought what the heck … ok I am game… I will be here… so this went on for the rest of the day.. and by the end of the day I had made a nice sum of money… I was never so excited in my life and the feel of having my own money.. the tips on stage… that was amazing… and as the day went on .. well I felt at home on the stage.. I love the dancing and performing… Well that is all for now .. I will send you more to post tomorrow or Monday… This is fun and will keep you up to date… not sure what kind of shift I will have they have a day shift and night shift…
Thanks and oh..my name is (stage name) Passion
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Strip club ‘would be a disaster’
A lap dancing and strip club in Wolverhampton city centre would be a “formula for disaster”, according to police bosses who have strongly objected to the plans.
Divas, which would transform a former bar and restaurant opposite one of the city’s main churches, has attracted a wave of protests from official agencies and local businesses.
Businessman Dharam Singh Jagpal wants to open a “gentlemen’s club” in Darlington Street aimed at Asian men which would employ women wearing traditional dress. He has applied for an all-night licence.
But police chiefs say they have serious concerns about the potential for crime and disorder at the club and accuse Mr Jagpal, aged 26, of putting little research into his application. The fire authority and environment services have also lodged complaints.
In a letter to the city council, Wolverhampton police licensing officer Natalie Holt says: “The operation in question covers alcohol consumption, sexual arousement and late-night opening.
“In fact, it would be the only place in the city to get a drink at that time, which the police see as a formula for disaster.”
She says Mr Jagpal has failed to address a number of issues, including the siting of three booths for private dances. For the women’s safety, there would need to be at least eight permanent security staff.
The police also argue that entry to the club would be via a quiet street, leaving it vulnerable to street robberies and attacks.
Councillor Roger Lawrence, leader of Wolverhampton Labour Group, who represents the area, has raised concerns about the congregating of men, possibly under the influence of drink, at unsuitable hours.
Mr Jagpal has applied for a licence from 9am through to 6.30am the following day.
Estate agents Whitegates has written a strongly worded objection.
The application will be discussed at a licensing sub-committee meeting.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Incident At Vernon Strip Club Leaves Man In Critical Condition
By DAVID OWENS
The Hartford Courant
12:04 PM EDT, August 7, 2009
VERNON — – Detectives are investigating an assault outside a Windsor Avenue strip club that has left a man in critical condition at Hartford Hospital.
A Vernon police officer was patrolling the area along Route 83 when he saw several people fighting in the parking lot at Kahoots. People scattered and the officer found two injured men on the ground, Sgt. Dan Moore said.
One refused medical treatment. The other suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Rockville General Hospital, then flown to Hartford Hospital. He remains in critical condition. His name was not released.
“We’re actively investigating and we do have a suspect,” Moore said.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Judge rules patrons can’t bring liquor to Sayreville strip club
by Aliyah Shahid/For The Star-Ledger
Friday August 07, 2009, 11:46 AM
SAYREVILLE — Patrons of a Sayreville strip club should plan on leaving their beer and wine at home, now that a Superior Court judge has dismissed an injunction he issued last month allowing the practice to continue.
‘Attendants at Yankee Stadium or Giants Stadium will be the same if beer is served or not. People are going for the game, not for the food or liquor.” — Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman
The injunction was placed on an ordinance Sayreville passed last month, prohibiting establishments without liquor licenses — except restaurants — from allowing customers to bring their own alcohol.
Greg Vella, an attorney representing 35 Club, also known as XXXV Gentleman’s Club, on Route 35, said the rule is discriminatory and singles out XXXV because of the risque nature of the business.
Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman, sitting in New Brunswick, ruled today that Club 35 did not demonstrate that it would be significantly harmed because of the BYOB ordinance. He said patrons go to such clubs for entertainment, not necessarily because they can bring their own beer or wine. He drew similarities between patrons at a strip club and those at a baseball game.
“Attendants at Yankee Stadium or Giants Stadium will be the same if beer is served or not,” said Berman. “People are going for the game, not for the food or liquor.”
The law, which took effect shortly after its unanimous passage on July 13, also limits the amount of alcohol customers may bring to a restaurant (enough for three people). In addition, restaurants may not charge an admission fee, membership fee, cover, corkage, or service charge. And, restaurants may not advertise that they are BYOB.
The new law also defines a restaurant as “having an adequate kitchen,” “served at tables by a restaurant employee” and “customers are provided an individual menu.”
Vella argued that XXXV has had no problems since they’ve been BYOB for two years, and that the law is subjective and an abuse of police power because officers will determine what an adequate restaurant entails.
“There’s no rational connection,” said Vella, who argued that the borough should either permit or ban all establishments that have BYOB. “It creates different classes of competition and a different class of citizens. It’s unfair competition.”
Gregory Bevelock, an attorney representing Sayreville, said the ordinance was created because the borough had problems with owners who abandoned their liquor licenses, which were in danger of being revoked and operated as BYOB establishments instead. Problems, like noise and violence, have persisted.
Bevelock also said there is no evidence that XXXV would be hurt financially because of the ordinance, and that competition is fair because the patrons of restaurants and strip clubs are not the same.
“This is based on the nonsensical notion that an all-nude dance club competes with restaurants,” said Bevelock.
Jeff Bertrand, the borough’s business administrator said the ordinance was not created to single out any particular establishment, and that some municipalities, including Wall Township and Rahway have similar ordinances.
The club is currently in litigation for allegedly violating a zoning law that states the club isn’t allowed to operate within 1,000 feet of homes or public parks.
The court will reconvene in October, when there will be a trial to determine if the ordinance is valid or not, said Vella. Until then, BYOB will be illegal at XXXV.
“We’re disappointed,” said Vella. “But, we’ll continue to fight this.”
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Detroit strip clubs face booze ban
Attorney says Detroit’s threat to end liquor sales if dancers don’t cover up is all-out war
Detroit –Detroit may soon deliver an ultimatum to its strip clubs: Cover up or no booze.
The City Council on Wednesday is set to weigh a broad crackdown that would ban alcohol at clubs with topless dancing. The new rules also would stop lap dancing, close VIP rooms and force dancers to wear opaque pasties — even at dry clubs.
The rules are certain to reignite debate over the city’s 31 topless bars, and owners are vowing a fight.
“The city of Detroit has now decided they want an all-out war,” said Michael Donaldson, an attorney for All Stars and the Penthouse Club. “They cannot win. They are being totally stupid.”
But city staffers point to state and national court cases that support the legality of an alcohol ban. Richard Mack, an attorney and member of Perfecting Church, said the city must reject its status as Michigan’s strip club capital and home to 31 of the state’s 81 topless bars.
“Our goal is to do all we can within the law to root them out,” Mack said. “We don’t want the city of Detroit to be the dumping ground for lascivious behavior.”
The crackdown stems from a court battle in which a federal judge in 2007 struck down Detroit’s regulations on where clubs could open and ordered them rewritten. City staffers have recast the laws, but they have added tougher restrictions elsewhere — such as the alcohol ban. Pastors and community leaders have pushed for the changes and persuaded the council to get advice from Scott Bergthold, a Tennessee attorney who has worked nationwide to shut clubs down.
Here are some of the proposed changes:
• Alcohol can’t be served at any existing or new topless clubs. Once the City Council passes the change, existing clubs would have until their license expires, which is renewed every year, or the anniversary of the date the law was passed, to comply. A Michigan Liquor Control Commission official said Monday it’s up to the city to set those restrictions on the liquor licenses.
• Dancers would have to be 6 feet from patrons and on a stage at all times. A stage must be at least 18 inches off the floor in a room of at least 600 feet. That requirement likely would stop clubs from letting customers interact with dancers in smaller rooms, often called VIP areas.
• Dancers would also have to wear pasties..
Several council members did not return calls Monday on whether they would support the proposals. And Mayor Dave Bing’s staff said he hasn’t seen the proposals.
Rob Katzman, owner of the Toy Chest Bar and Grille, said the potential changes would put nearly all of the clubs out of business.
“You could not operate,” said Katzman, who argued that most clubs cause no problems. “You just wonder what the motivation is.”
But Mack argued the clubs lower property values and increase crime.
“Whenever they want to do their dirt, they come into the city and then return to their white picket-fenced suburban communities,” Mack said. “We want the same white picket-fenced communities.”
U.S. District Judge Julian Cook ordered the city to rewrite its rules, finding they gave city officials too much power to deny new clubs and didn’t address how long they had to act on applications. Under the old rules, clubs had to meet 15 broad criteria — including claims they wouldn’t reduce nearby property values — before the city signed on.
Cook ordered the city to revise its rules “forthwith.”
But the city has repeatedly delayed doing so. All the while, the council and mayor’s office have frozen transfers of liquor licenses that would allow clubs to open. The city is facing at least five recent federal lawsuits over its laws governing adult businesses.
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
CU student aims to open topless café in Boulder
By Amy Bounds (Contact)
Monday, July 6, 2009
BOULDER, Colo. — Boulder’s Dan Kennedy wants to open a coffee shop — but instead of competing with the likes of Starbucks by offering specialty drinks, he wants to steam up basic coffee and pre-packaged pastries with topless waitresses.
He’s looking to open a shop in August, one day a week in the morning.
Kennedy — who said he will be a sophomore at the University of Colorado in the fall after transferring from Whitman College in Washington — has placed ads on Craigslist for bouncers and women willing to work topless, saying he’s interviewing three women and three potential bouncers Friday. He’s offering to pay the women $80 to $100 for a morning.
But he said he’s still researching the steps he needs to make the cafe legal. He also needs a location. His ideal spot would be a conference room at CU, though he’s also looking on University Hill.
By offering only drip coffee and prepackaged food, he said, “There’s no license and no regulations.”
But, CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said, there are strict regulations governing businesses on campus — plus a student code of conduct that would prohibit operating an adult business at the university.
He said students can rent conference rooms for “normal campus activities,” such as study groups. Bottom line, he said, a topless coffee shop “is not going to be allowed.”
“This is a half-baked idea,” he said.
Kennedy said CU students are a big part of his target audience, and he’s considering charging a $12 cover fee to avoid attracting a crowd just looking to ogle the waitresses.
His job listing for the bouncer says the employee “will be checking IDs to make sure they are 18 plus. Making sure topless girls feel safe and no inappropriate behavior from customers.”
He acknowledged that some people likely will object to his risque business venture.
“It’s probably going to cause a pretty big stir,” he said.
A controversial topless coffee shop in a rural Maine town drew national attention — and was burned down in June by an arsonist after just four months in business. Before the fire, the owner had received 150 applications for 10 positions.
Locally, a strip club off the Pearl Street Mall that opened in late 2007 drew concerns from zoning and building-code officials soon after it opened. The city recently looked into ways to regulate adult businesses before they opened, but the Boulder City Council has yet to agree to any changes.
The city’s options include using zoning rules to limit where such establishments could open. Some cities, for example, forbid strip clubs from doing business within 1,500 feet of a church, school, child-care center, park or other adults-only venue.
The city could decide to issue licenses to strip clubs instead, a process that could resemble the way liquor licenses are handed out now.
Mayor Matt Appelbaum said it may be worth looking at the zoning regulations and giving the community a chance to offer feedback.
“Our regulations don’t really preclude these businesses,” he said. “There clearly are locations where they are not appropriate.”
City Councilwoman Susan Osborne said she doesn’t want the council to spend time on the issue, adding that she hasn’t seen much of a market for strip clubs and similar adult businesses in Boulder.
“There are so many big things going on right now,” she said. “This would just be a distraction.”
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Ah, baseball.
America’s pastime. Cracker Jack. Cold beer. Hot dogs.
And body glitter?
That’s the upshot of a decision issued Friday by a King County Superior Court judge, who cleared the way for a proposed Déjà Vu strip club — adult cabaret in the court’s parlance — near Safeco Field.
Stripper’s pole meets foul pole.
Over the objections of the Seattle Mariners and the public utility that operates the field, Judge John Erlick found that the City of Seattle did not err in permitting the proposed First Avenue club.
Erlick rejected the Mariners assertion that the City Council meant to keep strip clubs at least 800 feet away from “areas where children congregate” or sports arenas. That language is absent from the city ordinance drafted after Seattle’s wholesale ban on new strip clubs was rejected as unconstitutional.
“If (the council) had intended to require dispersion from all places where children tend to congregate, it would have specifically included that language,” Erlick said Friday. “This court refuses to read words into the ordinance which do not exist in the plain language.”
During an earlier hearing, attorneys for the Mariners argued that the city had erred in permitting the club because Safeco should be considered a park or open space. One area the Mariners pointed to was a park is primarily used for bus parking; another is private property that may be developed in the future.
The proposed Déjà Vu would be on First Avenue South just south of Safeco Field, about 400 feet from the main home-plate entrance. The rear door of the club would be about 120 feet from a parking garage plaza where school buses frequently drop off students attending games.
Opponents of the club will decide in coming days whether to appeal Erlick’s ruling, said Bart Waldman, Mariners executive vice president for governmental affairs.
“We’re obviously disappointed,” Waldman said. “For now, we’re just going to absorb the opinion.”
Lauding the ruling, Peter Buck, attorney for the club owners, said the Mariners’ moralizing throughout the legal proceeding strained credulity.
Buck dismissed the Mariners’ assertions that children would be harmed by the strip club as specious.
Buck noted that a Déjà Vu club across First Avenue from Pike Place Market has done little to discourage or offend tourists there. And, like all Washington state strip clubs, the proposed facility will not serve alcohol.
The Mariners, however, do at Safeco Field.
“The Mariners mainly made a moral pitch, that this facility would be harmful to children,” Buck said. “If they were really worried about children, they’d clean up their own act.”
Erlick’s ruling marked the first serious test of the 4-year-old restrictions on where strip clubs can be. Buck praised it as showing that business owners can get a fair shake, regardless of the business they’re in.
“It means that an operation such as my client’s can rely on the law as it is written,” Buck said. “This law isn’t about someone’s moral values.”
The Mariners have 30 days to file an appeal. If the team doesn’t appeal, Buck said the club will likely open in six months.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Boulder’s Dan Kennedy wants to open a coffee shop — but instead of competing with the likes of Starbucks by offering specialty drinks, he wants to steam up basic coffee and pre-packaged pastries with topless waitresses.
He’s looking to open a shop in August, one day a week in the morning.
Kennedy — who said he will be a sophomore at the University of Colorado in the fall after transferring from Whitman College in Washington — has placed ads on Craigslist for bouncers and women willing to work topless, saying he’s interviewing three women and three potential bouncers Friday. He’s offering to pay the women $80 to $100 for a morning.
But he said he’s still researching the steps he needs to make the cafe legal. He also needs a location. His ideal spot would be a conference room at CU, though he’s also looking on University Hill.
By offering only drip coffee and prepackaged food, he said, “There’s no license and no regulations.”
But, CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said, there are strict regulations governing businesses on campus — plus a student code of conduct that would prohibit operating an adult business at the university.
He said students can rent conference rooms for “normal campus activities,” such as study groups. Bottom line, he said, a topless coffee shop “is not going to be allowed.”
“This is a half-baked idea,” he said.
Kennedy said CU students are a big part of his target audience, and he’s considering charging a $12 cover fee to avoid attracting a crowd just looking to ogle the waitresses.
His job listing for the bouncer says the employee “will be checking IDs to make sure they are 18 plus. Making sure topless girls feel safe and no inappropriate behavior from customers.”
He acknowledged that some people likely will object to his risque business venture.
“It’s probably going to cause a pretty big stir,” he said.
A controversial topless coffee shop in a rural Maine town drew national attention — and was burned down in June by an arsonist after just four months in business. Before the fire, the owner had received 150 applications for 10 positions.
Locally, a strip club off the Pearl Street Mall that opened in late 2007 drew concerns from zoning and building-code officials soon after it opened. The city recently looked into ways to regulate adult businesses before they opened, but the Boulder City Council has yet to agree to any changes.
The city’s options include using zoning rules to limit where such establishments could open. Some cities, for example, forbid strip clubs from doing business within 1,500 feet of a church, school, child-care center, park or other adults-only venue.
The city could decide to issue licenses to strip clubs instead, a process that could resemble the way liquor licenses are handed out now.
Mayor Matt Appelbaum said it may be worth looking at the zoning regulations and giving the community a chance to offer feedback.
“Our regulations don’t really preclude these businesses,” he said. “There clearly are locations where they are not appropriate.”
City Councilwoman Susan Osborne said she doesn’t want the council to spend time on the issue, adding that she hasn’t seen much of a market for strip clubs and similar adult businesses in Boulder.
“There are so many big things going on right now,” she said. “This would just be a distraction.”
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Strip clubs are back in the headlines, and they add to the cringe factor of an adult-entertainment venue opening up for lap dances next to Safeco Field, the home of the Seattle Mariners.
SEATTLE’S sleazy experience with strip clubs stirs genuine indignation at the prospects of one these degrading establishments opening so close to Safeco Field.
Last week, a King County Superior Court judge announced he could find nothing in the law or in the city of Seattle’s interpretation and application of land-use regulations to stop City Hall from issuing a business permit to Roger Forbes for a strip club in the Sodo area on First Avenue South.
Judge John Erlick worked with the law and facts before him, and his 11-page analysis indicates he was looking for mistakes, overstepping and sloppy use of words. He found none. The Seattle City Council had not used early opportunities to add stadiums — spectator-sports facilities — to the list of land uses and activities that could pre-empt or exile adult entertainment from a neighborhood.
Strip clubs in Seattle are as likely to be viewed as ersatz brothels as they are dingy gathering places for lonely men to sip overpriced soft drinks and ogle the female form. Lap dancing is prostitution by another name.
Law-enforcement issues with strip clubs have a long history, and the headlines are never dormant for long. Check out the latest round of indictments surrounding four clubs that federal charges conclude were no more than whorehouses.
Slimy dealings between strip-club associates and members of the City Council gave the community a political and campaign-finance scandal — memorialized as Strippergate — that yielded guilty pleas, stunted careers and smeared reputations.
Such is the legacy of the sex industry that will be the Mariners’ new neighbor. Baseball fans, young and old, are not going to be pleased to see the neon signs and ads promoting amateur night or the special appearance of a porn star.
The business is degrading to women. These are not victimless enterprises. Promoting base and destructive attitudes toward women is hardly a desirable welcome mat so near a signature, public-gathering place.
Is this a moralistic harangue? Yes it is. Is there a place for adult entertainment in a community? The courts all say so. Next door to Safeco Field is not the place. Somewhere in Sodo might be appropriate, but this establishment is too damn close to families and a general public that is insulted and offended by the intrusion.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Longtime strip-club owner Frank Colacurcio Sr., his son and four associates were indicted Tuesday on federal racketeering, money laundering, mail fraud and prostitution conspiracy charges, the latest in a long line of brushes with the law for the notorious Seattle crime figure.
In a grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday, the 92-year-old Colacurcio and his associates are accused of promoting prostitution at four Seattle-area nightclubs run by the family’s management business.
“It’s been going on for a number of years,” U.S. Attorney Jeffrey C. Sullivan said in a news conference on the steps of the federal courthouse. “These men made millions of dollars exploiting young women … hundreds of young women.”
The government is seeking forfeiture of three clubs owned by the Colacurcios plus $25 million, the amount authorities believe the defendants earned through prostitution and other illegal dealings. They could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, Sullivan said.
Dancers had to pay $70 to $130 a day to perform and were told they could earn money from “private dances” in semi-secluded booths, but many if not most found they could not cover those payments without also performing sex acts, he said.
Sullivan would not estimate the total business done at the clubs or how much appeared to be legal but said that after four years of investigation, federal agents know of no bigger prostitution ring in the Seattle area.
Dancers and club managers were dissuaded from reporting prostitution, those who were arrested or caught in acts of prostitution were repeatedly allowed to return to work in the clubs, and receipts from the sex trade were laundered through various bank accounts, according to the indictment.
Investigators also secretly recorded racy conversations between the younger Colacurcio and dancers in which they talked about rampant sex at the club.
A woman who answered the telephone at Talents West, the Colacurcios’ management office, and asked that her name not be used, said no one from the business would comment. John W. Wolfe, a lawyer who has represented Colacurcio Jr. in the past, did not return a telephone call.
Colacurcio Sr. has a rap sheet that dates back to the 1940s and he was identified as a racketeer in hearings before a U.S. Senate organized crime committee in 1957.
Last year, the Colacurcios pleaded guilty to felony criminal charges in Seattle’s 2003 “Strippergate” campaign-finance scandal in which they secretly funneled thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions through friends, relatives and business partners to the re-election campaigns of three Seattle City Council members. The scheme occurred shortly before a vote on a key rezoning issue involving a strip club.
The Colacurcios and their associates remain free pending arraignment July 24 in U.S. District Court, said Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office.
The indictment identified the strip clubs as Rick’s in Seattle, Sugar’s in Shoreline, Honey’s in Everett and Fox’s in Tacoma.
The government is seeking forfeiture of Honey’s, Sugar’s and Ricks, the largest, all owned by the Colacurcios. The owner of Fox’s has not been linked to wrongdoing, Sullivan said.
He said the government did not attempt to seize the clubs immediately because “this organization has some legitimate business and revenues … a strip club is a legal business,” so the U.S. Marshals Service would have had to maintain operations until the case was resolved.
“They really don’t want to run strip clubs,” Sullivan said.
The charges include racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to use interstate facilities for prostitution and 12 counts of mail fraud.
The four clubs and the Colacurcios’ homes and offices were raided by FBI agents on June 2, 2008. At the time, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit that Colacurcio Sr. continued to pay his own dancers as much as $1,000 for sex.
The case is the latest round in his more than five-decade battle with the law.
The son of a King County farmer, he received his first conviction in the 1940s for having sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl and entered the topless nightclub business after making a name for himself in Seattle’s pinball industry in the 1950s.
In 1971 Colacurcio was convicted of running a bingo racket and sentenced to three years. In the mid-1970s he served more than two years on a tax evasion conviction that was eventually overturned on appeal.
In 1981 he was convicted of tax fraud for skimming profits from a Bellevue club, and in 1991 he and Frank Jr. were convicted in a similar scheme involving clubs in Alaska.
Named as defendants are Colacurcio Sr., of Lake Forest Park; Colacurcio Jr., 47, of Seattle; Leroy Richard Christiansen, 67, of Seattle, a nephew of the elder Colacurcio, co-owner of key Colacurcio businesses and co-manager of day-to-day business with Colacurcio; David Carl Ebert, 61, of Monroe, another co-owner and manager; Steven Michael Fueston, 61, of Tacoma, manager of Fox’s; Gilbert Conte, 75, of Bothell, manager of Sugar’s and Honey’s, and three Seattle corporations controlled by the Colacurcios.
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