OWNER ADMITS SETTING FIRE TO GAY NIGHTCLUB IN OAK PARK

http://abc7chicago.com/ ^ | 08/05/2015 | Frank Elliott

[massmike]

A bar owner admitted he set his gay nightclub on fire in Oak Park.

Frank Elliott pleaded guilty to arson and insurance fraud for the fire at The Velvet Rope Ultra Lounge in 2012.

Prosecutors said Elliott doused the bar in alcohol, wrote gay slurs on the wall, then lit it on fire.

He was sentenced to two years' probation and has to pay back $107,000 to two insurance companies.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Elliott doused the bar in alcohol, wrote gay slurs on the wall, then lit it on fire.

Well, he was probably sick of them too.

[gaijin]

Disco inferno..!!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Seems to be a pretty light sentence for insurance fraud.

[Red Badger]

So, he was a Flaming .............................

[Norm Lenhart]

Unequal justice defined.

[NEMDF]

Seems like it would have been a “hate crime”, if done by a FReeper-type.

[SeekAndFind]

For a moment I thought Fire and Brimstone raining down was real ...

[2harddrive]

HATE CRIME!! LOL.

[gaijin]

Stonewall riot:

Theyd been blackmailing wealthy closeted guys, getting hush money and finally someone got mad.

Civil rights agitation?

WHAT A LAUGH..!!

[Safetgiver]

Gee, was he queer,also?

[Fido969]

Over the weekend, Oak Park gay bar Velvet Rope Ultra Lounge, was destroyed in a fire. Firefighters were called to the scene around 6:30 a.m. Sunday to put out the blaze, which burned the nightclub's interior. The fire could be investigated as a possible hate-crime-associated arson after anti-gay comments were discovered scribbled on a wall. In addition, the back door, which was kicked in, also showed negative comments.

Velvet Rope owner Frank Elliott, who left the bar around 2 a.m., was in shock and disbelief that his bar was the possible target of arson. "My whole life, everything that I've worked for ... my whole life is on the line and I don't know what to think or even begin with," he told the Tribune .

http://chicago.eater.com/2012/6/4/6580837/velvet-rope-ultra-lounge-burns-owner-thinks-foul-play

[massmike]

I wonder what happens to the money from his fundraiser?

June 4th, 2012

Fundraiser planned for Velvet Rope employees, Oak Park officials continue fire investigation

http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/6-4-2012/Fundraiser-planned-for-Velvet-Rope-employees,-Oak-Park-officials-continue-fire-investigation/

[AppyPappy]

Another Fake Crime

[humblegunner]

A bar owner admitted he set his gay nightclub on fire in Oak Park.

But... the Club was born that way!

Poor ol' Gay Club..

Homopyrotic, is what that is...

[T-Bone Texan]

There is a contempory peer to “Viking Kitties” called “The Gay Bar”. I wish I could find it.

It had kitties performing a punk rock song called “At The Gay Bar”, I think.

I remember snippets:

I got something to put in you,
I got something to put in you,
I got something to put in you,
At the Gay Bar, the Gay Bar.

Does anyone else remember this?

[paintriot]

How the heck do you get 2 years probation for what he did? Hard time is what he should have got.

[dragnet2]

Amazing, found guilty of arson/insurance fraud and is only ordered to pay the money back and was given probation?

No jail time? Not even 90 days?

wow...

[max americana]

Flamers in flames, like wow

[henkster]

Hard time is what he should have got.

That may have been what he wanted. Instead all he got was a slap on the limp wrist.