(AKA "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"...)
Kahn only listed a $3.6 million personal loan he was using to invest in the brothel. The property is being sold for $5.25 million, Grimauld said, leaving the sheriff's department to wonder where the remaining $2 million will come from.
Then there's the matter of a past bankruptcy as prohibited under the brothel code, Grimauld said. He added that there are three federal tax liens against Kahn.
Furthermore, Kahn lists an address in Dallas, Texas, but Grimauld said the brothel code states an applicant must have been a bona fide resident of Nevada for six months or more.
Kahn's 2004 income tax return lists a business named the Flying Zebra Bar.
Kahn unsuccessfully requested that the commissioners table the item so he could furnish more information. Grimauld described different information being supplied to the Nye County Sheriff's Department upon request, off and on, since March.
"I had attempted to provide as much information as possible but apparently I have failed at that," Kahn said in his brief testimony under oath.
Commissioner Butch Borasky asked the sheriff for a recommendation.
DeMeo replied: "Based on the investigation we have completed thus far that I would make the recommendation that we deny the application."
Kahn declined to say after the vote whether he will take further action.
Current Chicken Ranch owners Ken Green and Russ Reade bought the brothel in 1981. A previous newspaper article listed the original price tag at $6.95 million in 2004, when it was put on the market.
Deborah Rivenburgh, the current manager, would have stayed on in that capacity if Kahn's application were approved.
Bob Fisher, head of the public relations firm Fisher and Associates, which represents the brothel, said the property went into escrow last year but the Chicken Ranch obviously couldn't be sold until the new owner gets a brothel license.
The Chicken Ranch is based on the brothel made famous by the movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. That movie was about a brothel that originally opened in 1844 in La Grange, Texas, but was shut down by the governor of Texas in 1973 after publicity by Houston television consumer reporter Marvin Zindler. An enterprising capitalist bought the rights to the name and established the Chicken Ranch in Pahrump in 1975.
It earned the name The Chicken Ranch during the Depression, when the working girls were allowed to accept produce and livestock in lieu of cash. The brothel then had so many chickens that it raised poultry to supplement its income and food supply.
The sale of the property would be a turnkey operation including the trade name and 40 acres.
Chicken Ranch owners were unsuccessful at persuading the Nye County Commission to let them issue public stock back in 2003.
Previously two prospective owners withdrew their application for a brothel license, due to problems complying with the Nye County code. That license application never even got to the hearing stage."
Maybe clinton could take it over?
so it’s a morality problem? He’s not a good enough guy to open a brothel ?
it’s not like he’s asking the state for the money or anything. sheesh
Usually, when the government is involved, somebody gets screwed. But not this time!
This can’t be allowed to happen. Where’s Zerobama when you need him? Brothels need to allowed, no matter the cost. Where are all those wealthy liberal bankers we bailed out? How about we loan this guy a piece of that tapxpayer $700B pie?
I’m sure there are a few men-dressed-as-women he could’ve employed and gotten a great tax break on. Changeling Transvestites we can believe in!
Not in to brothels, but they do have a good shooting school in Pahrump.
—th8iis article is a year and a half old—
(AKA "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"...)
Well, we don’t want the new owners to be over-extended. That would be a lot of debt service to swallow.