CEO disputes $241K tab at topless club

CNN ^ | 10/21/05 | AP

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CEO disputes $241K tab at topless club Attorney says charges were fraudulent

NEW YORK (AP) -- American Express is suing the CEO of a communications company for payment of $241,000 worth of disputed credit card charges at a Manhattan topless club.

American Express says in papers filed in state court that Savvis Inc. chief executive officer Robert A. McCormick was in the club Scores in October 2003 with at least three other men.

After McCormick got the $241,000 corporate credit card bill, Savvis called American Express and complained that some of the charges were fraudulent, the lawsuit says. The communications company said its chief disputed all but about $20,000, according to the lawsuit.

"We firmly believe that Mr. McCormick was the victim of fraud," said Deena Williamson, Savvis's deputy general counsel. She declined to comment further.

Lonnie Hanover, a Scores spokesman, said he had not talked to all of the employees involved with McCormick and could not say what the CEO purchased.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday against McCormick and Savvis is at least the third in the past two years involving contested credit card charges at Scores. One patron sued the club after he got a $28,000 bill and another disputed $129,000 in charges.

[hang 'em]

Maybe they offer a lap dance from "Helen of Troy with her @ss on fire".

[opticks]

"...tip strippers as much as $10,000 for lap dances and for spending time with them."

That's really sad, but I've seen guys do this kind of thing, albeit with fives and tens, not hundreds. Putting bill after bill on the table in front of a girl for talking about nothing for hours. It looks like hypnosis.

[Sonny M]

It probably is fraud.

Scores is notorious for being mobbed up and its a mafia run and controlled place.

Thats not even a secret to anybody.

[Mr. K]

I am guessing that occasionally the owner gets away with this