Posted on 07/19/2008 3:58:49 AM PDT by KLFuchs
(Porn star Alexia Moore performs on stage ...
... and hurries out of court Friday night.)
(Louis Posner)
Teams of vice cops swooped down and busted a posh midtown strip club that catered to stockbrokers and bankers - and featured porn stars who charged $5,000 for private trysts.
Prominent tax lawyer Louis Posner; his wife, Betty; and 19 others were arrested on a variety of prostitution and money-laundering charges at The Hot Lap Dance Club, which the couple ran out of a velvet-heavy loft, police said.
Cops said Posner raked in $1 million over the last 10 months from the operation, which billed itself as "the Number 1 Gentlemen's Club in the World."
Four of the club's dancers including busty, streaked-blond porn star Alexia Moore - were busted for prostitution.
Another 15 strip club employees - including a rejected NYPD applicant and a private security officer - were arrested in Thursday's raid, sources said. No customers were cuffed.
The fifth-floor fantasy lounge on W. 38th St. offered its well-heeled members topless and all-nude lap dances from a bevy of beauties.
To get in, patrons had to be recommended by another member, or pass muster with the club's Internet screeners, cops said. There was a $50 cover charge plus a $20 membership fee.
Patrons then had to get past club security, "two monsters at the door downstairs," said a source familiar with the sizzling jiggle joint.
Besides half a dozen private bedrooms, the plush 7,000-foot loft had small cubicles patrons could rent for $300 for 15 minutes of fun - up from just $160 when the prostitution probe began a year ago, cops said.
For $500 to $5,000 more, the high-rollers could retire to private bedrooms for more personalized attention, or arrange for sex "off-premises."
Patrons who ran low on cash could hit the loft's ATM for up to $900 per visit.
A 13-page criminal complaint said undercover cops posing as men interested in throwing a bachelor party were told they could have a private room - with a bed - for $250 an hour, plus whatever they spent on the women.
"The house dealer of cocaine" came by the club every night and one manager boasted to undercover cops, "Lou has a source in the NYPD payroll so he can know who's a cop," the complaint said.
Dancers called Posner "Daddy" and one employee told an undercover cop the women had to have sex with Posner if they wanted a job, court records said.
Cops said Posner laundered the sex profits through Voter March, a nonprofit voter registration organization he founded.
"He's a lawyer who specializes in tax matters so he knew how to go below the radar," said Sgt. Christopher Koch of the NYPD's VICE club unit.
Investigators seized $570,000 from the Posners' 13 bank accounts and two safe deposit boxes. A law enforcement source said all the money can be traced back to the club and is subject to forfeiture.
Tenants who shared digs in the building said they dimed out the sex club to cops two years ago.
"Everybody knew it was a sex club," said Bruce Gilarei, 45. "One of the tenants here went to check it out with his girlfriend."
Posner, once known as the king of nuisance lawsuits, brought a landmark $16 million suit against his then-4-year-old son's nursery school in 1992 for letting the child run out of his classroom.
That son, Daniel, now nearly 20, told reporters he didn't know anything about the strip club.
A neighbor in the Posners' posh E. 48th St. apartment building, where monthly rents run $6,000 to $10,000, called the couple quiet - but odd.
"They are just the most low-key people," said a next-door neighbor who didn't want to give his name. "A little strange, but very low-key. They keep to themselves."
A lawyer who shared an office suit with Posner was dumbfounded.
"It's the last thing I would think anyone who works so hard to be a lawyer would do."
But a stunning stripper in her mid-20s who wasn't among those arrested Friday described Posner as "a sleazy, disgusting and disloyal boss" who often hit on the girls.
She said two weeks ago Posner announced that customer complaints were prompting him to weed out bad dancers with "auditions" for managers he said would be used to critique the women on "the art of lap dancing."
Moore, whose real name is Cassandra Malandri, was released on her own recognizance after her arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Cout Friday night. The Posners were expected to be arraigned Saturday.
The club last made news in March when it was sued by a securities trader who claimed he was seriously injured when a lap-dancing stripper swiveled and slammed him in the face with her shoe. ruce Gilarei
Asolutely not, but lawyers and politicians are and many need some serious whacking. That would include a few Republicrats, not for heading up prostitution rings, but for acting like Democrats such as: Luger, Warner, Snowe, Collins, Specter, Graham, Hutchinson, et al.
It's amazing that it's a voter registration group. I'm certain Posner made sure that the whores were registered.
The Democrat Party is the party of perversion, evil, witchcraft, abortion, (murder when it helps the cause),communism and homosexuals. What would we expect of this gaggle of human debris?
Lawyers own the Democrat Party.
Using electronics to defraud incurs serious charges-—over and above the usual.
Might also have included ID theft for political and other uses (which must be credited to your earlier insightful observations).
>>>>It’s amazing that it’s a voter registration group. I’m certain Posner made sure that the whores were registered.<<<
Heck, I would like to see if there are connections to the politicians that want models to have their own visa classification.
http://blog.barofintegrity.us/2008/06/14/new-york-sufferring-a-foreign-fashion-model-shortage.aspx
New York “Sufferring” A Foreign Fashion Model Shortage
Excerpt:
There’s a model shortage in the fashion capital of the world and New York Representative Anthony Weiner is working to right that wrong. Seriously.
Weiner is sponsoring a bill that gives models “of distinguished merit and ability” their own visa classification (P-4 status) which would group them with entertainers and athletes.
Believe it or not (might not be hard to believe for those of you who are critical of our visa policies or ever applied for one yourself), models coming to work in the U.S. compete with high-tech workers for the same type of H1-B visa.
/excerpt
Modeling schemes are one of the largest frauds used to lure young girls, internationally, into the sex trafficking industry.
The victim girls sign contracts that result in them being indebted to the pig madams or pimps and engage the girls into commercial sex acts through force, fraud and coercion. Most of these girls haven’t even reached 18 yet. They are more valuable price wise the younger they are. The girls are lured and recruited into prostitution with promises of legitimate modeling careers.
Available to rent at Blockbuster
http://www.mylifetime.com/on-tv/movies/human-trafficking
Human Trafficking
Interesting.
You got that right. Read on.
The US Attorney General filed charges of “human trafficking” against a women who owned barrooms and property in the same town as the Emperor’s Club.
Allegations include forced labor, forced abortions, forced prostitution....on as young as 14-year old Honduran illegals.
Luisa Medrano---who is awating sentencing--- forced abortion meds on young girls, and threw a girl downstairs to force miscarriage. Medrano became a millionaire through her activities (which probably included drug dealing and pimping the girls).
Medrano lives in Cliffside Park, home of the notorious Emperor's Club that sank Eliot Spitzer.
Medrano was looking at major jail time-----until she made a deal to testify against politicians she was bribing. Her sister "Eduvinges Medrano" was also bribing pols.
Betcha the illegals were all fraudulently registered to vote under several identities, as well.
EXCERPT
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTDISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Hon. Joel A. Piano: v. ::LUISA MEDRANO,: Criminal No. 05-NORIS ELVIRA ROSALES MARTINEZ,: a/k/a “Norris Elvira Sandoval,”: 18 U.S.C §§ 371, 1589, ANA LUZ ROSALES MARTINEZ, : 1594(a) and 2;NANCY FLORIDALMA ROSALES MARTINEZ, : 8 U.S.C. § 1324 a/k/a “Moreno,” : JOSE DIMAS MAGANA, a/k/a “Pelon”, : LOURDES ROSALES MARTINEZ, a/k/a :“Turk,”: ZENIA ZUNILDA MARTINEZ, a/k/a :“Dona Sonia,” :JOSE ARNALDO ISAULA-MEZA, a/k/a: “Nalco,” :ELSA CONSUELO ISAULA-MEZA and: ROSALBA ORTIZ:S U P E R S E D I N G I N D I C T M E N T The Grand Jury in and for the District of New Jersey, sitting in Newark, charges: COUNT ONE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FORCED LABOR OFFENSES
Cross linking before I go:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597900/posts
‘Sister Ping’ Convicted in Smuggling Scheme
Observations:
Sister Ping was called the living buddha of Shengmei Village
Maya Soetoro married a budda
Al Gore had some successful fund raisers at budda temples
ACORN really knows how to get out the vote and bring in funds! Must have affective community leaders like Obama was in creating Project Vote.
reemphasizing before I go for the day.
The investigations into Big Apple Sex Tours
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts
Was always blocked and never successful. Rumor was there were some very well placed judges, lawyers and people of influence involved. They did much smuggling of young people from China.
Rumor, just a rumor, Sister Ping may have been the fall girl for that.
Hmmm...cute, but she looks underage.
They’re just bulked up from lots of...exercise.
When my friends and relatives, who don’t know any better call lawyers, whores.
I have to correct them and say, “No! They are the pimps and owners of the biggest whore house, the DNC!”
Nope. I know, I know, “Cashew see that would be a good one to start?” ;’)
Love it————“the biggest whore house, the DNC!”
In my coffee deprived mind, I kept saying, "Posner really looks familiar!"
Now I know why:
Big Apple Sex Tours————like to see where all their money comes from.
What I want to know is how one walks in those heels?/Just Asking - seoul62........
“porn character actress:” A figure of speech.
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and it isn't Christmas...
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