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
There's a little more here:
Prostitution Raid links Communist Tax Lawyer, leftist voter project, and 9/11 Truther Movement
Thank you very much backhoe.
I appreciate your efforts.
Here is a link to their still-active homepage! WARNING: There are adult pics and videos one level down, inside it. http://www.hotlapdance.com/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050166/posts
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter1.asp
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“BUT WILL THEY RESPECT HIM IN THE MORNING?”
July 23, 2008
COLUMN SNIPPET: “Say, how do “hot lap dances” affect global warming? Last week, a Gore supporter, Louis Posner, enraged over the result of the 2000 presidential election and founder of the Democratic voter organization Voter March, was arrested in New York on charges of prostitution and money laundering.
According to the police, in addition to sponsoring events with Vincent Bugliosi about Bush stealing the 2000 election, Posner ran a prostitution ring out of his club, the Hot Lap Dance Club, where employees say they were required to have sex with Posner in order to work there. No wonder Posner was so testy about the 2000 election — he wanted to preserve the glory of the Clinton years.”
You’re welcome Backhoe.
This NYC brothel funneled their money through a non profit called Voter March<<<
I am so glad that Calpernia is back, she digs into the facts better than anyone I know.
Be sure to check this thread.
Why any woman would go to that extreme to enlarge is beyond me.
Psychiatrists call this body dysmorphic syndrome.
"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.<<<<
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The husband's lawyer said the delay in indicting the couple might be a sign of weakness in the case.
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And there goes the chance of the vote fraud getting cleaned up before November. :(
post 112 :(
See post 24, Lou Posner also started nobloodforoil.org.
Look at this, contact shows nobloodforoil is also riseup.net:
WHAT: DAN began as a coalition of activists during the WTO protests in Seattle, formed in the hope of maintaining a “continental network of activists” to share resources and facilitate future mobilization through the guerrilla tactics of direct action. In response to the situation in Iraq, NYC DAN started the No Blood for Oil Coalition.
WHY: “Our mission is to bring direct action into the movement against the war. We’re not organized around holding large rallies; our focus is more around civil resistance: facilitating affinity groups, organizing guerrilla action and other visible ways that show we’re ready to put our bodies in line to speak against this war.”
WHAT NEXT: Mass mobilization on Times Square in New York City at 5 pm the day of the invasion of Iraq.
CONTACT
NYC DAN e-mail: nyc-dan@riseup.net
Website: www.anotherworldispossible.com/dan
and
No Blood For Oil e-mail: nobloodforoil@riseup.net
Website: www.nbfo.org
and
Chicago DAN e-mail: chicagoDAN@ziplip.com
Website: www.chicagodan.org
Now look who RiseUp.net is affiliated with. Email contact is RiseUp.net:
http://www.stonewallvets.org/recent_past_events_2007.htm
Saturday, September 29 (eve) — “PARADE WITHOUT PERMIT” PROTEST MARCH
The unauthorized but well-planned march sponsored by the Radical Homosexual Agenda (”RHA”) gathers at Tompkins Square Park after 6 p.m. amd kicks off @ 7 p.m. It is planned to have the famous “Stonewall Car” — well-known to the NYCPD — symbolically leading the protest march. One of the protest issues is the unnecessary new law that any gathering of 50 or more people need a “parade permit”!? What is this pre-Stonewall 1968? Shame on the City Council Speaker for supporting such undemocratic trash! For further 411, e-mail the RHA’s chief coordinator Tim Doody at Query@RiseUp.net.
S.V.A. Editor’s Note: What an absolutely treble busy day for the S.V.A. It’s like deja vu 1969!
Reminder of who Stonewall is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts
Brief history of the modern childlove movement
Because the terms "black hole," and "milky way" would generate too much controversy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047939/posts?page=114#114
*NYC DAN started the No Blood for Oil Coalition*
nobloodforoil is also riseup.net
For the planning of their protest march on Saturday, September 29th, their special guests today are logically members of the STONEWALL Veterans’ Association. There is no question that the S.V.A. has experience with “protests”. The Radical Homosexual Agenda (”RHA”) also invited the S.V.A. today to plan protest strategies and make arrangements for the protest march to feature the big blue classic convertible known as the “Stonewall Car”. Williamson Henderson of the S.V.A. originated the symbolic and visible Stonewall history idea. It was quickly embraced by both groups united in Gay respect and Gay rights cause. One of the RHA’s popular banners cleverly states: “The Stonewall Veterans didn’t ask for a parade permit!” Today’s representation for the S.V.A. is headed up by Bert Coffman. Meeting location is at Bike Space, 49 East Houston Street in the East Village @ 4 p.m. For more 411, you may e-mail the RHA at: WeWantYou@RiseUp.net.
114 and 116
Russian Organized Crime
Excerpt:
http://jaactv.com/330/site/content/view/77/102/
Practicing law under the name LOUIS J. POSNER, P.C. at 305 Madison Avenue & the Lincoln Building at 60 East 42nd Street “Big Lou” lists substantial experience as a debtor and creditor lawyer in bankruptcy courts including bankruptcy appellate practice.
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According to The Daily News, many of the hookers were Russian women forced to work as prostitutes to pay off debts to their “handlers”, a process otherwise known among women’s rights advocates as sex industry slavery.
I thought we had some pretty serious laws against transporting women across state lines (and international trafficking) for prostitution. Consider the Mann Act which now confronts Posner’s pimpin’ cousins in crime Eliot Spitzer and Mark Brener. But Posner appears caught in an extremely serious level of organized crime: money laundering, operating a fake charity, tax fraud, slavery, and so forth - that’s got to be a life sentence. There are only two ways out for someone in Posner’s shoes: the perp has to hope that the chief prosecutor deems his victims race ethnicity to be so low that they are unworthy of justice and the corrupt official lets it slide, or or the perp cuts a deal and rats out a bigger catch for the officials to parade in a prosecution.
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Let’s try to forget the salacious details involving Posner’s expensive manhattan strip club with the private rooms available for $5,000 and up and remember that we are talking about a bankruptcy lawyer. The bankruptcy industry is not merely a bunch of slimely lawyers who have organized crime members and corrupt hedge funds as clients. Posner’s outing is indicative of the “shocking” notion that the bankruptcy industry consists of organized crime operators who also hold law degrees.
Did anyone ever get some hard facts about the “mysterious” death of Lou Tersigni? No matter.
Remember this: Posner has been considered an honorable officer of the court, recognized to appear before Federal Bankruptcy Judges and by law his statements before a bankruptcy judge are automatically deemed true while statements by “ordinary” business people are not accorded such authority.
Proven Link Between Prostitution Ring and Bankruptcy Law Firm
Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is Eliot Spitzer, the Federal prosecutor and New York’s Attorney general whose duty was to enforce the laws. BankruptcyMisconduct.com reported back in 2006 via an AP press release delivered to every periodical in the nation which covered the legal services industry that Eliot Spitzer was corrupt and was protecting those persons involved with the death threat against the whistle-blower to bankruptcy ring corruption in the largest bankruptcy, fee fest, and hedge fund scandal in history called Worldcom.
Subsequently, all other citizens have learned that Eliot Spitzer abused prosecutorial discretion all those many years during which he actually did business with organized crime. In fact, the prostitution ring operators held career ending dirt on Eliot Spitzer and thus held de facto immunity for all of their criminal operations.
Some main stream media disparaged our linkage between prostitution rings and bankruptcy rings. Of course, Lou Posner was never arrested when Eliot Spitzer was in power. Upon information and belief, Posner was never even investigated under Spitzer. Did Posner’s having dirt on Spitzer after providing the Governor pervert with prostitutes enable Posner to operate free of criminal consequences for so long? How many crimes related to bankruptcy proceedings was Posner involved with under the protection of Eliot Spitzer? How many other criminal enterprises were protected by Spitzer? Only a Federal Special Prosecutor can answer that question for us.
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Judging by the lack of action against certain elements of organized crime by the DOJ and other law enforcement entities controlled by corrupt officials such as Eliot Spitzer, there is simply no such thing as a Russian mafia, there is only an Italian mafia. The fact that Moscow is now rated the most expensive city in the world and has the highest concentration of new money billionaires has absolutely nothing to do with the coincidental failures of our DOJ to prosecute organized crime in America when perpetrated by race and ethnicities other than Italian Americans. That Mukasey is Russian is only a coincidence.
Tidbit, in Russian Chertoff = Devil
Vincent Bugliosi, Esq. (left) and Louis Posner, Esq. (right) at Voter March Event
On July 31, 2001, Voter March (New York City) had as their guest speaker, Vincent Bugliosi, legendary prosecutor and author of the New York Times Best Seller "The Betrayal of America - How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President," with forewords by Molly Ivins and Gerry Spence. Vincent Bugliosi's Nation article about the 2000 election, "None Dare Call It Treason," generated more inquiries and online hits than any other article in the magazine's history.
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