Detroit Strip Clubs: Tangle remains over Detroit strip clubs
June 18, 2009 at 2:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsTangle remains over Detroit strip clubs
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A year after draft amendments to ordinances regulating the city’s 31 strip clubs were brought before Detroit’s City Council, the council and city officials remain tangled over ordinance language.
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Right now, there is no regulation of strip clubs. The goal is to have some kind of guidelines, including contact with workers, for instance.
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The issue started years ago as the number of adult entertainment establishments began to grow. Several council members said the city needed ordinances that specifically regulated strip clubs.
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Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers and Councilwomen Sheila Cockrel, Martha Reeves and Tinsley-Talabi have supported ordinances regulating the operation, licensing and zoning of strip clubs, but with no alcohol ban.
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The city Planning Commission also has drafted zoning ordinance amendments that would place new strip clubs in industrial areas and require a 1,000-foot buffer between the clubs and schools, parks and churches.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit EMS worker wins whistle-blower suit
June 18, 2009 at 2:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsHe said he was fired for giving an affidavit in slain stripper case
BY BEN SCHMITT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
June 18, 2009
A Detroit Fire Department EMS worker won a default judgment Wednesday in his whistle-blower lawsuit, saying he had been fired after reporting that a woman at Detroit Receiving Hospital said she had been assaulted by Carlita Kilpatrick, the wife of then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Paramedic Cenobio Chapa filed the lawsuit against the City of Detroit and the Fire Department after being fired Oct. 24, 2008, a day after his affidavit to Birmingham attorney Norman Yatooma went public.
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Chapa, 45, said in an affidavit released Oct. 23 by Yatooma — the attorney representing the family of slain stripper Tamara Greene — that the woman he saw in fall 2002 in a wheelchair was loud and emotional and accompanied by the mayor’s security team.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit officials pan strip club booze ban
June 18, 2009 at 2:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThursday, June 18, 2009
Detroit officials pan strip club booze ban
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit –City Council members got their first peek Wednesday at a proposed crackdown on strip clubs and are panning a plan to ban booze.
The panel took no action, but a majority of members appeared to have issues with revised ordinances that would stop lap dancing, close VIP rooms and force dancers to wear opaque pasties — even at dry clubs.
Members Martha Reeves, Kenneth Cockrel Jr., Sheila Cockrel, Monica Conyers and Alberta Tinsley-Talabi all expressed problems with the alcohol ban, which was suggested by city staffers in consultation with a Tennessee anti-strip club attorney.
Several worried it would invite more lawsuits from the clubs.
“There are all kinds of people in this world,” Reeves said. “The first thing in my mind when I read this … was it was written by a minister.”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Costly Mistake? City Attorney a No-Show
June 18, 2009 at 2:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCostly Mistake? City Attorney a No-Show
Updated: Wednesday, 17 Jun 2009, 11:24 PM EDTPublished : Wednesday, 17 Jun 2009, 11:24 PM EDT
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – A city attorney is a no-show and it may have cost Detroit millions of dollars. It’s another whistle-blower bombshell that began with an EMS worker who spoke out about the murdered stripper and the rumored, but never proven party at the Monoogian Mansion. It ended with another judgment against the city.
FOX 2’s Brad Edwards sits down with the paramedic and goes looking for the city attorney who never showed up. Use the video player on the left to watch his report.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Conyers’ wife focus of bribery probe
June 18, 2009 at 2:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsMr. Riddle was not available Wednesday for comment, but his Detroit-based attorney, David Steingold, said he could “confirm that no plea offer had been made to my client at this time.”
When pressed, Mr. Steingold said he would not make any further statements about Mr. Riddle’s involvement in the ongoing investigation, noting that “it is a sensitive time in these negotiations and I do not want to damage my client.” He did not elaborate.
Mrs. Conyers’ attorneys and federal prosecutors have been discussing a plea deal, The Times was told. Details of the negotiations, first reported by the Detroit News and Free Press, were not available Wednesday evening.
Special Agent Sandra Berchtold of the FBI’s Detroit field office declined Wednesday to comment on the reports.
With a media firestorm swirling around her, Mrs. Conyers appeared at a City Council meeting Wednesday to discuss regulating local strip clubs but did not take questions about the federal case.
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