Detroit Strip Clubs: Chicago Equity Fund CEO Indicted in Union Pension Scam
July 31, 2009 at 8:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAt least that’s official figure for now. Back in September 2006, the SEC had filed a fraud complaint against Orecchio and his company, alleging he’d misappropriated $10.7 million from clients. But even $24 million may be on the low side. In previous court filings, Orecchio has acknowledged causing $60 million in losses. Whatever the true amount, few dispute he had ambition or a taste for the good life. According to W. Scott Porterfield, the court-appointed lawyer in the SEC case, Orecchio diverted large portions of his clients’ investments toward covering AA Capital operating losses and paying for expenses (”reimbursements”) of a Michigan horse farm and a Detroit strip club he owned. He also racked up millions of dollars in travel and entertainment expenses – $4.3 million in 2006 alone – whose tab included $78,795 for a trip to South Africa, $80,468 for a trip to Antigua, and $1 million in donations to a variety of organizations including Michigan Democrats and Citizens for Greater Detroit. In his biggest boondoggle, Orecchio pumped $32 …
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Detroit Escorts: Council Candidates Respond
July 31, 2009 at 5:37 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsWhile much is made of the Cobo Hall issue and tunnel ownership, there has been no mention made by any candidate for office, (including the newly elected Mayor) of the enormous pain and suffering thousands of displaced Detroiters are experiencing as a result of the current housing and financial crisis, Bomani said.
General Motors retiree and UAW member Chris Beatty, not to be confused with Christine Beatty, former Chief of Staff under Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, wrote that privatization of city services should be a last resort. He sees the demolition of vacant buildings in Detroit as an opportunity for job creation.
Beatty disagrees with any community control of local police but favors a community response team to deal with local police issues.
On the issue of crime, Beatty says, I would work on an ordinance to demand surveillance and intervention of suspected drug, prostitution and after-hour locations within 72 hours.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Local Teen Missing for Nearly 2 Weeks
July 31, 2009 at 11:13 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments… I feel heart broken about it because he took off. We opened our doors, let him come move in with us and wanted to help him out,” Franks said.
At first, police and his family suspected Sturgill ran away, but found it odd he left all of his belongings, drawings and heart medication behind. In fact, he recently told his father he would never become a runaway.
“I asked him if he would do that and he said, ‘No,’” said father Nathan Franks. “He said he knows that would cause him more trouble.”
Sturgill hasn’t had it easy. In 2006, his story made headlines. His mother abandoned him for a life of prostitution and drugs. When the 12-year-old moved in with his grandmother, it didn’t get any better. His grandmother and aunt were prosecuted after his aunt, Jacqueline Vuich, injected heroin into Sturgill’s arm, forcing him to overdose.
Detroit Escorts: Boy injected with heroin now a missing teen; police concerned
July 30, 2009 at 5:37 pm | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsThe teen’s troubles made the news in 2006 after his aunt, Jacqueline Vuich, was prosecuted for injecting Nicholas with heroin near the elbow as he ate dinner at his grandmother’s home in Warren. At the time of the Jan. 24, 2006, incident, Nicholas, then 12, was one of eight grandchildren under the care of Jan Catton. Nicholas was rushed to Bi-County Hospital and treated for a heroin overdose.
Catton pleaded no contest to charges of maintaining a drug house and a house of prostitution. She received two years’ probation.
Vuich pleaded guilty to delivery of narcotics to a minor, first- and second-degree child abuse, maintaining a drug house and keeping a person younger than 16 in a home of prostitution. She was sentenced to at least eight years in prison.
Berlin said authorities are also trying to locate the teen’s mother. She is believed to be mixed up in drugs and prostitution and living in Detroit, Franks said, adding she is barred from having contact with her son.
Detroit Escorts: East Coast orchestra more than Celtic
July 30, 2009 at 9:37 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsEast Coast orchestra more than Celtic If Tom Fun were a real person, he’d probably be a pirate. Or
a circus performer. Or an outlaw. By The Windsor StarJuly 30, 2009
If Tom Fun were a real person, he’d probably be a pirate. Or a circus performer. Or an outlaw.
The legendary origins of the Tom Fun Orchestra don’t stray far from that gritty fantasy. As the band’s website has it, Tom was born on a fishing vessel in the north Atlantic and raised in a brothel by call girls, where he developed “a fondness for cheap perfume, bourbon and show tunes.”
After spending his youth in a rock quarry smashing mountains into dust, he settled in the basement of an abandoned theatre in Sydney, N.S., where he devoted himself to “tin-can clanking, bottle-cap tapping & dizzy, dizzy shaking.”
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Detroit Adult Entertainment: More woes for council candidate Walter James Hart Jr.
July 29, 2009 at 10:13 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsPosted by David Josar (The Detroit News) on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:36 PM
More woes for council candidate Walter James Hart Jr.
Earlier this week,
we told you about the many legal woes of Detroit City Council candidate Walter James Hart Jr. We won’t rehash them all here, but let’s just say it involved underage girls, prostitution and 81 months in a federal prison.
If he does win – and anything is possible in Detroit politics – there is one perk of office he won’t be able to use: the use of a city-owned vehicle.
According to Secretary of State records, Hart’s license has been suspended since April 6, 2003, due to a “financial responsibility judgment” in Oakland County Circuit Court.
According to court record for a case filed in 2002, he has a $33,401 judgment stemming from when he had an employee operate his uninsured motor vehicle, which was then involved in an accident.
Detroit Strip Clubs: SEC: PE Manager Helped Partner Loot Firm Coffers
July 28, 2009 at 5:00 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsWhile building up AA Capital’s advisory business, Orecchio allegedly spent lavishly on travel and entertainment, regularly entertaining clients in Detroit and Las Vegas. In August 2003, the SEC says Orecchio began a relationship with a striper who performed at a Detroit strip club, spending extravagant amounts of money on his mistress and her family.
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Orecchio also allegedly looted investor money in other ways. Between August 2005 and July 2006, Orecchio lied to his partner about the amount of money required for one of AA Capital’s affiliated p.e. funds’ investments in a real estate development, the SEC says. Orecchio made off with $8.7 million for this investment, but invested only $1.3 million in the real estate development. He actually spent $6.9 million on contractors renovating his horse farm and the Detroit strip club and $500,000 for a down payment on a Las Vegas condominium.
Between 2004 and 2006, Orecchio also allegedly requested and received reimbursement for numerous expenses that AA Capital was not entitled to charge back to its client …
Detroit Strip Clubs: Rental Car Rally Revs Up Once Again
July 28, 2009 at 5:25 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThere is no set route, but each team must hit pre-defined checkpoints, the locations of which will be provided in the rally booklet given to each team at the starting line. Each team must provide photographic evidence of each checkpoint. No photos = disqualification. Each team is scored by a combination of odometer reading, team style, and hi-jinks (details below).
This time around they’ll be hitting some crazy checkpoints including an abandoned ghost town in Pennsylvania with a mine fire burning beneath the streets and a drive thru strip club. The motley crew will then spend the night partying in a downtown Detroit hotel casino before setting back the following day.
According to Bryant, there are three types of tickets for the event:
Basic (entry plus briefcase full of fireworks, smoke bombs, condoms, chaw.)
The Captain Chaos (the above plus exec hotel suite, steak dinner, stripper in your suite.)
See the full article from “PSFK”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture
July 28, 2009 at 5:25 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsA local fundamentalist group has decided to wage war on church-state separation by posting ten billboard advertisements that send the message that “America’s government was made only for people who are moral and religious.” The billboards highlight quotes from our Founding Fathers that are misleading, false or taken out of context. For example, one of the messages attributes this quote to George Washington: “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
Worse yet, the guy who is putting up the billboards knows this is a fake quote. And he doesn’t care.
It’s clear the truth seems to be lost on Community Issues Council (CIC), the group behind these billboards. CIC seeks to “promote and protect Judeo-Christian values” and first came onto the scene in 2005 when its members worked to shut down a strip club in Valrico, Fla.
See the full article from “ScienceBlogs”
Detroit Massage Parlors: Rubbers bounced at border
July 27, 2009 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit massage parlors | No CommentsRubbers bounced at border
By Tracy Holmes – Peace Arch News
Published: July 14, 2009 11:00 AM
Updated: July 14, 2009 11:38 AM
A man packing a large quantity of condoms, an 8mm video camera and a list of massage parlours was among several people turned away at local border crossings last week.
According to officials with the Canada Border Services Agency, the U.S. citizen told guards July 6 that he was heading north to spend 10 days in Vancouver. His travel accessories – found during a search prompted by the discovery of a 1989 hit-and-run charge in California – also included several erased videos and a Polaroid camera and film.
The man was counselled to provide records of what happened with the hit-and-run charges as well as proof of residency and employment, and sent on his way.
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