Detroit Strip Clubs: LINCOLN PARK: City’s error being blamed for holding up Hustler liquor license
October 31, 2009 at 4:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAn administrative error being blamed on city officials has led to the state Liquor Control Commission refusing to consider granting a liquor license to the owners of the Larry Flynt Hustler Club. The oversight is expected to be corrected at Monday’s City Council meeting. (Photo by E.L. Conley)
LINCOLN PARK — While its bright red lights illuminate the evening sky, the doors to what has become the city’s most controversial strip club remain closed to the public.
An administrative error being blamed on city officials has led to the state Liquor Control Commission refusing to consider granting a liquor license to the owners of the Larry Flynt Hustler Club.
The oversight is expected to be corrected at Monday night’s City Council meeting. If it isn’t, attorneys for the strip club are ready to head back to federal court Wednesday in an attempt to convince a judge to order the city to stop delaying the inevitable.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit seeks to block texts in dancer’s case
October 30, 2009 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsU.S. magistrate judges spent months poring through more than 600,00 text messages sent by city employees before this month identifying 36 text messages as possibly relevant to the case. Lawyers for the city and the other defendants were given a chance to review the text messages and object before they are turned over to Norman Yatooma, the lawyer for Greene’s family.
Yatooma, speaking tongue in cheek, said he welcomed the changes in administration since Kilpatrick left office because the Kilpatrick administration would have objected to all 36 text messages, not just 35.
Mayer Morganroth, a lawyer for defendant Christine Beatty, Kilpatrick’s former chief of staff, said Friday a lawyer from his office has also reviewed the text messages. Morganroth has yet to file his objections.
Also Friday, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said he wants to testify in the civil lawsuit.
Cox investigated the party allegations — but not Greene’s killing — in 2003 and determined the stripper party was an urban legend.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Mich. AG offers to testify in stripper death suit
October 30, 2009 at 5:38 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsMich. AG offers to testify in stripper death suit
Associated Press – October 30, 2009 4:54 PM ET
DETROIT (AP) – Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox wants to testify as part of a civil lawsuit involving a stripper’s slaying.
Tamara Greene’s family is accusing ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and other officials of hindering an investigation into her death.
The 27-year-old is rumored to have danced at a never-proven 2002 party at the mayor’s official residence months before she was killed. Cox determined the party was an urban legend.
The family’s lawyer is deposing three state police investigators who have claimed Cox impeded their investigation into the rumored party.
Cox denies the allegation. He said Friday his office is not involved in the homicide investigation and precedent precludes the attorney general from testifying in a case like this. But he is offering his testimony regardless.
See the full article from “WLNS”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Church To Pray For New Strip Club
October 30, 2009 at 5:38 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsPosted: Friday, 30 October 2009 1:12PMChurch To Pray For New Strip Club
Lincoln Park (WWJ)
– “We’ll be praying for you.”
That’s the message from the Pastor of Faith Christian Church Assembly, Frank Julian and a group of ministers who will be on hand next Friday night when the Larry Flynt’s Hustler’s Club opens in Lincoln Park – right across the street.
On the same night of the club’s Grand Opening, the church group will be throwing a big party of their own.
The plan is for “Kind of a light show. We’ve got four Hollywood beaming lights and people will bring their flashlights. Hopefully, I’d love to hit a thousand people. This little light of mine, we’re gonna let it shine, you know,” said Julian, quoting the popular worship song.
Julian said he wants the churches’ good work to “outshine” the Hustler Club, which won a case in federal court to open up on Papalas Drive near the Detroit and Melvindale borders.
See the full article from “WWJ”
Detroit Massage Parlors: Notorious Yoshiko Sauna in Lincoln Park/West End demolished
October 30, 2009 at 5:24 am | In Detroit massage parlors | No CommentsSitting at the controls of a Caterpillar excavator, Lund used the machine’s bucket and mechanical claw to tear apart the notorious Yoshiko Sauna, former home to an alleged prostitution operation in Duluth’s Lincoln Park/
West End.
“It feels great; it has been a long time coming,” said Lund, who bought the building with the intention of tearing it down. “It makes me feel like Lincoln Park has taken a great leap forward.”
The building, at 32 N. 21st Ave. W., was long a problem for the neighborhood and police. In November, the city decided not to grant then-owner Suzy Woo-Young Kotts a massage establishment license. The denial was made after the city uncovered two prostitution convictions for Kotts, who had operated the Yoshiko Sauna as a massage parlor since 1991. It wasn’t until June 2008 that she applied for a massage
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Detroit Massage Parlors: Alleged Duluth ‘house of ill repute’ demolished for new parking lot
October 30, 2009 at 5:24 am | In Detroit massage parlors | No CommentsDULUTH – As of Thursday, a spot in Duluth once under frequent police investigation is now a pile of debris. Kevin Lund of Duluth bought the Yoshiko Sauna months ago and tore it down himself to bring about healing and progress.
On a chilly dreary day, under a steady rain, Kevin Lund sees sunshine.
“It’s going to be a great day,” Lund said, working an excavator he called a mechanical thumb. He’s living out a dream he’s had for the Yoshiko Sauna building for some time. “Buy it and knock it down,” said Lund, summing up his thoughts.
Lund owns other properties in the area and jumped at the chance to buy the building at 18 North 21st Avenue months ago. That was when the former owner, Suzy Woo–Young Kotts closed down what she called a massage parlor.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Museum opens Soupy Sales exhibit
October 29, 2009 at 6:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsJackson wasn’t tops in the Forbes list, though. That honor goes to the departed fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, whose estate netted $350 million, according to Forbes.
Composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein (no relation to this broke author) combined for $235 million, while Elvis Presley rocked a cool $55 million from the grave.
Miley: A bad influence?
Uh-oh, Mickey Mouse: Seems your Disney-manufactured star Miley Cyrus is losing love among her primary demographic.
The 16-year-old Cyrus received 42% of votes in the “worst celebrity influences of the year” poll for AOL’s JSYK.com (Just So You Know) Web site, which is aimed at 9- to 15-year olds.
The “Hannah Montana” star — who did work a stripper pole at Nickelodeon’s Teen Choice Awards earlier this year — bumped “Womanizer” Britney Spears and the Taylor Swift mic-snatching rapper Kanye West into second and third places, respectively.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Man tells feds: I bribed Kilpatrick
October 29, 2009 at 6:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAmong the claims Orecchio made to investigators was that he paid $10,000 to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund to help win the mayor’s support for a $20-million deal between his company, AA Capital Partners, and one of the city’s pension funds.
Orecchio said that when he later made a presentation to the fund, it appeared the board was going to vote against AA Capital’s deal, until Kilpatrick appeared personally in 2005 and urged board approval.
The board approved the investment that December, but the money was never invested.
Kilpatrick attorney Jim Thomas said Wednesday his client “flatly and unequivocally” denies any wrongdoing.
Orecchio also told investigators that he contributed tens of thousands of dollars — much of it through surrogates — to keep McPhail, who was then a Detroit city councilwoman, from opposing a deal involving a strip club he was buying and to win her support as a trustee on the city’s police and fire pension board.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Monica Conyers is to be sentenced on Dec. 1
October 28, 2009 at 7:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsConyers, who was the council’s president pro tem, went from one of Detroit’s most politically powerful and mercurial women to an admitted felon in a pay-to-play scheme involving a $1.2-billion sludge treatment contract.
U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn is to issue the sentencing. Conyers, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, faces up to 5 years in prison.
Meanwhile, Monica Conyers’ former aide, Sam Riddle, who also is ensnared in the Synagro scandal, filed a request to hire former federal Prosecutor Richard Convertino as his lawyer. Riddle had been represented by attorney David Steingold.
Federal authorities allege Riddle spread bribes to help a pawnshop in Southfield, and hand-delivered the cash that bought Conyers’ vote on the Synagro contract. It was Riddle, agents said, who acted as fixer for a restaurant owner, a strip club agent and a real estate developer to buy influence in Detroit.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Riddle wants Convertino to represent him
October 28, 2009 at 1:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsRiddle faces 10 felony charges, well more than anyone else snared in the region’s latest corruption probe that also ensnared former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers. Riddle once served as an aide to Conyers.
Convertino could not immediately be reached for comment, but Riddle said he has agreed to take the case. Convertino also had been representing former state Rep. Mary Waters, who is accused along with Riddle of bribing Southfield City Councilman William Lattimore with $12,500 to speed approval for a pawnshop relocation and expansion.
We will work through any conflict issues, Riddle said.
Federal authorities allege Riddle spread bribes to help a pawnshop in Southfield, and hand-delivered the cash that purchased Conyers’ vote on a billion-dollar sludge contract. It was Riddle, agents allege, who acted as fixer for a restaurant owner, a strip club agent and a real estate developer to buy influence in Detroit.
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