Detroit Strip Clubs: LINCOLN PARK: Strip club inches one step closer to opening
October 17, 2009 at 4:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLINCOLN PARK — A fight among city officials over a strip club coming to town ended Tuesday night when the City Council approved a liquor license transfer for the Larry Flynt Hustler Club.
Ten hours before the vote, four council members were hauled into federal court to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt for voting last week to postpone the matter.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds told the four council members — Valerie Brady, Mariano DiSanto, Thomas Murphy and Michael Myers — that they would have faced sanctions had they not approved the matter Tuesday.
The judge also said they could have been fined $12,000 a day for disobeying a consent agreement reached last year that dictated that the council approve the liquor license when it came before them.
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The Rev. Frank Julian, a pastor at Faith Christian Assembly in Melvindale, said he and others in the religious community have to fix the problems caused by society’s ills, including strip clubs.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Local news in brief: WSU honors longtime reporter
October 17, 2009 at 4:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsTroopers to answer questions in Greene case
Michigan State Police will allow three officers to be deposed in the lawsuit brought by the family of slain stripper Tamara Greene, Inspector Greg Zarotney said Friday. Detective Lt. Curt Schram, Detective Sgt. John Figurski and Detective Sgt. Mark Krebs will allow attorney Norman Yatooma to question them, but some questions and documents cannot be answered or released, Zarotney said.
The officers “object to the production of any documents and to any questions to elicit testimony about documents, evidence and/or information obtained” during an investigation into former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick “in 2003 unrelated to the Tamara Greene homicide,” State Police said in court filings.
Greene, a stripper known as Strawberry, was shot in a drive-by killing April 30, 2003. Her slaying remains unsolved.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Tamara Greene’s family lawyer accuses Cox of cover-up
October 17, 2009 at 4:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsSaturday, October 17, 2009
Tamara Greene’s family lawyer accuses Cox of cover-up
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
Detroit — The lawyer for the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene says Attorney General Mike Cox was “trying to cover his gubernatorial-hopeful tail” when attorneys from Cox’s office filed objections this week to subpoenas filed in the family’s lawsuit against the city of Detroit.
Attorney Norman Yatooma wants to question under oath three Michigan State Police detectives who investigated rumors of a wild stripper party at the mayor’s Manoogian Mansion in 2003.
In a court filing Thursday, lawyers from the attorney general’s office, representing the Michigan State Police, objected to documents and testimony requested in the subpoenas, saying the detectives don’t have records that relate to the civil lawsuit and that information they gathered during their investigation must be kept confidential.
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