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.
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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.
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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.
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