Detroit Strip Clubs: US case against Riddle rife with racism
January 28, 2010 at 9:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsHe described Riddle and Conyers alleged acts of extortion, fraud, and monetary gain using her positions on the City Council and the Detroit General Retirement System board at length. He said the victims included two small Black Detroit-based businesses, Wireless Resources and the Phoenix Group, developer and restaurateur Dimitrios (Jim) Papas, Hustler Déjà Vu strip club executives, and Synagro Technologies.
This is the way business is done in the City of Detroit, he told the mainly non-resident jury. Throughout his opening statement and questioning of the first witness, Cares frequently alluded to Riddles conversations with representatives of the Kilpatrick administration. What he did not say, however, is Riddle was known to be an adamant Kilpatrick foe, calling him arrogant and selfish in an interview with The Final Call and advocating his removal by Governor Jennifer Granholm.
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Hustler Déjà Vu executives, who are part of a national chain, are suing the City of Detroit, said Minock, because the Council did not grant their request to transfer a liquor license to their downtown strip club. He claimed they are using bribery allegations to facilitate their lawsuit. He could say little about Synagro due to Cohns restraining order.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Judge orders Detroit to turn over records in stripper case
January 28, 2010 at 9:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Updated: January 28. 2010 5:22PM
Judge orders Detroit to turn over records in stripper case
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
Detroit — A federal judge today ordered the city of Detroit to turn over additional records to an attorney representing the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara “Strawberry” Greene.
Greene, who was linked to a rumored stripper party at the mayor’s Manoogian Mansion in the fall of 2002, was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003. Her family is suing the city, former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and top city and police officials, alleging they obstructed the investigation of her still unsolved murder for political reasons.
The defendants deny the allegations.
Today, U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen gave the city until Feb. 4 to turn over records including:
Detroit Strip Clubs: Political consultant on trial salutes prosecutors
January 28, 2010 at 9:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsPolitical consultant on trial salutes prosecutorsPosted: 1/28/2010
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DETROIT (AP) After three days of trial, a Detroit political consultant charged with corruption seems impressed with the government’s case.
Outside court Thursday, Sam Riddle told a prosecutor, “You guys are bringing it.”
Riddle is charged with seeking bribes from people who had business at the Detroit City Council or the city pension board. He’s accused of conspiring with his boss, Monica Conyers, when she was on the council.
Strip club managers told jurors Wednesday that Riddle hit them up for $25,000 to get Conyers’ support for a license transfer. They declined.
There was no testimony Thursday in Riddle’s trial, which could last another three weeks.
Conyers pleaded guilty last summer and is awaiting a sentence.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Date set for Riddle’s second corruption trial
January 28, 2010 at 3:00 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThat trial, before U.S. District Judge Marianne O. Battani, relates to allegations that Riddle and his former live-in partner, former state Rep. Mary Waters, bribed former Southfield City Councilman William Lattimore in connection with a pawn shop relocation.
Riddle and Waters have denied the allegations. Lattimore has pleaded guilty to a bribery charge.
Today was an off day in Riddle’s current corruption trial, stemming from allegations he shook down various business people while working as a top aide to former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers.
But Riddle joked with the prosecutor in his case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cares, during a brief hallway encounter after the judge hearing the case, U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn, met privately today with attorneys.
“You guys are bringing it,” Riddle told Cares, telling him the prosecution had a good day Wednesday when strip club officials accused Riddle of asking for $25,000 in exchange for Conyers’ vote on a strip club license transfer.
Detroit Strip Clubs: MacGruber set loaded to the boobies with hotties
January 28, 2010 at 3:00 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsIf you’re excited about the new MacGruber movie and you’re a guy, you might be excited to learn that the set is flooded with more hotties than the aftermath of a stripper avalanche.
Don’t believe me? Check out this behind the scenes visit to the set with the film’s director Jorma Taccone.
Detroit Strip Clubs: 2 testify Riddle sought $25K for Conyers’ vote
January 28, 2010 at 8:13 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsStrip club officials say political consultant vowed license transfer would pass if they paid him
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John Minock, an attorney for Riddle, pointed out in his opening statement that neither Hall nor St. John reported the alleged bribery request to the FBI or the police and suggested the allegation is related to an ongoing federal court lawsuit over the city’s refusal to transfer the strip club license.
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Jackson, who testified under an immunity agreement, said he would benefit financially if the strip club license was transferred because another company he owned would process credit card transactions at the strip club. And he believed that if Riddle wasn’t paid, not only would Conyers not help the strip club, she would work against it.
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Records introduced at the trial show that on Nov. 17, the same day Riddle got the checks, Conyers sent a memo to the Detroit city clerk asking for a reconsideration vote on the strip club license transfer.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Police: Woman Followed Home By Men
January 28, 2010 at 1:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsPolice: Woman Followed Home By Men
Royal Oak Woman Hides In Closet During Home Invasion
POSTED: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
UPDATED: 7:20 pm EST January 27, 2010
ROYAL OAK, Mich. — A woman hid in a closet with her two young children early Monday morning as a group of men who allegedly followed her home kicked in her front door, Royal Oak police said.
Royal Oak Police Lt. Gordon Young said the woman was walking home at about 3 a.m. Monday from her greeter job at the gentleman’s club Cheetah’s when she notice a dark Impala drive following her.
When the woman approached her home on Dorchester Street, Young said she again noticed the car without its lights on.
Once inside her home, Young said the woman called 911 and woke up her two children, ages 6 and 7, and roommate.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip club reps say Riddle wanted bribe
January 28, 2010 at 1:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsStrip club reps say Riddle wanted bribe
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Riddle, 63, was a top aide to Conyers, who had a vote on the strip club license transfer. Deja Vu had hired Jackson as a consultant to help the company transfer the license of an existing strip club, the former Zoo Bar, on Congress in Detroit.
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Earlier today, two officials from strip club company Deja Vu Consulting testified they were shocked when Riddle sought what they felt was a $25,000 bribe in connection with a license transfer and became concerned that Riddle might be working for law enforcement.
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Records introduced at the trial show that on Nov. 17, the same day Riddle got the checks, Conyers sent a memo to the Detroit city clerk asking for a reconsideration vote on the strip club license transfer.
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The strip club principals are suing the city of Detroit in federal court over denial of the strip club license, with the alleged shakedown included in their allegations.
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