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    This is nuts -- though I bet they're right on about extortionate house fees contributing to prostitution in the clubs!


    Armed with search warrants, agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service criminal division on Monday raided four strip clubs operated by the Colacurcio family in the Seattle area -- Rick's on Lake City Way Northeast, Sugar's on Aurora Avenue North in Shoreline, Honey's in Everett and Fox's in Tacoma.


    One female undercover Seattle police officer even worked as a manager at Rick's, according to the affidavit.

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    You beat me to it - I was just going to post this! I knew this was coming. It makes me happy.

    I wonder who the undercover manager was. It's weird to look at the photos in the newspaper. I gave my first lap dance to one of those motherfuckers.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...search03m.html

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    Holy fuck. Yeah, that would be insane to find out the manager was undercover. I guess her cash from tipouts is evidence.

    Sigh. I just think they are going to continue to ignore the obvious -- when you have very strict strip club rules with the burden of enforcement on the dancers rather than clubowners, you practically mandate this kind of environment. If you have reasonable rules with the burden on the club, you're more likely to avoid it.

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    Thank god that as unfortunate as a bust is, that the reasons behind the 'dirty' environment have been so well pinpointed (that is, extorting the women into breaking the law).

    PDX dancers might want to be on the lookout for a new rash of Seattle dancers, however...

    Nothing like tax evasion to bring people down!

    I appreciated this quote:
    "Two former dancers, one of whom apparently objected to the increased prevalence of prostitution, provided information without compensation."

    CKXXX, have you been travelling up & down the PacNW?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward View Post
    One female undercover Seattle police officer even worked as a manager at Rick's, according to the affidavit.

    OMG they're watching us...

    Don't they have more important things to worry about?
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    Quote Originally Posted by anomar View Post

    I appreciated this quote:
    "Two former dancers, one of whom apparently objected to the increased prevalence of prostitution, provided information without compensation."

    CKXXX, have you been travelling up & down the PacNW?
    HAHAHA!!! I am a one woman strip club clean up machine!!(I wish! If I could,I would...get the money back into REAL dancers pockets)

    I love that ONE objected to it...I guess the other one didnt...?

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    i love use of the word "apparently", as if it's surprising that she objected to rampant in-club discount prostitution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anomar View Post
    PDX dancers might want to be on the lookout for a new rash of Seattle dancers, however...
    They can all just go to Cabaret!

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    Sounds like they are most interested in bringing down the Colacurcio family. The FBI wouldn't be involved in a traditional club bust.

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    Yeah, and it's a nice confluence of events when the feds find a reason to bring down certain people.... Joe Francis & tax evasion, anyone?

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    They'll all go to Exotica, cause we're closest. Ooooooh, I'll be so mad if they bring their prostituting ways around me .

    And did you see how much money was being made? 20 something million in just over a year.

    It really wold suck to be a clean dancer up there though. There can't be much opportunity for making money.
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    quote susuan wayward: "Sigh. I just think they are going to continue to ignore the obvious -- when you have very strict strip club rules with the burden of enforcement on the dancers rather than clubowners, you practically mandate this kind of environment. If you have reasonable rules with the burden on the club, you're more likely to avoid it."

    totally, none of management does anything about anything, and its left to me to yell at grabby men and "deal with it" if he rips me off. i think if we had more reasonable rules, things would be a lot easier, technically were supposed to be four feet away from customers AT ALL TIMES! how ridicoulus(sp) obviosly noone does this. oh, nevermind, i feel like im just ranting now..

    anyway... I have mixed feelings about this beause i dont want deja vu to have a monopoly in washington, but these mob guys are freaking jerks.

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    Over the last year, I have had quite a few of dancers from Washington who have wanted to work at Carnaval. Usually they say its too stressful to work in Washington because of the raids. I try not to think of all Washington strippers as prostitutes so I try and see their point(maybe I won't anymore) Normally, I tell them that they have to audition and get on the schedule and thats usually a hassle for them but there have been a couple that have worked out in a very good way. I have also gotten some girls interested working at Carnaval from Jiggles because they have said that there are so many girls from Washington going to Jiggles on the weekend cause their clubs are getting raided that its a pain to make money at Jiggles anymore. So I have seen a trend. Unfortunately this weekend ,I decided to allow two girls from a club in Washington which shall be un-named who left jiggles cause there were too many girls. Lets just say they won't be back and I need to be more careful in who I allow to work. They asked one of my dancers if we provide condoms in the club. At one point, they told one girl, "how are we supposed to make any money if we can't do anything sexual." They left after like an hour of work, maybe must have realized Oregon was still(thankfully) somewhat different from Washington or they left early to arrange a really private show with one of Carnaval's customers. Which is really gross if its true and I must be more carefull who I let in.

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    later the SAME DAY 30 some of the hookers from other clubs came looking for a job at my club..
    GREAT.

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    Eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww

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    I'm actually not surpised about the manager being undercover...not to thread jack or anything but...

    A couple of years ago in Vegas, girls were just disappearing....Well, apparently there was this crazy limo driver for some of the clubs who offered girls a ride home from work....It's not like he abducted tons of girls...he gave rides every night and abucted maybe four.

    The FBI got wind that this was possibly going on and linked to said limo driver. An FBI agent got a job at a certain club (any girls pm me if you want the info) as a bouncer. He became friends with the limo driver, who eventually bragged to him about the murders.

    Also, don't take rides home from people, even if "everybody in the club knows them."
    Sexy Jasmine after getting fucked over at work:

    God loves strippers and when guys do things like that its an automatic ticket to HELL!


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    A lot of Seattle girls go over to Montana. It is a little further, but the money is better than in PDX. (on average YMMV)

    Washington is so stoooooooopid! They took away the liquor, then the clubs started charging the girls to work. Prior to that the dancers got a wage. Then they mandate the 4 ft law, making any lap dance illegal, and the clubs started charging the girls even more, so duh, the girls are going to go as far as they are comfortable to make a living.

    Maybe in the future the lawmakers would consult with industry personnel (strippers) before making any kind of move like that again. And snowcones will be available in hell at about the same time.


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    Montana huh.......

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    Wow, these guys sound like real scum.
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    ^^Seriously. If I'm reading that timeline at the bottom of the article right, the owner was arrested a few years ago for assaulting a waitress at his own club. How messed up is that?

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    Whoa, I didn't notice the part about Colacurcio Sr attacking a waitress. I am not surprised, though, sadly. Some of my friends were servers there and I could never understand how they weren't bothered by having to clean up used condoms at closing time. My friends that danced there never lasted longer than a week before freaking out and bailing.
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    ^^Yeah, sounds like a horrible scene. $40 for sex? Yikes! Old Colacurcio sounds like a real sleezebag. Kinda fascinating, too, though. He opened his first topless club in 1958. I wonder what that place was like.

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    This was bound to happen. Not just the cops are after him......
    He is in hot water other places too. So now where are all the Seattle dancers going? Is the downtown Vu still open?

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    downtown is still open and i think the vu is going to open another club, like a hustler club or something, downtown.

    also, check out http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/C...?oid=606400&hp
    mistress matisse in her column called "control tower" talks about working at ricks

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    o yeah, and i guess the tacoma deja vu got raided laast night, gave 24 girls tickets............gotta love washington

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