New York Strip Clubs: Cop deemed reckless in unarmed man’s NY shooting

NEW YORK (AP) — An undercover police officer who touched off the fatal shooting of an unarmed man outside a rowdy strip club after his bachelor party should be fired, according to a recommendation made Wednesday by the police department official in charge of departmental discipline.
Detective Gescard Isnora was wrong to drop his cover by clipping his shield to his jacket, pull out his weapon and fire 11 shots inside the car where Sean Bell and his friends sat, according to the recommendation to police Commissioner Raymond Kelly made by Martin Karopkin after a departmental trial. Bell was killed, and his friends Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield were seriously wounded.

Isnora had been assigned to the Queens strip club where the three friends were partying before Bell’s wedding. Isnora said he believed Guzman had a gun because he heard him say “Get my gun” outside the club. He said he thought the men were going to their car to get a weapon and commit a drive-by shooting to get even with another group of men with whom they had been arguing moments earlier outside.

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New York Strip Clubs: Feds: Mob Recruited Immigrants for NY Strip Clubs

Feds: Mob Recruited Immigrants for NY Strip Clubs
A mob-run ring that lured women from Russia and other Eastern European countries with the promise of waitressing jobs — only to send them to dance at New York strip clubs — was shut down Wednesday after 20 people were charged, including seven purported members of organized crime families, authorities said.
Prosecutors said members of the Gambino and Bonnano organized crime families were swept up in arrests aimed at closing an operation that recruited the women and then arranged for many of them to enter into sham marriages with U.S. citizens so they could stay in the country and continue to work as exotic dancers at adult entertainment clubs.
Authorities say the four strip clubs in Queens and Long Island were controlled by the mob families, and their owners were forced to make payments in exchange for protection, which included the resolution of disputes among strip clubs over which dancers work where and over ownership interests in certain clubs.

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New York Strip Clubs: NY prosecutors: Mob-run ring that recruited Russia strippers broken up with …

NEW YORK — A mob-run ring that lured women from Russia and other Eastern European countries with the promise of waitressing jobs — only to send them to dance at New York strip clubs — was shut down Wednesday after 20 people were charged, including seven purported members of organized crime families, authorities said.
Prosecutors said members of the Gambino and Bonnano organized crime families were swept up in arrests aimed at closing an operation that recruited the women and then arranged for many of them to enter into sham marriages with U.S. citizens so they could stay in the country and continue to work as exotic dancers at adult entertainment clubs.

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New York Strip Clubs: US mob recruited immigrants as strippers

Federal prosecutors in New York City say they’ve broken up a mob-run ring that recruited women from Russia and other Eastern European countries to dance at New York strip clubs.
Prosecutors announced Wednesday that charges have been brought against 20 individuals, including seven members of the Gambino and Bonnano organized crime families.
Authorities say the strip clubs were controlled by the mob families. The government brought racketeering and extortion charges against several of the reputed crime family members. They say the owners of four strip clubs on Long Island and in Queens were required to make payments in exchange for protection.
They say the defendants also engaged in crimes by arranging fake marriages for some of the women so they could remain in the country.

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New York Strip Clubs: Mafia Is Accused of Immigration Fraud to Lure Strippers

Mafia Is Accused of Immigration Fraud to Lure Strippers

But the latest suspected criminal enterprise involving a band of Mafia members, soldiers and associates has expanded the business model to international levels, in a scheme the authorities say was designed to dominate an empire of strip clubs across Manhattan, Queens and Long Island.

An indictment outlined the accusations in four of the strip clubs, but did not name them. A federal law enforcement official said that nine strip clubs in the metropolitan area were involved, including Gallagher’s and Perfection, both in Queens.
At times, the enterprise drew money from the clubs by threatening violence, court papers said. At other times, they offered protection from others in the stripper industry or mob underworld, they said. Sometimes, the organized crime members, or others, were stationed at the clubs. The members of the enterprise also resolved disputes about which clubs the women would work in, the court papers said, and which members would control or receive payments from which clubs.

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New York Strip Clubs: Feds: Mob recruited immigrants for NY strip clubs

Feds: Mob recruited immigrants for NY strip clubs
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NEW YORK (AP) — A mob-run ring that lured women from Russia and other Eastern European countries with the promise of waitressing jobs — only to send them to dance at New York strip clubs — was shut down Wednesday after 20 people were charged, including seven purported members of organized crime families, authorities said.
Prosecutors said members of the Gambino and Bonnano organized crime families were swept up in arrests aimed at closing an operation that recruited the women and then arranged for many of them to enter into sham marriages with U.S. citizens so they could stay in the country and continue to work as exotic dancers at adult entertainment clubs.
Authorities say the four strip clubs in Queens and Long Island were controlled by the mob families, and their owners were forced to make payments in exchange for protection, which included the resolution of disputes among strip clubs over which dancers work where and over ownership interests in certain clubs.

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New York Adult Entertainment: ‘Shame’: A path to self-destruction

If that makes “Shame“ sound joyless, that’s because it is. In fact, fans of Fassbender’s yummy performances in this year’s “Jane Eyre“ and “X-Men: First Class“ should be forewarned that, although we see the handsome Irish actor in the altogether, “Shame“ is strangely un-sexy.
As successful New Yorker Brandon, Fassbender — who last worked with McQueen playing Bobby Sands in the remarkable 2008 film “Hunger“ — spends a great deal of time staring moodily, whether at a potential conquest on the subway or at porn on his computer, where he sits alone at night drinking beer and eating takeout. In “Shame,“ New York isn’t the glittering free-for-all of snares and seductions as much as a hive of lonely, hidden isolates. Brandon may be able to make it anywhere, but even when he’s with another person — usually a one-night stand or a prostitute — he’s alone.

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New York Adult Entertainment: Single Killer Now Blamed for Long Island Beach Bodies

After eliminating numerous early theories on where the possible killer might reside, police also believe the killer is probably a Long Islander.
“Serial killers evolve. They change their MO’s. They don’t necessarily do the same thing all the time. What’s common here is the dumping ground, and the people who are victims: sex workers,” said Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer, nearly a year to the day since the first gruesome discovery along the ocean parkway.
All but one of them are believed to be prostitutes who advertised as escorts on Craigslist before they vanished. All the bodies were reportedly wrapped in burlap before they were dumped on the side of the road over the past 15 years.
The most recent victims were the ones first discovered: four known prostitutes found last December at Gilgo Beach.

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New York Adult Entertainment: "Shame," reviewed

Fassbender plays Brandon, a New York City office drone whose stylish clothes and suave pickup moves mask a crushing addiction to sex. Brandon might be able to seduce a woman on the subway with nothing but a look, but behind closed doors he’s a total mess. His house is filled with porn, his office computer is “filthy” with viruses, and he blows actual dates with real women to have sex with prostitutes. Things only get more difficult for Brandon when his needy sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) comes to town for a visit. Brandon avoids and ignores Sissy’s calls for as long as he can, then resents her when she decides to move in with him. The way they argue, wrestle, converse in the shower, hint at possible incest, and suggest that Brandon’s issues and Sissy’s distress have a shared root cause.

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New York Adult Entertainment: Mafia Members Busted in Prostitution Ring

The federal prosecutors in Downtown Manhattan allege that four members of the Gambino crime family and three members of the Bonnano crime family worked with Russians in order to bring Eastern European women into the country. The gang would then exploit the women and force them into prostitution and to strip at clubs, according to NY1.
Authorities conducted the raid early Wednesday morning, hitting some alleged prostitution hotspots. Cheetah Club on 43rd Street in Midtown Manhattan and Gallagher’s in Long Island City, Queens were the two establishments raided by officials, according to NY1.

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