New York Strip Clubs: Horrific murders highlighted South Bergen crime of past 10 years
In Carlstadt, however, two public officials found themselves in hot water in 2002 after they faced censuring and one, an indictment, over their use of public funds to hire private investigators in hopes of driving out prostitution in their borough in the late 1990s. Mayor William Roseman was censured by a Bergen County Grand Jury and then councilman Thomas “Buddy” Davis was censured and indicted on one count each for threatening a public official and tampering with a witness. The case surrounded Roseman’s authorization of $7,000 to pay for a private detective agency to investigate Nick’s Oak Room, a gentlemen’s club on Paterson Avenue after he said he had heard of multiple prostitution related incidents taking place there and the inability of the prosecutor’s office to do anything about it. Davis was indicted for allegedly threatening borough CFO Dominick Giancaspro with his job if he did not cut the check and allegedly telling him to lie about it to the grand jury. Both indictments were dropped in April 2004. The outcome o …