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tortilla burger		2008-06-03 09:19:10 AM

RICO ROMERO?

tortilla burger		2008-06-03 09:19:45 AM

Oops...this was supposed to go along with my comment. I fail html

In an unusually pointed court filing, prosecutors say they anticipate seeking charges against the senior Colacurcio, his son, Frank Jr. and several business associates under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as RICO.

nopokerface		2008-06-03 09:20:19 AM

So there is sex in the Champagne Room?

degreeless		2008-06-03 09:20:24 AM

My buddy got crabs in his eyebrows from a stripper chick. He told us he was hardcore.

ReverendJasen		2008-06-03 09:20:52 AM

Goddamn feds, stay out of my pants.
Unless a reach-around is in the deal.

Zombies ate my neighbors		2008-06-03 09:21:33 AM

Duh?

Although... occasionally there are some women in those places that would make you think twice about acquiring their services. Most? ick.

kidddynamite		2008-06-03 09:21:33 AM

Gimme that stripper slide!!

cormac_zoso		2008-06-03 09:21:43 AM

at least they didn't piss it down the black hole that is iraq

/of course they could have fed some people instead

SI_NYC		2008-06-03 09:21:45 AM

I must always look like I'm broke at a strip club. HAHAHA I never get offered any pussy :cry

lozak		2008-06-03 09:22:36 AM

I was only offered sex at a strip club once, and she was asking for drugs in return. Sadly I missed out. I know I shouldn't feel that way, but I do.

Wendy's Chili		2008-06-03 09:22:40 AM

The early years
1917: Born June 18 in Seattle, the first of nine children of immigrant parents.

1932: Quit school, began farming at age 15 and started a produce-hauling business.

1943: Convicted at age 25 of carnal knowledge with a teenage girl; served 16 months in prison.

Building a business - and a rap sheet

1950s: Entered the jukebox, cigarette and vending-machine business, prompting allegations from rivals that he used threats to control the trade.

1957: Labeled a racketeer before a U.S. Senate committee investigating organized crime.

1962: Held an interest in several bars, restaurants and nightclubs, including a beer garden at the Seattle World's Fair.

1965: Introduced go-go dancing to Seattle, at the Firelite Room downtown.

1969: Convicted of assaulting a former bartender working as a police informant.

1971: Found guilty of federal racketeering and conspiracy charges stemming from illegal bingo activities; served 25 months in prison. Prosecutors exposed his role in a payoff and extortion system in which police were paid to tolerate illegal gambling.

1974: Convicted of income-tax evasion; overturned on appeal.

The law-enforcement crackdown

1981: Convicted of tax fraud stemming from his strip-club operations in King County; served 2 ½ years in prison.

1984: Subject of a two-day law-enforcement conference in Las Vegas organized by the FBI and attended by investigators from 12 Western states.

1987: Targeted by Arizona authorities, which led to indictments of his relatives for alleged profit-skimming at topless taverns, bribery and money laundering.

1991: Pleaded guilty to tax fraud at his Alaska strip clubs; sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison. His son, Frank Colacurcio Jr., also pleaded guilty.

1995: Sent to federal prison for two years after violating probation by fondling a woman applying for a job at one of his clubs.

Pending cases

2005: Charged, along with Frank Jr. and two others, with illegally funneling campaign contributions to Seattle City Council candidates; case dismissed on a technicality but reinstated by the state Supreme Court.

2007: Sentenced to six months of probation for groping a waitress at Rick's strip club.

2008: Pleads guilty along with Colacurcio Jr. in the campaign-contribution case, agreeing to pay $75,000 in criminal and civil penalties.

Monday: Targeted by federal agents and local police, who serve search warrants on four strip clubs in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties as part of a sweeping racketeering, prostitution and money-laundering investigation. His house and Colacurcio Jr.'s business office also are searched.

Damn, that guy makes Tony Soprano look like a purse snatcher.

duckpoopy		2008-06-03 09:22:46 AM

degreeless: My buddy got crabs in his eyebrows from a stripper chick. He told us he was hardcore.

It's more common than you think.

troppo gonzo		2008-06-03 09:25:59 AM

Just ask her...

i215.photobucket.com

Caught in a Houston Strip club, for going...too far...

fishnships		2008-06-03 09:26:11 AM

A lap dance in Dallas is considered safe sex. If you can keep your pants on.

hard2bnice		2008-06-03 09:27:12 AM

degreeless: My buddy got crabs in his eyebrows from a stripper chick. He told us he was hardcore.

does that deserve a "he's doing it wrong" comment?

EdBagelyJr		2008-06-03 09:27:50 AM

degreeless: My buddy got crabs in his eyebrows from a stripper chick. He told us he was hardcore.

wholly crap. i have been to ALOT of strip clubs, i'm originally from Portland Oregon. (The strip club capital.) and i have never gotten crabs from a dance...

I feel cheated.

This vexes me..

I am terribly vexed...

idrow		2008-06-03 09:28:08 AM

I think I just saw Captain Obvious crap his pants over that headline.

BigPoppaJNutZ		2008-06-03 09:28:21 AM

Really? Did they really need to report this? Yes, it happens, but not all of the time.

DUH!

Gene Sehrt		2008-06-03 09:28:34 AM

Why complain? Are the Feds gay or something?

/Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Spindle		2008-06-03 09:31:19 AM

EdBagelyJr: degreeless: My buddy got crabs in his eyebrows from a stripper chick. He told us he was hardcore.

wholly crap. i have been to ALOT of strip clubs, i'm originally from Portland Oregon. (The strip club capital.) and i have never gotten crabs from a dance...

I feel cheated.

This vexes me..

I am terribly vexed...

Ahh, but have you been propositioned for sex?

b1ackh013		2008-06-03 09:32:21 AM

hard2bnice: degreeless: My buddy got crabs in his eyebrows from a stripper chick. He told us he was hardcore.

does that deserve a "he's doing it wrong" comment?

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Lt. Cheese Weasel		2008-06-03 09:34:27 AM

Women who take off their clothing for a living often do much more.

bunner		2008-06-03 09:35:40 AM

Is there anything more old and busted tha pimps and whores?

ScottMpls		2008-06-03 09:35:48 AM

It's even better when they're crying ...

EdBagelyJr		2008-06-03 09:35:52 AM

Ahh, but have you been propositioned for sex?

no...

(EdBagelyJr runs away and sulks in the corner)

protectyourlimbs		2008-06-03 09:36:21 AM

I go there for the articles.

Kongressman Grandma		2008-06-03 09:37:24 AM

I was offered sex only once at a strip club. It was some fat disgusting Russian chick who had a beer belly and a gnarly looking C-section scar that made it look like she was cut open by an AK-47 bayonette.

//woke up feeling regretful the next morning
//face was irritated from stripper's 5 o'clock shadow

das vidanya

BuzzBoy		2008-06-03 09:38:45 AM

My buddies and I used to go to strip clubs around here (South Atlanta) for the cheap food. You could get a 1 pound T-bone, baked potato and tossed salad for $3.50. Beer was extra as were the $5 lap dances. Yes, it's been a while, gas was about $2 back then.

Bugblatter		2008-06-03 09:39:30 AM

Did anybody catch Chief "Girl"ikowse's comment that it's about tax dollars that are not going to the city of Seattle?
Apparently Collicurcio isn't keeping up on his payments is what this is about

Jeremy Bates		2008-06-03 09:39:42 AM

EdBagelyJr

Stop hawking your shiatty farksite, tard-ass.

b1ackh013		2008-06-03 09:40:45 AM

BuzzBoy: My buddies and I used to go to strip clubs around here (South Atlanta) for the cheap food. You could get a 1 pound T-bone, baked potato and tossed salad for $3.50. Beer was extra as were the $5 lap dances. Yes, it's been a while, gas was about $2 back then.

Nothing extra for the tossed salad?

Somacandra		2008-06-03 09:40:57 AM

"Cost a little extra if you want to take all year."

ReverendJasen		2008-06-03 09:41:41 AM

EdBagelyJr: degreeless: My buddy got crabs in his eyebrows from a stripper chick. He told us he was hardcore.

wholly crap. i have been to ALOT of strip clubs, i'm originally from Portland Oregon. (The strip club capital.) and i have never gotten crabs from a dance...

I feel cheated.

Yes, but do you normally get face dances? :) That'll improve your chances of eyebrow crabs immensely.

Aztex_Slingshot		2008-06-03 09:41:50 AM

Prostitution in strip clubs?? Say it ain't so! Next you'll be telling me that none of those nice girls are working their way through college to get a PHD in Child Psychology.

Unsung_Hero		2008-06-03 09:44:22 AM

'Round here you want to choose your strip club carefully if you DON'T want prostitutes.

Believe it or not, there are some guys who do that because getting charged as a 'found-in' is a bit of a hassle.

fireclown		2008-06-03 09:46:20 AM

Aztex_Slingshot: Prostitution in strip clubs?? Say it ain't so! Next you'll be telling me that none of those nice girls are working their way through college to get a PHD in Child Psychology.

I DID have a stripper use the term "telomeric aging principle" correctly in a sentence, and unprompted at that. She might have really been working her way through school.

Whoreable		2008-06-03 09:46:30 AM

FTA- "As far back as the 1950s, he was identified as a racketeer in testimony before a U.S. Senate committee and accused of using strong-arm tactics to control Seattle's pinball trade."

This guy is hardcore. Luckily they never found out about his Pacman and Centipede operations.

FarkinHostile		2008-06-03 09:46:37 AM

Prostitution is legal indoors in Rhode Island.

Just sayin'.

Pzo211		2008-06-03 09:47:50 AM

BuzzBoy: My buddies and I used to go to strip clubs around here (South Atlanta) for the cheap food. You could get a 1 pound T-bone, baked potato and tossed salad for $3.50. Beer was extra as were the $5 lap dances. Yes, it's been a while, gas was about $2 back then.

How much was the hair pie ?

Mosey		2008-06-03 09:48:34 AM

Wendy's Chili: 1995: Sent to federal prison for two years after violating probation by fondling a woman applying for a job at one of his clubs

You can't do that?

Buffalo77		2008-06-03 09:50:16 AM

Saturday a hot stripper wanted to give me lap dance in champagne room.

30 seconds in, I spun her on her and went down on her. (no crabs in eyebrows afterward). After I was done, she said that was great but she only wanted to give me a lap dance.

"Well you got the bonus plan, baby"

Threw $50 at her.

TwelveToneRow		2008-06-03 09:51:48 AM

Mosey: Wendy's Chili: 1995: Sent to federal prison for two years after violating probation by fondling a woman applying for a job at one of his clubs

You can't do that?

If that's wrong, then I don't want to be right.

I AM THE GOAT		2008-06-03 09:54:31 AM

FTFA:

"We're not bad girls, we're not prostitutes," said Graves, 27. "We all have kids, we're all single parents. What the hell are we going to do?"

bronyaur1		2008-06-03 09:56:02 AM

I am glad to know that the best use of my tax dollars and the federal resources is strip club prostitution.

knucklebreather		2008-06-03 09:56:14 AM

Pin Ball and billiards used to be serious shiat. I don't entirely understand it, but like, if you were a shifty character in the 1950s your life involved a good deal of pinball and billiards. It's something that makes no sense nowadays, but there was a lot of fearmongering back in the day about pool halls.

Shadow Blasko		2008-06-03 09:56:58 AM

Somacandra: "Cost a little extra if you want to take all year."

I love you so much sometimes.

/I smell women, smell em in the air... I think I'll drop my anchor in that harbor over there..

kradio		2008-06-03 09:57:25 AM

Aztex_Slingshot: Prostitution in strip clubs?? Say it ain't so! Next you'll be telling me that none of those nice girls are working their way through college to get a PHD in Child Psychology.

a friend of mine is now a college professor, but yes, she did work her way through grad school on the naked stage....

Shadow Blasko		2008-06-03 09:58:15 AM

knucklebreather: but there was a lot of fearmongering back in the day about pool halls.

Well, Trouble starts with T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool!

/Its the whorehouse musical thread!

CoyoteAl		2008-06-03 09:58:30 AM

I guess I was doing it wrong, too.

When I danced, I never offered anyone sex. Meh. I made enough money just dancing around naked. I definitely was not the prettiest girl in the club, but I was smart enough to know that prostitution in Atlanta was (and still is) illegal.

We've gotta get you guys to a better club. If the girls are offering you sex, run. Run far. Run fast. And hope that whatever they have doesn't catch up.

TaskForce26		2008-06-03 09:58:31 AM

and in Rhode Island, it's legal.

/giggidy
//giggidy
///goo

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