The mafia is known for racketeering, extortion, gambling and now you can add the strip club business to that list. Sounds like a new episode for the Soprano’s. The New York strip club scene was shook-up on November 30, 2011 with the arrest of twenty people charged with gangsta type crimes like racketeering and extortion but also some cream puff white collar stuff like immigration fraud and marriage fraud.
Allegedly seven defendants have links to the mob. The Gambino and Bonanno crime families have been named. I’ve been inside most strip clubs in New York and have chopped it up with some of the owners and these allegations are surprising to say the least. They supposedly were bringing women from Russia and Europe and setting them up to work in strip clubs illegally. Sex Workers already have the stigma of being indentured slaves to the powers that be with all the trafficking cases tied to the industry and the general public’s misconception of the sex trade. NEWS FLASH: “some women choose Sex Work”. The squares want the general public to believe that everyone is either forced or not smart enough to choose another profession.
The so-called mafia controlled strip clubs will only damage the fragile Sex Worker image that already exists. Conspiracy is easy to be charged with. If you work at the Cheetah Club in midtown Manhattan, the Rogue in Queens, N.Y or the Scene in Long Island, N.Y, be on point as this investigation continues. Doing your friend a favor can jeopardize your freedom so be mindful of what’s important. Self-preservation is the first law in the laws of nature.
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