Archive for the ‘Boston strip clubs’ Category

Boston Strip Clubs: ZIMMERMAN v. PUCCIO

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

The Puccios treated their companies interchangeably. They charged expenses for one company to the credit card of another, while paying the bill with a check from yet another of the corporations. At least one person who worked for CCC, Cambridge and BC Mass at different times directly received the bank statements and paid the bills of one Puccio company while he was not an employee of that company, but instead worked for a different Puccio enterprise. While John Puccio was running Cambridge, the company paid large sums of money to other Puccio-controlled companies without consideration. For example, JRJ Associates, Inc., a company owned by John and Richard Puccio, was paid at least $150,000 by Cambridge. John and Richard Puccio also purchased personal items with corporate funds. Personal charges from a “gentleman’s club” and for a yacht appeared on the Puccio companies’ corporate credit card bills.

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Boston Strip Clubs: OPINION: Stoughton police do the right thing

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Posted Jul 28, 2010 @ 05:48 AM
Last update Jul 28, 2010 @ 07:21 AM
New Stoughton Police Chief Paul Shastany has taken over a police department stained in the past with corruption and internal rivalries.
His years of experience and status as an outsider have gone a long way toward returning respectability to local police. That doesn’t mean there won’t be problems along the way; but the hope is that Shastany deals with them swiftly and wisely.
That appears to be the case in the recent scandal involving former Stoughton police officer Richard Bennett and Bridget “The Midget” Powers, a 3-foot-9 adult film star performing at local strip club Alex’s.
Bennett showed up at the club one night, in uniform and on duty, and had his picture taken with Powers. He was already under investigation for altering his police firearm and, after showing the Powers photo around the police station, other officers reported him.

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Boston Strip Clubs: To Revere Beach on bike

Monday, July 26th, 2010

This Sunday I biked there from Somerville. I went up Route 99 into Everett, and then merged onto Route 16. Things were going as expected, but then little by little Route 16 turned from a fast route through an urban area – not the most hospitable ride, but manageable – into a real highway, complete with off-ramps and underpasses. The actual highway part only lasted for a mile or so, but it was memorable.
On the way back, I decided to go along the coast, through East Boston and Chelsea. This route was a lot nicer. Downtown Chelsea is really pretty and so are parts of Eastie, especially close to the water. There’s only one hitch. That route took my past King Arthur’s, a strip club and motel that’s on a pothole-strewn road in the shadow of the large power plant on the shores of the Mystic River. For a journo such as myself, it’s an awesome sight to behold – so far metaphorically and so close geographically to the tourist hot spots. But, it’s also pretty nasty bicycling in the fields around the gas power plant.

See the full article from “Wicked Local (blog)”

Boston Strip Clubs: Towns plan ahead for strip clubs and porn stores

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

With a strip club proposed in Mendon and a sports bar asking Milford officials for permission to bring in racy dancers, 2008 brought an X-rated wakeup call for nearby Medway.
After reviewing the town’s rules for adult entertainment businesses, planners said they feared the zone for adult video stores and similar shops was too small, leaving Medway vulnerable to a legal challenge. The rules also would have allowed such businesses on Rte. 109 – a major street.

This month, Groton plumber Joe Ferguson proposed turning the former Tin Alley Grill on Rte. 9 in Framingham into a strip club. He withdrew the plans when the site’s owner backed out, but he has said he is working on a “Plan B.”

Mendon residents tightened regulations on strip clubs in 2008 after applications for an adult entertainment license in their town. In Milford, after Doc’s Sports Bar proposed having dancers with occasional nudity, Town Meeting fleshed out its regulations too.

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Boston Strip Clubs: Publicity from “Bridget the Midget” story could benefit strip club

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

The Stoughton police officer who was forced to resign following his trip to a local strip club to see a diminutive porn star certainly couldn’t have welcomed all the ensuing publicity. But all the coverage of the story in the past week was good news for the business, Club Alex’s in Stoughton.
A manager who answered the phone at Alex’s and said his name was David told me he expects all the attention that Bridget “The Midget” Powers’ visit to Alex’s has generated for the club will help sell tickets for the 3’ 9” porn star’s return visit to the club for three days at the end of August.
Apparently, Powers drew sell-out crowds during her recent three-night appearance, when the Stoughton cop visited Alex’s in uniform while on duty. Tickets sold for $15 apiece, according to the club manager, who didn’t want to give me his last name.

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Boston Strip Clubs: Strippers, ‘rub girls’ settle suit with Stoughton’s Club Alex’s

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Dancers and massage workers at Club Alex’s won a cash settlement after filing a lawsuit claiming they were deprived of wages and benefits at the strip club in Stoughton.

By Allan Stein ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT Posted Jul 23, 2010 @ 06:18 AM Last update Jul 23, 2010 @ 07:21 AM STOUGHTON — Six former strippers and massage workers have won a cash settlement from Club Alex’s, after a $600,000 civil suit in which they claimed the club cheated them out of wages, tips and other employee benefits. In the lawsuit, filed in May and settled last month, the plaintiffs argue the club classified them as independent contractors but treated them as employees by scheduling their shifts, controlling their wardrobe and mandating their performance music. A lawyer for the plaintiffs said a non-disclosure clause in the settlement agreement prohibits him from discussing it. The lawsuit says the workers “were not truly entrepreneurs who had the opportunity to grow a business but were, instead, employees who have …

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Boston Strip Clubs: Holliston planner to review town’s adult zoning

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

This summer, Sherman plans to report back to the board, which has adult entertainment regulations on its Aug. 26 meeting agenda.
“Ours are very basic,” she said. “They’re sort of a footnote to our use table. Some people have a few more (rules), and I think that’s our board’s concern.”
Planning Board Chairman Warren Chamberlain said some members are worried about the possible side-effects of a casino proposed in Milford, including whether it could attract adult entertainment.
“In the neighborhood of a casino, the market for such another auxiliary business might be stronger,” Chamberlain said. “That could become an issue.”
Right now, adult video stores, strip clubs and other risque businesses are allowed only by special permit in the industrially zoned part of East Holliston, including the town’s industrial parks, Sherman said.

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Boston Strip Clubs: Cop Stripped of Badge for Watching ‘Bridget the Midget’ Striptease

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

… July 21) — A Stoughton, Mass., police officer didn’t think it would be a big thing when he bailed on his patrol to watch a 3-foot, 9-inch porn actress perform a striptease. But it turned out to be no small issue.
According to the Boston Herald, officer Richard Bennett, 28, was forced to turn in his badge after skipping his beat to catch a strip club act by adult film star Bridget Powers — also known as “Bridget the Midget.”
Bridgetthemidget.comPolice officer Richard Bennett was forced to resign after he bailed on his beat to watch a diminutive porn actress named “Bridget the Midget” perform at a strip club.
After Bennett watched the diminutive diva while on duty, five members of the Stoughton Police Department reported him to their superiors.

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Boston Strip Clubs: Bridget The Midget Powers

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Officer Bennett has since resigned from the force after abandoning his beat to watch the porn star who has been touted as “the world’s smallest porn star”. Unfortunately for Bennett, his peers didn’t find his antics amusing. At least five officers reported Bennett’s trip to the club to see the porn star. Bridget the Midget powers must have been extremely enticing for a man to risk his job.
The officer received a commendation for working on a murder case last month and now is without a job. The young cop is only 28 and resigned his post to avoid disciplinary action. Unfortunately once the officers trip to the gentleman’s club was discovered, authorities at the Stoughton Police Station learned that he had modified his weapon without permission by putting a laser sight on his gun. Thus far the case has managed to highlight a stripper and her tagline of Bridget the Midget Powers and uncover a dishonest cop.

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Boston Strip Clubs: Cop Quits For Midget Porn Star

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

… Mama told me there would be days like this,” says Stoughton, Massachusetts, police chief Paul Shastany.  What kind of day is Chief Stastany having?  Well, one of his officers, Richard P. Bennett, deserted his post and went to see midget porn star Bridget the Midget Powers perform at a local strip club called Club Alex’s.  That wouldn’t be a problem, except for the fact that Officer Bennett was on duty when he went to watch a midget get naked.
Fortunately, for once, the other boys in blue didn’t cover up for their misbehaving comrade.  In fact, five other officers reported the fact that Bennett had left his job to go pay a visit to his local lap dancing parlor.  In a pretty lousy situation, Chief Stastany is looking on the bright side.  ”We are not red-faced,” he said of his department.  ”In fact, I am pretty proud [other officers] stepped up.”

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