They are certainly not restricted to the west side of town in Daytona. Seabreeze Blvd & Madison-Ridgewood aren't on the west side of Daytona.There are a lot of people up in arms over both, as evidenced by some of the following articles, but particularly nude bars because of the added sexual enticement that leads to very active prostitution which goes hand in hand with pimps that go hand in hand with drug deals, not to mention organized crime involvement , as you will read.1. Release Date: April 25, 2005
City of San Antonio Communications Office: 207-7235
City’s Human Display Ordinance will stand
- Key provisions remain intact -
Today, the topless bar industry informed United States District Judge Fred Biery that it intends to comply with the regulatory regimen that will be created and codified by the City of San Antonio in an amended Human Display Ordinance.
The industry’s agreement to abide by the City’s ordinance alleviated the need for a scheduled trial today and will result in the presentation to the City Council of a proposed ordinance amendment in the near future.
The topless bar industry’s agreement to abide by sweeping regulations is an unprecedented victory for the City of San Antonio.
The objectives of the Human Display ordinance are to address proactively the concerns of citizens that live in the areas of topless bars and nude clubs and to decrease crime in these areas.
Topless bars and nude clubs have a tendency to attract and increase crime in a community. Neighbors and families that live in the vicinity of these businesses made numerous complaints to the City, stating they were concerned about their safety and the increase of criminal activity — including prostitution and drug dealing.
The industry’s concessions stem from a suit filed by the owners of several topless bars, the more prominent of which are: Allstars, PT’s, Sugars, The Palace Men’s Club and Babe’s. Fully aware that at a court hearing, Judge Biery previously informed the topless bar industry that some form of regulation likely would result from a trial over the matter, the industry opted to seek minor modification of the regulations and agree to comply with the entire amended ordinance.
The vast majority of the City’s current Human Display ordinance will remain intact:
* Dancers and managers must wear an ID badge (ID number, photo and assigned number)
* The 3-foot rule still applies to semi-nude dancers
* Nude dancing and lap dances remain banned
* VIP rooms must be within line of sight of a floor manager and be a minimum of 300 square feet
* ID badge information will be released only to law enforcement
* Employees can use the same ID badge at multiple places of employment
The City is satisfied that the modifications to the Human Display ordinance are both reasonable and constitutional.
City Council will vote on the amended ordinance at a future Council meeting. The amendment will go into effect 90 days after Council has voted on the amended ordinance.
2. Family Research Council Family Research Council: Defending Family, Faith and Freedom
January 28, 2006
Regulation of Adult Business
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Background:
Pro-family activists in Ohio and around the country were extremely pleased when a ruling by the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals based in Cincinnati, Ohio, upheld the right of a municipality to regulate the hours and operation of nude dance clubs. This decision was regarding Ohio House Bill No. 23, known as the Community Defense Act of 2005. In the 7-5 decision, the court upheld an ordinance of Union Township, which is just outside of Cincinnati, requiring a strip club chain, Deja Vu, to close by midnight; apply for an operating license; present to Union Township information regarding its employees. The club is one of Deja Vu's chain, which operates in other localities, are comprised mainly of nude clubs. Deja Vu, of course, argued the regulations put on them violated their First Amendment rights. Judge Ronald Lee Gilman wrote in the majority opinion that to impose tough restrictions on nude clubs, "does not necessarily raise First Amendment concerns". The 6th Circuit's ruling applies only in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, but it could prove to be influential with other federal courts.
This ruling allows local communities to regulate how strip clubs operate. Citizens around the country are growing more concerned with the negative effects strip clubs and nude bars have on their communities and the dangers they pose to the local economy and the general well-being of an area, not to mention the effects it has on children. There have been many other similar cases before the federal and state courts, and also the U.S. Supreme Court. All of these courts have ruled that sexually oriented businesses bring crime to areas in which they do business and that they bring down property values and increase urban blight. All of these negative effects are seen throughout the country and these results can be easily traced back to the presence of sexually oriented business's operating within a community. It is only in the best interests of community leaders to continue to put restrictions on the hours and/or location of these businesses.
Legislative Summary:
The amended HB 23 will regulate hours of operation of sexually oriented businesses. The hours set were: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. With regard to where the businesses are allowed to operate, the bill stipulates that the local governments will have the authority to deal with the following on their own: zoning, licensing and regulating. The 6th Circuit Court found that it was constitutional to place restrictions on the distance between a patron and a performer. The 9th Circuit Court also ruled that a restriction on the distance between patrons and employees was constitutional.
Arguments from Opposition:
It violates freedom of expression guaranteed in the First Amendment. It targets adult establishments without placing similar restrictions on other commercial enterprises. The bill places an undue burden on adult establishments and could hurt the economy since adult businesses hire a number of employees, bring significant tax dollars. The bill may result in the closing of businesses and will consequently drastically reduce revenues derived through taxes.
For More Information, Strategic Advice or Background:
Phil Burress, President
Citizens for Community Values
11175 Reading Road, Suite 103
Cincinnati, OH 45241
Phone: 513/733-5775
www.ccv.orgCH05H20
3. St. Petersburg Times Online: Business
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Honest job spins a tale of the mob
An ambitious young man's story shows the changing face of organized crime in Tampa, federal records suggest.
By JENNIFER LIBERTO, Times Staff Writer
Published September 16, 2005
TAMPA - Years before businessman Michael Malatin became an FBI informant in a case with alleged ties to organized crime, he was a Tampa newcomer looking for an honest job parking cars.
It was 1996 when he flipped through a phone book and called the first valet company he saw, A&A of Tampa. He says nobody told him that owner John Edward Alite was in prison on a gun charge - or, as federal prosecutors now allege, that Alite was the central figure in a Tampa Bay area offshoot of the Gambino crime family.
Then an ambitious 26-year-old, Malatin thought A&A was missing the mark by parking only for nude bars and restaurants. He convinced the manager to let him sell valet service to hospitals, beginning with St. Anthony's in St. Petersburg.
The arrangement lasted only a year. The company's muscle-shirted crew, insistent on tips, intimidated hospital visitors and even a few doctors.
Later, after Malatin left and made it big running his own valet business, Alite demanded money and threatened to rape and kill Malatin's wife, Malatin says in court records.
Alite now sits in a Brazilian jail fighting extradition to Tampa, among seven arrested on federal racketeering charges that they threatened, robbed and assaulted people in New York, New Jersey and the Tampa Bay area.
One of the seven pleaded guilty and will be sentenced Sept. 27. The others are inching toward trial.
Alite, also called John Alletto, is further accused of dabbling in bookmaking and drug dealing. He and his associates are alleged to have robbed $20,000 from a Sears cashier in Vineland, N.J., and to have roughed up a gambling ring in Port St. Lucie.
A few months before Malatin joined A&A, thugs mugged Tampa car dealer Ernie Haire for his $28,000 diamond Rolex in the men's room of Thee Doll House, a strip club, after Haire turned his car over to A&A's valet crew.
Last year, FBI agents told Haire they believed his attackers were mobsters, he said.
"I was surprised, obviously," Haire said. "You always hear of that kind of thing happening in New York - not the Westshore area of Tampa."
If prosecutors are right, then a piece of Haire's watch, like a piece of St. Anthony's valet parking fees, and $2,500 from the Sears heist may have wound up in the hands of the Gambino crime family.
* * *
Tampa's mob past has become nostalgic fodder for writers and filmmakers, but federal records suggest that organized crime never disappeared from Tampa. It merely changed shape.
Now, mobile groups of organized crime associates called "crews" migrate to Florida and work independently, while paying dividends to heads of families in New York, New Jersey and Chicago, said Kevin March, who fought organized crime for the U.S. attorney's office for 25 years, before retiring in 1999.
In exchange, the remote operations get protection from the crime families against other organized crime factions.
"If you're in an illegal business you got to have protection, to keep someone from muscling in on your business," March said. "It's saying, "You're not taking over anything, because this guy's with me."'
Alite, 42, is accused of heading up a Tampa crew, beginning about 1993, according to federal documents.
He first caught the eye of authorities back in 1989, when he and another man were arrested with John A. Gotti, son of the late mob boss, all accused of beating up two men and a woman in a Long Island night club.
Alite, who has lived in Queens and New Jersey, was alleged to have made a pass at a man's wife, then punched the man when he objected. The husband underwent surgery on an eye socket. But later, those hurt in the brawl told a grand jury they couldn't identify their assailants, according to a Newsday report. Charges were dropped.
In November 1995, Alite was stopped on a bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey with a revolver. He admitted he had been convicted of aggravated assault in New Jersey, which made it illegal for him to have the gun. The following summer, a judge sent Alite to prison for three years.
While at Allenwood Federal Prison, he met New York mobster Antonio Parlavecchio, court records state.
In 2002, Alite was sentenced to another three months in prison for attempting to help Parlavecchio's wife get pregnant by artificial insemination.
Alite's smuggled sperm collection kits in and out of Allenwood to fertility clinics and also bribed a prison guard who oversaw the sperm trade, according to court records.
* * *
In 1996, Michael Malatin sat down with the chief of St. Anthony's hospital security, Chuck Figaro. Malatin had this great idea how the hospital, which was founded by Franciscan nuns, could cut costs by outsourcing valet service to A&A of Tampa.
In an interview with the St. Petersburg Times, Figaro said he knew that A&A was parking for strip clubs. But he said he ran background checks and made sure the company was licensed. Figaro decided they deserved a chance.
"I felt as long as they kept that away from the hospital, we shouldn't deny them the opportunity for the contract," Figaro said. "And they were less expensive."
A year later, hospital managers decided the cost saving wasn't worth the trouble.
Doctors and patients had complained all year that the valet staff didn't "look appropriate" for a professional clinic environment, Figaro said. Plus, reports streamed in of damaged cars and flustered patients who felt pressure for tips.
"Little old ladies seemed frightened of them," Figaro said. "A physician mentioned that if one of these guys had asked him for a tip, he'd probably had given up his wallet, because they were scary."
The hospital refused to renew A&A's contract.
Malatin had quit A&A after about a year to start his own valet company, one that parked exclusively for health care facilities.
"I didn't know there was another owner, and that he was in jail," he said. "When I found out, I thought, "I can't be working for a company where my real boss is in jail."'
He emphasizes that his company, Healthcare Parking Systems, is a legitimate enterprise with no ties to organized crime or to his former employer.
Malatin's new company won back St. Anthony's Hospital. Figaro said he was initially skeptical and gave Malatin only week-to-week contracts, threatening to drop him if any problems crept up.
"Finally, he proved himself, and he's still there," Figaro said.
Malatin was a natural at selling his new company, which now serves 130 hospitals in 22 states from Los Angeles to Atlanta.
But as he grew more successful, trouble followed.
In 2000, after Alite left prison, he threatened Malatin and demanded pay-off money, according to court records.
"After I left, they saw the success of the company, and they went after me," Malatin said.
Alite frightened Malatin.
Malatin declined to elaborate, but in a deposition he told of threats against his wife.
Malatin turned to the FBI, according to court records, and recorded Alite at the FBI's behest.
A&A of Tampa changed its name to Prestige Valet in September 2000, according to Florida corporate records. The change was requested by Terry Scaglione, who was listed as the company's new president, with Alite as vice president.
Both are charged in the federal racketeering case.
In July 2001, A&A of Tampa and Prestige Valet jointly sued Malatin and his new company in Hillsborough Circuit Court, accusing Malatin of illegal business practices.
The civil suit claimed that Malatin stole health care clients he acquired for A&A and that he started his new company while working for A&A.
Michael LaBarbera, civil attorney for Prestige, didn't return calls for comment.
But Scaglione's criminal attorney, Thomas Ostrander, said he was familiar with the civil case.
"They kicked Prestige to the curb and now they're making millions on these new parking entities," he said.
Malatin and his attorney, Ed Page, call Prestige Valet's lawsuit a myriad "untrue allegations" triggered by jealousy.
As part of the civil case, the Prestige attorney questioned Malatin under oath, asking about talks Malatin had with the FBI. Malatin said he had recorded conversations with Alite at the FBI's request. The attorney asked about the nature of Alite's threats.
The Prestige attorney also requested copies of Malatin's recordings.
Assistant U.S. attorney Jay Trezevant asked Circuit Judge Herbert Baumann to halt the line of questioning and called Prestige's lawsuit a "thinly veiled attempt" to glean information about the government's ongoing criminal investigation.
In 2002, in the midst of the civil suit, Alite disappeared from Prestige's list of officers.
Scaglione had talked about buying the business from Alite, according to court depositions, but it's unclear if and when the sale occurred.
Alite is not yet represented by counsel in the federal case.
Scaglione, 39, was among the seven charged with racketeering.
The others, aside from Alite, include Ronald J. Trucchio, Steven Catalano, Michael Malone, Kevin M. McMahon and Pasquale J. Andriano. Andriano is the one who pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.
Scaglione is accused of extortion against other valet companies.
Ostrander said the criminal accusations are baseless and that Scaglione is being attacked for his "famous last name." He is a grandson of Nick Scaglione of the Trafficante crime family.
- Times researchers Cathy Wos and Carolyn Edds contributed to this report.
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4. San Diego Mayor, Councilman Convicted
Jul 18, 07:29 PM EST
SAN DIEGO - A federal jury Monday convicted San Diego's new acting mayor and a city councilman of taking payoffs from a strip club owner to help repeal a "no-touching" law at nude clubs, the latest blow to a city awash in scandal.
Michael Zucchet, who became interim mayor over the weekend, was found guilty of conspiracy, extortion and fraud on his first business day in office. He was immediately suspended from the position, his attorney said.
Councilman Ralph Inzunza, who was convicted of the same charges, also was suspended.
The jury also returned guilty verdicts against former Clark County, Nev., Commissioner Lance Malone, who worked for strip club owner Michael Galardi to repeal San Diego's ban preventing nude dancers and patrons from touching each other. The repeal effort failed.
It is unclear who will succeed Zucchet, whose conviction leaves the city rudderless at one of the most troubled points in its history. Mayor Dick Murphy resigned and left office Friday, eight months into a second term cut short by mounting problems at City Hall.
It was not immediately clear who was running City Hall, where the council planned to meet at 2 p.m. Murphy's permanent replacement will be chosen in an election July 26 or a possible November runoff of the top two finishers.
The verdicts were reached on the fourth day of deliberations. Zucchet sat staring straight ahead, occasionally glancing up at the ceiling, as the verdicts were read.
Each defendant could face three to four years in prison. Outside court, their attorneys vowed to appeal and maintained the men had done nothing wrong.
Inzunza contended that his actions were part of the normal political process. "I will be back," he said.
Zucchet left without talking to reporters. His attorney, Jerry Coughlan, said his client had no immediate plans to resign, pending an appeal, and maintained that Zucchet, too, was only doing his job.
"There isn't a single public official in this country that hasn't done the same thing," Coughlan said.
Zucchet and Inzunza, both 35, were accused of taking $34,500 in cash bribes and campaign contributions from Galardi. Malone allegedly delivered the wads of cash.
The R-rated trial began in May and featured hours of wiretapped conversations, lunches and locker room meetings and a 310-pound bodybuilder turned FBI informant.
The prosecution's key witness was Galardi, the owner of Cheetahs strip club in San Diego and three other nude bars in Las Vegas. Galardi testified that he hatched the bribery plan because San Diego's "no-touch" law was hurting business at Cheetahs.
Galardi pleaded guilty to conspiracy and is awaiting sentencing. He also has pleaded guilty in a parallel corruption probe in Las Vegas, and is scheduled to testify at that trial, which begins in January.
Prosecutors said the evidence of the plot could be found on secretly recorded conversations dating to 2001. In one 2003 conversation, Malone told a Las Vegas strip club employee before he posed as a concerned San Diego citizen at a council committee that the less he knew about the plot the better.
"It's called plausible deniability, baby," Malone said.
After a 2 1/2-year investigation, FBI agents swarmed City Hall in May 2003, a few weeks after that conversation, searching the offices of Inzunza, Zucchet and Councilman Charles Lewis, who was indicted but died last year of liver disease.
During the trial, defense attorneys sought to portray Zucchet and Inzunza's dealings with Malone as part of the legislative process and suggested that their clients - both Democrats - were being targeted by a Republican U.S. Attorney for political reasons.
"Does anybody think we'd be here if this case involved real estate development?" Michael Pancer, Inzunza's attorney said during closing arguments that stretched over four days.
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Court Takes On Booze and Nude Dancing
By Greg Land
Fulton County Daily Report
11-14-2005
The Georgia Supreme Court last week took on a case that combined the subtleties of constitutional law and the adult entertainment business.
At issue was a May decision by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Marvin S. Arrington Sr. that struck down -- as unconstitutional prior restraints on free speech -- the county's ordinances regulating nude-dancing establishments that serve alcohol.
The ordinances had been challenged by Maxim Cabaret, formerly The Coronet Club, which for years offered nude dancing and allowed patrons to "brown bag" their own beverages, meaning the club did not need a license to serve alcohol.
In March 2003, Maxim began offering burlesque entertainment that did not involve complete nudity and got an alcohol license for its new business model.
But seven months later the club went back to a nude format and sought a new adult entertainment license allowing it to serve alcohol. The county refused, demanding that the club first seek a special permit from zoning officials.
Maxim sued, and Arrington granted the club's motion for summary judgment.
Key to Arrington's ruling -- and of particular interest to Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein and Justice P. Harris Hines -- were three studies conducted by the county linking criminal activity to adult entertainment establishments that serve alcohol.
Such linkage was essential to establishing the legitimate public interest necessary to infringe on constitutionally protected expression, according to Maxim attorney Alan I. Begner of Atlanta's Begner & Begner.
Assistant County Attorney Steven E. Rosenberg pointed to a 2001 study in which Fulton police compared crime statistics near the county's five alcohol-serving strip clubs with Maxim's predecessor, The Coronet Club, which did not serve alcohol.
Arguing that alcohol-serving adult entertainment clubs are more prone to crime than similar clubs that do not serve alcohol, Rosenberg said, "The Coronet had about 4 percent of the total criminal activity," while the other five clubs "accounted for nearly 96 percent."
Sears noted that there was no comparison to the crime reported near non-adult entertainment clubs, while Hunstein suggested a broad solution to the problem Rosenberg described.
"Can't you just shut down all the clubs that serve alcohol?" she asked.
Rosenberg later warned that if the court upheld Arrington's ruling against both the county's permitting and zoning regulations, the adult entertainment industry "will essentially have free rein in Fulton County."
During his turn, Begner argued, "There must be proof that there's more crime and blight arising from nude clubs that serve alcohol than at regular bars or dance clubs," said Begner. "Otherwise, there's no legitimate interest" for the county's regulations.
The other two studies, he said, showed no apparent difference in the amount of crime or neighborhood blight near alcohol-serving clubs, regardless of whether there were nude dancers.
Begner pointed out that Coronet's prior practice of allowing patrons to bring in their own bottles meant there was "probably more alcohol there, because if you can bring your own, you'll probably drink more."
He also faulted the study's methodology, noting that three of the clubs are located near the same section of Fulton Industrial Highway that is notorious for prostitution and drug activity.
"Any crime within a mile was laid on those clubs," he said. "That study didn't show a correlation."
Despite the sometimes tough questioning, Rosenberg said after the argument that he hoped the decision would be sent back to Arrington.
"There really are some issues of fact that need to be resolved," he said.
Begner countered that "the prior rulings [against parts of the county's previous ordinance] really nailed Fulton County. Those ordinances have been broken a long time, and they know it."
Even so, he said, he is cautiously pessimistic. "I never predict they'll rule my way."
The case is Fulton County v. Maxim Cabaret, No. S05A1893.
No, you won't see a trick right outside a strip bar but you'll find one a couple blocks away, maybe in front of 7-11, waiting on the next John. Where there's demand there's supply.........
Tonya
I can't believe Phoenix hasn't jumped on this one yet. Seems the 7-11's have more trouble lately They need to work on the city's crime and let the rest live . It's always the same few that go in these places anyway. 
