Strip Bar Patron Claims Fraud

NEW YORK-May 20, 2004 — An insurance company executive is claiming some financial hanky-panky occurred during a visit to an upscale strip club that left him out $28,000.

Mitchell Blaser, 54, filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming he was stripped of the money through bogus credit card charges after a night out with two friends at the Manhattan topless club Scores.

A Scores spokesman denied the accusation, saying Blaser was spending "like a rock star" and the club's paperwork proves it. The tab for the evening included $16,000 for five bottles of top-of-the-line Champagne and $7,000 for lap dances.

Blaser, CFO for the American division of Swiss Reinsurance Co., said when he complained that the bill was wrong, club employees told him to sign or he would not get his credit card back.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/05202004_bb_stripfraud.html

put $300 in your wallet and leave the credit card at home.

hey! those boobs are fake!

'what, silicone implants?'

Sounds like somebody is in hot water with his wife.

Boobs always get me in trouble, too, but not THAT much trouble.

That is, $3,000 a bottle???!!!

That's...I just can't comprehend that kind of ostentatious consumption.

doh!

with his employers.

Terry

(pardon my language and/or sexist tone, purely for comic purposes)

i was thinking something along those very same lines, like - for $28,000 he could have gotten laid instead of just watching topless women dance around him....oh well, i guess money doesn't buy happiness or commonsense....

Whatever Swiss Reinsurance is, I'm not putting any money into that stock. Not if they have idiots running the show.

and the rest of us can't deduct expenses for health care or any other necessity of life.

Isn't America wonderful?

...what his company allows him to expense as a business expense and what the IRS allows us to deduct as an itemized deduction aren't really related.

they happen to hold the insurance policy on a small, newly vacany chunk of land in lower manhattan, looks like they'll be out 4-6 billion dollars soon.

no wonder he was trying to blow off some steam.

insurance company executive?...sounds like a GOPher's MO. Maybe he was scouting out locations for the rest of the good'ole boys to kick up their boots while tarnishing New York City with their presence....

demand your card back. If they won't give it to you, call and report it stolen. Don't sign the slip.

Lots of companies are cutting back. ;)

nt

I'm in the wrong freakin' business ... and too ugly ... and too male, but damn.

I mean, DAMN!