San Diego Strip Clubs: SAN DIEGO: Former councilman denied final appeal on corruption charges
January 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm | In San Diego strip clubs | No CommentsAfter years of appealing his 2005 conviction, former San Diego City Councilman Ralph Inzunza will go to prison for political corruption.
Inzunza was convicted of taking bribes in exchange for help in repealing the “no-touch” ordinance at strip clubs.
After the verdict, Inzunza vowed to fight to reverse the conviction.
For six years, he filed appeal after appeal until Friday when his final appeal was denied.
Now, the former city leader faces a 21-month prison sentence.
Political analyst John Dadian says Ralph Inzunza was once considered an up-and-coming leader in San Diego until his political future changed in 2003.
Inzunza and two other San Diego City Councilmen Michael Zucchet, and Charles Lewis were indicted alongside strip club owner Michael Galardi and Galardi’s lobbyist Lance Malone.
Galardi was the owner of Cheetah’s, one of a dozen strip clubs and topless bars in his family’s $45 million adult entertainment empire.
San Diego Strip Clubs: Supreme Court won’t hear San Diego corruption case
January 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm | In San Diego strip clubs | No Comments… 01-10) 09:58 PST San Diego, CA (AP) –
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a former San Diego city councilman who was convicted of corruption.
The court announced Monday that it won’t take up the case of Ralph Inzunza, who was convicted six years ago of extortion, wire fraud, conspiracy.
He now faces a 21-month prison sentence.
Prosecutors say Inzunza accepted $34,500 from a Las Vegas strip club owner in exchange for trying to relax a city ban on touching nude dancers.
The law was never repealed.
U-T San Diego ( http://bit.ly/AlLgDg) report that Inzunza’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.
San Diego Strip Clubs: Supreme Court won’t hear San Diego corruption case
January 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm | In San Diego strip clubs | No CommentsSupreme Court won’t hear San Diego corruption case
Posted: 01/10/2012 10:00:33 AM PST
SAN DIEGO—The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a former San Diego city councilman who was convicted of corruption.
The court announced Monday that it won’t take up the case of Ralph Inzunza, who was convicted six years ago of extortion, wire fraud, conspiracy.
He now faces a 21-month prison sentence.
Prosecutors say Inzunza accepted $34,500 from a Las Vegas strip club owner in exchange for trying to relax a city ban on touching nude dancers.
The law was never repealed.
U-T San Diego ( http://bit.ly/AlLgDg) report that Inzunza’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.
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San Diego Strip Clubs: US Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of ex-San Diego city councilman in …
January 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm | In San Diego strip clubs | No CommentsSAN DIEGO — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a former San Diego city councilman who was convicted of corruption.
The court announced Monday that it won’t take up the case of Ralph Inzunza, who was convicted six years ago of extortion, wire fraud, conspiracy.
He now faces a 21-month prison sentence.
Prosecutors say Inzunza accepted $34,500 from a Las Vegas strip club owner in exchange for trying to relax a city ban on touching nude dancers.
The law was never repealed.
See the full article from “The Republic”
San Diego Strip Clubs: Ralph Inzunza Denied Final Appeal on Corruption Charges
January 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm | In San Diego strip clubs | No CommentsRalph Inzunza Denied Final Appeal on Corruption Charges
Inzunza and two other San Diego City Councilmen Michael Zucchet, and Charles Lewis were indicted alongside strip club owner Michael Galardi and Galardi’s lobbyist Lance Malone
After years of appealing his 2005 conviction, former San Diego City Councilman Ralph Inzunza will go to prison for political corruption.
Inzunza was convicted of taking bribes in exchange for help in repealing the “no-touch” ordinance at strip clubs.
After the verdict, Inzunza vowed to fight to reverse the conviction.
For six years, he filed appeal after appeal until Friday when his final appeal was denied.
Now, the former city leader faces a 21-month prison sentence.
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Galardi was the owner of Cheetah’s, one of a dozen strip clubs and topless bars in his family’s $45 million adult entertainment empire.
San Diego Strip Clubs: Former Councilman In ‘Stripper-Gate’ Headed To Prison
January 10, 2012 at 10:12 am | In San Diego strip clubs | No CommentsFormer Councilman In ‘Stripper-Gate’ Headed To Prison
Ralph Inzunza Convicted In 2005 Of Taking Bribes From Former Owner Of Cheetah’s Strip Club
POSTED: 10:33 pm PST January 9, 2012
UPDATED: 2:08 am PST January 10, 2012
SAN DIEGO — A former San Diego City councilman involved in the notorious “Stripper-gate” case will be heading to prison.
On Monday, a U.S. Supreme Court judge denied Ralph Inzunza’s request for a new hearing.
Inzunza was convicted in 2005 of taking bribes from the former owner of a Cheetah’s strip club in Kearny Mesa.
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The former councilman was convicted of extortion, wire fraud and conspiring with a strip club owner to relax the “no-touch” laws in exchange for campaign contributions. Relaxing the law would have meant more money for the strip club. Former councilman Michael Zucchet was also convicted but later acquitted on all but two charges.
San Diego Strip Clubs: Ex-City Councilman Finally Headed To Prison
January 10, 2012 at 10:12 am | In San Diego strip clubs | No CommentsEx-City Councilman Finally Headed To Prison
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After six years of fighting his conviction on bribery charges, ex-San Diego Councilman Ralph Inzunza has exhausted his appeals.
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request by former San Diego City Councilman Ralph Inzunza for a new hearing in the notorious case known as “Strippergate.”
The decision means Inzunza’s appeals are over and his 21-month prison sentence must begin.
The final verdict comes more than two years after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that there was enough evidence that the former councilman had conspired with a Las Vegas Lobbyist to eliminate no-touch rules at strip clubs in exchange for campaign contributions.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney John Rice helped prosecute Inzunza. He said he’s surprised Inzunza wasn’t advised to go ahead and serve his prison sentence since the likelihood of a successful appeal was so remote.
See the full article from “KPBS”
San Diego Escorts: Diversionary Cabaret returns with "The Facts Of Life: The Lost Episode"
January 7, 2012 at 8:13 am | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsDildos, prostitution, cerebral palsy, and lesbian sex are just a few of the politically incorrect plotlines that mark The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode as an adults-only show. When budget cuts force Mrs. Garrett to leave Eastland, Blair, Tootie, Natalie and Jo will do anything to raise the money so she can stay. Anything. They become hookers (and they sing and dance about it!). Add an evil Headmaster who has a thing for Mrs. G., lesbian overtones between Jo and Blair, and you have the lost episode Showtime wished they’d snatched up. As The Dallas Voice put it, “The Lost Episode is entirely the product of Morris’ twisted mind, adding tons of inappropriate humor you would be challenged to find on premium cable nowadays, not to say on NBC of yesteryear.”
San Diego Escorts: Dumanis deposition: Marine widow’s attorney has ‘vendetta’
January 5, 2012 at 7:00 am | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsSommer was freed from jail in 2008, after new testing showed no arsenic present in previously unanalyzed tissue samples from Sgt. Sommer’s body.
Sommer’s federal lawsuit alleges prosecutorial misconduct and civil rights violations. The suit is set to go to trial in the coming months and the mudslinging continues as the case proceeds.
During an Oct. 24, 2011 deposition, District Attorney Dumanis claimed Sommer’s criminal defense attorney, Allen Bloom, has a grudge against her stemming from a 25-year-old prostitution case involving the so-called Rolodex madam, Karen Wilkening.
“Mr. Bloom has quite a vendetta against me,” Dumanis said during the deposition. “I was involved as a deputy district attorney in the Rolodex case… in which Mr. Bloom was caught in an undercover operation where he solicited a high-class prostitute from Ms. Wilkening.”
See the full article from “KFMB News 8″
San Diego Escorts: Rebirth of the Cool: The Strange Plethora of Jazz Jams in San Diego
January 4, 2012 at 10:48 pm | In San Diego escorts | No CommentsIn essence, a jam is an organized musical space within which one can exercise one’s chops. There are rules of engagement that vary from jam to jam, and then, there is the all important vibe. “You don’t want a beginner’s training session, but you don’t want a clique, either.” It’s all about a supportive atmosphere, he says, with the caveat that jazz integrity is maintained at a jam via a technique borrowed from modern parenting: tough love.
Surely that is what Charlie Parker from Kansas City must have felt as a teenage jazz saxist when drummer Jo Jones chucked a cymbal at him back in the 1930s in an effort to silence his bad jamming. Possibly as a result of that public humiliation, Parker went on to practice like a fiend. Eventually, he would become the first hipster of jazz, a music that brothel pianist Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have invented at the age of 12 in 1902.
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