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Cashing in their chips
Municipalities make use of Sands casino impact money, prepare for second round of funding.
Mike Twerdi was one of two police officers Hellertown was able to hire thanks to its casino impact funding. (Monica Cabrera/The Morning Call / February 27, 2011)
There has always been crime in Hellertown. Police Chief Robert Shupp will tell you that up front. But he’ll also tell you that patrolling the borough’s streets has become more difficult in the last 22 months.
Counterfeiting. Fraud. Prostitution. Though the department doesn’t keep official statistics in these cases, the chief says they’re happening more often than they used to. It’s not rampant, said Shupp, an 11-year member of the force, but it’s cause for concern.
While there’s no certain explanation for the department’s spike in overall calls — 1,470 more in the 14 months after May 2009 than in the 14 months prior — Shupp and Hellertown used the statistics to land $388,721 in casino impact grants in October.

See the full article from “Allentown Morning Call”

Cashing in their chips
Municipalities make use of impact money from Sands casino, prepare for second round of funding.
There has always been crime in Hellertown. Police Chief Robert Shupp will tell you that up front. But he’ll also tell you that patrolling the borough’s streets has become more difficult in the last 22 months.
Counterfeiting. Fraud. Prostitution. Though the department doesn’t keep official statistics in these cases, the chief says they’re happening more often than they used to. It’s not rampant, said Shupp, an 11-year member of the force, but it’s cause for concern.
While there’s no certain explanation for the department’s spike in overall calls — 1,470 more in the 14 months after May 2009 than in the 14 months prior — Shupp and Hellertown used the statistics to land $388,721 in casino impact grants in October.

See the full article from “Allentown Morning Call”

The iconic company was founded in Camden in 1869 and has kept its headquarters here even as the city transformed from an industrial dynamo to one of the nation’s poorest cities. But the relationship hasn’t always been easy: Camden closed its last canning facility in the city 20 years ago. And as recently as five years ago, the company was considering moving out.
But it decided to stay, expand and upgrade its campus, and take charge of redevelopment of a swath of land nearby. The centerpiece of that effort, a showy new building at the heart of the company headquarters, opened last year.
Conant said that when the company decided to stay, its officials also decided to try to do more for Camden — even beyond the $1 million or so a year the company’s foundation regularly gives to various causes in the city.
The hard-luck city, which has seen all its major manufacturing operations close, is made up of low-income neighborhoods. Boarded-up, abandoned houses are common. So is drug-dealing on the streets and prostitution. One national survey regularly finds Camden to be one of the . . .

See the full article from “The Hour”

TRENTON – Four suspected prostitutes allegedly working out of the Red Roof Inn in Lawrenceville were indicted by a Mercer County grand jury, court records revealed yesterday.
Kathleen Brodzik, 20. of the 2700 block of Eberta Lane, Marlton, Tahira Crowder, 19, of Belmont Street, Burlington, Andre Lindsey, 26, of the 1000 block of Merimac Road, Camden and Jillian Jackson, 22, of the 1500 block of S. 10th Street, Camden, were all arrested on Oct. 1 as they allegedly worked Johns out of rooms at the motel located at 3203 Brunswick Pike.
The arrests came after cops noticed an ad placed on Backpage.com offering sexual services in exchange for money, according to police.
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The grand jury charged all four with two counts each of promoting prostitution, maintaining a prostitution nuisance and possession of a stun gun, according to court documents.

See the full article from “The Trentonian”

According to township auditor Bob Marrone, if the referendum passes, property tax bills would be raised about $226 annually, based on the average township assessment of $180,000. In return, the proposed cuts to services would not occur, however some staff positions might still be cut.
If the referendum fails, local officials would begin cutting services that have the least effect on the township on May 6 with further cuts to come in the months to follow.
Councilwoman Lynn Solomon said, “I think it is important that the residents know what is going on. There is no fat to be trimmed from the budget.”
The cuts that would be made first include police services such as bike patrols, isolated non-emergency concerns, neighborhood watch, school safety officers, non-violent crime investigation (such as burglary, narcotics and prostitution). Reductions would also be made to EMS calls, vehicle lockout responses, and traffic/parking enforcement including DUIs, which Blumenthal admits will most likely cause crime to rise and result in slow response times.

See the full article from “SouthJersey Local News”

On going through puberty while working with hot co-stars: “That’s the thing. From a young age I was allowed to get close to attractive women. I started dating when I was young. I’ve studied the species and our mating habits and all that. I didn’t have the same kind of peeking-into-the-shower desire many teenagers have. By the time I was on the set of ‘Austin Powers,’ interacting with the fembots, I was already calm enough as a man not to ogle them or run to my trailer to take care of business.”
Old Austrian seeks date
An Austrian news agency is quoting quirky mogul Richard Lugner, 78, as saying he won’t be taking Bo Derek to Vienna’s famous Opera Ball after all.
Bo reportedly wanted $25,000 more than originally agreed to.
In her place, Lugner’s team has almost completed negotiations with Karima el-Mahroug, an 18-year-old nicknamed Ruby, who is at the center of a prostitution scandal that has sent Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to trial.

See the full article from “Philadelphia Daily News”

Oasis Strip Club Faces Shutdown Hearing
One of the strip clubs at the center of a growing FBI city corruption investigation in Philadelphia could face a possible shutdown, according to documents obtained by Fox 29 News.
The FBI raided the Oasis Gentlemen’s Club two weeks ago, it was also the scene of a killing 16 months ago.
According to documents that were released to us late last week, state police liquor control enforcement investigators have filed a citation concerning the October 16th, 2009 beating death of a Delaware County man allegedly at the hands of three bouncers and the club’s part owner.
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Oasis is one of the strip clubs searched by the FBI two weeks ago as agents looked for evidence of possible payments of cash, goods or services to city officials and police officers.

See the full article from “MyFox Philadelphia”

From Cherry Hill to Camden: More than just trash
This post is a follow up to my last, “Is Justice a Naughty Word?”.
Yesterday, I received this poignant email from a Whitman Park resident of Camden, who was at the Camden County Freeholders meeting with me on Tuesday night.  I often think about the trash and sewage that flows from Cherry Hill to Camden, but I never really thought about the drug and prostitution customers that follow that same path.  We are, indeed, intimately connected…
Dear Lori,
I attended the Freeholders meeting last night as well, as a  Board member
of DCCB IV in the Whitman Park neighborhood in Camden.  I want to take
this opportunity to applaud your efforts at educating people regarding
environmental justice and supporting Camden’s DCCB’s.

See the full article from “In Jersey (blog)”

Blogging, YouTube, Twitter and other online outlets can give people a sense of power and control in their lives they may feel they lack, which mental health experts say, is a powerful and seductive motivator.
Chat rooms and online comment forums also provide people the chance to vent with the bonus of anonymity, providing a greater sense of freedom that they can say whatever they want without consequences.
Temple’s Farley believes the Internet alone isn’t to blame for the trend toward less inhibited behavior. Public figures that appear to suffer few, if any, consequences for bad behavior are another driving factor.
As an example, Farley cited former New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer, who left office in 2008 after it was revealed the married father had affairs with high-priced prostitutes; Spitzer now is a prime time talk show host on CNN.

See the full article from “phillyBurbs.com”

Where is the FBI probe into Philadelphia strip clubs, towing companies and city officials heading? Possibly to a big-time public trial in the near future.
Our Dave Schratwieser, who broke the first stories in this investigation, and the Philadelphia Inquirer’s George Anastasia think the first FBI search warrants are the tip on the iceberg in what potentially is a widespread probe into corruption in Philadelphia.
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A Federal grand jury is looking at ties between two strip clubs, several towing companies, the Licenses and Inspections department of Philadelphia, a beer distributor and some Philadelphia police officers in the complex investigation.
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One connection is that the strip club and salvage businesses generate a lot of cash. That cash connection will also bring the Internal Revenue Service into the equation.
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Another person, Henry Alfano, received a visit from the FBI. He owns the property where the strip clubs are located.

See the full article from “MyFox Philadelphia”