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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was tried in federal court on corruption charges. In Philadelphia, the current FBI probe is centered on several strip clubs and towing companies, and their possible connections to some Philadelphia police and government officials
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The Feds also have people on wiretaps and one person under investigation also faces a murder charge in a 2009 beating at the Oasis Gentleman’s club in South Philadelphia.
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Verdi’s name surfaced last week when the FBI raided several strip clubs, towing companies and salvage yards looking for evidence of cash payments to public officials.
Verdi’s part ownership of a South Philadelphia beer distributor that sought contracts with the strip clubs has come under scrutiny by the FBI. They took records last week that could link Chappy’s beer distributor with the strip clubs.

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… I can assure you that there has been no transfer of services or goods to Sgt. Bee,” said Binns.
Auto and salvage companies owned by former policeman Eddie Alfano were hit with search warrants as well, sources said. Alfano is a central figure in the probe. He has long been a major player when it comes to the towing of abandoned carrs off city streets. Calls to his office for comment were referred to his attorney, Fortunato Perri.
“I don’t know if he is a primary target. I can say that Mr. Alfano has been involved in successful, legitimate business enterprises for the past 40 years,” Perri said. “He intends to fully comply with the government’s inquiries at this point.”
The FBI also searched and seized records from two strip clubs located on property owned by Alfano.

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Probe Expands To Philly Strip Clubs
PHILADELPHIA – Two men connected to two South Philadelphia strip clubs were visited by the FBI last week as part of a corruption probe.
The gates may keep the public away from the Blue Bell mansion of Robert Laflar, but they can’t keep the heat away from the FBI, the IRS and a federal grand jury.
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Laflar’s made millions on lucrative strip clubs, auto salvage yards and towing companies.
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Last week the FBI raided two Southwest Philadelphia strip clubs and a salvage yard connected to Laflar.
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Alfano owns the buildings that house Laflar’s strip clubs.
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FBI agents also seized half a million dollars in cash from Alfano’s home as they searched for records showing the sale of beer to the strip clubs a South Philadelphia beer distributorship owned in part by Verdi, who works on a city police task force charged with shutting down nuisance bars and clubs.

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Ex-owner of call-girl ring gets “slap on the wrist” in plea deal
Posted: 02/17/2011 01:00:00 AM MST
A man who once owned a glitzy call-girl ring that claimed to cater to Denver’s elite was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to six months of home detention.
Scottie J. Ewing also was ordered to serve three years of supervised probation and pay $77,614 in restitution.
Between early 2004 and mid-2005, Ewing owned a prostitution service called both Denver Sugar and Denver Players. The service charged customers $300 an hour, and escorts who worked for the service told 9News in 2008 that the business’ client list included prominent figures. Then-Chief U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham resigned from the bench that year after a 9News report alleged that Nottingham’s name appeared on the escort service’s client list.

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One-time prostitution ring owner sentenced
Posted: 02/16/2011 01:41:16 PM MST
A man who once owned a glitzy call-girl ring that claimed to cater to Denver’s elite was sentenced today in federal court to 6 months of home detention.
Scottie J. Ewing was also ordered to serve three years of supervised probation and pay $77,614 in restitution.
Between early 2004 and mid 2005, Ewing owned a prostitution service called both Denver Sugar and Denver Players. The service charged customers $300 an hour, and escorts who worked for the service told 9News in 2008 that the business’s client list included prominent figures, including then-Chief U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham, who subsequently resigned from the bench.
At the time federal agents busted the ring in 2008, the service was owned by Brenda Stewart, who faces money laundering, racketeering, witness tampering and tax evasion charges in federal court. Stewart allegedly bought the business from Ewing, and federal authorities only charged Ewing with a single count of tax evasion for not paying income tax on money he earned from the business.

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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: Campbell 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 most crime-ridden places in the U.S.

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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: Campbell 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 most crime-ridden places in the U.S.

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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: Campbell 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

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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 most crime-ridden places in the U.S.

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MOUNT LAUREL—A police investigation into prostitution resulted in the arrests of several people in the 1100 block of Route 73 at about 8 p.m. on Feb. 3, police said. According to police, Deidre B. Trombley, 21, of Miami, Fla., was charged with engaging in prostitution and lodged in the Burlington County Jail after failing to post $3,500 bail.
Brittany N. Bassinger, 23, of Maple Shade was charged with engaging in prostitution and released pending a municipal court hearing, and Richard Negron, 24, of Trenton was charged with compelling prostitution and transporting a prostitute and was lodged in the Burlington County Jail after failing to post $13,500 bail, police said.
Juan M. Munoz, 43, of the 3600 block of Fenwick Lane in Mount Laurel was charged with loitering to engage in prostitution, police said. And Kiana M. George, 24, of Philadelphia was charged with engaging in prostitution and released pending a municipal court hearing, police said.

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