Feds: DEA agent, worker didn't report they ran a strip club

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Feds: DEA agent, worker didn't report they ran a strip club
| May 20, 2015 | Updated: May 20, 2015 11:12am

NEW YORK (AP) — A supervisory agent and a telecommunications specialist for the Drug Enforcement Administration have been arrested on charges they failed to notify the U.S. government that they were operating a strip club in New Jersey.

A criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday in federal court in New York City says David Polos and Glen Glover operated Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge in South Hackensack.

Authorities say the club offers scantily clad and sometimes topless women. According to court papers, the club mostly employed dancers from Brazil or Russia who were in the country illegally.

Polos supervised the New York Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Strike Force until last month.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/DEA-agent-employee-arrested-in-strip-club-case-6275724.php

[99th_Monkey]

1. The story is a bit vague on important details

like, how long had Polos been in that position?
or ... was this the result of internal whistle-blowing, or was it some kind of official
internal investigation?
and .. if it was official, then which official capacity was it? .. or was it the FBI?

none of this is even asked, much less answered.

Maybe I'll gougle this to see what pops up.

[99th_Monkey]

2. More Details @ AP: DEA Agent, Worker Charged With Running Strip Club on the Sly

DEA Agent, Worker Charged With Running Strip Club on the Sly
NEW YORK — May 20, 2015, 2:16 PM ET
By TOM HAYS Associated Press

A supervisory agent and a telecommunications specialist for the Drug Enforcement Administration were arrested Wednesday on charges they were running a strip club in New Jersey on the sly.

A criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in New York City identifies David Polos and Glen Glover as part owners of Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge in South Hackensack. The club offers scantily clad and sometimes topless dancers - most of them workers from Brazil or Russia in the country illegally - and private rooms for lap dances, according to the complaint.

The men, who worked at the DEA's Manhattan headquarters, surrendered to face charges they falsified national security forms and lied during background-check interviews by failing to disclose outside employment that could put them "in proximity to crime" and at risk for getting blackmailed. They are due in court later Wednesday.

Polos, 51, and Glover, 45, "had important and sensitive law enforcement jobs with the DEA," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. "As alleged in the Complaint, they also had other secret jobs, which they concealed from DEA in order to maintain their national security clearance, betraying the oaths they had taken and creating needless risk for the agency they worked for."

According to the complaint, Glover and Polos often moonlighted as supervisors at the club. Polos, it says, "used his status as a law enforcement officer to facilitate the club's operations, including displaying his firearm in connection with a dispute among those operating the club."

An unidentified dancer from Brazil told investigators that Polos once loaned her money to bail herself out of jail following an arrest on charges she was involved in an altercation with a local police officer outside the club.

Evidence includes text messages from the defendants' work cellphones to managers at the club, court papers say.

In one 2011 text, Glover wrote, "I'm coming with two state troopers. They don't know I own the bar," the papers say. A manager responded by saying he would alert another employee.

Polos supervised the New York Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Strike Force until last month. His lawyer did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Glover's attorney, Cathy Fleming, said she's confident her client will be vindicated.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/feds-dea-agent-worker-report-ran-strip-club-31178030

[bemildred]

3. Lots of cash, good for laundering black money too. nt

[Yavin4]

7. NYC area strip clubs are ALL money laundering operations

if you ever visit one, they are sparsely attended. I went into one once, and there were more bouncers and bartenders than customers. I wondered how could they stay in business. The answer is that they are money laundering fronts. Strip clubs are cash businesses so its easy to make it look like they're raking in the money.

[rocktivity]

11. It's such a perfect undercover resource

I have to wonder if the Feds REALLY didn't know about it. Are they shutting it down because they'd been made?


rocktivity

[lonestarnot]

4. Positions apparently were good for business.

[underpants]

5. "SOMETIMES topless" ???? WTH?

[bluedigger]

6. In North Jersey? Seems farfetched.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Doesn't add up. Fuggedaboudit. n/t

[Sunlei]

8. "employed dancers from Brazil or Russia who were in the country illegally" Abused his gov. position.

[rocktivity]

10. They imported strippers who were ALSO illegal aliens?

Shame on them, taking jobs away from American sluts!


rocktivity

[Ford_Prefect]

12. You have to wonder how long they operated the club, and how long they were at D.E.A.

I think DEA hires in people from other law enforcement backgrounds, rather than training them up like FBI. So the question is what were these guys doing before they got to DEA? Were they part of NJ or NY Law enforcement prior to this? Are they connected to DEA or some other agency actions in the area? How did they get hooked up with the club? Are there other connections we have yet to hear about or other police or agents tied to the club. Was it used as a front for connections that were part of investigations or sting operations?

And how likely are we to hear they have evidence of trafficking drugs, women, or money laundering on the part of other Police or Gov. Agents? Recall that one of the charges often leveled at whistle blowers of all kinds is that they were guilty of the kind of activity they were assigned to observe in other agents or agencies.