A News Escort For Palm Beach Escorts.

The event, hosted by the Palm Beach Association of Black Journalists and The Palm Beach Post on Saturday, Nov. 14, allowed middle and high school students to battle each other with words for a refurbished laptop.
Special guests Jay Gilmore, a WPTV Channel 5 Sportscaster, presented local celebrity Damon Weaver, the 11-year-old Pahokee boy who interviewed President Barack Obama, with a framed letter from Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade. 
Earlier in the month, students had auditioned for a slot in the poetry competition, which focused on shedding light on the growing problem of youth violence.
This night was indeed dedicated to the poets, who ranged in age from 14 to 18. But the intensity and intellectual fire that bled from their hearts was on par with adults twice their age.
They spoke about drug abuse, suicide, prostitution, cultural identity, murder and the emotional struggles of life.

See the full article from “The South Florida Times”

Perhaps, Michael Dippolito envisioned a happy ending a la Pretty Woman when he chose his bride from a dial-a-date service.
Michael Dippolito on the Today Show, Aug. 10. Photo by Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post
Sure, hookers probably come with more baggage than women who work in more reputable professions. But women who charge for love by the hour can make great wives if they quit their night jobs. But Mr. Dippolito isn’t Richard Gere and Boynton Beach isn’t Hollywood. His marriage was more nightmare than fairy tale.
Had Mr. Dippolito taken the time to get to know his bridezilla, he might have figured out that she possibly was one fry short of a Happy Meal and said, “I don’t” instead of “I do.”
Four months after he solicited her escort services, the two were betrothed and living in a newly-purchased townhouse.

See the full article from “Palm Beach Post”

Dippolito first met his future wife as a professional escort
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
BOYNTON BEACH — How does a woman meet the man she’s going to marry and then be accused of trying to have killed?
In Dalia Dippolito’s case, as a professional escort, says her jaded husband.
In a sworn interview with Boynton Beach Police detectives, Michael Dippolito said he met his future wife — now charged with trying to kill him via a hitman — when he paid for her escort services one day at his office.
“She’s actually an escort,” he said in the August interview, which was released this week. “That’s how I met her. She came to my office one day. I called her and solicited her to the office and she came.”

See the full article from “Palm Beach Post”

The investigation, by the Boynton Beach Police Department Community Action Team, started in the first week of June, based on a tip of drugs, prostitution and alcohol-serving violations. The four-month investigation, provided a basis for 67 criminal charges.
On June 4, said the affidavit, “officers purchased cocaine from a dancer (when club manager Matthew) Willig was standing approximately 15 feet away and looking constantly in our direction.” It recounts similar drug deals in each of the next three months — none of which Willig took a direct role, but all of which happened within a proximity of 10-15 feet from him.
There are a slew of drug sales noted in the report, each sounding similar: The officer asks about drugs. The stripper then lists what she’s got in her stash, then comes back from the dressing room with it.

See the full article from “Broward New Times”

Bartolucci, who went to pain clinics complaining of a sore back, was among the first of more than 300 drug overdose deaths recorded in Palm Beach County this year .
Behind the Feb. 27 prescription that entitled him to Dilaudid — an extremely powerful pain medicine known as “drugstore heroin,” which usually is reserved for surgery patients or the severely injured — was East Coast Pain Clinic, according to police reports. The West Palm Beach medical office is operated by a flamboyant son of a wealthy home builder, records show.
Two years ago, Jeffrey Frank George, who in 2000 pleaded guilty to a felony charge of resisting an officer with violence, told The Palm Beach Post he likes strip clubs and expensive cars. “Whatever I’m worth, I’ve earned it,” said George, 29, who has no medical background. “Whether it’s a thousand dollars, a million or 10 million dollars.”

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Investigators have video footage of sex in a local strip club.
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In March 2009, the Cheetah strip club located in Hallandale Beach, Fla. was closed for allegedly selling drugs and promoting prostitution. Authorities claim to have legally obtained approximately 19,000 video clips of footage taken inside the club. The video clips show sex acts involving club dancers and patrons. Authorities also obtained daily logs that include the names of high-profile clients and professional athletes. So far, those names have not been released to the public.
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Cheetah club owner Joe Rodriguez, who owns three other strip clubs in South Florida, is said to have previously denied that cameras were in the VIP rooms.
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Do you think it is a violation of club goer’s rights to be video taped by club owners or do you think these people deserve to be exposed for doing naughty things in a strip club? 

Do you think that it is OK for the authorities to claim that video taping people without their consent is a crime and then release those same tapes to the media? 

See the full article from “Examiner.com”

Three men who left a state law enforcement agency this summer to work for the now defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm have been cleared in an ethics probe regarding the Cheetah Lounge, a strip club in Hallandale Beach, their attorney said Friday.
The men had worked on a prostitution and drug investigation of the Cheetah for the state Division of Alcohol Beverages and Tobacco (ABT).
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During the raid on the strip club, officers seized hours of video footage of back rooms and restrooms. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper has reported that it obtained the footage and it contains images of customers getting lap dances and other “favors.”
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The Cheetah has filed for a state court injunction to block any further release of the video tapes and other evidence from the strip club raid, which it alleges were obtained illegally.

See the full article from “Bizjournals.com”

Hallandale Beach — Three former officials with the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco have been cleared in an evidence-tampering investigation involving a strip club in the city.
It turns out that documents the state agency thought were missing — the investigative case file for Cheetah Hallandale Beach — had been in an evidence room in an unmarked box, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigative report.
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Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco raised concerns about how the evidence was handled in the Cheetah inquiry after three former officials — Maj. Pat Roberts, Lt. Michael Fisten and Senior Attorney Michael Wheeler — left the agency to join the Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm, which had been representing the strip club.
Roberts had supervised the investigation. Fisten was one of the undercover officers. Wheeler negotiated a settlement agreement between the state and the strip club.

See the full article from “Sun-Sentinel.com”

Ex-Dancer Says Police Have Limp Case Against Platinum Showgirls
Fri., Nov. 13 2009 @ 6:17PM
This week I spoke with a former dancer at Platinum Showgirls, the gentleman’s club in Boynton Beach that was raided on the night of October 30. That raid came after a sting by undercover officers who claimed they found drug-dealing and prostitution.
The dancer, who knows club management and several current dancers at the club, told me that Platinum owner Matt Barrow runs a tight ship and if drugs or prostitution happened there, it could have only been without his knowledge. (Barrow has been charged with felony racketeering, drug trafficking, public nuisance and profiting from prostitution.)
Before we hear from the former dancer, a programming note: This post will tell one side of the story. In a subsequent post, we’ll give the law enforcement side of the story, based on the probable cause affidavit.

See the full article from “Broward New Times”

Morning Juice: Candid Camera at Cheetah; Glamorous Performer Loses Dignity in West Palm Nursing Home
Fri., Nov. 13 2009 @ 7:55AM
On this chilly, spooky Friday the 13th, let’s see what’s in the news:
Scott Rothstein alleged fraud may have been in the neighborhood of $1 billion. Special Agent in Charge John Gillies says there are “tentacles” and wants our help identifying them. So keep your eyes out for that. [WPLG]
Eww. Hallandale Beach’s Cheetah strip club, which was raided and shut down in March amid charges of prostitution, apparently taped sexual encounters between its patrons and strippers. Any Juice sleuths willing to volunteer finding them on the ‘net? Didn’t think so. [Sun-Sentinel]
Charlie Crist, who recently claimed on national television that he didn’t endorse the federal stimulus package, even though he did, is now inching back toward that position, saying in Jupiter yesterday that he supported the stimulus — by taking the federal money. If this Senate thing doesn’t work out, Charlie would be great on Dancing With the Stars. [Palm Beach Post]

See the full article from “Broward New Times”