Palm Beach Strip Clubs: Jurors hear opposing views of bribe suspect Salesman
March 24th, 2010 by palmbeach-stripper… If you really analyze what happened in this case,” Benjamin told the jury, “he got paid for things he legitimately and above board did while he was not a commissioner.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Kaplan painted a much different picture, describing how Salesman sold his office, knowingly associated with purported criminals and never once shied from a bribe.
“He never resisted,” Kaplan said of Salesman’s allegedly accepting of more than $7,000 in bribes over the course of the FBI’s investigation. “He never said, `I gotta give you this money back.’ Instead, what he did was he put it in his pocket.”
Kaplan said he intends to present Salesman’s tax returns as evidence to show he wasn’t really working as a consultant.
The prosecutor called as his first witness FBI Special Agent Anthony Velazquez, who testified that he first met Salesman at a strip club called Diamonds in North Miami Beach in March 2005.
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