There’s been a major shakeup at a Houston-based hospitality company…
“hospitality company”. RCI Hospitality Holdings owns various businesses, including Bombshells Restaurant & Bar, Rick’s Cabaret, Chicas Locas, and Club Onyx.
Two weeks ago, the company announced a “strategic partnership” with Jonathan Joseph, owner of Yellow Rose Cabaret and Red Rose Nightclub in Austin. Joseph acquired a 49 percent interest in Rick’s Cabaret Austin for $1.8 million as part of the partnership.
Anyway:
RCI Hospitality Holdings Inc. announced Friday that Eric Langan and Bradley Chhay have stepped down as president and CEO and CFO, respectively.
The HouChron says it is “unclear” why they stepped down, but suggests it might be related to their criminal indictments for bribing a tax auditor.
And if that rings a bell with you now, yes, I covered this back in September. Remember “dance dollars”?
…accused of supplying a former New York Department of Taxation and Finance auditor with “at least 13 complimentary multi-day trips to Florida where he was given up to $5,000 per day for private dances at RCI-owned strip clubs, including Tootsie’s Cabaret in Miami,” plus other forms of alleged favorable treatment over a 14-year period.
Still no evidence of cocaine being involved in this case, though, alas.
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Cocaine is so yesterday. Now it is more likely that they have some exotic form of mushroom, or one of the designer drugs that I have read about that the rich and famous like to use.
Sort of like when Whitney Houston, when confronted about her Crack Cocaine use, said that Crack was a poor person’s drug, in a very indignant voice.
I saw something the other day (though I can’t find it now) about Venezuela trafficing huge amounts of cocaine to Africa…
…and the African terrorist groups that were receiving the cocaine were, in turn, shipping it to Europe so they could get money to fund their terrorist ambitions.
I realize this is Europe, not the US, but maybe cocaine isn’t as declasse as we think it is.
I won’t even bring up Diddy and his “pink cocaine”, because I looked that up: appparently, there’s no cocaine in “pink cocaine”.