A New Jersey doctor wants an East Side strip club to take it off — take it all off.
Michael Weinstein, the attorney for Dr. Zyad Younan, said Scores strip club should stop hounding his client for $135,000 in credit card charges and drop its lawsuit against him now that four dancers have pleaded guilty to drugging and overcharging Younan and other customers.
“Scores has decided to align themselves with crooks and felons by pressing credit card charges for four people who admitted under oath that the charges were fraudulent and not authorized,” Weinstein said after meeting with Scores’ lawyer Alison Blaine in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Blaine declined to comment.
Weinstein and Younan’s other lawyer, Victoria Cioppettini, said that the lawsuit was delayed until the guilty pleas were entered and now that prosecutors have given a green light to continue, they will be asking Scores to cough up documents and deposition testimony on the relationship between the club and the dancers.
Younan, 42, of Holmdel, N.J., has a counterclaim in the lawsuit against Scores and the dancers for damaging his personal and professional reputation and for reimbursement of his legal bills.
Cioppettini said that when the dancers racked up unauthorized charges on customer credit cards, that money went to Scores but the girls got cash at the end of each night. Who got what, how that was decided, and whether payroll taxes were ever paid are among the many questions the lawyers have directed at Scores.
Meanwhile, Weinstein said he has information that the four are planning to make a movie about their experiences and he said that if they do, his client will go to court to seize their profits under New York State’s Son of Sam law which forbids criminals from making money off their crimes with tell-all book and movie deals.
“We don’t think they should be capitalizing on their criminal activity,” he said.
So far, two members of the crime ring, Marsi Rosen, 29, and Karina Pascucci, 27, have been sentenced to weekends at Rikers. Two more await sentencing — Roselyn Keo, 29, and alleged ringleader Samantha Barbash, 43.
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