Atlanta Strip Clubs: Fighting to clear his name, company
Posted on March 9th, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs
Marchelletta, who grew up in Long Island, had been dropping thousands of dollars at the Gold Club, the former Atlanta strip club the feds believed was laundering money for the Gambino crime family. Was Marchelletta working for the Mafia? The FBI apparently suspected so, and launched a probe into money laundering and La Cosa Nostra (organized crime) ties.
That investigation fizzled, but prosecutors ultimately convicted Marchelletta and his father for tax evasion in 2007.
Now Marchelletta, who won an appeal of the conviction, is waging an offensive against the government, alleging an overreaching prosecution, rampant subterfuge and even ethnic stereotyping. “It’s reprehensible,” he said in a recent interview.
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The feds had another motive, too, Bernhoft said. At the time, the government’s money-laundering case against the owners of the Gold Club and its attempts to prove mob ties — despite a parade of testimony from strippers, sports stars and hit men — had been a bust.
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