MIAMI — Seventeen people have been charged in an alleged scheme to defraud out-of-town visitors by using so-called "B-Girls" to lure them to shady South Beach private clubs where they are charged exorbitant prices for liquor, champagne and other alcoholic beverages, federal prosecutors said Wednesday
The girls, most of them brought into the scheme from Eastern Europe and Russia, then invite the men to private clubs and begin pouring the booze, racking up huge charges on the victims' credit cards.
The operators also sometimes took pictures of the victims with bottles of alcohol to use as proof of the purchase, which sometimes ran $6,000 a pop or more, and one victim lost $43,000. The FBI affidavit says the "B-Girls" kept 20 percent of the business they brought in, with the owners getting 10 percent - msn
Well that leaves 70% of the winnings. For a split second I was confused, before I realized the money is being funneled back to eastern europe. I wouldnt call these old rich dudes victims, cause they know whats going when a hot chick with a thick russian-ish accent starts jocking you. You are paying for sex is the first thing I would think, which is fine. Then when she was luring me in shady places I would think I was getting jacked by three blonde stocky fellas with three quarter length leather jackets and terrible taste in music. Then finally I would think I was being forced to fight other men naked in a sauna*.
*I searched pretty hard for that clip from Eastern Promises, but NBC universal has taken them all down and deprived us all of a naked Viggo Mortinson knife fighting in a bathhouse.
-Les Anderson
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