| Brunogate Continues...
On the heals of yesterday's revelations here at TAP about his campaign fund's sidestep of campaign finance laws,it seems that the head of the New York Republican Party, the party of "morals," has a little problem with the feds and, more interestingly, a "stripper" thing going...and, in true JB fashion, a high class stripper thing at that. No truck stop, girlie bars for the Republican State Senate Majority Leader, no sir.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- New York's legislative leaders had been in session only a few days last year when Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno quietly left town for a vacation in Florida.
It was Jan. 11, a Wednesday, and a bitter political debate over sexual offender laws was unfolding as Bruno boarded the private jet of his friend, Jared E. Abbruzzese, a Loudonville multimillionaire.
Italics are mine, of course, because, what would a lawmaker who was dejected over not getting strict sexual offender legislation passed do? Why go to a high class strip joint to take his mind off his troubles. |
| Here comes the high rolling:
For his close friends at Loudonville's tony Schuyler Meadows Country Club, the fact Abbruzzese was picking up the tab was not unusual. Abbruzzese, an avid golfer and self-made businessman, has routinely loaded his buddies on private jets and whisked them to famous destinations.
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On the drive back from the golf course, the men pulled into Rachel's, a high-class strip club and steakhouse in the heart of West Palm Beach. There, patrons are greeted by overly polite valets who spend much of their time parking Range Rovers and customized BMWs driven by an almost exclusively male clientele.
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Inside, $40 steaks and $90 bottles of wine are delivered by bow-tied waiters in a darkened four-star atmosphere. On two stages in the center of the club, female performers, some fully nude, move fluidly under pulsing strobe lights while tunes from rockers such as Tom Petty and Jimi Hendrix pierce the air.
For those seeking a closer encounter, the women, many resembling Playboy centerfolds, offer private lap dances -- at a $20 minimum -- on a leather-covered bench near a secluded spot in the back.
Well, boys will be boys...and it's nice to know that the champion of conservative values in New York and the leader of the Republican Senate Caucus, likes to unwind from time to time.
Read the entire article, because the Feds are after our "boy" and his entire public/private financial empire.
All those who still think the system in Albany is working for the people of New York, please turn the lights out before you leave. |
