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Former Mayor in Illinois Accused of Extorting Strip Club

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0:00 [Music] all right so this is Harvey Illinois it's a small town where the mayor he frequently sends members of his own family to the back room of a particular strip club why is he doing that wait what family members you said why to divvy up the cash that he's laundering I why he looks at me goes why tell me he he periodically sends his his family in there yeah why why do you think why do you think do that they're collecting cash for the money laundering damn yeah that's what I'm thinking cash business it's not money laundering but they are collecting cash account cash oh it's it's Security money or some ████ protction money it's racketeering so the mayor of this actual Town

0:52 basically uh was collecting payouts from the local strip club uh in order to not shut them down because they were running a process tion thing in the back that makes sense that's fair game bab very logical the weird thing is called community so shortly after earning position of Mayor this guy uh mayor Kellogg he orders a strip club to pay him 3K a month or he shuts them down um that's not that much after a couple years though he doubles the fee to 6,000 a month now that's more market value and then he continues he continues to collect this every single month for 15 years very good oh so the prices were probably more back very good very good well he hasn't stacked interest on if it's 6,000 bucks for 15 years that's not that's really good did he is he putting

1:42 any away for retirement hopefully he being smart with the money he doing is his landlords are worse than that landlords will ████ go with market value they'll keep pumping it 6,000 a month for some safety and protection and eh but then when they wouldn't pay or they would like scoff at it he would send police over there to to um intimidate that well you got to remind them well I mean if I was a strip club owner I I if the police came I'll just have uh I'll just give them ████ or something by myself and then and then they'll go away smart you handle it yourself you know I I'm I'm I'm cuz I'm not a ████ sex trafficker I'm not going to have my girls do it I'm going to do it myself well the girls are going to be working on C actual paying customer yeah they'll be literally on the job that's right those cops are yeah they're busy servicing the real customers yeah true

2:32 you're man you should be a hostage negotiator and I always believe like the boss of the the boss of the play should also be the master of like doing all the stuff like they should be the best skilled at sucking true aning whatever D people calling you blow Joe is like sick that's kind of how you are with Jun right you learned how to do all the jobs so that when you're the boss you teach them right yep makes sense and I think at the strip club this guy should be doing the same thing who you ████ fix SE your hair while you're saying P they should the catwalk he's just like I think I should be the master so how do you think he starts firing strippers one by one cuz he's like I'm really good I'm better than you I don't need y'all I could keep all the money if I stripped ████ sucked and did the register and the bartending dude you show up late again I'm taking your clients the way all if I strip ████

3:23 suck show gets all sassy good old blowjo you really you get strong and independent when you go through these things I like it how do you think the mayor got caught tattletails I'm going to say depositing money no cash no family member rat him out cuz they want a piece of the pie oo almost almost I think he tried to expand too hard you know like he was like oh if I could do this to one strip club maybe I could do the dispensary down the street oh like you just get too cocky about it yeah MH so the way that he got caught basically was because the strip club itself was being investigated for the prostitution that was going on in there he's not doing his job then FBI yeah FBI yeah so they be but then that's

4:13 a different that's Federal different exactly and you know the those guys they bump yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah caution tape exactly so they start there's this investigation going on in the strip club in which they started uh like wir topping catching conversations and then they started hearing some conversation about like paying a a rent money or like a pizza tax oh they have cold words too yeah they had cold words but then like the dude was always like griping about having to do it so then they were like oh what's this so then they ended up um working with the strip club to uh the the FBI gave Federal like actual money to be to start paying the the the debt with this money to be like yeah you know what just keep paying the money like to these guys we can find out who they are and like what the where the chain goes up so that's how they end ended up figuring out that it was uh all the way to the mayor wow wow the mayor would

5:04 send his brother and like his cousin to like all relatives and they didn't want to like there's like conversations that were recorded where the brother and the cousin are like we don't want to do this anymore this is like whatever and then um the mayor was like I guess they they caught him saying like well I don't trust anybody so you guys have to do it and they had all these like code words for it but the weird thing is that now that they've arrested the brother and the cousin the mayor still hasn't faced any charges for it s I mean I wonder why maybe he's paying the FBI $6,000 a month for another 10 years that's a good deal though I know that Mayors can like stay a mayor for like ever I don't know I don't know that bro remember mayor daily in Chicago I didn't know he was mayor for the entire duration but when he became mayor is when he started the oh so he might have continued it on because

5:54 so I'm like but if you're not even oh like you're still working in the city well either way he had people like the city was aware of this happening greasing everybody he already had the racket going so by the end after he paid everyone out the mayor's probably only keeping 250 bucks yeah dude pay out his family members he has to pay the police he has to pay what's the better way to do it a month you for a year is 72 grand time 15 it's not that much well assuming though uh they were also doing 3,000 for the first cont he has to pay the chief of police but let's say times 15 million dude bucks what he should have done is got into partnership the mayor and the family members could have been adding more business by being more of the strippers the employees you know what

6:44 are they doing being the employees being the strippers about everybody so that people are going to see the mayor strip yeah the Taco Town cuz you got to be the master you got to ████ suck like Friday nights where it's popping you know what I mean imagine like leave from the front so everybody the the strippers know okay if he's willing to do it I got to do it hey if you if you own a strip club in Hawaii right and uh let's say it was legit right and then uh the manager is all hey if we start doing some shady ████ in the back we probably make 50 times a profit I'll be like so who I got to sucker in here like wa you mean sucker we're talking about doing um a distribution ring for drugs oh drugs you must be crazy get out of here who who do I got to suck off to get you out of

7:34 here suck the manager said that I was like you want to start ████ people the manager was just talking about you only he's like yeah I need you to suck like 50 dudes a day yeah I'm like all right all right all right's tying his hair up I mean you know that's why they say it's difficult for owner operators to expand because you know we get so busy that we're doing all the work we can't we can't delegate we micromanage we get so everything is just we just don't know how to let it go you know B rubbing his jaw right now he's like godamn be a business owner is ████ hard dud all the dicks I got to S like Nick's black belt what other kinds of places besides massage places and strip clubs could you add happy endings to I think it's very

8:24 risky to do that at a strip club even though that's where it is so where would you put it that it's not a motel next to a strip club easy think more creatively chicken tender shop what other places could have it uh a tanning room yeah yeah they got a tanning s a tanning place they just go into the tanning bed and get jacked off those are sketchy for so basically like a tan line on your dick but it's fingerprints yeah it's meanwhile when you show up there like everybody who's working has like the darkest hands oh my God was that kind of tting Blade laser laser tag laser tag nobody would expect it so in the middle of the game you just like go to a start disappearing during the game and you don't really notice cuz like it's your laser tag people hide eliminating but because of all the black lights when you

9:14 come back out and there's just a bunch of stuff everywhere oh yeah all over your pants and ████ yeah I like the idea of getting like federally investigated and they're like so you've been going to laser tag a lot this year huh uh so laser tag is that a code name he like no no I go to laser tag a mattress store oh oh that's good because there's so many of those a mattr you want to try this mattress always going out of business sit and sleep suck and ████ oh yeah there you go suck and ████ sit and sleep code words yeah um uh um a a hair a hair wash Sal hair wash hair wash hair wash hair wash selfs serve hair wash is that a business already hair wash hair wash bagel shop a hair

10:04 wash you go in and there's just different stalls where you get your hair washed it's so suspect cuz they're like what's a hair wash is a hair wash code no it's the business name welcome to the hair wash uh bird ████ all over your hair where do you go you're a pinch so specific just a hair wash Salon like oh they're ████ in there dude hair yeah

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