Posted on 03/13/2006 5:18:40 PM PST by wagglebee
For sale: the Bunny Club, Miss Susies and Moon's House. Great locations. Must be converted to legitimate businesses or homes. Going to the highest bidder.
Once flourishing as three of Spenard's most infamous dating and escort businesses -- and police targets for years as thriving haunts of prostitution and other crimes -- the houses are going on the auction block sometime this spring.
They stand empty now, taken over by federal authorities. Blinds shut, strings of Christmas lights turned off and business signs sun bleached, they have, for all intents and purposes, already been stripped of their pasts.
"Everybody in Anchorage knew what they were," said Anchorage Police Department deputy chief Audie Holloway, sitting in his office at Anchorage police headquarters recently with stacks and binders of files in front of him on the cases made. "We had whorehouses right in the middle of town. And we just accepted it in our culture, or it looked like we accepted it, but that wasn't the case at all."
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Did Bush's people scan the White House with a blacklight to see if there were any other stains?
I think they brought in a hazmat team for that one...
They were probably happy that the Clintonistas looted the place.
It even involved an asian woman and IRS intrigues! Throw in a cigar and a suspicious death or two and it'd be a dead ringer.
1. There was probably not enough Luminol in all of DC and the surrounding counties in VA and MD.
2. They probably didn't really want to know.
Iwas kind of wondering 'cause if by any chance I got to spend a night in the Lincoln bedroom-I wondered if I needed to flip the matress.
Iwas kind of wondering 'cause if by any chance I got to spend a night in the Lincoln bedroom-I wondered if I needed to flip the matress.
Do they come furnished?
Not worth the purchase since you couldn't remove all the stains.
Pretty interesting story. Former US Attorney and the Catholic Arch Diocese of Anchorage get a mention in the story.
In the end, the IRS brought 'em down.
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