2 DEA agents lied about owning New Jersey strip club – federal govt

Reuters/Brian Blanco

Reuters/Brian Blanco

Two veteran Drug Enforcement Agency employees allegedly lied on government security forms about not having outside work, despite owning a New Jersey strip club. The club employed illegal immigrant dancers from Russia and Brazil.

The DEA employees owned a low-rent strip club, called the Twins
Plus Go-Go Lounge, in South Hackensack, New Jersey, the federal
government said in a new criminal complaint unsealed in New
York’s Southern District Court. The two employees surrendered in
Manhattan on Wednesday and have been charged with one count of
making false statements.

If convicted, they could face up to five years in prison. Both
were released without bail after a short court appearance.

According to the complaint, retired Agent David Polos, 51, and
employee Glen Glover, 45, who is on administrative leave,
supervised the club via computer and smartphone apps during paid
DEA shifts. They allegedly lied about outside employment on
government paperwork. By failing to declare outside employment,
both employees could have put themselves “in proximity to
crime”
and at risk of being blackmailed, said the complaint.

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“David Polos and Glen
Glover had important and sensitive law enforcement jobs with the
DEA. As alleged in the Complaint, they also had other secret
jobs, which they concealed from DEA in order to maintain their
national security clearance, betraying the oaths they had taken
and creating needless risk for the agency they worked
for,”
said Manhattan
US Attorney Preet Bharara in a
statement.

The Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge was successful, as records showed
that Glover made a series of large cash deposits totaling
$600,000 from 2011 to 2014. It was, however, repeatedly cited by
state regulators because the dancers over-exposed themselves, and
also took money for sex in private lap dance rooms, according to
the complaint.

At this time we cannot comment on the specifics of the
matter as it’s an ongoing investigation,
” DEA spokeswoman
Erin Mulvey
said
to the New York Post.

The evidence includes surveillance reports and intercepted texts.
One video recovered during a search of the club, including
recordings from inside the private rooms, showed that “there
appear to be multiple instances of sexual contact between dancers
and patrons, with money exchanged afterward,”
the complaint
stated.

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over agents’ sex parties dating back to 2001

Other evidence includes intercepted text messages in which Polos
joked about bringing President Barack Obama to the club so that
he could “check out” certain dancers.

More intercepted texts showed Glover telling an employee that he
was bringing two state troopers to the club who didn’t know
Glover was the owner. The manager responded that he would brief
the other employees.

Agent Polos supervised the DEA’s New York Organized Crime and
Drug Enforcement Strike Force until last month, when he retired.
He ran a task force of agents from multiple agencies targeting
major drug-trafficking organizations.

A lawyer for Polos, Avraham C. Moskowitz, told The New York Times that his client had a
distinguished career at the DEA.

We believe these charges are unwarranted and meritless, and
we look forward to fighting the charges and having Mr. Polos
exonerated.”

Attorney Cathy Fleming said she’s confident Glover will be
vindicated, saying, “Mr. Glover is a well-respected, highly
decorated long-term DEA employee. We’re going to try this case in
the courts, not in the press.”

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