Millionaire stripper

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shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
A California stripper is entitled to $1 million found in a vehicle during a Nebraska State Patrol drug stop in 2012, a U.S. District Court judge rule last week. She claimed the money was her life savings.

Exotoc dancer Tasha Mishra, of Rancho Cucamonga, should receive the $1,074,900 found in the vehicle driven by Rejesh Dheri, Judge Joseph F. Bataillon ordered in an opinion, reported Lori Pilger of the Lincoln Journal Star.

Nebraska State Patrol troopers confiscated the money after a March 2012 traffic stop near North Platte in western Nebraska, but the judge said there wasn't enough of a connection between it and drugs.

"There is no nexus between the currency and any illegal activity," Bataillon said in an opinion last week.

Misha had told the court in May that the money represented her life savings stripping in Southern California and gave the money to Dheri to open a club in New Jersey, according to a May story in the Journal Star.

"In any event, that claimant Tara Mishra earned her money by lap dancing and nude dancing does not mean that a Nebraska State Trooper can take her life savings," Mishra's attorney Roger Diamond told the Journal Star.

After giving Dheri a speeding ticket, troopers asked to searched the vehicle and found two duffel bags in the cargo area, the newspaper said. Troopers found large Ziplock bags with rubber-banded bundles of cash, mostly $100s, along with dryer sheets.

In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Nebraska assistant U.S. attorney Nancy Svoboda claimed there was probable cause to believe, based on the circumstances and a "commonsense view of the realities of normal life," that it was probable the money was either earned by and being used for illegal drug trade.

Svoboda said in the complaint according to the Journal Star that the only logical reason to package the money as it was found was to try to hide any odor coming off the money, so drug dogs wouldn't find it.

In his ruling, though, Bataillon ripped the government for destroying the money, preventing the defense to rebut the claim that there was drug residue on the bills, the Journal Star said. At trial, Mishra and her husband said she'd claimed the earnings on tax returns and provided details about an agreement they had to buy part of a bar a bar.

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crazyjoe
11 years ago
Dam nebraska cops
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jackslash
11 years ago
The police asked to search the vehicle, and this guy said yes? When he knew of the money in the car? What a moron!
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Club_Goer_Seattle
11 years ago
She got a good attorney. In Southern California, where she appears to be from (Rancho Cucamonga), Roger Jon Diamond is a well-known strip club attorney. Whenever a strip club gets into trouble, Diamond's name often appears in the news defending the club. (I don't recall stories of him defending individual strippers, though.)
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duomaxwell
11 years ago
Nancy Svoboda is an idiot.
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minnow
11 years ago
Some thoughts.....
1) TM probably isn't the only millionaire stripper
2) Now that she's getting her money back, can we expect to see a new club open in NJ with her as owner ?
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Lone_Wolf
11 years ago
It bull shit the amount of freedom we've given up for this endless unwinnable war. the hooney might get her money back but the lawyer will probably keep a large %.
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londonguy
11 years ago
Perhaps she did a lot of extras?
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mjx01
11 years ago
My first though was of course: wildly unlikely any stripper could possible save that much money.

However, given the circumstances, IMO the judge got it right: the defendant(s) are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and LE destroyed the evidence. Having probable cause isn't the same as proving it in court beyond a reasonable doubt.

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gatorfan
11 years ago
She blew the judge

ALOT
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sharkhunter
11 years ago
Take the money out of the budget of those who destroyed the cash and give it back to those who had it. Sounds fair. I guess they may need to fire some peope to make up for the cash they burned.
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shadowcat
11 years ago
I wonder if Detroit would have burned the money.
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mmdv26
11 years ago
Maybe Tara Mishra could make her tax returns public and clear up some of the doubt. Naw, even politicians won't do that! LOL
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HowdyPilgrims
11 years ago
So they just said they claimed the earnings on their tax returns? They weren't actually asked to prove it? lol
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