Stadium Club makes it rain: Bill paid, lien lifted

Rejoice: the Stadium Club will be open for the weekend. The bill was paid Friday, much of it in singles.

That's not a joke: $40,000 of the roughly $150,000 collected by the Office of Tax and Revenue was paid in $1 bills, sources tell the Washington Business Journal.

The popular Northeast D.C. strip club was shuttered by the OTR Thursday in an effort to collect a tax debt owed by owner James Redding on another property — the TruOrleans restaurant on H Street NE. The government threatened to sell the strip club and its assets if the bill wasn't paid in short order.

The payment was remitted Friday and the club has been given permission to reopen. TruOrleans, closed in September, also could potentially reopen, now that the bill has been paid.

The tax office will not say who paid the bill. But all is well again in D.C. strip club land.