A group of "adult entertainers" stripped wealthy customers of their cash by drugging them and ringing up hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit card charges at strip clubs, authorities said.
The stripper crime ring would meet the men outside "work," slip them drugs such as Molly, take them to a private room at either Scores or Roadhouse in Queens, then give their credit cards a night they'd never forget, the Office of Special Narcotics said.
The men —two in the financial industry, a lawyer and a doctor —wouldn't be so fortunate. They'd have no memory of what happened the night before, and would only discover what happened when they got their credit card bills or alerts from their card companies, officials said.
A source identified the duped doctor as Zyad Younan, a cardiologist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
Scores filed suit against Younan, 41, earlier this year, saying he was stiffing the club on $135,303 worth of charges he'd racked up during numerous visits there late last year.
Younan had maintained he never made the charges on his card, but a club source said in April that he'd been partying with "five girls at a time."
Younan is the scammers' biggest victim, a source said —other three victims were taken for a total of $55,000.
The women, Samantha Barbash, 40, Roselyn Keo, 29, Marsi Rosen, 28, and Karina Pascucci, 26, would cash in by getting a cut of the thousands the victims would spend at the clubs.
Barbash was identified as the ringleader. After the men were doped up, she "would forge the victims' signatures on credit card receipts and other documents," the indictment said.
The four were charged with conspiracy, grand larceny, and forgery for the scam, which investigators say was operated between September and December of 2014.
The joint Special Narcotics, DEA and NYPD investigation is continuing, and probers are on the lookout for more victims, a source said.
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They went big time. Guess they thought they would never get caught!