Club XXXV

Targets here aren’t customers, but the club keeping all that archived VIP video recordings is just another reminder to pay in cash. Humiliating johns by publishing their names in the newspaper is a time tested tactic of law enforcement.

Trying to think like dumb criminals is a tricky business, but You wonder why they would record and retain the video. It's incriminating evidence for the club owners and managers and dancers. Blackmail seems farfetched. Maybe they thought they could sell it as porn

One possible reason is that the bouncers and managers were charging the girls a tip out based on how much the girls made. Recording the VIP is a way to get a general idea of how much revenue a girl was bringing in on a given night. Classic documentation of the commission of a crime. A story as old as time.

@Hank, Ya got that right, Cash is king! I never use a CC.

Other than the clickbait headline, I get the impression from the article that they were more concerned about the tax crimes and illegal selling of alcohol than they were about the prostitution. They just needed to give the state/county their share instead of hiding the extra income away.