Writers liked him. One of the main sticking points for the clubs is the customer blacklist that would ban bad acting customers. Strip club mogul's son pleads guilty | The Spokesman-Review In return, theyd protect Frank and other illegal operators by not busting them. I keep saying that Id like to talk about other issues, but theres not enough time, Cole said. He also got a reprimand from his exs lawyers for the bad habit of lying to a judge: Clearly, says an entry in court papers, the respondent [Frank] did not make a forthright and candid disclosure of his assets and financial affairs. The tapes contents never surfaced from the investigation back then, but, says a former Colacurcio associate today, The tape was a recording Bill made of a city councilman describing how the payoff system worked, how the cops picked up the money and then passed it down the line-to him and others. It is unaltered from its original form. The club was slated for demolition after following guilty pleas by the other members of the board -- identified in the lawsuit as Frank Colacurcio Jr., Frank Colacurcio Sr.'s nephew Leroy Richard Christiansen, longtime associate David Carl Ebert and Steven Michael Fueston, manager of a Tacoma club also closed through the plea. "I had been a council member for many years and I should have known better," Wills said. Heidi Wills, the Seattle City Council candidate currently running in District 6 against Dan Strauss, was one of the council members who found herself at the center of this major local drama. Frankie lives with his wife and 14-year-old daughter in Arlington, Snohomish County, drives a 1991 Corvette and collects muscle . Members of the conspiracy were indicted in June 2009. The Musician Who Gave Me the City and Stars, Vangelis, Is Dead, Chris Cornell Interview, Extended Version, Seattle Sticker Patrol: Free Housing 4 All (Or Else), No, Washington Did Not Just Pass a Law Allowing the State to Kidnap and Transgenderify Children, Olympia Shatters Plan to Reboot Its War on Drugs, No Clear Path Toward Criminalizing Drugs in Washington, Washington Senate Wants to Punish the Addiction Out of People, Washington Democrats Defeat Transphobic Bills as Most LGBTQ Protections Clear Hurdles. Scandal-ridden Seattle strip club to shut down | king5.com In 1959, Colacurcio was subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate Rackets Investigating Committee to testify in a nationwide probe of the coin-machine industry. Nearly six years ago, Seattle police and federal authorities broke up the strip club empire of the late Frank Colacurcio with prostitution and corruption raids in King and Pierce counties. Rather than marry, hed do the time, and did: two years for carnal knowledge. ", According to legal documents, property records and what can be extracted from his memory, Frankie is connected to Sugar's, Honey's, Rick's, Fox's, Papagayo's and Babe's dance clubs. This story originally was published by Seattle Weekly sibling Eastsideweek on July 10, 1996. This was Franks favorite place. He was a subject of ongoing federal investigations into organized crime in the city and was suspected of being an organized crime boss.