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Seattle strip-club owner indicted
By Jim Forman

Longtime strip-club owner Frank Colacurcio and five others have been indicted on racketeering charges.

Federal prosecutors say there was a lot more than exotic dancing going on at four area strip clubs – Rick’s, Sugars, Honey’s and Foxx’s.

It’s the culmination of an FBI raid last year. It’s taken this long for the grand jury to hand up an indictment.

“The clubs were very profitable and the profits came, we believe, from promoting the prostitution,” said U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sullivan.

In a 25-page indictment, club owners Frank Colacurcio Sr. and his Son Frankie Jr. and several other men are accused of promoting prostitution, money laundering, cheating Seattle out of tax money, and conspiracy, charged under the RICO statute.

And while some of the business was legit, prosecutors claim the dancers were forced to sell sex in order to afford to make hefty payments to club managers to keep their jobs, and that the Colacurcios knew all about it.

“These men made millions of dollars exploiting young women in the Seattle-Tacoma area,” said Sullivan.