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Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge has been cited for lewdness several times by state investigators — and was the site of a wild January 2014 brawl in which two men were deliberately hit by a car, another was stabbed and a fourth was bashed in the head with a hammer (file photo, above).
Retiree David Polos — who was an assistant special agent in charge of the DEA’s Manhattan office for nearly 24 years — also supervised the club via computer and smartphone apps along with co-defendant Glen Glover, a federal complaint on file in the Southern District of New York alleges.
Working regular shifts, they “hired, fired, and paid bartenders, dancers, and bouncers; advertised the Club in local periodicals; manned a back office available only to employees; remotely monitored video camera feed from the Club when not present; and generally tended to various club-related matters…at times during DEA work hours,” it says.
Investigators intercepted texts in which Polos, of West Nyack, joked about bringing President Obama to the club so that he could “check out” certain dancers, the complaint says.
Polos, who supervised the New York Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force and once was the executive assistance to the office’s chief of intelligence, also kept his DEA badge visible and once flashed an ankle-hostered agency service weapon during a dispute, it says.
The complaint says Twins Plus featured “scantily clad and sometimes topless women (‘dancers’) and offers private stalls for what are supposed to be limited-contact dances between patrons and those dancers, commonly called ‘lap dances.’”
Both men surrendered in Manhattan this morning.
“David Polos and Glen Glover had important and sensitive law enforcement jobs with the DEA,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said this afternoon. “As alleged in the complaint, they also had other secret jobs, which they concealed from DEA in order to maintain their national security clearance, betraying the oaths they had taken and creating needless risk for the agency they worked for.”
If they’d been truthful about their interests in the club, Bharara said, they’d have been investigated and “the security clearances that they were required to maintain as federal law enforcement employees likely would have been denied.”
FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Rodriguez added: “We expect those in government—and particularly those charged with enforcing the law—to tell the truth. As alleged, the defendants’ lack of candor is what finds them before a judge today in Manhattan Federal Court.”
DOJ OIG Special Agent-in-Charge Gardella said: “Federal law enforcement officers must be held to the highest standards of integrity. The alleged conduct is serious and we will do everything we can to ensure that justice is done in this case.”
Bharara praised the investigative work of the FBI and DOJ OIG. He also thanked the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division for its assistance.
The case is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Martin S. Bell and Andrew D. Goldstein f the Office’s Public Corruption Unit.
A brawl last year produced a 22-count indictment naming four of six men arrested by police. One of them ended up with a skull fracture when he was hit in the head with a hammer. Another sustained several broken bones after he and another man were hit by a car.
The bar owners and several employees also were cited by South Hackensack Police with 14 violations for various alleged infractions of borough ordinances and ABC laws, authorities said at the time.
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