Investigating America’s Most Notorious Strip Club

The FBI, The Gold Club, and the Mafia

Investigating America’s Most Notorious Strip Club

The FBI, The Gold Club, and the Mafia

Mark Sewell (Author)

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"Fans of true crime will praise this in-depth account of a notorious organized-crime case." - Library Journal, Starred Review

"Sewell sheds new light on a high-profile case in this exciting and superbly told history." -Booklist
Retired FBI Special Agent Mark Sewell was a rookie in 1997 when he was assigned to investigate mafia associate Steve Kaplan and his enormously successful Atlanta strip club; the largest single money maker for the Gambino Crime Family. Accompanied by a small team of investigators, the hand-picked unit followed a money trail, that wound up implicating a Gambino Captain, police officers, strippers, and many of the most recognized professional athletes in America. The subsequent 2001 trial was covered nationally by the leading media outlets, from television newscasts to late night talk shows and nationally published magazines pushing new, sensational headlines daily. Sewell was at the center of the storm that dominated media headlines in the summer of 2001 and provides a never-before seen inside view of the FBI’s most successful financial win against an organized crime family in the agency’s history.

Prologue
Introduction
Part I: The Investigation
1. The Methodology
2. The Search Warrants
3. The Grand Jury
4. Corruption?
5. The Athletes
6. The Indictment
7. The Director and the Wristwatch
8. Kastigar and the Ex-Girlfriends
9. The Mafia
Part II: The Trial
10. The Stage is Set
11. Opening Statements
12. Videotape Drama
13. May’s Witnesses—The Mafia
14. June’s Witnesses—The Insiders
15. July’s Witnesses—Closing the Gap
16. August’s Witnesses—The Plea
17. Closing Arguments
18. Sentencing Day
19. But, It Is Not Over…
Index
About the Author

Product details

Published	Jun 18 2024
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	282
ISBN	9781538190982
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	13 BW Photos
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Mark Sewell

When Sewell joined the FBI in 1997, he didn't know that his assignment to the Atlanta field office would be a baptism by fire. He was partnered with a senior agent on his first job, which involved an infamous gentleman’s club called the Gold Club…. Sewell sheds new light on a high-profile case in this exciting and superbly told history. His insider status puts readers right there, alongside agents working to topple an organized crime fiefdom through enigmatic paper trails, shady informants, and covert surveillance without tipping their hands to their targets.
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Booklist
A vivid account of the FBI's crusade to rid the criminal underground of its ground zero in Atlanta known as "The Gold Club," as well as take down senior members of the Mob in NY and Miami. True crime at its finest!

Michael Santini, author of Operation Devil Horns: The Takedown of MS-13 in San Francisco
This book has it all: Wiseguys, celebrities, professional athletes, strippers, sex, drugs, and the FBI. You won’t be able to put it down. Outstanding work, Special Agent Mark Sewell!

Joaquin "Jack" Garcia, retired FBI and author of Making Jack Falcone
Mark Sewell's first-hand meticulous account of his investigation into this major organized crime operation is a true crime lover's dream.

Anthony Amore, best-selling author of Stealing Rembrandts and The Woman Who Stole Vermeer
Retired FBI agent Mark Sewell’s true crime memoir, Investigating America’s Most Notorious Strip Club, chronicles a complex investigation in a way easily understood. Mark describes the case in great detail, the investigative logic and techniques, as well as the rules and procedures governing the ensuing federal trial. A must-read for the connoisseur of true crime.

R. Scott Decker, author of Recounting the Anthrax Attacks: Terror, the Amerithrax Task Force, and the Evolution of Forensics in the FBI
Sewell puts the reader in a ring-side seat at the biggest federal criminal trial in Atlanta’s history. His thorough chronicle of the FBI’s takedown of the Gold Club empire brings you face-to-face with mobsters, famous athletes, exotic dancers, and dozens of other colorful characters.

Robert McBurney, former federal prosecutor