Two Manhattan DEA employees secretly owned a low-rent strip club in South Hackensack, NJ, that employed illegal immigrants from Brazil and Russia as dancers, the feds say in a new criminal complaint.
The dive, called the Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge, has repeatedly been cited by state regulators for lewdness because the dancers over-exposed themselves — and also took money for sex in the private lap dance rooms, the complaint says.
Agent David Polos, who is now retired, and employee Glen Glover, who is on administrative leave, are also in hot water for supervising their club via computer and smartphone apps during paid DEA shifts, and for lying on government paperwork by claiming they did not have any outside employment.
“At this time we cannot comment on the specifics of the matter as it’s an ongoing investigation,” DEA spokeswoman Erin Mulvey said Wednesday.
The evidence against the two includes intercepted texts in which Polos joked about bringing President Obama to the club so that he could “check out” certain dancers.
Other intercepted texts highlight the sleaziness of the operation. “It’s nice to see your [sic] not checking the lapdance room,” Glover texted another manager in late 2011, according to the complaint. “Condoms everywhere.”
The swashbuckling Polos would keep his DEA badge visible at the strip club, and once even flashed his ankle-holstered DEA firearm, snarling, “I am the boss,” when a dispute broke out at the club, the complaint says — although sometimes he burnished his reputation by lying that he worked for the FBI.
The two surrendered in Manhattan on Wednesday morning and were due in court in the afternoon, an FBI spokesman said.
“As Polos and Glover knew, the Club employed workers who were not lawfully in the United States,” the complaint says.
The mammary mecca was a financial success despite the $1 domestic bottle specials and free buffets the place occasionally offered. Between May 2011 and August 2014, about $600,000 in cash proceeds were deposited into the joint’s bank accounts, the complaint says.
The “go-go” lounge was described in classic FBI-speak in the complaint as “an adult entertainment establishment located in South Hackensack, New Jersey featuring 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.’”
The two DEA employees had a falling out in 2013, the complaint said.
Polos was an assistant special agent-in-charge who supervised the New York Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force. Glover was a telecommunications specialist.
