Rizzolo’s step mom to be sued

While racketeer Rick Rizzolo was serving his prison sentence, he secretly participated in a $3 million dollar sale of his portion of the Philadelphia Crazy Horse Too (below). Rizzolo did not report the transaction to the IRS or his creditors including unpaid beating victim Kirk Henry.

Rizzolo received an abbreviated one year prison sentence and two years of supervised release in exchange for agreeing to pay over $24 million in court ordered debts including restitution of $9 million plus interest to Henry whose neck was broken in 2001 by a Vegas Crazy Horse Too manager after the Kansas tourist disputed a padded bar tab, and $14 million plus interest to the IRS in back taxes and fines. Rizzolo welched on his side of the deal, and refused to pay any of his debts. According to documents discovered by Henry's attorneys during a September 2010 deposition, Rizzolo was to secretly receive $3 million from his Philadelphia business partner Vince Piazza, the father of famous baseball player Mike Piazza, for Rizzolo's share of the Philly strip club. The scheme began in July 2008 when Rizzolo's attorneys Mark Hafer and John Dawson conspired to find a way to hide the Philly sale proceeds from Henry and the IRS "before somebody else seeks to attach the payments (see fax below)." Rizzolo contended in a March 2011 polygraph examination that he did not have to report a $789,000.00 partial payment from Piazza that was diverted to his late father Bart Rizzolo because he "legitimately" owed Bart over a million dollars. Other than the polygraph, there was no further proof presented that Rizzolo owed his father any money. Bart died shortly after receiving the $789,000, leaving the money to his widow Kimtran. On August 10, 2011, attorneys for Kirk Henry filed documents with the United States Federal Court making it known that they intend to sue Kimtran Rizzolo to recover the money rightfully owed to their client.

THE CONSPIRACY:

RIZZOLO'S ALIBI FOR DIVERTING THE MONEY TO HIS FATHER:

With Rick Rizzolo scheduled to report to Federal Prison on September 14 for violating provisions of his parole including failing to report the Philly sale, now all attention is directed toward his ex-wife Lisa to see if she abides by U.S. Judge Philip Pro's ORDER to repatriate her and her husband's ill-gotten loot secreted in the Cook Islands by John Dawson. With all this going on, it will be interesting to see whether Kimtran puts up a legal fight to try to keep her hands on the $789,000.

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Steve Miller, is a former Las Vegas City Councilman. In 1991, the readers of the Las Vegas Review Journal voted him the “Most Effective Public Official” in Southern Nevada. Miller writes internationally syndicated columns on organized crime and political corruption for Rick Porrello’s AmericanMafia.com.

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