Two state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents testified today that they paid to watch sex between two female dancers at a Richmond strip club and had lap dances performed on themselves as part of an undercover investigation in late 2007 and early 2008.
Agents Susan R. Day and Ryan Porter testified at an administrative hearing that they conducted the investigation between Dec. 1, 2007, and Feb. 23, 2008, at Velvet on South 15th Street in Shockoe Bottom
The club was raided on the last night of the investigation by federal, state and local agents looking for evidence of illegal drugs, prostitution and public nudity.
The agents were aided by a paid confidential informant, according to testimony.
Day and Porter testified that they saw evidence of alcohol consumption by underage dancers, purchase of alcohol after closing hours and alcohol being taken to unlicensed portions of the building.
Porter testified that the confidential informant got cocaine from one of the dancers on at least one occasion. Porter said he witnessed oral sex being performed on a female patron by one of the dancers.
Porter and Day testified that they paid $450 to two dancers to perform sex on each other on one occasion in a first-floor “champagne room” in February 2008.
Hearing officer Clara A. Williamson agreed with attorneys for club owner Samuel J.T. Moore III to bar testimony about Moore’s conviction on two misdemeanor charges related to sex with a minor and illegal filming of a sexual act at the club.
The ABC Department has charged Velvet and its owner, L.A. Diner LLC., with 11 violations of state ABC law. But the hearing officer refused to allow testimony one of the charges linked to allege moral turpitude by Moore.
The hearing is scheduled to continue into tomorrow.
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