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Banker warns Gentlemen's Club may be shut down again!
December 15, 2003

Genoa City banker Fred Hodges was warned this week that if he doesn't keep his big nose out of affairs that don't concern him bad things could happen.

The threat of physical violence followed Hodges' admonition to Gentlemen's Club owner Bobby Marsino that the strip club could be shut down again unless Marsino stays away from    his daughter and club stripper, Brittany Hodges.

Hodges was previously successful in having the club shut down when he conspired to have Liquor Control agents catch minors being served alcohol.

Confirming suspicions that the Gentlemen's Club is a front for the mob, Marsino told Hodges that his partners get edgy when threats to close them down are made. "They are not nice people," Marsino added.

In a related development, mobster Sal Staley has expressed concern that Marsino's infatuation with an employee could be detrimental to not only the club but to Marsino as well. Unless Marsino tends to business Staley hinted the porn king could become a liability.

Mob rules!
November 12, 2003

More evidence that Genoa City's high-profile Gentlemen's Club is directly connected to the mob surfaced this week when mob boss Salvatore Staley was seen at the strip club expressing concern over its recent closure.

Obviously high up in the crime hierarchy, Staley is not the as yet unidentified "Mr. G" often spoke of by club owner, Bobby Marsino and his partner.

Staley's attempt to intimidate club operators left little doubt he is a prosperous "businessman" with a blur of mansions, nightclubs and custom yachts to support. When one club doesn't make its payments on time it can mean the difference between wealth and poverty.

Marsino's partner assured Staley that the club will reopen soon and that no payments will be missed. Staley agreed to overlook the indiscretion - this time.

Despite the appearance of mob connections those who charge that the Gentlemen's Club is being targeted by fanatical religious groups say the club may also be caught up in a racketeering scheme whereas legitimate businesses are forced to pay the mob for the privilege of doing business.

That theory was somewhat blown out of the water on Wednesday when Marsino's top stripper warned her father to consider taking a vacation for his personal safety. Brittany Hodges issued the threat following the discovery that Fred Hodges arranged to have Liquor Control Agents catch minor Raul Guittierez being served alcohol at the club and subsequently closed it down.

Hodges told her father that when Marsino finds out who was behind the closing, he won't be happy. And when the weasel-like banker said he's not afraid, Ms. Hodges said, "Maybe you should be" noting Marsino has what she called, "backers."

Furthermore, Marsino was seen Wednesday warning Guittierez to keep himself and his "boyfriend" out of affairs that don't concern them and to urge Ms. Hodges to return to her stripping duties when the club reopens. To do otherwise would be sufficient reason for Marsino to put Guittierez "in the hospital."

Marsino's "boyfriend" comment was in reference to Guittierez's pal, J.T. Hellstrom who accompanied Guittierez on the evening the club was shut down. It has long been thought that Guittierez has a sexual interest in Hellstrom.

Strip club reopens!
November 13, 2003

Loyal patrons of Genoa City's high-profile Gentlemen's Club were elated to hear this week that their favorite place to hang-out, get drunk and watch wannabe singers get naked has reopened.

Club owner Bobby Marsino made the announcement following the club's brief closure for Liquor Control law violations.

"I paid a fine. We're up and running again," Marsino said, adding that he expects the club's popular stripper, Brittany 'Marylyn' Hodges will be back gyrating and greasing poles as usual.

Who is "Mr. G"?
October 31, 2003

For the most part the conversation Gentlemen's Club owner Bobby Marsino had this week with "Mr. G" went unnoticed. But for those digging into allegations of Marsino's connection with the mob it was very disconcerting in that for the first time a clue as to who is behind the skin club operation has emerged.

A quick check of prominent Genoa City residents showed only three persons with last names beginning with the letter 'G'. Raul Guittierez, Diego Guittierez and the Guittierez brothers' father, Vicente Guittierez. Not the most likely suspects since Raul is too dumb and Diego left town after fumbling what turned out to be the Frito Bandito case last year. But Vicente is a definite possibility.

Supposedly a blue collar worker, it's always the low-profile persons like Vincente Guittierez who lurk in communities pretending to be good old boys when they're really deadly mobsters. Considering Guittierez's son is involved with one of the strippers at the club only adds to the speculation. How did Mr. "G" learn that the police had questioned Marsino about Kevin Fisher? Does Mr. "G" know that Fisher trashed the shack Raul Guittierez shares with one of the strippers? Why was Mr. "G" so worried as evidenced by Marsino's having told him that everything was under control and why does Marsino keep saying he runs a clean club? Who's he trying to convince?

It would be a stretch to suggest Mr. "G" is Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano, or that Mr. "G" is acting mob boss Peter Gotti. Both men were reportedly last seen in Arizona and probably consider Genoa City a one-horse town not worth their time. Still, when Genoa City is the hub for multibillion dollar cosmetic companies, anything is possible.

Overzealous agents shut down club!
by Brent Kellogg 
October 29, 2003

For the first time since the controversial 'Gentlemen's Club' opened in Genoa City earlier this year it has been shut down for violating state liquor laws.

According to a Liquor Commission spokesperson, the club owned by suspected mobster Bobby Marsino was closed on the spot after liquor control agents - who just happened to be in the club Wednesday night - witnessed at least one underage person being served.

The spokesperson would neither confirm or deny that it had received anonymous complaints from Fred and Anita Hodges who are thought to be the master minds behind a plot to have the minor boyfriend of a stripper who works at the club wear a red baseball cap and be seen inside the club drinking without a prior identification check.

The Liquor Commission refused to discuss why the club owner was not merely cited and then ordered to appear before a commission hearing as is the routine procedure in cases of this nature. Nor would the commission explain why it can take several complaints of liquor being sold to minors and years later similar clubs continue to operate without so much as a single citation.

An attorney with the city who agreed to speak with the GCN on condition of anonymity, said the city can't just shut down clubs like Marsino's for serving minors without due process. He pointed out the little known example of the now defunct Bayou. It was a nuisance club for a long time, said to have received 95 citations for serving alcohol to minors and never once lost its license or shut down.

"If we shut down every place in this town selling booze to minors half the businesses in this city would be closed," the attorney said.

Note: The legal drinking age in Wisconsin is 21.

Tax records on seized computer
October 27, 2003

Alarmed that police showed up at his place of business asking questions about one of his employees, strip club owner Bobby Marsino on Monday blasted suspected arsonist and lover of little girls, Kevin Fisher for being stupid.

Marsino called Fisher an "arsonist" and a "child molester" and said that when "dime a dozen" employees bring the cops down on him he gets very nervous.

Pleading his innocence, Fisher sought Marsino's assistance in retrieving the computer police recently seized. Unwilling to help and ready to terminate Fisher's services, Marsino changed his mind when he learned his company tax records are on the computer's hard drive.

Seeing Marsino twitch, Fisher guessed that the books are being cooked. Marsino brushed off the allegation by warning Fisher to make the mess he's created go away or else he said, "I'll make you go away."

Marsino has cause for concern but he'd be smart to let Fisher hang himself. Blowing his cool now would give those out to get him a legal excuse to look at those computer files.

Link between city man and IRS?
by Brent Kellogg 
October 24, 2003

High-profile Gentlemen's Club owner Bobby Marsino may actively be avoiding paying taxes and could have ties to organized crime.

Unconfirmed reports that IRS and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have been planning a raid of Marsino's strip joint were leaked coincidentally within hours after a computer owned by one of Marsino's employees was seized this week by Genoa City Police.

Sources say federal agents had hoped to obtain documents which could prove Marsino has been avoiding paying taxes and may also be laundering money profits from the lucrative pornography industry.

Instead, the sources said they called off the raid when traces of what were called "Bobby's black book" were found on the hard drive of the computer owned by Marsino's bookkeeper, Kevin Fisher.

The allegations leaked late Friday indicate the "book" is not a list of the strippers Marsino employs, but rather a duplicate set of books said to contain the real profits Marsino has made as opposed to those he reports to the IRS.

While a significant portion of the data found on Fisher's computer is said to aid the government's case, sources say there is concern that the Genoa City Police blew their case when it seized the computer using a warrant unrelated to Marsino.

Legal experts tell the GCN that if, in fact, evidence is found incriminating Marsino it could not be used against him.

Porn shops under siege?
October 20, 2003

Somewhere in America, an adult video or book store or strip club opens almost every day. But it appears Genoa City won't be one of those new locations coming soon as a handful of residents are reportedly prepared to dig in their heels against any new offshoots of the porn industry and put at least one established skin shop out of business.

One year ago when she cut up Brittany's credit cards, Mrs. Anita Hodges had no idea that her daughter would actually get a job earning more money in one night than most people earn in a month. To further prove to her mother that she had detached from the financial umbilical cord, Brittany shacked up with local diabetic Raul Guittierez. That her daughter was living in sin didn't bother Mrs. Hodges so much as the fact that Brittany was cavorting with a subhuman from the wrong ethnicity.

One year later the whiter than white Mrs. Hodges still whines that her daughter is working as a stripper but seems to have changed her attitude about Mexicans, Latinos and other "blacks" as the fifty-something-year-old woman and her husband, Fred, are reportedly conspiring with Guittierez to put the Gentlemen's Club out of business.

Specific details are sketchy, but if the past is any indicator it may be learned that club owner Bobby Marsino owes money to the bank Fred Hodges manages. When a shortage of funds drives Marsino to ask for a loan extension and he is denied the strip club may be forced to close.

At least that's what Hodges and Guittierez are praying for.

But unlike most citizens who complain about the smut factor and the horrible scourge sex shops attract and who stage protests and boycotts to bring them down, Hodges and Guittierez are motivated by self-centeredness and greed. The Hodges want their daughter to be pure as the driven snow and Guittierez wants his girlfriend working at the local glowtique when she's not pregnant and trying to raise a family on minimum wage.

Mob connections?
September 20, 2003

The very first day Bobby Marsino opened his "Gentlemen's Club" in Genoa City suspicions began swirling that like so many seedy strip joint and porn shop owners he is controlled by the Mob.

That Marsino has Mafia ties became more apparent earlier this week when Marsino's bartender "Angelo" strongly hinted that he does not approve of the boss' sexual motivations directed toward one of the club's employees.

"Get you loving someplace else," Angelo told Marsino, and the same time reminded him, "We got a lot at stake here."

Mostly pleased that they have maintained a proper air of decorum and haven't had anything "to worry about", Angelo implied that if Marsino can't keep his sexual urges under control they will have "You-know-who in our face."

June 06, 2003

Club owner makes dreams come true
Relatively unknown nightclub owner Bobby Marsino, undoubtedly to become widely known among the city's more elite, wandered into the Fenmore Glowtique on Friday and gazing around the otherwise empty little shop of horrors, noticed a hot looking babe he felt right away would fit into his high and rich lifestyle.

"Do you work here?" Marsino asked the babe.

In a normal trinket shop in a normal part of the city anywhere in the normal world the person being addressed would have said something like, "Yes, I do work here. How may I help you? If you missed the brawl earlier between my former hunkmonkey and the toad I now consider my hunkmonkey you'll have to come back later."

But no! Glowtique employee Brittany Hodges said, "Indeed I do! And by the way, I have a boyfriend."

Modest, Hodges isn't. And it wasn't as if Marsino was slumming the seedier parts of Genoa City to research young people's vernacular for he acknowledged that he expected a skank like Hodges to have more than a Hitachi in her bed at night.

Based on this empty dialog, and surely to maintain the integrity of a believable story the likes of which hasn't been seen since Nikki Newman greased the poles at the Bayou, Marsino announced, "I'm a person who can make all your dreams come true."

Only in Genoa City can a bar fly swoop into a Glowtique, sprinkle pixie dust on the first female it sees and lives are changed forever.