Levin — who would subsequently plead guilty to minority contracting fraud involving fence contracts at the Chicago Public Schools — took $800,000 in loans from Mandera, changed the club’s name to Thee Dollhouse and reopened, with semi-nude dancing, on Feb. 10, 1993.
About two weeks later, undercover Chicago police officers went to the club and found that “dancers at times wore thongs that exposed their buttocks and wore latex . . . that exposed portions of their breasts” — violations the city has been fighting ever since to close the club over.
As the city’s liquor commissioner, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley revoked the liquor licenses of Pooh Bah Enterprises, the club’s operator, and tried to close the club.
Pooh Bah then initiated its long legal challenge.
In August 1993, Mandera became Pooh Bah’s sole owner, court records show, after Levin couldn’t repay the loans.
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