By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
DEA employees charged with lying during national security background checks are trying to avoid the embarrassing release of lap dances during their trial.
Civilian employees and a former officials of the DEA are accused of lying about their ownership of a trip club in South Hackensack, N.J.
Now defense attorneys are trying to prevent the government from introducing the lap dance video into evidence, the New York Times reports. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/nyregion/dea-employees-facing-trial-seek-to-bar-lap-dance-video.html
“The prejudicial effect of the videos would be colossal if they are introduced as evidence at trial,” defense lawyers argued in court papers filed on Monday.
Prosecutors want to provide evidence that the defendants used largely illegal immigrants as dancers.
The government wants to show the jury sexually graphic footage of four lap dances recorded at the club.
