Miami Beach officials tried to extort $30,000 in legal fees out of a strip club owner in exchange for a liquor license -- so says Leroy Griffith, owner of Club Madonna. Griffith, whose club is the only nudie joint in SoBe, made his claims in a lawsuit filed against city officials last week in U.S. District Court.Griffith has a long-standing feud with the city over its refusal to grant his strip club a liquor license. Griffith applied for a license in 2004, and when the city voted the proposal do
Last night, the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission voted 4-0 to send a letter to Miami Beach City officials with a simple message: No shady business behind closed doors in regard to local strip joint Club Madonna.
Club Madonna owner Leroy Griffith has a long-simmering feud with Miami Beach over a refusal to grant him a liquor license for his South Beach club. Last month, Griffith filed a lawsuit claiming that city officials tried to extort $30,000 from him in exchange for
