SEATTLE — One of the men who ran Honey’s strip club in south Everett pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to conspiracy.
Frank Colacurcio Jr., 48, of Shoreline, entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
Under an agreement reached with federal prosecutors, he can expect to serve about one year in prison. Colacurcio and one of the strip club companies he ran also agreed to surrender to the federal government cash and property valued at roughly $3 million.
Federal prosecutors in 2009 charged Colacurcio and others as part of a racketeering investigation into rampant prostitution and other crimes at four Seattle-area strip clubs, including Honey’s.
Honey’s and the other clubs were permanently shuttered in May as part of the federal case.
The plea agreement signed in court Friday detailed Colacurcio’s admission that he conspired to support prostitution at the clubs, federal officials said. Among other things, the agreement memorializes a conversation Colacurcio had with a dancer, telling her that she needed to lie about engaging in prostitution to help bolster his claims that he didn’t know about the illegal activity in his clubs.
David Carl Ebert, 62, of Monroe; Leroy Richard Christiansen, 68, of Seattle; and Michael Fueston, 62, of Tacoma, in April all pleaded guilty to racketeering or prostitution-related charges.
Frank Colacurcio Sr., 93, is the lone defendant in the strip club case whose case has yet to be resolved.
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