If this guy is a heavy advertiser, then he's probably been stiffing the
paper just like he's been stiffing the employees. With particular
delight, then, would the paper torture him! Newspapers are hurting just
as badly as waitstaff these days. Working journalists don't think
bad-pays are funny. If he wasn't an advertiser to begin with, hey, he's
a no-cost story.
If he's Mob, the paper could still expose him but he wouldn't care about
bad press, true. Maybe Liz should just go in and whack him herself then.
I'm not sure even the Mob wants to deal with Liz when she's ticked off,
on a small-change case. Sometimes plain ole face-to-face works.
I'm not up to date on BLCE, but 10 years ago they were like the
Untouchables. Not even the Mob could reach them.
-- Tony West
(1) Contact a newspaper and see if they're interested in checking out
the story.
The best ones for this story would be CP and PW, because their
demographic is right, their main beat is the Center City
entertainment
trade, and they have a few extra pages of editorial hole to burn.
If he is a heavy advertiser or mob affiliated, this is not likely to
go very far or very well. Several years ago a well publicized mob
restaurant on Chestnut St staged or parked its valet cars in
an neighboring hotel's drop-off zone. Nothing was done. The response
was, "Are you crazy? They're mob."
Sounds like the kind of story the a local political paper of Record
would want to cover since the restaurant operator is stealing tax
revenue from our struggling city.
(2) Call the Bureau of Liquor Code Enforcement and toast this guy's
liquor license. Go to
http://www.psp.state.pa.us/blce/site/default.asp.
Its the law, they're breaking it turn them in. UC bars used to get hit
all the time.
Ciao, Craig
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