By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A lawyer accused of running a prostitution ring out of his Midtown strip club "Big Daddy Lou's Hot Lap Dance Club" was disbarred on Thursday.
Strip club proprietor and disgraced attorney Louis Posner, who joined the New York bar in 1990, had asked for leniency from the court, despite pleading guilty to running a prostitution ring in March. But the appellate court decided Thursday to revoke his license.
Posner admitted to running the prostitution ring at "Big Daddy Lou's Hot Lap Dance Club," which was on West 38th Street. He pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution in the third degree on March 23.
He also confessed to "engaging in sexual conduct with dancers in the private rooms in exchange for allowing them to work at the club," according to the decision. And he admitted to making a false extortion accusation against police officers, which was a misdemeanor conviction.
He was sentenced to five years probation and community service in exchange for his plea.
Two of his former dancers were on trial in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges they offered undercover police officers group sex in exchange for $5,000.
Cassandra Malandri was found not guilty at trial and her co-defendant Faylnn Rodriguez had her charges dismissed.
