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Embattled Verboten Club Owner Arrested for Writing $31K in Bad Checks: NYPD

By Gwynne Hogan | April 8, 2016 1:08pm
 Verboten co-owner Jen Schiffer was arrested for fraud after she allegedly wrote five bad checks, police said.
Verboten co-owner Jen Schiffer was arrested for fraud after she allegedly wrote five bad checks, police said.
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WILLIAMSBURG — Police arrested one of the owners of an embattled night club for writing $31,000 in bad checks, just a week after the state seized the club for $360,000 in unpaid taxes.

Jen Schiffer, 39, co-owner of Verboten at 54 N. 11th St. was arrested just after noon on Thursday for writing five bad checks to a security company from October to January of this year, Gothamist first reported.

The arrest comes just a week after the club was seized by the State's Department of Taxation and Finance for owing $360,378 in unpaid sales tax.

And in mid February, Schiffer and her husband and co-owner of the club John Perez had been sued by a group of former and current employees who claimed racist and sexist practices and sexual harassment at the nightclub.

She allegedly encouraged workers to have threesomes, boasted about sleeping with customers and was angered when too many black patrons showed up at the club, according to a federal lawsuit.

Schiffer was given a Desk Appearance Ticket and is due back in court on May 9.

No information about Schiffer's lawyer was immediately available and workers at Verboten could not be reached.