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The city of Washington now owns a strip club. Sorta.

The Office of Tax and Revenue has seized the Stadium Club, an “elite gentlemen’s” strip joint in Langdon Park, because of a debt its owner James Reeding owes, thanks to back taxes on his shuttered H Street NE restaurant TruOrleans. That business too was shut down by the government.

Indeed, Reeding owes D.C. more than $100,000 in sales and taxes, according to OTR, and he has failed to respond to multiple notices: “Under D.C. law, Mr. Redding is personally responsible for the delinquent sales tax debt and OTR is able to take enforcement action against any of his assets, in this case the Stadium Club.”

According to Young & Hungry, the club was in the process of being sold before it was seized. It is now closed, according to the Washington Business Journal, and will not be run by the city. Reeding could still pay the back taxes.

It would have been “Strippers & Politixx” night at the Stadium Club this evening, meaning there’s no cover for government workers.

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