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The Post ("BIZ BOOB BUSTS BANK FOR BABES") and the Daily News ($lap dance!) are having a good time at the expense of Robert McCormick, who apparently managed to blow through $241,000 in one drunken night of partying at Scores. McCormick, CEO of Savvis Communications and a 38-year old father of three kids, was in from Missouri and celebrating some business his company had just closed. Scores claims that after the tab hit $10,000, they got fingerprints and signed waivers testifying that he wasn't intoxicated-- and they also called American Express every hour to verify he had the rights to continue using the card. AMEX was forced to pay the 241k, and now they are suing McCormick for the cash.
All this got us wondering what 241k actually buys at Scores-- because at $100 per lap dance, these guys would have had to have like 500 each! Is it possible that they were paying for a little more than dancing? Perhaps, even though Chris Rock is pretty clear on this subject, and he's definitely spent some time at Scores:
I have I piece of advice for you. No matter what a stripper tells you, there's no sex in the champagne room. None. Oh theres champagne in the champagne room, but you dont want champagne, you want sex, and theres no sex in the champagne room.One thing is for sure-- this definitely is not the last time we're going to hear about Scores billing someone a quarter-million dollars in one night, and then getting sued for it. We all remember the case of Tauhidul Chaudury, the husband of the Bangladeshi diplomat, who sued after spending $129k at the club last year. The resulting embarassment got his wife recalled to Bangladesh, where strip clubs are presumably more reasonably priced.
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NYPost:
"For $241,000, McCormick could have bought five lap dances — at $20 a pop — for each of his 2,000 employees around the world"
Could have, but didn't. . .
i heard on the radio (stern to be exact) that they were getting lots of bottles of exclusive champagne.
Five figure tips for the "ladies"? I am definately in the wrong business!
Tien: Okay, let's do the math. At the most expensive restaurant in NYC, Ducasse, the
highest priced champagne they serve is a $2,500 bottle of 1982 Chateau Margaux. Let's assume that each of the 3 gentlemen in question had 6 bottles each of this champagne (which would also explain a lot). That would total $45,000. Now let's say these same 3 gentlemen had 200 lap dances each @$20 so that would add up to $12,000 total. And since Scores claims that its strippers get five figure tips, let's also say that each of the 100 strippers received $1,000 for a total gratuity cost of $100,000. The amount of the evening's entertainment is now at a total of
$157,000. The difference between $241,000 and $157,000 is $84,000. How would you account for the remaining $84,000?
uh, i was just posting what i heard on the radio. in a sleepy-coma. i didn't really catch all the coversation.
they also said on the radio that there were more than three (i think i heard 15) at scores.
The Post beaks don the charges
I think there are any number of ways you could rack up a bigger tab at Scores. In the case with the husband of the Indian diplomat, in addition to expensive champagne for himself and everyone else, he tipped his group of girls $5,000 each. This was in addition to their fees. He rented the Presidential Room (the most expensive of three options) and payed more for it to be completely private. Then over the course of five hours had lap dance upon lap dance, and when his lap was full, had all of the girls giving each other lap dances. That's not free. They're working.
So, if one guy can rack up a tab of 150K, I'm certain that 3 assholes can easily top 241K. Lame.
the highest priced champagne they serve is a $2,500 bottle of 1982 Chateau Margaux.
Not to be a jerk, but that's actually a Bordeaux.
Don't ever hire an accountant who thinks that $1000 represents a 5-figure tip. Further, the markup on alcohol at a nice restaurant is going to be nothing compared to a strip club (think of that $6 cup of cranberry juice), so it's reasonable to think they were blowing $10K or more if they were buying magnums of 90 Cristal or something. My only question reading this story is whether or not McCormick's hiring.
"Don't ever hire an accountant who thinks that $1,000 represents a 5-figure tip."
So you don't count the comma as part of the number?
On a more interesting note, I found a link that stated that Savvis Communications was accused of being a "spam enabler." Supposedly they have since stopped.
I like how his bio skirts around the issue that he never graduated from college.
That's not a big deal. An awful lot of millionaires never graduated college. Meanwhile, I know plenty of college grads that are dumb as dirt.
Isn't the U. of Colorado known as a big party school? I believe the Princeton Review voted U. Colorado #1 party school in 2003.
There's no denying Rob McCormick really knows how to party.
Savvis Communications is a public co. traded on NASDAQ. The shareholders must feel real confident about their CEO's management/judgment skills.
So just before this news broke it was reported that the aforementioned CEO was given a 22% Pay Raise even though his company is in still burning cash/non-profitable AND the company has just been served notice by Nasdaq that they face a de-listing in the next 180 days unless
Whilst his employees were given a whopping 3% raise.
How does his board justify it ???
This stinks like 'eau de worldcom'
So just before this news broke it was reported that the aforementioned CEO was given a 22% Pay Raise even though his company is in still burning cash/non-profitable AND the company has just been served notice by Nasdaq that they face a de-listing in the next 180 days unless
Whilst his employees were given a whopping 3% raise.
How does his board justify it ???
This stinks like 'eau de worldcom'
So just before this news broke it was reported that the aforementioned CEO was given a 22% Pay Raise even though his company is in still burning cash/non-profitable AND the company has just been served notice by Nasdaq that they face a de-listing in the next 180 days unless
Whilst his employees were given a whopping 3% raise.
How does his board justify it ???
This stinks like 'eau de worldcom'
We got it the first time. What is it with Gothamist readers nowadays? Just because Gothamist takes forever to reload a page after a post, an awful lot of people seem to be clicking on "post" over and over. Click it once and walk away. Just walk away.