Duo Busted For Bogus Credit Card, $28,500 Bar Tab

M2 Ultra Lounge

How many expensive bottles of champagne do you have to order before the M2 Ultra Lounge staff become suspicious? According to the NY Post, two "wanna-be players" rang up a $28,500 tab at the nightclub before the waitstaff wondered how they were going to pay for it.

Robsson Depeine and Jeff Sylvain were trying to impress the celebrity crowd Monday night—which included Lil Kim and Snoop Dogg, there for rapper Juelz Santana's birthday—ordering bottles of expensive bubbly—even sending one over to the birthday boy. After ordering 40 bottles of Moet Nectar Rose, and a 9 liter bottle of Veuve Clicquot, the duo asked for a $5,500 twelve liter bottle. Manager Dan Devlin told the paper, "That’s when one of our managers became suspicious. The purchase was ridiculous and Sylvain introduced a second card with his ID and I knew that’s when there was a problem." Originally an AMEX gift card that Sylvain had doctored was holding the tab open.

When staff started grabbing the remaining champagne bottles from their table, the men tried to flee the scene, but were nabbed by security. Currently they're being held on $20,000 bail (or 4 bottles of Veuve!). Their lawyer says they're being set up, however, and that "the club couldn't find the real person who gave them the credit card, so my clients were wrongfully identified. It's a joke." Earlier that night a man was busted for a similar crime, but Devlin warns, "People better think twice about coming here (with a stolen credit card) because you are going to go to jail."

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By Jen Carlson in News on February 26, 2010 1:02 PM

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blink

I'm impressed by their stupidity.

Gotham Extremist

Did they at least get a bj out of it?

kitty

well i bet they cried all the way back to their parent's basement in new jersey.

(& zion don't even start. The amount of excess is immeasurable in our world- your comment is stupid)

Helen Thomas knows the score

all due respect, kitty, I rather the thinking of people like Warren Buffet, who's lets face, is probably smarter than you.

Buffett who donated his billions to charity says the following

“The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It’s like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing.

I don’t do that though. I don’t use very many of those claim checks. There’s nothing material I want very much. And I’m going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity”

does that really sound stupid to you?

Mr. Know-It-All

You do realize, of course, that there was no $30,000? They weren't going to spend it on booze, or charity, or their children's education because the didn't have $30,000. They had a bogus credit card. Perhaps your comment was not, as Kitty asserts, "stupid," but in this context, it's pretty solidly moot.

Dick Pounds

Santana was pouring those 9 liters of VC all over,like it was his birthday.

turkishjade

"The purchase was ridiculous"

Really? A party of 2 ordering 40 bottles of champagne is normal, ordering a 9 liter bottle ( which costs $800 but was probably marked up $3500) is normal, but ordering a 12 liter bottle of Veuve Clicquot (which is only $1500, even though they marked it up to $5500) IN A CLUB is ridiculous?

I have to start hanging out with more "baller" friends.

Guest

"baller"... you mean "richer."

i know a few people who're rich and spend lots of money, but i cannot tell you (for the life of me) that their balls are any bigger.

grandzu

Nothing to do with the size of anyone's balls.

baller

A thug that has "made it" to the big time.

Originally refered ball players that made it out of the streets to make millions as a pro ball player, but now is used to describe any thug that is living large.

Guest

ahh... i don't know any 'baller' people. but i will start calling my rich 'friends' (not really my friends) 'baller' from now.

i have a feeling that they will stop talking to me. immediately.

StayBank

Used to be able to able to get a pitcher of Lone Star for $5 at Village Idiot. $28K DAMN!

matty

Isn't there a way for bars to pre-screen large ticket items? Seems kind of dumb to give them that much booze on good faith that the CC will run through.

Better yet, every 2,000 or so they should run the card and make sure it goes through. That way they could prevent a huge run up on the tab.

Helen Thomas knows the score

you know what would be really cool, if you're going to spend 30 grand on drinks?

Instead of doing that, use it pay for some poor kid to go to college,

using your money to improve the world, that would be way cool.