The Virginia ABC Board made the decision on Thursday to revoke Club Velvet’s liquor license based on evidence that Moore allowed underage drinking, public nudity, drug use, consumption of alcohol in unauthorized areas of the club and allowed sexual acts to be performed on club customers.

Moore has 30 days to appeal the decision with the ABC and can continue to serve alcohol during that time. The transcript of the ABC hearing is available here (warning: graphic).

Rachel DePompa broke the story via twitter last night:

Shockoe Strip Club Owner Sam Moore accused of threatening a Richmond Police Officer over the phone.

She later followed up with more details at NBC12.com stating that Moore allegedly threatened violence against a police officer, who had contacted Moore on behalf of a Club Velvet employee about a work dispute. The misdemeanor phone threat charge can lead to up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. The ABC Board is ruling this week in a separate matter to determine if Club Velvet will lose their liquor license.

The diligent reporters over at Tobacco Avenue have feretted out the truth about this whole Velvet Obama contretemps:

Velvet gentlemen’s club owner Samuel J.T. Moore III hung a banner on his establishment during the weekend depicting President Obama as The Joker, the latest attempt by the controversial business owner to get the nation’s 44th president cast in the sequel to 2008’s “The Dark Knight.”

Moore, a self-proclaimed “comics geek” who owns nearly every Batman comic book since the superhero’s introduction in 1939, praised the president’s “impressive jawline” and “those pull-you-right-in eyes,” traits the business owner says make Obama a natural choice for the role in the upcoming 2011 film.

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Charges have been filed against Club Velvet owner, Sam Moore, for selling alcoholic beverages to minors and other illegal activities in the strip club. The charges are based on a late-night raid last year by several state agencies.  The state charges could result in losing his license to sell alcoholic beverages. The RTD has more details:

“The place occupied by the licensee has become a meeting place or rendezvous for illegal users of narcotics, prostitutes, drunks, pimps, panderers or habitual law violators or has become a place where illegal drugs are regularly distributed,” states one of 11 charges issued against Velvet, citing a specific provision of state law.

Club Velvet owner Sam Moore was released from jail this morning after serving about 30 days of his 60 day sentence for having sex with a minor and filming sex with an adult. [via]

Club Velvet owner Samuel Moore was sentenced to 60 days for having sex with a minor and filming sex with an adult. He could be released in as soon as 30 days with time off for good behavior. [via]

“I deeply regret my lack of good judgment,” Moore said today before he was sentenced in Richmond Circuit Court. “I apologize to the commonwealth and the two young ladies involved. I hope in the future I’ll have the strength and wisdom to make proper changes in my life.”

Club Velvet owner Sam Moore pleaded guilty three misdemeanor counts related to having sex with a minor and an 18-year-old woman. Moore will receive a suspended sentence on two of the counts, and on the third count, having sex with someone between 15 and 17, sentencing has been set for June 26. [via]

Club Velvet owner Samuel Moore, charged with a felony for allegedly filming himself having sex with a 17-year-old from video snagged during a February raid on the strip club, “argued today that he cannot be prosecuted for having sex with a minor and filming it because the girl was married and two months shy of her 18th birthday”. [via]

Originally due to appear in court today on two misdemeanor charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, 44-year-old Club Velvet owner Sam Moore will instead be charged with a felony for allegedly filming himself having sex with a 17-year-old minor on February 20th. [via]

A reader with a good memory reminded us how Velvet’s Sam Moore earned his teardrop tattoo back in 1998: Moore initially faced murder charges (later reduced to manslaughter) in the fatal stabbing of Stephen Hendricks in a steetfight that erupted at 18th and Main on May 25, 1998.

Club Velvet owner Sam Moore was arrested in a late-night raid. Representatives from the Richmond Police Department, the IRS, the Alcoholic and Beverage Control, & the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were part of the raid. CBS6 is reporting that this was “the result of a lengthy investigation involving illicit activities inside Club Velvet and on the behalf of Club Velvet”, and that Moore was arrested on outstanding warrants unrelated to the raid. [via]

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