New Orleans Strip Clubs: Aaron Bennett pocketed $600000 intended for New Orleans pump station upgrades …
January 18, 2012
View full sizeMelanie Bennett photoAaron Bennett and his father, Bill, were photographed in 2007.
On Sept. 28, just a week before he was charged with bribing Hingle and after sources close to the case say he’d already fielded at least one plea offer from U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office, Bennett went into his company Benetech’s general fund and intercepted the majority of a $719,000 payment from the Army Corps of Engineers before it could go into an account shared by Benetech and its partners on the $12.2 million pump station project.
That same day, financial records filed in court show that Bennett transferred $600,000 to a film production company registered to his fourth wife, Martha Russell. Russell, a former strip club employee and manager of a local Playboy golf tournament, later put up the $50,000 bond to keep her husband out of jail.
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