Daniel Darger filed a counter lawsuit Thursday against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which on Wednesday added the club to its suit against Salt Lake City for issuing a sexually oriented business (SOB) license to Darger.
According to documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, the city offered financial assistance (a $500,000 letter of credit) and found other investors who would help Darger and his partners only if the SOB license went away. According to an e-mail, LDS Presiding Bishop H. David Burton, PacifiCorp's Bill Landels and Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman said they would find money to cover one year's rent for the Salt Palace Convention Center to expand its offices into Arrow Press Square. The buildings are now for sale for $3.1 million, but Darger does not plan to close the Crazy Goat.
"It's not illegal to wish I wasn't there or encourage me to close," Darger said. "It's illegal to . . . literally make it impossible to do business."
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02272004/utah/142944.asp
According to documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, the city offered financial assistance (a $500,000 letter of credit) and found other investors who would help Darger and his partners only if the SOB license went away. According to an e-mail, LDS Presiding Bishop H. David Burton, PacifiCorp's Bill Landels and Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman said they would find money to cover one year's rent for the Salt Palace Convention Center to expand its offices into Arrow Press Square. The buildings are now for sale for $3.1 million, but Darger does not plan to close the Crazy Goat.
"It's not illegal to wish I wasn't there or encourage me to close," Darger said. "It's illegal to . . . literally make it impossible to do business."
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02272004/utah/142944.asp
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