{"id":442,"date":"2005-10-25T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T17:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/that_man_is_from_missouri_youll_have_to_show_him.html"},"modified":"2005-10-25T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T17:43:41","slug":"that_man_is_fro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/that_man_is_fro.html","title":{"rendered":"That Man Is From Missouri . . . You&#8217;ll Have To Show Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The executive who (allegedly!) blew the equivalent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/md.html\">Moldova<\/a>&#8216;s (legal) yearly exports at a Manhattan strip club <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/30070.htm\">has been placed on unpaid leave by his empolyer while they investigate the charges he incurred<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The St. Louis CEO who allegedly ran up a bill of nearly a quarter-million dollars at Scores may have some new trouble paying it off \u00e2\u20ac\u201d his company put him on unpaid leave yesterday as it investigates.<br \/>\nRobert McCormick&#8217;s problems began in October 2003, when he took at least three business acquaintances to the East Side topless bar.<\/p>\n<p>American Express says he charged a whopping $241,000 worth of wine, women and lap dances on his corporate credit card.<\/p>\n<p>The big spender from the &#8220;Show Me State&#8221; insisted his bill was inflated. He claimed he spent a mere $20,000 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and refused to pay a penny more.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does it say about the state of affairs in this city when a yobbo tries to argue that $20,000 is a reasonable amount to spend in a strip club?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive who (allegedly!) blew the equivalent of Moldova&#8216;s (legal) yearly exports at a Manhattan strip club has been placed on unpaid leave by his empolyer while they investigate the charges he incurred: The St. Louis CEO who allegedly ran up a bill of nearly a quarter-million dollars at Scores may have some new trouble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}