The lawyer for a strip club worker accused of drugging four wealthy marks to rack up nearly $200,000 on their credit cards summed the whole case up Monday as simply “buyer’s remorse” — as court records revealed the wining and dining that led up to the alleged jiggle joint con.
“We’re denying the charges and fighting this all the way,” said Helen Wu, lawyer for Marsi Rosen, who obscured her face with a sweatshirt as she left Manhattan Supreme Court, wearing a black-and-white polka dot blouse and tight black slacks. “We believe the clients have buyer’s remorse.”
The quartet of vixens — Rosen, Roselyn Keo, Karina Pascucci and Samantha Barbash — briefly appeared in court Monday for a scheduling hearing in the case, accused of suckering a prominent heart surgeon and a Wall Street banker, among others.
The buxom women took their marks to bars and restaurants all over Manhattan, allegedly to get them smashed and vulnerable before swindling them of more than $190,000 in credit card charges, court records released Monday reveal.
A man identified only as “Victim 2” in the records, met accused ringleader Barbash, 40, and her aide Rosen at Traffic Bar and Restaurant in Midtown.
They allegedly took the high roller to a car and gave him drugs before hitting up Neely’s BBQ Parlor on the Upper East, state court papers. Once there, Keo joined the crew and the victim was plied with more drugs, authorities allege.
The trio then took him to the RoadHouse NYC strip club in Queens where, prosecutors say, they swiped his credit card and charged up $22,200.
The ladies hit the jackpot with Dr. Zyad Younan.
Pascucci met the cardiologist at Cafe Espanol on Bleecker Street in the Village before taking him to strip club Scores and racking up $43,586.11 on his card in November of last year, prosecutors say.
A few days later she got hold of his card again and charged $52,362.50, court papers state.
After meeting the amorous doctor once more at the swanky Breslin Bar and Dining Room, she allegedly made another $39,354.53 in fraudulent charges, records state.
The devious damsels face raps for conspiracy, grand larceny, assault and other charges.