BRIDGEPORT — A Fairfield man who was once president of a Milford strip club that owes a $200,000 judgment to former exotic dancers has no assets to satisfy their claims, a bankruptcy trustee told a federal judge last month, even though a Department of Justice lawyer has alleged the bankruptcy was a ruse designed to hide assets.
The hearing in the case of Joseph Regensburger, the past owner of Keepers Gentlemen’s Club, leaves the former exotic dancers who sued the club in 2015 alleging wage theft years away, if ever, from seeing a dime of a judgment first awarded by an arbitrator in the case in 2019, their attorney said.
A judge confirmed the arbitrator’s ruling in October 2020, days before Regensburger filed a bankruptcy petition in federal court listing assets totaling less than $9,000 and liabilities of more than $582,000.
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But in a complaint filed in December, Holley L. Claiborn, a trial attorney in the Office of the United States Trustee William K. Harrington, said the bankruptcy filing was “an attempt to hinder, delay or defraud” Regensburger’s creditors.
In the filing, Claiborn cited more than $150,000 in checks cashed by Regensburger that were signed by Gus Curcio, a Stratford resident connected with the club who was convicted of extortion in the 1980s.
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