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When Roselyn"Rosie" Keo and Karina Pascucci decided that the traditional and legal ways of making money in the strip club scene were not enough, they, along with others, conspired to trick, manipulate and drug unsuspecting wealthy men before taking their money to fund their own lavish lifestyles in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.Watch the full story on"20/20" THIS FRIDAY at 10 p.m. ET on ABC"I don't think I was a con woman," Keo said.
Keo was taking classes at the time, too."I was making my tuition in one night [working at Scores] and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, school can wait,'" she said, laughing. Faced with the choice of making less money or having to perform sex acts to keep her income where she needed it to be, Keo said she teamed up with Samantha Barbash, an ambitious single mom from the Bronx.
Keo and Pascucci said they would go to happy hours at lounges, bars and steakhouses all over the city to pick up men. "So, Samantha and I were like, 'Okay, we need to find girls,'" Keo said."I became a madam. I saw the connection, I saw the opportunity…and, little by little, you find yourself doing things that sound crazy."
Jessica Pressler, a contributing editor at New York Magazine, wrote “The Hustlers at Scores” article about this fishing ring, which was published in 2015. From her reporting, Pressler told ABC News that the women concocted a drug cocktail that consisted of"Just a sprinkle of MDMA and ketamine." With the amount of money they were making, Keo and her crew felt invincible — they didn't think anyone would want to call the cops or complain that they were swindled at a strip club. They assumed that most men would be more worried about their wives, girlfriends or bosses, and so they'd simply decide to pay the bill and chalk it up to a bad night.
"They wanted to destroy me," said Younan, who is close with his family."That was their absolute goal — to destroy me financially [and] embarrass me."Younan learned that law enforcement was far from doubting him. In fact, they had been on to the hustlers for months. They had a cooperator and had run that sting operation in an attempt to catch Keo, Pascucci and their cronies.
Barbash, like Keo, cooperated with law enforcement and did not serve jail time. Barbash pleaded guilty to conspiracy, assault and grand larceny in exchange for five years' probation. Keo pleaded guilty to grand larceny and assault.
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