New Jersey doctor drugged by strippers off the hook for $135K Scores bill
By Julia Marsh
New York Post
January 17, 2018
A prominent cardiologist who would get his heart racing playing doctor with strippers at Scores is off the hook for the $135,000 tab he racked up there, a Manhattan judge has ruled.
New Jersey Dr. Zyad Younan, 44, was the victim of “criminal conduct” — drugged by four strippers and then fleeced with fraudulent billing — so he shouldn’t have to pay the six-figure tab, Judge Kelly O’Neill Levy ruled Tuesday.
The Midtown jiggle joint — where Younan was charged for private rooms, tips and booze over three nights in November 2013 — had pursued the doctor in court to collect on the tab even after the strippers pleaded guilty to the scam.
Scores’ lawyer argued that the club was not a party to the criminal scheme, adding that the doctor “was in a romantic relationship” with one of the strippers — who posed as a nursing major when she first picked him up at a Manhattan restaurant.
After subsequent dates with the brunette bombshell, Karina Pascucci, and her comely “cousin” and “sister,” Younan said in court papers, he would awake in a hotel room unable to remember what had happened the previous night
Prosecutors accused Pascucci and three cohorts of slipping tranquilizers in Younan’s drinks and then driving him to Scores, where they forged his signature on his credit-card receipts.
“Dr. Younan now has a chance to close this chapter of his life and move on,’’ his lawyer, Michael Weinstein, told The Post on Wednesday.
Still, the Bayshore Community Hospital doctor lost out on his defamation suit against Scores.
Younan had countersued over a joke the strip club’s rep made to The Post when Younan’s 2014 plight came to light.
The strip club’s rep, Steve Sabbeth, had quipped at the time, “If I had five dancers dancing for me, I’d be in the ICU.’’
Scores’ lawyer did not return a message for comment.
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