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This FBI file concerns the investigation of Somen Banerjee, also known as Steve Banerjee, the owner of the Chippendales male strip show in Santa Monica, California. A February 1993 request from the FBI legal attaché office in Bern states that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California and the FBI were investigating an arson and murder-for-hire scheme. The released records describe Banerjee's business disputes involving Nick DeNoia and the Adonis tour group, while substantial operational details are redacted. They also include a 1991 FBI communication arranging Dallas interviews, a 1992 letter-transmittal form, a newspaper clipping on murder-for-hire defendants' pleas, and a FOIA deleted-page information sheet.

FBI file number: 166B-LA-126411 | Documents span: 1991-1993 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Somen Banerjee, Steve Banerjee, Nick DeNoia, Augustine Colon, William Barnes Jr., Steve White
Subjects: Chippendales, murder for hire, arson, organized crime, FBI investigation, FOIA