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40/40 Club's Manager Will Lock You Up


Last month, Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to:

in Music
  • Voix céleste, a Pipe Organ stop.
  • Celesta, a musical instrument
Other
  • Spanish/Portuguese for Sky Blue, Light Blue, Baby Blue
 Williams, a former waitress at Jay-Z's 40/40 Club filed a class-action suit Noun 1. class-action suit - a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group
class action
 claiming that the Chelsea club failed to pay overtime or even minimum wage to its employees. And earlier this month, the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10  reported that a Manhattan judge ordered the rapper to hand over records of all employees over the last three years to see just which of the clubs employees may have been mistreated.

But now, the Post is reporting that the club's general manager, Desiree Gonzalez is trying to cover up information, threatening several employees not to take part in the lawsuit or else.

Ms. Gonzalez reportedly told one employee that she would "fuck up fuck   Vulgar Slang
v. fucked, fuck·ing, fucks

v.tr.
1. To have sexual intercourse with.

2. To take advantage of, betray, or cheat; victimize.

3.
 his tax life" if he chose to participate in the suit. She allegedly threatened another by saying she would "lock him up" if he didn't sign a release from the suit, although it is not clear where exactly she planned to lock him up.

Whether she was acting out of her own to protect the club from bad press or she was encouraged to dispense dispense /dis·pense/ (-pens´) to prepare medicines for and distribute them to their users.

dis·pense
v.
To prepare and give out medicines.
 threats is unclear.

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Author:Irina Aleksander
Publication:The New York Observer
Date:Jul 14, 2008
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