Federal taxman gets caught with pants down in battle against Montreal stripper
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MONTREAL – In its legal showdown against a tax-wary stripper, it’s the Canada Revenue Agency that’s been caught with its pants down.
The legal saga over $2 million in undeclared revenue began at Chez Paree – a pricey Montreal strip club patronized over the years by scores of wealthy executives and visiting athletes, including some very prominent hockey Hall of Famers.
Martine Landry was a dancer there and was particularly popular with one rich, elderly customer.
The publishing-industry magnate, now 80, began to introduce her to a world she knew nothing of.
He showered her with gifts worth about $2 million: a Corvette, money to buy a BMW, eight fur coats, jewels, a vacation, cash to buy a big downtown bar and get out of the dancing business, and $168,000 in $1,000 bills for a down payment on a house.

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