In the 1950s, Frank Colacurcio began operating cigarette and jukebox vending machines in the Seattle area.
[3] The vending machine businesses became important to organized crime figures who easily skimmed money.
[3] In the 1960s, Colacurcio opened topless clubs in Seattle and skimmed money.
[8] In April 2010, Colacurcio Sr.'s nephew Leroy Richard Christiansen along with club manager Steven Michael Fueston, Colacurcio Sr.'s close associate David Carl Ebert, and Colacurcio Sr.'s driver John Gilbert Conte all pleaded guilty to prostitution and racketeering.
[4] On September 24, 2010, Frank Colacurcio Jr. was sentenced to one year in prison, fined $1.3 million and ordered to forfeit all interest in the strip clubs and related property worth more than $6 million.