A stripper is ready to strut into Manhattan federal court this month, where she could give key testimony in the trial of two DEA agents accused of operating a low-rent New Jersey strip club in New Jersey, The Post has learned.
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara has placed dancer Andressa Delima on the list of witnesses against retired DEA agent David Polos and DEA telecom specialist Glen Glover — who allegedly lied about their links to the jiggle joint so they could score a sensitive security clearance.
The two men allegedly ran the Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge in Hackensack, which employed Delima, an immigrant with an arrest record who allegedly had an “ongoing intimate relationship” with Polo.
Feds are seeking to prove Polos broke the law by not disclosing his relationship with Delima, a foreign national, on security-clearance forms.
Feds already say Delima, who they referred to as “Dancer-1” in their complaint, was allowed to work double shifts because the club owners “knew she needed the money to pay back the smugglers who arranged for her unlawful entry into the United States.”
Jury selection begins this week. But prosecutors may also choose to keep Delima, from Brazil, away from the jury once the trial finally kicks off on May 31, due to her immigration status.
Delima also has an arrest record. In April, 2012, the 27-year-old dancer was tossed in jail after getting into a brawl that started at the club and spilled out onto the street. After local police cuffed Delima and placed her in a patrol car, she kicked out the back window, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The government is also expected call Ken Lindenfelser, a long-time lawyer for the Kearney, NJ, Board of Education, to the witness stand as a manager of the club alongside Polos and Glover.
Lindenfelser’s wife, Ann, is listed on official documents as a part owner of the club.
The feds want Lindenselser and another bar manager and electrician, Joey Banas, to help them prove that Polos and Glover knew about the club’s problems with illegal activity, including prostitution and drugs.
To do that, the feds plan to show the jury emails showing Lindenfelser and Banas talking openly with Polos and Glover allegedly about drugs and prostitution.
“They are so dumb,” Glover wrote in an email to be presented at trial. Glover was responding to a complaint by Banas about a dancer who claimed she had to leave work because her brother had been shot when she was actually leaving to engage in prostitution.
Neither Lindenfelser nor Banas returned requests for comment. Delima could not be immediately reached for comment.