State liquor officials in Ohio hired a woman to pose undercover as a stripper — and gave her someone else's driver's license for an assumed identity, based on a bizarre interpretation of state law.
Haley Dawson has never been a stripper. But Ohio liquor-control agents took her identity and gave it to a 22-year-old college student who they had recruited to work undercover as a nude dancer.
As part of an investigation that resulted in nothing more than misdemeanor charges, police paid University of Dayton criminal-justice student Michelle Szuhay $100 a night to take it all off in early 2003 – as liquor-control officers drank beer and watched in the audience for three months, court papers show.
Other officers watched her strip on the Internet, using an account created under the identity of a dead man. The officers did all this by using Dawson's driver's license and Social Security number to hide Szuhay's identity while she worked at the targeted strip club, the now-closed Total Xposure in Troy. To Dawson's father, David Dawson, "It certainly looks like identity theft."
Link (via Declan McCullagh's politech)
Update: Here's a website with "faux stripper" Michelle Szuhay's view of the facts. Link . Here's a Quicktime movie on her site: Link
