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PolitiFact Reviews Pink Pony Claim

In its lawsuit against the City of Brookhaven, the Pink Pony strip club claimed it has never been cited for violation of an ordinance or state law. It's quite a claim.

So, PolitiFact, a journalism organization that fact checks claims by politicians and other groups that make their way into the media ether, decided to investigate that claim. Their finding was published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday:

Again, we were focused on examining the claim that the club ownership -- not individual dancers or staff -- has not violated any laws or ordinances.


We rate this statement True.


Nothing to see here, it seems. No agency could find any record of a violation.


That's its response in short. Read the full post for the (quite) exhaustive research into the claim.


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