The morning after his third date with Karina Pascucci, Dr. Zyad Younan said he heard a phone message from his credit card company saying there were “excessive charges” on his card “close to $100,000.” How real 'Hustlers' got caught:
The wealthy cardiologist from New Jersey had met an attractive woman one night at a restaurant six months earlier when they were both out separately with friends. They chatted briefly and exchanged numbers that night. But Younan hadn’t heard from her until now, months later."I said, 'Well, can you remind me?’" Younan told"20/20.""She was like, 'Oh we met at that restaurant.
But it was under the guise of promotion that the women’s scam took shape and crossed the line into something illegal. "I started feeling warm, flushy and [my] vision was a little blurry and cloudy,” Younan said. “I really didn’t think twice…and then I don’t remember much after that." Younan decided to meet up with Pascucci a second time, and then, he said,"I went to the bathroom and then I signed the bill and then I don’t remember the events."
"All she kept asking was for wine," Younan said."But at Van Morrison concerts, once the concert starts, they don’t serve alcohol." While the charges were from Robert’s, the steakhouse is affiliated with Scores, a famous gentleman’s club in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. "And I told her, 'You're nothing but a thief, you're nothing but a swindler... I don't want to see you, I don't want to talk to you ever again,'" he said."I definitely 100% felt bad, because I didn't even know his bill was that high until I had found out from [the] Scores' manager and from Samantha," Pascucci said.
In November 2013, the same month that Younan took Pascucci on those three dates, the NYPD and DEA set up a sting operation at the Gansevoort Hotel, a luxury hotel in Manhattan’s trendy meatpacking district. They rented a room, wiretapped it with audio and video recording devices, set up a surveillance shop next door and had an undercover DEA agent pose as a rich man sitting alone at the hotel bar in order to make him an attractive target.
The undercover agent said he and the woman had bought drinks at the bar and she brought them up to the room. He knew “that these drinks would possibly be drugged," he said. Then the undercover agent said he pretended to pass out as if the drug cocktail had been too strong for him."I actually wasn't supposed to be there that night," Pascucci said."I was home in my apartment by myself sleeping, and Rosie called me...
The undercover agent was acting the entire time, but the other agents listening in the room next door started to worry that he had actually been drugged. "We were just hoping the girls would take his credit card and leave and go swipe it," Detective Danny Politoski said. But the women couldn’t rouse the undercover agent. The DEA’s surveillance video inside the hotel room showed the women, in their desperation, started to get physical with the agent, grabbing and groping him, trying to get him on his feet.
They had recorded these women talking about drugging their mark. Detectives had also retrieved the undercover agent’s glass that held the spiked drink and sent it to a DEA lab to find out if the women were drugging their marks and with which substances to cause memory loss. This was critical to their case.
However, when NYPD detectives contacted him after running down lists of men who had high New York City strip club bills, Younan said he was skeptical, thinking he was being set up by Scores’ pretending to be law enforcement. "When I told [Politoski] my story...he believed me right away," Younan said."[We] started working together and trying to help with the case."
"So when they had come to get me -- to apprehend me -- I was really surprised," she said."When you get arrested, the whole world goes black and everything just goes silent."
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