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Shuttle buses to the club leave regularly from the city's best hotels.
Starting next week, however, the city's more adventurous tourists may just as well ask their concierge to direct them to the federal courthouse downtown, where arguments in the Gold Club racketeering trial will begin after 18 months of legal preparation. For pure salaciousness and dark intrigue, the trial is likely to rival anything that goes on in the private back rooms of the club itself. Over most of the summer, federal prosecutors will try to prove that the club was a cash conduit to the Gambino organized-crime family of New York, which they say provided protection in exchange. And most provocatively, the government charged that the club's dancers were ordered by their employers to provide sexual services to a long list of professional athletes and other celebrities whose presence at the club helped raise its profile. Lawyers involved in the case say the government's witness list is likely to include professional athletes like Patrick Ewing, Dennis Rodman, Terrell Davis and Jamal Anderson, among many others.