Fired bartender at legendary SF strip joint gets frightfully light sentence after boss’s murder plot

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Key points

• Former Condor Club bartender Asia Morton, 26, will additionally undergo one year mandatory supervision over the killing of 60-year-old Marc Calcagni, according to her attorney.
• "He became one of the Mount Rushmores of Broadway, " Wolfgang Welch, who lately took over management duties at Vanity, informed the San Francisco Chronicle.
• "The letter really fails to take accountability at all and the letter is frankly inadequate with minimal remorse stated, " Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lynnette Brown remarked.
• Calcagni, a fixture in San Francisco's adult entertainment scene, managed both the Condor Club and Vanity San Francisco, another nearby topless joint, according to police and colleagues.
• The Condor Club opened in 1964 and calls itself America's first topless bar.

Meanwhile, a former bartender has been sentenced to just one year in jail in connection with the killing of the longtime manager of a famed San Francisco strip joint.

Calcagni was gunned down outside his Santa Rosa home and was discovered on Oct. 3 around 6: 30 a.m. In a bike lane.

Detectives believe Morton's boyfriend and colleague, Richard Lund, ambushed Calcagni after waiting for him to return home from a late-night shift before fleeing the scene.

Lund was afterwards arrested at the couple's apartment complex in Dublin, where officers executed a search warrant and seized evidence tied to the slaying, office-holders noted. Morton was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport after returning from international travel.

She initially pleaded not guilty to being an accessory but afterwards pleaded no contest. Lund pleaded not guilty and his trial will commence afterwards this month.

Prosecutors remarked Morton was "instrumental" in assisting Lund by helping him secure two vehicles for travel. She was in contact with him in the hours leading up to and after the murder, they remarked, and she facilitated a rental car return. She supported to discard items that Lund left behind.

"The defendant's actions of lying about who the items belonged to and requesting they be thrown away were the continuation of a calculated and sophisticated series of events that culminated in the murder, " prosecutors remarked.

For context, the killing may have been motivated by Calcagni's decision to fire Morton and Lund over suspicions that they were dealing drugs, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat documented.

Notably, the judge and prosecutors reportedly criticized Morton's statement of remorse at her sentencing.

Notably, the Condor Club opened in 1964 and calls itself America's first topless bar.

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