Lawyer visiting NYC for work abducted outside strip club before being beaten bloody and ditched in NJ: feds

A lawyer in town for work was abducted outside a Manhattan strip club by four thieves who swiped his Rolex and ditched him in New Jersey battered, bruised and soaked in blood, the feds charged Tuesday.Dani Amaneul, Kibret Meles and Kenny Fetire allegedly lured the intoxicated attorney into their Hyundai parked outside Rick’s Cabaret on West 33rd Street, steps from the Empire State Building, just before 4 a.m.on June 12 under the guise of driving him to his hotel.But instead, the trio — plus a fourth man who is cooperating with the feds — jumped the jiggle joint patron, punching him and stabbing him with what the boozed-up barrister thought was a machete as they drove through the Lincoln Tunnel into the Garden State, court papers allege.The “calculated” crew snatched his watch and iPhone during the attack, and abandoned him soon after near a nature reserve in West Orange, NJ.The victim, who hasn’t been publicly identified, was discovered there — with his light blue Lacoste polo shirt now drenched in blood — at around 5:30 a.m.

by a passing cyclist who called the cops, federal prosecutors said.“A victim should not have to fear that a night out will end with him being forced across state lines at the hands of violent kidnappers,” Manhattan US Attorney Jamie McDonald said in a news release.Amanuel, 28, and the mystery cooperator had met the victim earlier in the night at the Moxy hotel in Times Square, where the attorney was having dinner and drinks, according to prosecutors and law enforcement sources.At around 12:30 a.m., the three men took a taxi to the strip club, where the lawyer at some point separated from his new acquaintances and followed a dancer into a VIP room, court papers claimed.When the victim left the jiggle joint “visibly intoxicated” at 3:56 a.m., the fourth man allegedly lured him into the waiting Hyundai Sonata after promising to give him a ride back to his hotel, prosecutors said.The crew also allegedly threatened to kill t...