The father and son operators of a strip club in Elgin have been hit with federal tax and gambling charges for allegedly failing to report more than $4 million in income and operating an illegal Internet gambling business.

Dominic Buttitta of South Barrington and Anthony Buttitta of St. Charles operate the Blackjacks Gentlemen’s Club in Elgin. Between 2002 and 2009, they filed false federal tax returns that “substantially underreported” income from the club and the gambling business, prosecutors allege.

Buttitta and his son received about $3,704,959 from “house” fees they collected from women for each shift they worked as dancers at Blackjacks, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

Anthony Buttitta, 42, directed club employees to maintain logs of the house fee collections, but he and his 69-year-old father later destroyed the log sheets, the office said.

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