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Lake City doc not only one caught up in stripper drug ring investigation

International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Al Bernstein, a broadcaster, looks out to the crowd during the induction ceremony in Canastota, N.Y., Sunday, June 10, 2012. (Heather Ainsworth / AP)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Al Bernstein, a broadcaster, looks out to the crowd during the induction ceremony in Canastota, N.Y., Sunday, June 10, 2012. (Heather Ainsworth / AP)
International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Al Bernstein, a broadcaster, looks out to the crowd during the induction ceremony in Canastota, N.Y., Sunday, June 10, 2012. (Heather Ainsworth / AP)

A Coeur d’Alene surgeon fighting federal charges that he helped his Las Vegas stripper ex-wife launder money from her drug distribution ring claims agents should have targeted Hall of Fame boxing broadcaster Al Bernstein.

According to court records, Dr. Stanley Toelle’s attorney describes an interview between FBI agents and Bernstein in which the radio and television personality acknowledged meeting Loren Toelle at a strip club and then developing a relationship with her.

“The defense has learned that Loren Toelle was having an affair with the famous boxing promoter Al Bernstein while she was living in Las Vegas,” the attorney, Nic Vieth wrote, citing transcripts of the FBI interview he obtained in discovery/ Thomas Clouse , SR. More here .

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