S.A.W. Entertainment Ownership Tree

What ABC wrote in 1998

Investigator Brian Chan’s remarks on both applications (ABC-220, August 11, 1998), verbatim:

Conditions attached to insure compliance with 23038 B&P and to preclude Harry V. Mohney, an unqualified person, as a licensee. In 1991, Mohney was convicted of tax evasion and spent 3 years in federal prison. Mohney, through his company Deja Vu, Inc. and other entities, operates more than 80 adult-oriented businesses in 14 states. In many of the businesses, Mohney and Roger Forbes, corporate president of S.A.W. Entertainment Limited, are partners. In San Francisco, Mohney and Forbes are partners in 4 adult entertainment clubs: Centerfolds, Casbah, Garden of Eden, and Roaring 20’s. These clubs do not have ABC licenses. Each club is owned by a separate LLC. Mohney and Forbes each hold a 50% stake in the LLC’s for Casbah, Garden of Eden, and Roaring 20’s. In the Centerfolds LLC, Mohney and Forbes each hold a 25% stake and are the LLC’s managing members. Forbes has stated that Mohney will have no interest or control in S.A.W. Entertainment Limited and its premises; however, the stock purchase agreement for S.A.W. indicates that Mohney is the guarantor for a promissory note signed by Forbes in favor of Roger Pastore, the transferor.

The percentages are printed in the 133379 copy and blacked out in the 255351 copy of the same page. “Roger Pastore” is presumably Walter Pastore, the only Pastore in the file.

Discrepancies and open threads

Tranchina left in 1992, not 1997. The register cancels his certificate on 10/21/1992 and reissues both 100,000-share blocks to Pastore and the Pastore Living Trust nine days earlier. The 1997 seller was the trust alone. No transfer notice for the 1992 change was noted in the file review; the 133379 file is where one would sit.

Conti’s second exit is dated but undocumented. His cert 16 was canceled 10/1/2010 (typed 9/15/2010 on the 2017 copy and corrected by hand). The questionnaire form itself promises that changes “will be reported to the Department,” and Rule 68.5 gives 30 days; the first report is the ABC-243 of 12/14/2011, fourteen months later. There is no transfer notice, application, price or approval for it in either file.

The 2022 register does not add up for 2010–2021. It cancels the three one-third certificates (19–21) on 10/1/2010 and shows only certs 22–23, 16,666.66 shares each, active until 12/30/2021 — a sixth of the stock over eleven years. The 2011 and 2017 copies both show 19–21 active. The likeliest cause is that the 2022 preparer read the handwritten 10/1/2010 beside the struck-out issue date on the 2017 copy as a cancel date. Whether certs 22–23 existed in 2010 or were created in the 2022 reconstruction is open.

Share counts disagree between copies. Certs 19–21: 62,500 shares each on the 2011 copy (187,500 in total, which matches nothing), 66,666.33 on the 2017 and 2022 copies. Cert 14: 100,000 on the 2017 copy, 200,000 on the 2022 copy. The 200,000 total is the reading every era’s percentages support.

Officers in February 2022. The ABC-243 of 2/7/2022 lists one officer, Carouba, holding every title. The ABC-208-A affidavits filed the following month describe Jason Mohney as treasurer/secretary/director and Eric Forbes as director. The 9/2/2026 version of this tree reported only the affidavits’ version.

The Condor lookup is stale or the transfer was partial. ABC approved the Forbes-to-trusts transfer on 8/9/2023 in the 133379 file, yet the 255351 lookup in September 2026 still lists Roger Forbes as stockholder and secretary/treasurer. The 2011 questionnaire named both licenses; the 2022 one names only 47-133379. Either the Condor file was never updated or the 2022 application covered only the Kearny license.

The 2003 accusation was served on Conti as an attorney. The ABC declaration of service lists “Samuel J. Conti, Attorney at Law, 250 Columbus Avenue,” the same building as BSC Management’s office on the Gold Club filings. Whether Conti holds a bar license is checkable on the State Bar site.

Who signs where. The 2022 S.A.W. ABC-217 was notarized in King County, Washington, and the 2022 bookkeeper and the landlord LLC for 1031 Kearny both carry the Seattle bookkeeping firm’s phone number (206-328-7249), the number Diana Webb gave in 2003. Carouba’s own officer line on the 2022 ABC-243, (415) 203-1428, is the headquarters number on the Gold Club, JRJ-SF, BT California and (2024) Frisco & Seattle questionnaires. The San Francisco clubs’ money paperwork runs through Seattle; the corporate paperwork runs through one San Francisco phone.

A 2½-year approval. The 2000 stock sale to Carouba, Conti and Mohney was filed 5/15/2000 and approved 1/8/2003, while the Hustler accusation was being drafted; the notice had to be re-recorded in 1/2003 to name Forbes as seller. The certificates themselves were issued 1/15/2000, four months before the notice.

The Palladium’s prior life. ABC’s 1977 report says 1031 Kearny was licensed 1967–70 to Roseland Enterprises, whose 1969 accusation involved a “female employed as nude poker player,” and that the premises sat “within a designated police problem area” with seventy-plus licenses within 600 feet.

Unverified

That S.A.W. stands for Sam, Alfred and Walter; that “Roger Pastore” in the 1998 report means Walter Pastore; that Jason Mohney is Harry Mohney’s son (the Ontario license lists them side by side as members but states no relationship); that Eric Forbes is related to Roger Forbes; whether the 62,500-share figure on the 2011 form is a clerical error; whether certificates 22 and 23 existed before 2022; and whether the four unlicensed clubs ABC named in 1998 are the same entities behind today’s Centerfolds, Casbah and Roaring 20’s.

Revision note · 9/18/2026

Rebuilt against the three ABC-243 questionnaires (12/14/2011, 3/24/2017, 2/7/2022), which were not in hand for the 9/2/2026 version. Changes: share counts and percentages replace redaction bars throughout; a 1992–1997 era is added for Tranchina’s exit; Conti’s second exit is dated 10/1/2010; the 2021 sale is quantified (50,000 + 16,666.66 shares; end state 58.33 / 33.33 / 8.33); the 2011 and 2017 officer lists are added and the 2022 list corrected to what the ABC-243 states; “five times” becomes “six times”; section 3, the register, is new. Everything else is carried over unchanged.