A man involved in a long-running legal battle with Mayor Lisa Borowsky’s brother is claiming the mayor violated campaign laws and is part of a “criminal enterprise.”
In 2013, just after her term on City Council and a dozen years before she would become mayor of Scottsdale, Lisa Borowsky represented her brother in a legal fight against Dimitris (aka Dimitri) Kompos.
While that case dragged on, Kompos filed various claims against Todd Borowsky, owner of two Scottsdale adult entertainment clubs.
The suits allege Kompos is not being compensated properly for owning 10% of Todd Borowsky’s Skin Cabaret and three other commercial properties in Scottsdale.
As the Progress reported in an April story (“Mayor’s brother sues city over drugging claims”), according to a Dec. 19 Maricopa County Superior Court minute entry in the case, “Defendants Wisnowski, Inc., and Todd Borowsky are represented by counsel, Lisa Borowsky.”
On May 18, Kompos went to Scottsdale City Hall and filed a complaint against the mayor:
“To Whom it may concern:
“My name is Dimitris Kompos. I am a whistleblower. I am also the plaintiff in litigation with Wisnowki, Inc. DBA Skin Cabaret. Todd Borowsky, Eric Borowsky, Betty Borowsky are the defendants … This is Lisa Borowsky’s immediate family members. Lisa Borowsky is the current Mayor of Scottsdale, AZ.”
He said his attorney used the discovery process to uncover documents.
“After reviewing the attached information,” Kompos wrote to the city, “I felt compelled to come forward with this complaint.”
Citing 2020 invoices, Kompos accuses Lisa Borowsky of accepting an individual campaign donation of $9,506 – far higher than the individual donor limit of $6,750.”
City Clerk Ben Lane’s response to Kompos:
“This complaint is being dismissed as it was not filed in a timely manner. This complaint relates to Lisa Borowsky’s 2020 Mayoral campaign and related campaign finance reports.”
Lane said Arizona law requires complaints must be filed within four years..
“Since this complaint relates to a campaign finance report that was filed more than four years ago,” Lane wrote in an email to Kompos, “the complaint is being dismissed for not being filed in a timely manner.”
Kompos responded with another email “to the management at City of Scottsdale.”
He requested “video from the surveillance cameras from my first filing of this complaint yesterday, May 19 …
“The fact that I have to file a second complaint is very troubling,” Kompos continued.
He insisted a previous complaint against a man he identified as Lisa Borowsky’s boyfriend “fell on deaf ears.
“Now, it is concerning to me that Lisa Borowsky may use law enforcement against me to silence me. I need protection from this person and the people in her inner circle.
“It is my understanding that I am dealing with a criminal enterprise,” Kompos alleged.
The Progress asked Borowsky to respond to the allegations of Kompos.
As of this edition’s deadline, the mayor had not responded.
Dueling suits
According to the Better Business Bureau, Kompos and Todd Borowsky are the two listed “members” of Vegas Pawn, also known as Stop and Sell. The business is on Scottsdale Road just south of McDowell Road.
In his 2016 lawsuit, Todd Borowsky stated in 2004 he “permitted (Kompos) to become a member of Stop and Sell.”
But, his lawsuit states, Todd Borowsky and Kompos “have developed irreconcilable differences which has resulted in protracted litigation and the realization that an involuntary judicial dissolution … is now necessary and proper.
In the original 2013 Todd Borowsky vs. Dimitri Kompos lawsuit, Lisa Borowsky argued for a restraining order keeping Kompos away from her brother.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper ruled “Kompos and Borowsky shall be restrained from visiting” Vegas Pawn/Stop and Sell.
Cooper also clarified that “(Todd) Borowsky and Kompos are equal partners in Vegas Pawn,” and that Kompos “runs the day-to-day operations of the business” with Todd Borowsky “as a silent partner and is not involved in the day-to-day operations.”
In 2012, when the two apparently agreed to sell the business, Cooper ruled Kompos put Vegas Pawn inventory including watches, jewelry, gold, silver and gemstones into safe deposit boxes.
“Kompos did not tell Borowsky about the safety deposit boxes, nor did he tell Borowsky that he had placed Vegas Pawn inventory in the boxes,” the judge wrote.
Kompos was also ordered to provide bank records and other financial information related to the business to Todd Borowsky.
In his 2016 lawsuit against Kompos, Todd Borowsky requested “the limited liability company known as Stop and Sell, LLC, and doing business as Vegas Pawn, be ordered to wind up its affairs and gather and/or liquidate its assets.”
The newer lawsuit acknowledged that, after the 2013 case went to trial, “the jury returned verdicts on numerous causes of action for and against both parties.
“However, the jury awarded no damages on any of the claims to either party.”
In a 2014 lawsuit, Kompos alleged Todd Borowsky sold him 10% ownership of one of his Scottsdale strip clubs – then called Diamond Girls but now known as Skin Cabaret.
While Kompos was to be given a profit split, the Kompos suit claims “Todd Borowsky paid his personal expenses through Skin Cabaret” and paid expenses of another strip club without Kompos’ approval.
Lisa Borowsky is listed as Todd Borowsky’s attorney in the 2014 Kompos lawsuit.
On Dec. 15, 2023, Kompos filed another suit against Todd Borowsky.
Kompos again claims a 10% interest in Skin Cabaret and that Borowsky and others “have denied Kompos’s rights by,
among other things, refusing to recognize or otherwise denying Kompos’s ownership interest.”
Kompos is requesting a declaration of his alleged 10% ownership in Todd Borowsky’s business – as well as reimbursement for attorney fees.
A hearing was scheduled for May 16, but vacated with an order that the parties submit scheduling requests by May 27.
Todd Borowsky v. city
Todd Borowsky, meanwhile, is being sued by 41 men who claim his clubs stripped them of $2.3 million – an average rip off of more than $50,000 per patron.
While defending himself, Todd Borowsky in his own lawsuit filed March 20 and alleges the Scottsdale Police Department with a bogus, “revenge investigation” – trying to drum up cases of patrons being drugged in retaliation for an almost comically botched undercover sting at the strip club.
The suit blasts Scottsdale detectives and their supervisors with “manipulating official police records, altering investigative reports, omitting exculpatory evidence, and otherwise distorting investigative findings …”
In a May 20 amended complaint filed with the United States District Court, longtime Borowsky attorney Dennis I. Wilenchik writes, “This civil rights action is … to stop a longstanding pattern and practice within the Scottsdale Police Department of manipulating official police records, altering investigative reports, omitting exculpatory evidence, and otherwise distorting investigative findings in order to protect favored individuals within law enforcement while targeting disfavored businesses and members of the Scottsdale community.”
The attorney alleges Todd Borowsky is being unfairly targeted, and “this unconstitutional practice is not the result of isolated misconduct by individual officers, but rather reflects a custom, policy, or tacit approval within SPD command leadership …”
Judge Sharad H. Desai gave the city and Scottsdale Police Department until June 12 to reply to the charges.