Prudishness at an inadvertent peep show is "a tremendous indicator of how much the neighborhood has changed, " she said.

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"If you founded a hedge fund, when you sold it you were treated worse than if you owned a peep-show business, " said John Raffaelli, a Democratic fund-raiser and lobbyist for the hedge-fund industry.

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