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Bad Forecasts · Management

Rick’s Cabaret owner RCI’s excuse for late financial reports: Our other reports were late.

by CranDiscuss

We haven’t checked in on our favorite strip club stock lately so I thought I’d just see what they were up to. Apparently, they had some issues filing reports over the summer. Whoops.

RCI’s overdue reports became a chain reaction. Here’s how the excuses piled up before it regained Nasdaq filing compliance in May.

December 15, 2025: More audit work. RCI blamed its late annual report on additional audit procedures connected to the New York indictment.

February 9, 2026: Still waiting on that annual report. RCI said it couldn’t finish the December-quarter report because the annual report remained unfinished.

May 11: The earlier delays made us late again. The annual report arrived March 19; the December-quarter report, May 7. That left a “late start” on the March-quarter report. RCI said it hadn’t had “sufficient time.”

Its May 11 release announced restored Nasdaq filing compliance—and the next delay. Same release. It didn’t expect to meet the extension period, either.

June 1: Finally, the cure. RCI announced it had filed the March-quarter report May 28. Nasdaq restored filing compliance May 29.

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Lawsuits · Management

RCI’s leadership lap dance: CEO and CFO step off the main stage with a three day goodbye

by LewDiscuss

RCI Hospitality Holdings, the publicly traded strip club empire and owner of Rick’s Cabaret and Bombshells has announced the abrupt departure of CEO Eric Langan and CFO Bradley Chhay.

Recently, the company and several executives, including Langan and Chhay, were indicted by New York state over an alleged long running tax and bribery scheme. NY claims that the company bribed a state official with “Dance Dollars,” to lower its tax burden. RCI and the executives deny the allegations, but the  stock has been on a slide all year, shedding 58% of its value.

The timing of the resignations is really odd.

In a normal corporate transition, you’d expect something like:

  • “Effective immediately” (emergency mode), or

  • “Effective at year-end” (pretend this is totally planned and strategic).

Instead, we got an announcement two days before Thanksgiving to take effect the day after. A November 25th announcement, which goes into effect on November 28th.

The C-suite equivalent of “I’m breaking up with you… on Monday. I still need a ride to the airport.”

In those three days, the company nominally gets to say it still has “continuity” while everyone prints new org charts. Starting November 28:

  • Travis Reese (current executive vice president) becomes Interim President and CEO

  • Albert Molina (current director of financial reporting) becomes Interim CFO

At the same time, Langan and Chhay do not actually leave the building. They stick around as advisors and keep their compensation structures.

Officially this is a “leadership transition” and the board is bravely “positioning the company for the future.” In reality, it looks like the board wanted to show regulators and investors that it did something about the indicted executives without losing the two people who know every lease, liquor license, side deal, and debt covenants by heart.

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