More Problems at the CocoDorm

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Phillip Bleicher, owner of the live gay porn website Cocodorm.com and its related videos and magazines featuring young Black and Latin men, is in more hot water. Federal and Illinois state agencies are now engaged in a criminal investigation into allegations that a student leadership organization Bleicher ran defrauded public school systems out of millions of dollars.

These latest allegations stem from Bleicher’s management of the Student Leadership Network, a group he founded in 1992 ostensibly to offer conferences and leadership programs to student council members in schools across the country. The Illinois Attorney General’s office alleges he defrauded hundreds of schools by “cloning” checks. Once a school signed up for a leadership program and sent their check, Bleicher would allegedly create a bogus check, or clone, with the same check number and increase the amount of money. He is alleged to have used at least some of that money to finance his pornography businesses. The organization ceased operations in July 2005.

The Illinois AG was pursuing a civil suit but was persuaded to cooperate with unnamed federal investigators who are seeking criminal charges.

Meanwhile, Bleicher relocated his pornography operations from Chicago to Miami, Florida in May following an investigation by the Chicago Public Health Department which charged that models used in his videos and live webcam shows were practicing unprotected sex acts while infected with HIV and that CocoDorm not only took no steps to protect them, but actually encouraged unsafe sex.