Did Expense Report Reflect Naked Truth?

An upscale topless nightclub has sued the onetime employer of an engineer who owes it $22,664, contending that the charges were corporate entertainment expenses.

The Paradise Club maintained that both the engineer and his former employer, Conoco Inc., are liable for the charges, which included $9,000 in payments to dancers in 1990, because the engineer made them while he was entertaining clients.

Conoco fired the man after the charges were rung up in the summer of 1990. It declined to say why.