Fired bartender at legendary SF strip joint gets frightfully light sentence after boss’s murder plot

A former bartender has been sentenced to just one year in jail in connection with the killing of the longtime manager of a famed San Francisco strip joint.

Former Condor Club bartender Asia Morton, 26, will also undergo one year mandatory supervision over the killing of 60-year-old Marc Calcagni, according to her attorney.

Calcagni was gunned down outside his Santa Rosa home and was found on Oct. 3 around 6:30 a.m. in a bike lane.

Detectives believe Morton’s boyfriend and colleague, Richard Lund, ambushed Calcagni after waiting for him to return home from a late-night shift before fleeing the scene.

Lund was later arrested at the couple’s apartment complex in Dublin, where officers executed a search warrant and seized evidence tied to the slaying, officials said. Morton was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport after returning from international travel.

She initially pleaded not guilty to being an accessory but later pleaded no contest. Lund pleaded not guilty and his trial will begin later this month.

Prosecutors said Morton was “instrumental” in assisting Lund by helping him get two vehicles for travel. She was in contact with him in the hours leading up to and after the murder, they said, and she facilitated a rental car return. She helped to discard items that Lund left behind.

“The defendant’s actions of lying about who the items belonged to and requesting they be thrown away were the continuation of a calculated and sophisticated series of events that culminated in the murder,” prosecutors said.

The killing may have been motivated by Calcagni’s decision to fire Morton and Lund over suspicions that they were dealing drugs, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported.

The judge and prosecutors reportedly criticized Morton’s statement of remorse at her sentencing.

“The letter really fails to take accountability at all and the letter is frankly inadequate with minimal remorse stated,” Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lynnette Brown said.

Calcagni, a fixture in San Francisco’s adult entertainment scene, managed both the Condor Club and Vanity San Francisco, another nearby topless joint, according to police and colleagues.

“He became one of the Mount Rushmores of Broadway,” Wolfgang Welch, who recently took over management duties at Vanity, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Condor Club opened in 1964 and calls itself America’s first topless bar.

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