Last call at the real-life strip club from The Sopranos

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The New Jersey strip club that was a fixture on “The Sopranos” is getting shut down in real life — because of a mobster named Tony who was hiding cash from the state, authorities said Thursday.

The Lodi jiggle joint, which operates in real life as Satin Dolls, has until Dec. 17 to stop providing live entertainment, Attorney General Christopher Porrino and the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control announced.

Authorities said club owners learned a little too much from the hit HBO drama — hiding its cashflow from the state and allowing reputed mob associate Anthony “Tony Lodi” Cardinalle to run the place against court orders.

“The Cardinalles may have wanted to keep the business in the family, but that’s not how it works. Their continued flouting of Alcoholic Beverage Control laws cannot and will not be tolerated,” said Porrino.

“Illegal activity was glorified at the ‘Bada Bing’ in the fictional world of Tony Soprano, but it has no place in modern-day New Jersey It’s time to shut it down.”

Cardinalle was barred by the courts from running the nightspot amid racketeering charges related to a Genovese crime family illegal waste disposal operation in New Jersey and New York.

The club and its owners have been the subject of investigation by the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control for more than six years, during which various members of the Cardinalle continued to operate the business, according to officials.

Cardinalle and family co-owners “failed to account for large amounts of cash flowing in and out of the business,” the attorney general alleges.

In 2011, a consent order with the clubs mandated that the wife of Anthony Cardinalle, who was listed as the sole shareholder of the joint, turn over the licenses to her daughter Loren.

The family was also ordered to pay $1.25 million in penalties in lieu of revocation of both licenses and Loren was ordered to transfer both licenses by Dec. 31, 2015, officials said.

“The holding of licenses to sell and serve alcohol is contingent upon the owners’ behaving in a reputable manner,” said ABC Director David Rible.

“The Cardinalles, quite simply, have not played by the rules despite many opportunities to correct their behavior, and it’s time to get them out of the alcohol business once and for all.”

The owners have until Jan. 3 to sell off or transfer its liquor license.

The state also shuttered a second jiggle joint run by the Cardinalles — A.J.’s Gentleman’s Club in Secaucus. It must meet the same deadlines as Satin Dolls.

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