The status of a partner in a large multi-state professional partnership has elements of being an employee, a sole proprietor and the owner of a large multi-state flow through corporation.
Police were questioning the club's owner and interviewing witnesses as part of an investigation into what caused the blaze, state-run Agencia Brasil reported.
The 69-year-old retired small-business owner from Denver, Colorado, heads the Lake Chapala Society, an expatriate community center in the Mexican state of Jalisco with more than 3, 000 members.