Elmira Star-Gazette
A sitting Steuben County legislator and an Elmira Heights man involved in the fatal 1980 shooting of a state police investigator are among five men indicted by a Steuben County grand jury following an investigation into a reported sex trafficking ring.
The recently unsealed indictment charged Larry J. Comfort Sr. and Larry J. Comfort Jr., both of Elmira Heights, Jonathan F. Hamilton of Elmira, Michael L. Stratton from the Town of Corning, and Steven P. Maio of Corning, with multiple felonies involving allegations of sex trafficking and other crimes in Steuben and Chemung counties.
The indictment contains 34 counts, including sex trafficking, third-degree promoting prostitution, third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal solicitation and conspiracy to commit murder, first-degree falsifying business records, second-degree forgery and enterprise corruption, all felonies.