The woman s account on the eighth day of testimony in the Joseph Bongiovanni bribery trial bolstered Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi s assertion that Pharaoh s had become "a rampantly drug-involved premises
Prosecutors allege Joseph Bongiovanni s handling of the informant helped shield Ronald Serio and others in his drug-trafficking organization from investigation.
Testifying for nearly four hours Wednesday, Louis Selva barely looked at the defense table where his friend since sixth grade, Joseph Bongiovanni, sat.
Prosecutors have described "a bad situation" at Pharaoh s Gentlemen s Club in Cheektowaga, where cocaine and other drugs were being distributed and dancers were overdosing on heroin.