Accused of taking bribes from drug dealers with ties to the mafia, in exchange for tipping them off to investigations, informants and shielding them from prosecutors
On the 13th day of testimony in Joseph Bongiovanni s bribery and corruption trial, Ronald Serio emerged as a pivotal witness naming names. Serio identified or confirmed the roles of more
Testimony about the owner of Pharaoh s Gentlemen s Club was inevitable because eight of the 15 bribery, obstruction of justice, false statement and other charges Joseph Bongiovanni faces involve Peter Gerace
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 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.