Howard Hinkle News Today

Simon Gogolack, Howard Hinkle Jr. and John T. “Tommy O” Ermin each face witness tampering, retaliation and obstruction of justice conspiracy charges. All have pleaded not guilty. And all will

Attorneys versed in death penalty defense are called “learned counsel,” and only a handful work in Western New York.

Federal prosecutors are investigating one of the region’s most high-profile attorneys in connection with a conspiracy that reportedly caused the death of a witness in the Pharaohs strip club case

Around the time Simon Gogolack reported the overdose death of Crystal Quinn – a former exotic dancer who had agreed to cooperate in the federal government’s sex- and drug-trafficking case

Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford reversed a magistrate judges December order that had set conditions for John Ermins release.

"Its the governments position that Crystal Quinn was murdered, and it was staged to look like an overdose," Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Cooper said in court Thursday.

Items seized from the Outlaws clubhouse and homes lead to the unmistakable conclusion that members of the club will harm informants, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi said in court.

The Pharaoh’s strip club witness who died of a fentanyl overdose this summer was found to have 400 times a lethal dose of the potent opioid drug, a prosecutor said

A government witness in the Pharaoh’s strip club case was warned days before her death about a bounty on her life, according to a federal prosecutor and documents filed in