Prosecutors looking at Gerace attorney's potential conflicts
Federal prosecutors still want attorney Eric Soehnlein removed as a defense attorney for Peter Gerace Jr., the owner of Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club.
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Federal prosecutors still want attorney Eric Soehnlein removed as a defense attorney for Peter Gerace Jr., the owner of Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club.
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A federal jury has convicted a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent of obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents. But jurors on Friday also acquitted Joseph Bongiovanni of a charge he improperly wiped his DEA cellphone. And the jury failed to reach a verdict on charges he pocketed $250,000 in bribes from the Buffalo Mafia. The mixed verdict followed a week of often-heated deliberations. The seven-week trial has cast a harsh light on the DEA's supervision of agents amid a string of corruption scandals at the agency. Prosecutors said they plan to retry the longtime age...
Prosecutors said they obtained a recording from an investigator during the government’s investigation into the July death of Crystal Quinn, a witness in the Gerace case. The recording, they say,
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