Drug trafficker who owned mansion tells all about his criminal rise and how it suddenly fell apart

Testimony about the owner of Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club was inevitable because eight of the 15 bribery, obstruction of justice, false statemen…

Joseph Bongiovanni didn’t know about the Ronald Serio search warrants and surveillance by the Erie County Sheriff's Office, prosecutors say, a…

The woman's account on the eighth day of testimony in the Joseph Bongiovanni bribery trial bolstered Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi's as…

Prosecutors allege Joseph Bongiovanni's handling of the informant helped shield Ronald Serio and others in his drug-trafficking organization f…

Testifying for nearly four hours Wednesday, Louis Selva barely looked at the defense table where his friend since sixth grade, Joseph Bongiova…

Prosecutors have described "a bad situation" at Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club in Cheektowaga, where cocaine and other drugs were being distribute…

Jury selection starts Monday in the case against former DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni. 

U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo ordered separate trials Wednesday for Peter Gerace Jr., owner of Pharaoh’s Gentlemen’s Club, and retired …

This question that jolted the investigation of a former DEA agent: What does it mean to be connected?

"The evidence will show that those were rewards for a job well done," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi told jurors earlier in Bongiovanni'…

Five weeks into Joseph Bongiovanni's bribery and corruption trial, prosecutors say unexplained cash deposits enabled him to break even financi…

Jurors will begin deliberating today in the trial of former Drug Enforcement Administration agent Joseph Bongiovanni. Here's a breakdown of th…

The topic of cash loomed large as Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Cooper cross-examined Lindsay Bongiovanni, with repeated questions about wh…

Federal prosecutors rested their case Tuesday after calling the last of 70 witnesses in their bribery trial of former Drug Enforcement Adminis…

Wednesday would have been the fifth day of deliberations, which began April 3 after 24 days of testimony and closing arguments in the trial of…

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi said in court prosecutors will seek to retry Bongiovanni as soon as possible on the unresolved charges.

In her first public comment since Friday's partial verdict in the high-profile Joseph Bongiovanni trial, U.S. Attorney Trini Ross said Monday …

Robert Kaiser's body was found last month on a bike path by Grant Street near the pavilion in Scajaquada Park across from the Tops gas pumps, …

Ronald Serio, the drug trafficker who said he paid at least $250,000 in bribes to Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Joseph Bongiovanni bet…

A federal judge granted early prison release for former Buffalo schoolteacher Michael Masecchia, who an accomplice fingered as a member of org…

Through Friday, 52 witnesses have testified for the prosecution over 21 days of testimony in the retrial of former DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni.  

Louis Selva testified Tuesday that he negotiated the bribes that the Ronald Serio drug-trafficking organization paid Joseph Bongiovanni, then …

As his retrial starts Monday, former Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Joseph Bongiovanni can expect a lineup of former colleagues and bos…