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1 month ago | 
winonadailynews.com | Lou Michel |Patrick Lakamp
Federal prosecutors claim strip club owner Peter G. Gerace Jr. arranged sex for John L. Michalski, a State Supreme Court justice who later died by suicide, and gained judicial favors from him. Michalski, described as an unindicted co-conspirator in Gerace’s sex-trafficking case, sent Gerace a text message mentioning a prostitute he liked, according to prosecutors.
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1 month ago | 
globegazette.com | Lou Michel |Dan Herbeck
Standing over a boiling pot of pasta in the kitchen of his popular La Nova restaurant on Buffalo’s West Side, Joseph A. Todaro dipped his manicured hand into the water and fished out a piece of pasta. After squeezing the ziti to check on its progress, he shook the heat from his fingers. For 65 years, Todaro and his father before him have run La Nova. Ten years ago, the restaurant’s website said it employed 150 employees, brought in $30 million a year and had more than 500 distributors nationwide.
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1 month ago | 
helenair.com | Lou Michel |Patrick Lakamp
Federal prosecutors claim strip club owner Peter G. Gerace Jr. arranged sex for John L. Michalski, a State Supreme Court justice who later died by suicide, and gained judicial favors from him. Michalski, described as an unindicted co-conspirator in Gerace’s sex-trafficking case, sent Gerace a text message mentioning a prostitute he liked, according to prosecutors.
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1 month ago | 
lacrossetribune.com | Lou Michel |Patrick Lakamp
Federal prosecutors claim strip club owner Peter G. Gerace Jr. arranged sex for John L. Michalski, a State Supreme Court justice who later died by suicide, and gained judicial favors from him. Michalski, described as an unindicted co-conspirator in Gerace’s sex-trafficking case, sent Gerace a text message mentioning a prostitute he liked, according to prosecutors.
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1 month ago | 
stltoday.com | Lou Michel
Federal authorities are looking into the friendship between State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski and Peter G. Gerace Jr., the Cheektowaga strip club owner indicted last week as part of an ongoing investigation into organized crime. But the attorney representing the judge, who was and remains hospitalized, says there is no indication that Michalski has done anything illegal. Attorney Anthony J.
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1 month ago | 
stltoday.com | Dan Herbeck |Lou Michel
During the day, Michael Masecchia was a respected English teacher at Buffalo’s Grover Cleveland High School, where colleagues considered him a role model who genuinely cared about his students. He also coached youth football and high school soccer, including an International Prep/Grover Cleveland team that won a statewide soccer championship. But when he was away from the city schools, Masecchia lived a second life, one far outside the law.
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1 month ago | 
stltoday.com | Lou Michel
Citing government concerns of possible witness intimidation, a judge refused Tuesday to unseal federal agents' requests for warrants to search the homes, computers and phones of a former DEA agent and the Cheektowaga strip club owner who is accused of bribing him. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer sided with Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M.
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1 month ago | 
stltoday.com | Lou Michel
Federal agents and state police executed a search warrant Thursday morning at the Amherst home of State Supreme Court Justice John Michalski, who was 13 months ago days after FBI agents questioned him about his friendship with the owner of a Cheektowaga strip club. A lawyer representing Michalski confirmed to The Buffalo News that the search was underway. “A search warrant has been executed at home of Judge Michalski. He and his wife are fully cooperating,” said Terrence M. Connors, the lawyer.
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1 month ago | 
stltoday.com | Lou Michel |Dan Herbeck
Cheektowaga strip club owner Peter G. Gerace Jr., who is the nephew of the man prosecutors claim runs the Buffalo Mafia, on Monday became the second person accused of bribing a Buffalo Drug Enforcement Administration agent to avoid arrest for drug dealing.
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1 month ago | 
stltoday.com | Dan Herbeck |Lou Michel
Police who raided the Amherst home of State Supreme Court Judge John L. Michalski were looking for evidence of tax crimes, two government sources told The Buffalo News this week. The sources said law enforcement officials are trying to determine whether an online retail clothing and jewelry business operated in the home has been following state and federal tax laws. And authorities are now seeking information about another individual – Michalski's wife, Susan – in addition to the judge.
