The trial start date for the Pharaoh’s strip club case, already postponed three times, appears headed for another delay as a federal judge deals with what he recently called “the mess that this case is in right now.”
Pharaoh's trial likely to be delayed again as judge deals with 'mess that this case is in right now'
- Patrick Lakamp News Enterprise Editor
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The entrance to Pharaoh’s Gentlemen’s Club in Cheektowaga, where John Ermin worked as general manager. His attorney denies that Ermin is the international leader of the Outlaws.
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Items seized from the Outlaws clubhouse and homes lead to the unmistakable conclusion that members of the club will harm informants, Assistant…
Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford reversed a magistrate judge's December order that had set conditions for John Ermin's release.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo ordered separate trials Wednesday for Peter Gerace Jr., owner of Pharaoh’s Gentlemen’s Club, and retired …
John Ermin, who has been identified by prosecutors as general manager of the Pharaoh’s strip club, was charged with possessing firearms while …
An Amherst police detective has been charged with lying to FBI agents about his dealings with Peter Gerace Jr., the Cheektowaga strip club own…
Federal prosecutors will be allowed to use nearly 460,000 documents taken from the cellphone of Peter Gerace Jr. as evidence in the trial of t…
A judge Tuesday decided to keep in pretrial custody a Batavia man arrested in the Pharaoh’s strip club investigation.
A former Pharaoh's Gentlemen's Club employee faces three counts of witness tampering over accusations she assaulted a witness in a sex- and dr…
Prosecutors will not be free to say Mafia or La Cosa Nostra – or even soldier and connected – whenever they please, although U.S. District Jud…
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 dr…
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 pros…
Prosecutors raised concerns over witness safety and anxiety, given what they call the extensive media coverage of the bribery, sex- and drug-t…
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo also declined to reconsider a prior court order that has detained Peter Gerace Jr., the owner of Pharaoh’…
The arrests have implications for Peter Gerace Jr., the owner of the Cheektowaga club, who faces up to life imprisonment in the high-profile case.

