Defense lawyers for Joseph Bongiovanni asked a federal judge to set aside his guilty verdicts, saying that what the Drug ...

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

A former drug dealer, a Buffalo schoolteacher with alleged mafia ties, and a DEA agent all wound up at the center of one of the city’s biggest federal cases.

Eight months after retiring from the DEA, Joseph Bongiovanni, 55, was accused of taking $250,000 in bribes from drug dealers whom he believed to have ties to “Italian organized ...

After two decades as a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Joseph Bongiovanni found out what it was like to be the target of a criminal investigation at 6 a.m. on June 6, 2019. He awoke with ...

Federal judge releases Michael Masecchia, ex-Buffalo teacher once sentenced for drug-related charges. Discover the details surrounding his release.

They said Gerace got away with these crimes for a decade, in part because of his relationships with law enforcement, including bribing his high school friend, former DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni.

Joseph Bongiovanni, 59, was charged with 11 counts in a federal case that alleges he took more than $250,000 in bribes from the Buffalo Mafia to sabotage drug probes and to protect a strip club owned ...

Joseph Bongiovanni, 60, was found guilty of seven out of the 11 counts against him, including obstruction of justice and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, the Associated Press reports.