Prosecutors accuse strip club owner of exploiting vulnerable women to engage in commercial sex acts
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Prosecutors painted a Cheektowaga strip club owner as a “sexual predator” who groomed vulnerable exotic dancers with free drugs to coerce them into commercial sex acts with influential men who had deep pockets. U.S. Assistant Attorney Joseph Tripi said in his nearly two-hour-long opening statement Wednesday that Peter Gerace’s business model [...]