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2024-02-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-

DEA agent is on trial for taking $250,000 in bribes from the Mafia as he offered 'umbrella of protection' to mob-run strip club and even helped a high school teacher keep his weed-growing side hustle

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A former Drug Enforcement Agency official made $250,000 by taking bribes from the Mafia and offering protection to his criminal allies in Buffalo, New York, according to prosecutors.

Joseph Bongiovanni, 59, allegedly used the veneer of a veteran DEA agent to derail investigations of his childhood friends, cover for a sex-trafficking strip club and even help a connected high school English teacher keep his marijuana-growing side hustle.

Prosecutors in his ongoing federal say Bongiovanni was a greedy racist who threw his colleagues off by opening bogus case files and encouraging them to spend less time investigating Italians and more time on Blacks and Hispanics.

His protection ranged from providing an 'all clear' assuring trafficker friends they were not on law enforcement’s radar to leaking intelligence and opening fictitious cases that made it appear he was investigating them or relying on them as informants, prosecutors said, a sort of catch-and-kill tactic that prevented other law enforcement agencies from pursuing their own cases.

This also positioned Bongiovanni to receive notice any time another agency became interested in one of the targets, a process known as deconfliction.

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The Biden's don't like competition.

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#2 DEA - where individuals the FBI and ATF can't stomach find a home.

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