An Allegany County man who last month woke up next to a dead government witness in the Pharaoh’s strip club case is now the target of a witness tampering investigation, federal prosecutors said Thursday. FBI raids house while investigating death of witness against strip club owner FBI raids house while investigating death of witness against strip club owner FBI agents executed a search warrant at an Allegany County home last week while investigating the death of a former exotic dancer who was going to testify as a prosecution witness at the trial of strip club owner Peter Gerace Jr. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Cooper told a judge that his office intends to file witness tampering charges against Simon P. Gogolack 39, of Wellsville. Gogolack already faces felony charges of conspiring to sell narcotics, maintaining a drug-involved premises and three firearms offenses. In an indictment that was unsealed Thursday, prosecutors said the deadly narcotic fentanyl is one of the drugs allegedly sold by Gogolack. A previously convicted drug dealer, Gogolack has been been under federal investigation since Aug. 1, when former exotic dancer Crystal Quinn, 37, died in Gogolack’s home of what authorities suspect was a drug overdose.
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