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APharaoh's Gentlemen's Club bouncer turned "a blind eye" to the illicit drug use and sex acts that victimized dancers inside the Cheektowaga strip club "day after day after day," a prosecutor said Thursday.
A federal grand jury indicted Brian Rosenthal, a Pharaoh's employee since 2007 or 2008, on conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, lying to the FBI and concealing a felony.
"He was one of the people who allowed the crimes to happen over and over again," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi said at hearing Thursday as he asked for Rosenthal's pretrial detention.
U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder Jr. declined to detain Rosenthal, saying he found no clear and convincing evidence that he is a danger to the community or a flight risk.
Joseph Barsuk was indicted on the sex-trafficking conspiracy count as well as sex trafficking by coercion, and he remains detained. His detention hearing is scheduled for next week. |