Peter Gerace definitely owned a strip club. It is not likely that Gerace did any human trafficking, but he stands accused of it. His father (Peter Gerace, Senior) is listed in Wikipedia as a mobster.
Peter Gerace Junior looks to be a small-time telemarketer, not a criminal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_crime_family
Re dig on John Michalski, definitely connected to Gerace. One anon said:
>The 1st attempt on the railroad tracks was on the same day the strip club owner got charged in Florida for the trafficking. Could be the mob was trying to get rid of him.
I have sources in Buffalo. Here is what they told me.
Back in the 1920s, the Michalski family and the Okoniewski family were blue-collar Polish-American families. At some point, the two families inter-married. Richard Okoniewski worked for City Hall, and sometimes did mortuary work as an undertaker/funeral director. For most of his life, he seemed to be extremely dignified – the Polish-American culture of the time demanded strict propriety from everybody, especially part-time undertakers. Richard Okoniewski was very unhappy about the apparent corruption of police in Buffalo and Western New York. One of his sons wanted to be a cop and Okoniewski discouraged it because corruption was intense. There are only three interesting things about Richard Okoniewski.
One, Richard Okoniewski was part of John Michalski's extended family.
Two, Richard Okoniewski was dignified enough to do some chores for the FBI.
Three, Richard Okoniewski took the blame for some crime that happened at City Hall, but Okoniewski said he didn't do it and I believe that.
My analysis is that both Michalski and Okoniewski were small-time bureaucrats. I don't think they did anything unusual. But I think both of them were similarly naive. I think both of them trusted too many corrupt politicians and cops. And I think both got stabbed in the back by corrupt officials. (Now, I don't know how close the younger Gerace was to Michalski. The fact that the two men were friendly at all is enough to damn Michalski in the eyes of The Buffalo News, which is a lousy rag not fit to be called a newspaper.)
Michalski and Okoniewski were both often accused of nebulous wrongdoing by shady accusers. I don't trust their accusers. That does not prove either man was a paragon of virtue. Maybe they were good guys, maybe not. It looks to me like Okoniewski was naive enough to trust the wrong people and take the fall for a crime somebody else committed. Michalski may well have been a small-time "white hat" wanna-be who could have caused problems for big-time "black hats." Michalski worked for the district attorney for a long time and was good friends with a lot of cops and cop-adjacent lawyers. He was an upwardly mobile lawyer for decades and for all that time, nobody made much noise about Michalski's friendship with Gerace (the strip club owner). It is not at all evident that the human-trafficking accusations against Gerace have ANY basis in fact. But if Gerace was mixed up in human trafficking, a LOT of Buffalo officials must have been turning blind eyes for decades.
Re Okoniewski, The Buffalo News is a crappy paper, and it claimed:
>North Council Member Dale L. Zuchlewski today said Council members were told that Okoniewski, of 215 Fillmore Ave., admitted taking only about $200. But it is believed that up to $600 might actually have been taken.
But here's the thing, Okoniewski told his family he didn't do it, somebody else was taking money, and they somehow found a way to pin it on him. So when the Buffalo News says he admitted to taking the money, I suspect the Buffalo News is stretching a half-truth into an outright lie. (Or maybe Okoniewski was stone-cold enough to lie convincingly to his family, but I doubt that.)
Link on Okoniewski crime allegation:
https://buffalonews.com/news/accused-of-thefts-deputy-city-clerk-resigns/article_c55879dc-9a7b-58e7-ad63-a28c62d7d8a0.html
Link on Okoniewski with FBI:
https://buffalonews.com/news/wife-of-late-mob-informant-battles-for-his-estate-two-children-of-secretly-married-sacco/article_21d97e9c-4ed7-58bb-b406-84200947f378.html
Now this is 8kun, so we don't care about typical stuff. And this is qresearch, so we know about Pizzagate. Human trafficking can happen with or without Pizzagate connections. Buffalo is an ideal place for human trafficking – it's right on the border and is full of weird people.
Digging on police corruption in Buffalo is likely to be laborious. I suspect that Michalski's suicide is irrelevant to the suicides mentioned by Q but if you want to dig, the exact nature of the connection between Gerace and Michalski is likely to be the most fruitful.