BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A former Erie County Sheriff's deputy is the latest person to be charged in a federal probe into human trafficking activities involving the Royal Order of Jesters fraternal club.
The U.S. Attorney's office says Michael Lesinski, who retired in 2008, arranged for a limousine to take at least a dozen prostitutes from the Buffalo airport to a Jesters convention at a hotel in Niagara Falls Ontario in 2005.
Retired State Supreme Court Justice Ronald Tills is now in prison for recruiting prostitutes for Jesters events in Niagara Falls and other cities.
Lesinski is scheduled for arraignment in federal court this afternoon. His lawyer, Rodney Personius, says he's confounded by the decision to move forward in the case at this point. He says Lesinski will plead not guilty.
