#Tiffany Ap

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[darklinaforever]

Already the antis / haters are shocked that I ship Noa and Mae, a human and a generally humanoid ape...

Now that I completely ship a human and a kind of spider monster ? (with a consciousness like humans overall) What are they going to do ? 😂

[nuzzle]

breakfast at tiffany's, along with afternoon tea. had the pleasure of indulging in the most delicious finger sandwiches ever! the pastries were so soft and buttery smooth, they made for a perfect snack. i would have much preferred to wear a tiffany blue coord for the occasion, but all of my sax items were quite a few shades too light in comparison.. maybe next time!

[nightxaviation]

i don't wanna sleep i wanna listen to mr. mr. by girls generation 😔

[fearepixeuhv]

Let's gooooo

[petewentzisblack1312]

the thing is. people dont like sunshine riptide and people dont like the samples in ab/ap and people dont like the mighty fall and people dont like tiffany blews and people think thriller is when fall out boy sold out and no one recognizes the cover art of tttyg is a reference to coltranes blue train. and im weird for seeing a pattern in this.

[hannahmanderr]

I see your increasingly eldritch ghost form for Danny, and I raise you:

Phantom who, instead of looking more ghostly, is just a little too much like a human.

Like yeah, everyone knows Danny Fenton can send literal chills up people's spines and they swear they've seen his eyes start to glow in the right light, but have you seen Phantom? Like why isn't his skin green or blue or even deathly white? It's a lot healthier looking than Fenton's, that's for sure.

And just about every ghost that comes through has crazy sharp fangs, but if anything, Phantom's canines are just a little sharper than normal, but really they don't look too different than Wes' when he's on one of his rage induced rants.

Not to mention the physical presence he has in Amity Park. The way he inhabits space just feels different than most other ghosts, as if Phantom is somehow more connected to the physical world. Like why is he opening doors when he can just phase through them?

Kat, who works the after school shifts at the Nasty Burger with Valerie, swears up and down that she's seen him sitting on the roof, eating two or three burgers at a time (and sharing his fries with the little blob ghost family that lives in the dumpsters).

Dale knows for a fact he's seen Phantom talking on a cell phone of all things with someone. Even claims he heard Phantom mention something about playing DOOMED.

Mrs. Greigerit, the tiny old lady who's cashiered at the grocery store since forever, loves to talk about the time Phantom grabbed a few first aid supplies off the shelves after a ghost attack to help a woman and her toddler patch up until EMS arrived. According to her, he knew exactly how to work with these things meant to heal humans, and he even left a crumpled handful of human cash on her counter to pay for the supplies before he disappeared.

Amity Park notices, just like they notice the strangeness that surrounds Danny Fenton. But really, maybe it's just AP weirdness finally rubbing off on Phantom.

Everyone brushes it off until Jack and Maddie Fenton do the unthinkable and offer their help to Phantom after a particularly nasty fight.

"We saw him there, and... we saw just another person who needed help," Jack tells Tiffany Snow later that day. "A kid who could've been going to school with mine. What else were we supposed to do?"

[sirenedeslily]

VIDEO OBSESSION〻ᯇ # matthew sturniolo

✦ SEARCHING FOR PROFILES… two results found !

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[podado-t-memes]

Part 16 Of my could sam and dean survive series, here are other the parts:

Light Yagami / A Quiet Place / Carrie / Psycho / The Ring / Carrie / Psycho / Alien / The Shining / Mean Girls / Hocus Pocus / Rocky Horror / Midsomer / IT / Planet of the Apes / Jurassic World / Attack on Titan / White Chicks /

[cafenostalgique]

My ultimate film watchlist (1960s-1970s)

1930s-1940s | 1950s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s

Welcome to part three of my personal ultimate film watchlist! For an explanation, please see part one listed under the 1930s-1940s tab. Otherwise, let's get on with the list!

To preface, this is probably going to be one of the shorter installments in this series, solely because some years release banger after banger, and others end with little excitement in the industry. I'm sure there were reasons for this outside of just the studios. I'm also no well-versed, nor entirely interested in films from these decades, as this is when both soft-core, and full-on pornography became a lot more common. There are some suspicious films in this list that I want to watch primarily for the historical context it provides to the era, however there's no guarantee I'll finish them. Some film discriptions are also very vague during this era, so be sure to look up reviews before watching lesser-known films!

watched | loved| wouldn’t watch again | holiday

1960

Breathless

Eyes Without a Face

House of Usher

La Dolce Vita

L'Avventura

Little Shop of Horrors

Peeping Tom

Pollyanna

Psycho

Spartacus

Swiss Family Robinson

Ten Who Dared

The Apartment

The Time Machine

The Virgin Spring

Toby Tyler

1961

Babes in Toyland

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Greyfriars Bobby

Last Year at Marienbad

Nikki, Wild Dog of the North

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

One, Two, Three

The Absent-Minded Professor

The Innocents

The Parent Trap

West Side Story

1962

Cape Fear

Carnival of Souls

Dr. No

Ivan's Childhood

Lawrence of Arabia

La Jetée

L'Eclisse

Lolita

My Life to Live

The Exterminating Angel

The Manchurian Candidate

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

The Miracle Worker

To Kill a Mockingbird

1963

Bye Bye Birdie

Charade

Cleopatra

Contempt

From Russia with Love

Son of Flubber

The Birds

The Great Escape

The Sword in the Stone

1964

A Fistful of Dollars

A Hard Day's Night

Bikini Beach

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Goldfinger

Mary Poppins

My Fair Lady

Red Desert

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Woman in the Dunes

1965

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Dr. Zhivago

Help!

Repulsion

The Sound of Music

Thunderball

1966

Blow-Up

Daisies

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Persona

Seconds

1967

Belle De Jeur

Bonnie and Clyde

Magical Myster Tour

Marketa Lazarová

The Crucible

The Graduate

The Jungle Book

Weekend

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Funny Girl

Night of the Living Dead

Planet of the Apes

Rosemary's Baby

The Love Bug

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

Yellow Submarine

1969

Army of Shadows

Baby Love

Freedom to Love

Frosty the Snowman

Hello, Dolly!

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Pippi Longstocking

Romeo and Juliet

The Gay Deceivers

The Littlest Angel

1970

Let It Be

Love Story

M*A*S*H

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

The Aristocats

1971

A Clockwork Orange

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

1972

1776

Silent Running

Sisters

The Godfather

1973

American Graffiti

Badlands

Robinhood

Soylent Green

The Exorcist

The Way We Were

The Wicker Man

1974

Earthquake

Herbie Rides Again

The Godfather Part II

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

1975

Escape to Witch Mountain

Jaws

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1976

All the President's Men

A Star is Born

Carrie

Freaky Friday

Rocky

Taxi Driver

The Omen

1977

A Tale of Two Critters

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Saturday Night Fever

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

The Hills Have Eyes

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Rescuers

1978

An Unmarried Woman

Grease

Halloween

Halloween with the New Addams Family

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Piranha

Return from Witch Mountain

The Initiation of Sarah

1979

Alien

Mad Max

The Black Hole

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[starstruckbyacomet]

Sad Boy Trump

The youngest Trump didn't look happy during the inauguration.

Source: The Guardian

Barron Trump was 10 years old when Donald Trump became President of the United States for the first time. He's 18 y.o. now. A college freshman. He surely knows more about a lot of things than he did eight years ago. However, he doesn't look happy during the inauguration proceeding.

Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump, Barron Trump, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump arrive for the inauguration of Donald Trump in the US Capitol rotunda on Monday in Washington DC. Photograph: Getty Images

Family members of Donald Trump, including Barron Trump, stand in the first row during the inauguration ceremony before Trump is sworn in as the 47th US president in the US Capitol rotunda in Washington DC, on Monday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/Reuters

Barron Trump and Melania Trump listen to Christopher Macchio sing during the inauguration in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington on Monday. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

He tried to look happy though, when he realized that a camera focused on him:

Barron Trump in the Capitol rotunda. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/AP

Barron is barely an adult now. There would be a lot of eyes on his father, his family, and himself for the next four years. With how divisive Trump's leadership is, there would be a lot of anger and hatred directed towards them too. However, hopefully we can agree to spare him from this ugly war. Let him live without the burden of his father's sins.

[cmesinic]

Tiffany is Wisconsin’s very own MTG, sh*t stirrer.

[marvelmaniac715]

This is the AU I was talking about where Chucky is Death and Tiffany falls in love with him. It’s darker than my usual fanfictions, it involves child death and (for the first time) descriptions of death; suicide and murder, but I felt compelled to write it. Trigger warnings if any of those topics affect you, I totally understand if this fic isn’t for you. But if you do read it, I hope you enjoy it, because despite the dark subject matter, I really loved writing it.

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Tiffany was twenty years old when her mother died. She was in the room when it happened, standing by her frail, sick mother’s bedside, clutching her paper-white, shaking hand in her’s, listening to the rasping, slowed breathing emanating from the older woman’s struggling chest and lungs. She was the only other person in the room, but then, she saw him. 

He was slender, and immensely pale, with the most striking thing about him being his bright blue eyes. Inky black tendrils of curly hair reached down to his shoulders, framing his thin face. He was dressed all in black, with a black silk shirt and a black trench coat that billowed around his waist as he crept with catlike movements across the room. He didn’t acknowledge Tiffany, who was gazing at him in shock and awe. Instead, he went to Tiffany’s mother, Victoria, and gently took her other hand, shaking her awake just as Tiffany felt the life leave her with her last breath. The man softly called out:

“Victoria, you have to come with me now, it’s time.”

At that moment, Victoria Valentine’s spirit lifted from her body, pure and shining with indescribable joy and relief. She took the man’s hands as he politely nodded at her, then the two drifted into the distance, leaving Tiffany in stunned contemplation.

It had been such a short interaction, barely an interaction at all, but the very moment she set eyes on him, Tiffany Valentine fell in love, and was desperate to see him again. But she didn’t want to die, and it would be inconvenient to wait a long time at a hospital or a retirement home for somebody to naturally die, so that left only one solution to this problem…

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Tiffany’s first murder was desperate and mildly sloppy. The victim was her boyfriend at the time, who she had decided to dump in the most brutal way possible in favour of the man she didn’t even know the name of. All she knew was that he had to be Death himself, so murder was the only plausible way to see him again.

The smell of a rotting corpse was an acquired taste, and Tiffany loathed the sensation of hot, sticky blood under her nails, but it was all worth it when he slowly and gracefully entered the room, examine the corpse with morbid fascination. He didn’t look at Tiffany though - something she would have to fix for next time - but it was all worth it just to see him again, to briefly breathe the same air (if he even breathed at all).  She should have felt horrified about taking an innocent human life, but strangely, Tiffany couldn’t bring herself to care.

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The next four murders were all about trial and error, trying to discover the best and most efficient methods to kill, and any ways that might make Death notice her as well as the murdered victims. Whilst committing her sixth murder, the brilliant idea struck her to hug the corpse against her own body, arms wrapped around it, forcing Death to touch and acknowledge her as he claimed yet another soul.

When he came, he examined the corpse with the same morbid fascination as he had the other five murders, and then, to Tiffany’s immense delight, he locked eyes with her for the very first time. Death cocked his head to the side, incredibly amused as he teasingly asked:

“Trying to get my attention, are you?”

Tiffany had no words, she simply nodded, breathless, as she felt blood rushing to her cheeks and her heart beating faster. Death’s teasing attitude faded as he softly said:

“Well, you’ve certainly gained my attention, not to mention my approval. Just to clarify, you did this all by yourself?”

Again, Tiffany nodded, causing Death to grin and step closer to her.

“Well done, I can’t say that anybody has killed so many people in order to gain my attention in quite some time - I’m impressed by your dedication, but I still have to wonder… why did you wish for me to notice you in the first place, Tiffany?”

Tiffany gulped nervously and decided to just come out with it immediately:

“I-I think I might love you.”

Death’s face went slack as he stumbled backwards into a wall, shaking his head  as he insisted:

“No- nobody has ever loved me. From the moment of my creation I have been feared, hated even. Children cry if they see me come near, children, young ones who have not yet developed prejudice. If the innocent, untainted minds of young children can find me horrifying to behold, how is it that anybody can truly love me?”

Tiffany’s eyes became steely with resolve as she repeated with much more confidence:

“I love you.”

Death shook his head again, sadly mouthed the word ‘no’ then turned his attention to the dead victim. He didn’t acknowledge her again that day, but Tiffany knew that something was beginning - something strange yet wonderful.

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Tiffany killed again and again, and each time she grew more bold, daring to lay out a romantic candlelit dinner for two to share with Death every once in a while. Every time he saw her, Death would politely nod his head, occasionally making awkward small talk, unused to interacting with humans. But this wasn’t enough for Tiffany, she would beg him to stay, beg him to tell her about himself, with her efforts ultimately being in vain nine times out of ten.

But occasionally, if he was in an exceptionally good mood, like today, Tiffany could gently coax some information out of him. As Death politely sipped at a glass of wine, Tiffany asked:

“What is your name?”

The man blinked in genuine surprise, swallowing his mouthful before quietly admitting:

“I was never given one. All I am is Death, so that is what I have become.”

Tiffany suddenly felt extremely indignant on his behalf as she stubbornly insisted:

“Well, everybody needs a name! It’s not right for you to just- just not have one! I can fix this, I can-‘

Death cut her off by raising a hand and staring at her intently, asking:

“How do you intend to ‘fix it’, Tiffany?”

Tiffany frowned for a moment in concentration, before meeting Death’s gaze.

“I’m sure I can think of a name for you, would you like a proper name?”

The man nodded, so Tiffany wracked her brain in order to come up with the right name. Then it hit her. She had been reading David Copperfield earlier that day, a book written by…

“How about ‘Charles’?”

Death smiled at this and nodded.

“Charles? Alright, I like it.”

Emboldened by her success with naming Death, Tiffany slowly leant towards Death - no, Charles now, she had to remember that - and tried to kiss him, only for him to back away and shake his head.

“No, as I’ve already said, nobody loves me. I’m not… entirely indifferent to you, but I can never stay for long, it wouldn’t work. So I beg you, for your own sake, please forget me and live your life, start a family, just stop trying to summon me.”

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Tiffany tried a few more times to summon Charles, to talk to him, but he wouldn’t even look at her, focusing solely on gently guiding the recently deceased souls to the afterlife. So, entirely heartbroken, Tiffany decided to take his advice to heart. She stopped killing, giving up on gaining his attention again, and she found a husband - Henry - a kind man who was… sweet… but nothing like Charles. She ached to see him again, and to her surprise, her prayers were answered on her wedding day.

At Tiffany’s wedding reception, an elderly guest had an unexpected heart attack - they didn’t survive. When Charles arrived, he was mildly disheartened to find that he was at Tiffany’s wedding, as he had secretly hoped that she would not take his advice to this extent. But still, he went to find her, in the beautiful, lantern-lit gazebo just outside the reception hall, and he remained civil. He told her:

“You look beautiful.”

Tiffany blushed and said:

“Thank you, Mister Death.”

The man grinned and shook his head, saying:

“No, it’s Charles, remember?”

Tiffany grinned as well, giggling softly. The two stood in silence for a moment, then, in the distance, the wedding band began to play, probably in a desperate attempt to distract from the heart attack. It was a slow dance, and, given that there was nobody else around, Charles shrugged, offered his hand to Tiffany and politely enquired:

“May I have this dance?”

And so, that is what they did - Charles and Tiffany shared their first dance in a small gazebo whilst a crowd of people panicked over an elderly man’s heart attack a few miles away. The dance solidified in Tiffany’s mind the fact that she did not truly love Henry, not as much as she loved Charles, and if she disregarded her ‘husband’, this day could have been her wedding to Charles instead.

For years afterwards, she remembered this day, this one moment of happiness, in her heart, and she dwelled upon it whenever she felt upset. She stuck to his advice and killed nobody else, so she couldn’t see him, but these memories were the next best thing.

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A few years after her wedding, Tiffany had two five year old twins. They were the light of her life, and she loved them more than anything. She was a single mother, because poor, unlucky Henry suffered a fatal accident at work (an incident that, surprisingly, did not involve Tiffany). 

Glen and Glenda were wonderful children, and Tiffany was very happy, but with Henry gone, there was nobody to even pretend to fill the hole left in her heart that Charles had left behind. She had resigned herself to never seeing him again, but one day, Glen let out a rattling cough, and Glenda began complaining of dizziness. That night, as she tucked her children into bed, she saw Charles poke his head through the door. Despite her joy at seeing him, a chill ran down her spine.

The next day, the twins were even sicker, and Charles wasn’t even trying to hide his presence, hovering over the twins’ beds, a concerned expression on his face (he always mourned when he had to escort little ones to the afterlife). Tiffany had to go to work, but she didn’t feel comfortable going when Charles - Death himself - was watching over her children and touching them, stroking their hair and giving Tiffany sad, meaningful glances.

But she couldn’t afford to not go, so she told her children:

“I love you both, always remember that.”

The twins were too weak to respond, but Charles whispered:

“They love you too, and they always will.”

Seeing her fear, Charles continued sympathetically:

“They won’t suffer, I always try to numb any pain that children and the very sick experience when it comes time for them to cross over. And I’ll watch over them, I always watch over the little ones who cross over into my realm. They’ll surely miss you, but they will be alright.”

Somehow, this cheered Tiffany up a little, and she went to work in slightly higher spirits. A few hours after she left, Glen and Glenda were able to see Charles, and he crouched down in front of them, taking one of each twin’s hands in his and giving them a reassuring squeeze as he asked them gently:

“Would you like to meet your grandmother? She’s sad that you’re coming so soon, but she’s been looking forward to seeing you.”

Then he stepped back and reached his arms out for a hug. Glen and Glenda looked at each other and nodded, suddenly feeling a lot better, with their coughs and fevers no longer troubling them. They also felt quite weightless, and without a moment’s hesitation, they willingly entered Death’s chilling embrace, feeling content in the knowledge that they would be in no more pain.

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Tiffany, despite being reassured by Charles that they would not suffer, took the death of her children quite hard. She had no friends and no real interests outside of caring for her children or… well, death. She didn’t want to keep going, and she wanted to see him again, even it was only one more time for a few brief moments. So she came up with a plan.

She chose one of her favourite movies to watch as she stepped into her bathtub, taking one last swig of wine to give her courage. Then, he appeared, in his black shirt and trench coat, looking at her with a great deal of regret.

“Are you sure you want to do this?”

Tiffany nodded, which seemed to solidify the decision in both of their minds. Charles stepped forwards and kneeled down next to the tub, taking her hands in his.

“Then… I’ll stay with you until it happens.”

Tiffany took a deep breath and began to raise her arms towards the television perched on the edge of her tub, hands still clasped in Charles’ icy grip. With his hands on top of her’s, gently guiding her, Tiffany pushed the television into her tub. There was a light shock, and then… weightlessness. Tiffany sort of floated out of the tub, and stood there, in her bathrobe, staring at Charles in disbelief, not quite understanding how she had done it.

Then, there was a tugging on the hem of her robe. Tiffany looked down to see the faces of her children - entirely healthy - beaming up at her. Charles had kept his promise, her babies were happy and healthy. She took a moment to hug the twins and run her hands through their curls, then she kissed them both on the tops of their heads and turned to Charles, who smiled warmly at her.

Tiffany practically ran into his embrace, not caring in the slightest about the chill, and then, for the very first time, he kissed her. It was strange - Tiffany had always heard that the kiss of Death was a horrific thing, but at that moment, it was the most wonderful thing she had ever experienced.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The way prosecutors tell it, Joseph Bongiovanni went to work for years with a “little dark secret.”

Behind the veneer of a veteran U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, they alleged, was a turncoat on the take from the Buffalo Mafia, offering an “umbrella of protection” that derailed investigations of his childhood friends, covered for a sex-trafficking strip club and even helped a connected high school English teacher keep his marijuana-growing side hustle.

In a federal trial that began this month, prosecutors portrayed Bongiovanni as a greedy racist who pocketed more than $250,000 in cash-stuffed envelopes over a decade and 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, “n----- and s----” he was alleged to have called them. When authorities finally unmasked him in 2019, he hastily retired and wiped his cellphone clean.

“Sometimes the DEA doesn’t get it right,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tripi told jurors. “He was able to manipulate everyone because, in law enforcement, there’s a certain amount of trust that’s inherent. He did it under the watch of supervisors who under-supervised him.”

The 59-year-old Bongiovanni has denied the counts of bribery, conspiracy and obstruction of justice that could land him behind bars for life, charges his attorney says are built on lies “so fanciful they don’t just strain credibility, they rip it apart.”

The trial is the latest gut punch to the 4,100-agent DEA, which has seen at least 16 agents brought up on federal charges since 2015, a parade of misconduct that has revealed gaping holes in the agency’s supervision.

The crimes have included child pornography, drug trafficking, leaking intelligence to defense attorneys and selling firearms to cartel associates, an Associated Press analysis found. One carried a “Liberty or Death” flag and flashed his badge outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Another infiltrated the DEA in Chicago and helped traffickers smuggle thousands of kilos of cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York.

At least three veteran agents are serving prison sentences of a decade or longer, including one who laundered money for cartels in Colombia and spent lavishly on expensive sports cars and Tiffany jewels, and an Arkansas-based agent recorded taking a bribe inside a Las Vegas casino.

The cases, coming amid an epidemic of more than 100,000 fatal drug overdoses a year, often present yearslong headaches for the U.S. Justice Department to determine whether any investigations were tainted when rogue agents betrayed the badge.

“We should not expect to see this much crime in one law enforcement agency,” said Rachel Moran, an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. “The common thread I see here is a lack of oversight and accountability.”

The DEA declined to comment. DEA Administrator Anne Milgram is herself the subject of an ongoing Inspector General inquiry examining whether the agency improperly hired some of her past associates.

Like other DEA scandals, the Bongiovanni case underscores recurring questions about the agency’s hiring standards and ability to root out corruption. Background checks didn’t turn up Bongiovanni’s prior drug use and ties to Italian organized crime in his native Buffalo, prosecutors said, and not a single member of law enforcement was on to him until a trafficker paying for Bongiovanni’s protection was arrested by another agency. “He’s got that little dark secret,” Tripi said.

The trial, expected to last two months, is part of a broader sex-trafficking prosecution that has taken sensational turns, including an implicated judge who killed himself after the FBI raided his home, law enforcement dragging a pond in search of an overdose victim and dead rats planted outside the home of a government witness who prosecutors allege was later killed by a fatal dose of fentanyl.

Bongiovanni was raised in a tight-knit Italian American community in North Buffalo and known as a “door kicker” in the DEA, defense attorney Parker MacKay said, “not the type to sit in front of a computer.”

In his high school yearbook, Bongiovanni said he wanted to be a billionaire. But prosecutors said he went through financial struggles during his two-decade career that made him vulnerable to taking bribes.

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.

Bongiovanni also is accused of vouching for criminals, filing bogus reports and swiping a sensitive DEA case file on organized crime that he stored in his basement after his abrupt retirement.

Among the rackets Bongiovanni is accused of protecting is Pharoah’s Gentlemen’s Club, a strip club outside Buffalo described by prosecutors as a haven for drug use and sex trafficking. Bongiovanni was childhood friends with the owner, Peter Gerace Jr., who authorities allege has close ties to both the Buffalo Mafia and the notoriously violent Outlaws Motorcycle Club.

Prosecutors said Gerace had the agent on speed dial for advice when he needed to cover up the overdose of a stripper. The evidence includes a voicemail in which Gerace asks Bongiovanni about tracing a drug dealer’s cellphone. “Is there a way to ping it like police do?” he said, according to court records. “I just want to know if you could do that or not.”

Gerace attorney Mark Foti said his client “denies all charges and looks forward to confronting the government’s evidence at his trial.”

The long list of witnesses in the case includes dozens of federal law enforcement officers and a public school teacher of 30 years who admitted running a marijuana-growing operation while receiving confidential information from Bongiovanni.

Prosecutor Tripi said Bongiovanni had two sets of rules, one for cronies lining his pockets and another for everyone else.

“He did just enough legitimate work to avoid detection,” he said. “He almost got away with it.”