BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Ex-DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni has been found guilty on seven of the 11 charges against him in a re-trial, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, a jury decided in U.S. Federal Court on Thursday. Bongiovanni was previously found guilty on two charges, including obstruction of justice and making false statements in his first trial earlier this year, but a jury failed to reach a verdict on 12 of the 15 total counts against him, including the most serious charges of conspiracy, accepting bribes and drug-related offenses. In July, he was acquitted of one of the bribery charges. This time around, he was found guilty of the following charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States conspiracy to distribute controlled substances obstruction of justice (4 counts) false statements to an agency of the United States He was found not guilty of the four other charges, which included another count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, another count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, a fourth count of obstruction of justice and public official accepting a bribe. The jury came to the verdict early in its fourth day of deliberations. It began the fourth day at 9 a.m. Thursday and reached the verdict around 11 a.m. He was not detained following the verdict, but will be on house arrest with an ankle monitor until sentencing, which is set for June 9, 2025. The jury had been struggling to come to a verdict on Wednesday, prompting Judge Lawrence Vilardo to issue a "dynamite" charge, which encouraged jurors in the minority to change their stance. Jury struggling to reach verdict in Bongiovanni retrial Bongiovanni, 60, was originally charged with accepting over $250,000 in bribes from who the prosecution referred to as “Italian organized crime members,” who allegedly worked with the ex-DEA agent to derail investigations into themselves. He is accused of opening fake case files and encouraging colleagues to spend less time investigating Italians and more time on Black people and Hispanics. He is further accused of hastily retiring and wiping his cell phone clean when he was first accused by authorities in 2019. Prosecutors also alleged Bongiovanni worked closely with co-defendant Peter Gerace, the owner of Pharoah’s Gentleman’s Club in Cheektowaga, saying the site was used for drugs and sex trafficking. Prosecutors said that he helped childhood friends as well as assisting a connected high school English teacher in keeping a marijuana-growing side hustle. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Latest Local News Ex-DEA agent Joseph Bongiovanni found guilty on seven charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States “I feel like Keanu in ‘The Matrix'”: Marlon Wayans feels at the top of his game ahead of Niagara Falls show Red Cross of WNY holding ‘volunteer boot camp’ amid urgent need for shelter workers NYS trooper seriously injured in September crash returns home after surgeries Allentown residents speak out after kidnapping, assault on Virginia Street Aidan Joly joined the News 4 staff in 2022. He is a graduate of Canisius College. You can see more of his work here. Marlee Tuskes is an award-winning anchor and reporter who has been part of the News 4 team since 2019. See more of her work here and follow her on Twitter.