Both criminal charges have been dismissed against the daughter of the owner of a Sayreville strip club accused of running a “long-standing, family-run prostitution ring” out of Club XXXV, authorities confirmed Saturday.
The state Office of the Attorney General, which is now prosecuting the case, said money laundering and conspiracy charges against Angela Mancini, of Colts Neck, were dismissed “without prejudice,” on Aug. 23.
Her attorney, Jeffrey A. Bronster, said Mancini should have never been charged.
“None of this should have ever happened,” Bronster said in a statement. “Angela was pulled in to a situation she had nothing to do with. She was handcuffed at gunpoint and dragged out of her house in front of her young children and separated from her newborn baby for eight days waiting to be released from jail.
“To this day the entire family is traumatized and all for nothing. There is no case against her and there never was.”
Bronster filed a motion to dismiss the charges and prosecutors didn’t object, the attorney said.
A status conference for Mancini is scheduled for Thursday, the state Office of the Attorney General said.
Charges are pending against Mancini’s parents, Angela Acciardi and Anthony Acciardi Sr., as well as her brothers, Stephen Acciardi and Anthony Acciardi Jr. Three others are also charged in the case.
Bronster also represents Mancini’s mother, Angela Acciardi, the owner of the club.
The Acciardis are charged with money laundering, promoting prostitution and promoting organized street crime.
All were arrested after search warrants were executed at the business and several homes on June 13, 2022, officials said at the time.
The family rejected a plea agreement in court in March that would have taken jail time off the table. The Middlesex County Prosector’s Office originally filed the charges before the case was transferred to the Attorney General.
The prosecutor’s office referred questions to the prosecutor’s office.