Tony Cercy

Tony Cercy, the Casper businessman accused of sexually assaulting a woman at his lake house in June 2017 could go on trial in a federal lawsuit next September.

Prominent Casper businessman Tony Cercy recently denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman in 2017.

He is not facing criminal charges in the new filings as the allegations are being handled in civil court.

In December 2019, the Wyoming Supreme Court dismissed the November 2018 verdict of third-degree sexual assault.

Financier and socialite Jeffrey Epstein was charged a year ago with procuring a girl for prostitution and died in his jail cell by apparent suicide in August.

Tony Cercy's family moved to Texas and he is free on bond.

The Wyoming Supreme Court reversed the state district court's verdict and ordered the case be reconsidered.

Tony Cercy's attorney wrote he has been punished enough and should not have to endure the grief of a third trial.

Tony Cercy was released from prison on Tuesday.

CHEYENNE -- The second trial of former Casper businessman Tony Cercy in November, in which he was convicted of third-degree sexual assault and sentenced to a six- to eight-year prison term, violated his Fifth Amendment right to not be tried twice for the same crime, his attorney told the Wyoming Sup…