FBI Agent Conspiring with Ayries Blanck Are Caught Trying to Use Backdated Journals in OneTaste Trial

The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York intends to use journal entries as evidence to prosecute Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz. The women face charges of conspiracy to engage in forced labor.

Prosecutors stated that a victim, Ayries Blanck, wrote journal entries during and after her time as a student and staff member of OneTaste. But prosecutors are focusing on 25 pages that document the two months following Blanck’s departure from OneTaste Inc., a company located in San Francisco and New York.

According to prosecutors, these handwritten journal entries, dated from January 15 to March 14, 2015, reveal “her physical and emotional condition shortly after leaving OneTaste.”

These 25 pages seem to detail in real-time the suffering she experienced.

From her journal, January 17, 2015:

Every morning, I count my ribs as I get dressed. I weigh myself religiously hoping I have gained weight. I left weighing 98 lbs. As I stand in front of the full length mirror I barely recognize the woman I have become. My hollowed out cheeks, deep circles under my eyes.

My bony ribs stick out even when I don’t lift my arms above my head. The smile that at one time reached my eyes is no longer there. The innocence and young girl filled with sparkle and magic is no longer there. Only deadness. Flat and endless. At times I feel the wasting in my body is only a reflection of the disintegration of my will to live.

Hearsay Exception Make Journals Evidence

Journals are generally not admissible as evidence due to the Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 802, which classifies them as hearsay—unsworn, out-of-court statements. After all, anyone can fabricate or backdate journal entries. However, there are exceptions under Rule 803. If journals describe events written during or immediately after their occurrence, where they are less susceptible to memory distortion, they can reflect the writer’s then-existing state of mind and be admissible.

Entries from Ayries’s 25 pages of journal entries from January 15 to March 14, 2015 seem to fit the hearsay exception:

For instance:

January 17, 2015:

I do not know what is wrong with me but I imagine it’s a response to the trauma, stress, and over working. My body started to shut down my last few months there. Eating anything always resulted in vomiting, I was not sleeping well and I was sleeping on the floor of the apartment in the living room because I was not allowed a bedroom anymore. I was extra, a cast off.  The night terrors had started, my hands and body shook, I was always cold and tired. So unbearably tired. I started to lose the feeling in my finger tips. And I cried. I cried almost every day I was in New York city. I was told I was a crazy erratic. Emotional. I realized I was being subjected to intensive emotional, psychological, and physical abuse. I am not surprised I cried every day and that my body began to shut down.

25 Pages of ‘Best Evidence’

The USA EDNY requested the judge let prosecutors read from Ayries’s journals because it relates to the period right after she left OneTaste and, according to the prosecution, includes:

“statements of her then-existing state of mind and future intent, including statements regarding her ongoing physical and psychological pain, and her intent to… rebuild her life.”

“statements that constitute present sense impressions of experiences that she recorded at or near the time they occurred, including records of her daily activities and disturbing dreams.”

“excited utterances written while [Ayries] was still under the stress and excitement of her departure from OneTaste—e.g., “[m]y psyche is breaking… my vision begins to swim and it feels like my mind is being pulled apart.”

Ayries “recorded the journals much closer in time to her experiences at OneTaste as part of her own personal healing process, indicating a high degree of trustworthiness. The journals constitute the best evidence of [Ayries’s] then-existing psychological and emotional state.”

Handwritten and Typed Versions of the Same Painful Time

As part of the discovery obligations, the prosecution provided the defense, in September 2023, with a 25-page typewritten version of Ayries’s journal entries dated from January 15 to March 14, 2015.

In July 2024, prosecutors provided the defense with 216 handwritten pages of Ayries’s journals. These pages included handwritten entries of the same time period – from January 15 to March 14, 2015, and closely matched the 25 typewritten pages given by the government 10 months earlier.

All 216 pages are handwritten. Twenty-five were both handwritten and typed. The government first gave the typed version, then provided the 216-page handwritten version. So which was written first?  The handwritten or the typed?

Linguistic Expert Looks at Ayries’s Writing Style

The defense engaged Dr. Robert Leonard, a forensic linguistics professor at Hofstra University, to analyze 25 typed pages of Ayries’s journal entries dated from January 15 to March 14, 2015, and compare them to her other known writings.

Dr. Leonard said, “The patterns absolutely don’t match… The differences in features here are simply overwhelming.”

Dr. Leonard observed that in her previous writings, Ayries often neglected to use periods and frequently made errors with apostrophes. She also made spelling mistakes, such as writing “Ide” instead of “I’d.” Additionally, she mistakenly used “your” when she meant to write “you’re,” and mixed up “to” with “too.”

In her 25-page journal, she stopped making those mistakes and learned the difference between “anymore” and “any more,” “everyday” and “every day,” and “it’s” and “its.” Previously, she spelled “massage” as “message” and “liar” as “lier.” For example, she wrote this on May 18, 2014.

“I have a habit of lying… I am a terrible lier. I was spinning my story, a very lame one at that, about how I was going to go see this message therapist when in reality I was going to see a myofascial release therapist… the more expensive bodywork that I wanted rather than just the message.”

In her journal, she spells words correctly.

February 28th, 2015

I have a massage scheduled. It is my first one in a very long time. It is actually the first human touch my body will experience since I left.”

If the journal is authentic, Ayries’s writing evolved from simple language filled with numerous spelling and punctuation errors to fluid prose with few spelling mistakes and minimal punctuation errors, aside from deliberate use of periods to emphasize her points.

January 15

I officially left on January 1 2015. It feels surreal and impossible that after almost three years of insanity, it’s now over. A gray numbness that has swallowed me. My hands still shake as I type and I am only able to eat a small amounts of soup without becoming sick. Paranoia lurks around me. Fearing at any moment somebody will pop out from behind me to drag me back.

She never wrote like this before.

She Read a Book Not Yet Written

There was something else suspicious.

From her journal dated February 22, 2015.

I was reading the book Post Traumatic Growth Guide and I used to believe I was a survivor, that I was stronger, more resilient, a better person because of the things I went through. …. That to know compassion, empathy and humility we need to experience the other side.  Onetaste used this to their advantage. The more pain I was in the more “growth” I was going to experience… It makes Onetaste the catalyst for my growth. It makes the rapist, abusive parents, and broken social system the catalyst for me to be a better version of myself. That I need pain and trauma to grow. …

According to the US Library of Congress, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook was published December 3, 2019, 4 years, 9 months, and 11 days after the date on her journal entry.

Perhaps Ayries may have misnamed the title. She meant another book already written.

Then how does one explain that Ayries wrote in her 2015 journal, “It makes Onetaste the catalyst for my growth”?

In Chapter 4 of The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook  the author states, “In particular, post-traumatic growth is fostered by reflecting upon our experiences in a way that provides a sense of meaning or purpose. From this lens, traumatic events can be catalysts for growth.”

It raises an issue, as Ayries both names and quotes as part of her “excited utterances” and “best evidence” “recorded at or near the time they occurred,” a book that was not published for another four years, 9 months, and 11 days.

Google Docs Reveal Fake Journal

The 25 pages of journal entries that the government wishes to present as Ayries’s real-time utterances, dated from January 15 to March 14, 2015, were actually typed on a Google Word Doc in 2022.

OneTaste obtained a court order in Los Angeles to forensically analyze Google documents shared by Ayries, her sister Autymn, and three women who produced a Netflix film.

OneTaste hired Jason Frankovitz to analyze the metadata.

Autymn acknowledged she had started a Google Word document on May 4, 2022, but testified it was opened solely for her to transcribe the handwritten journal entries from 2015, dated from January 15 to March 14. She needed to read these entries on camera for a Netflix documentary about OneTaste.

Autymn may not have been aware that forensic examiners can trace edits on a Google Doc.

If you start on May 4, 2022, with your sister’s seven-year-old handwritten journal, as Autymn mentioned she did, and transcribe it into a Google Doc, then over the next two weeks, you make changes—receiving edits from four women, adding details, changing dates, and reworking the wording—would the final version you complete on May 17, 2022, match the original handwritten journal from 2015, or the first transcribed version from May 4, 2022?

Obviously, it should match the first version if Autymn faithfully transcribed the original journal entries. Any subsequent changes on Google Word would not appear in the handwritten edition. But that is not how it worked out.

The handwritten journal matches the last of more than 54 edits over two weeks.

Some Peculiar Changes During the Editing Process

The 25-page journal contains Ayries’ statements about feeling so distraught from the defendants’ behavior that she could barely eat. In the May 6, 2022 edit of the Google Doc, Ayries mentioned she could only eat Cream of Wheat.

January 15th

…My hands still shake as I type and I am only able to eat a small amount of cream of wheat with butter, everything else I vomit up. The paranoia lurks around me. …

Autymn deleted Cream of Wheat and added soup.

She took out “the” in the next sentence.

“… My hands still shake as I type and I am only able to eat a small amounts of soup without becoming sick. Paranoia lurks around me…”

Other changes occurred: dates changed, events changed. As it went through its editorial process, nearly everything was altered.

Another significant change was the flight Ayries took to Washington State.

I left New York on a red eye flight. I was so scared that if anyone found out before I was on the plane they would find another way to pull me back and entrap me….

Ayries traveled from New York to Washington State and gained three hours; they don’t refer to East to West overnight flights as redeyes. The phrase “on a redeye flight” was removed.

May 17, 2022 version

I left New York. I was so scared that if anyone found out before I was on the plane they would find another way to pull me back and entrap me.

For those who’d like to have more proof, in the Google typed versions, it reads,

“My hands still shake as I type and I am only able to eat a small amounts of soup without becoming sick…”

But the government claims this is a handwritten journal. Why do Ayries’s hands shake as she types if she is using a pen and paper?

The handwritten version reads:

“My hands still shake and I am only able to eat a small amount of soup without becoming sick.”

Netflix Appearance

Autymn Blanck appears on Netflix and reads the counterfeit journal created for Netflix which the government wants to use.

On November 5, 2022, Netflix premiered “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste.” In the film, Autymn reads from Ayries’s journal, but Ayries does not appear.

Ayries states: “My sister started sending me journals when she got out of OneTaste, it was part of her therapy.”

How did she send them? Were they sent via email?

FBI Agent Acts Suspiciously

On November 8, 2022, FBI Special Agent Elliot McGinnis emailed Ayries, advising her to delete her email account.

Ayries Blanck

In a civil suit in Los Angeles, OneTaste subpoenaed Autymn to produce the journals her sister claimed she sent her in 2015.

Autymn testified she contacted FBI Special Agent McGinnis to inform him that OneTaste had issued a subpoena for the journals.

She stated Agent McGinnis advised her, “Send the handwritten journals to me. Don’t keep any copies. You’re subpoenaed, but you cannot produce what you don’t have.”

Autymn testified that she followed McGinnis’s instructions.

Frank Report Gets Original True Journal Entry Content

In a surprising twist, Frank Report has obtained the actual journal entries that Ayries Blanck hand wrote just before and after she left OneTaste. These entries cover the same period as the 25-page typed and handwritten journals submitted to the defense.

I did not obtain this information from OneTaste, the defendants or the government, but surprisingly from a relative of Ayries. I will explain later.

In the authentic journal, which is only four pages long, Ayries does not say anything negative about the defendants.

In contrast, the counterfeit 25-page version includes claims that Ayries is experiencing nightmares and survives on a diet of only soup (or Cream of Wheat), weighing just 98 pounds. It also states that she is reading a book that was not yet  written and writing in a style unlike her previous work. In the counterfeit version, she makes numerous damaging remarks about the defendants.

The Department of Justice has been informed: its prosecutors intend to use evidence regarding Ayries Blanck’s state of mind from 2015, specifically a fraudulent journal dated 2015, but actually written in 2022

In our next post, I will publish the contents of the handwritten journal written by Ayries. It reveals how she, Autymn, and FBI Special Agent McGinnis conspired to remove the original entries from the journal and replace them with 25 pages of counterfeit entries.

It’s criminal fraud.

To be continued…

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

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