Frank Parlato
Federal Trial of Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz Begins Soon
The federal jury trial of Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz is set to start in less than a month in Brooklyn.
The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York has charged the two women with one crime: conspiracy to commit forced labor. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison.
This is the first time the Department of Justice has charged anyone with a single charge of conspiring to force labor without also accusing them of actually forcing someone to labor.
Without having forced anyone to labor, the case has no victims—only potential victims. The prosecution cannot have it both ways. You cannot fail to charge forced labor, then claim you have victims of forced labor, a crime you did not charge, and therefore do not have to prove forced labor—just call people victims in front of the jury.
No, it doesn’t work that way.
The EDNY’s Unique Legal Approach
No, the U.S. EDNY is going for new grounds. The U.S. EDNY likes to do that. They have some pretty accommodating judges—many of them former prosecutors—who don’t mind making life a little easier for prosecutors everywhere by setting new precedents.
In this case, prosecutors may have depended too much on a friendly judge. Though U.S. District Judge Diane Gujarati was a prosecutor, she appears to be weighing on the side of reasonable neutrality so far in the OneTaste prosecution.
Of course, it is still too early to judge if prosecutors can get away with a standalone forced labor conspiracy and how hard they will try to conflate forced labor conspiracy with forced labor to a beleaguered and usually intimidated federal jury.
Brooklyn as the Surprising Trial Venue
But this is Brooklyn, which is why this case is being tried at all. The company is based in San Francisco, and in San Francisco, it would be hard to find a jury too shocked by women having a little more sex than they should be allowed to have in, say, Brooklyn.
For that is what the case is about, really. Sex. Women having sex. And the potential victims of forced labor—of which we know of one—are victims of having sex.
Sex they maybe later regretted.
Nobody alleges anyone forced anyone to have sex. But this was San Francisco mores on sex as tried in Brooklyn.
And the watery charge—the standalone charge—all the prosecutors have to prove (hopefully, for them) to the most prudish Brooklyn jury they can find is that the two women—Daedone and Cherwitz—conspired to commit forced labor, to try to scheme up a way to force some women and a few men to have too much sex, some of it kinky, as they do in San Francisco.
EDNY’s History of Poaching Cases
Yes, it is curious. None of the conspiracy allegedly happened in Brooklyn, but the EDNY are great poachers. They like to take alleged crimes that allegedly happen all around the country and try them in Brooklyn before friendly judges and jurors tailored for shock.
They took Douglass Mackey from Republican-mixed Palm Beach County to Brooklyn with its Republican-rare jurors to charge him with a crime targeting Democrat voters.
They snatched Carlos Watson from San Francisco and Keith Raniere out of Albany with the thinnest of nexus to Brooklyn. Daedone and Cherwitz may never have set foot in Brooklyn, but that is where they are being tried.
The Forced Labor Charge: A Watery Claim
But any way you slice it, the prosecutors do not have to prove forced labor. And if there is no forced labor, there can be no victim of forced labor. At best, the prosecutors have potential victims or intended victims—like the star of the conspiracy show, Jane Doe #1.
The charge, as contained in the indictment, is that two women—Daedone, the founder of OneTaste in San Francisco, and her head of sales, Rachel Cherwitz, also in San Francisco—conspired from 2006 to 2018, for 12 years, to force certain potential victims to labor, but apparently failed. The only known so-called “victim-witness” the prosecution has disclosed by name is Jane Doe #1—whom the prosecutors revealed last week is Ayries Blanck, who uses the aliases Ares Milligan, Cassidy, and Diana and currently lives in Ireland.
Up until last week, the prosecution referred to her as a victim-witness. Now they, perhaps cognizant that there can be no victims of a crime that was allegedly only planned but not committed, identify her by her next-to-last name, Ayries Blanck.
The Journal at the Center of the Case
The entire unprecedented case may turn on journal entries that prosecutors say Ayries wrote in 2015, shortly after she left the employment of the defendant’s sexual wellness company, OneTaste Inc.
In our next installment of “The Journal Is Key“, Frank Report will look at the journal entries, which the defense attorney for Daedone, Jennifer Bonjean, has called “fabricated evidence.”
On the other hand, the prosecutors are standing by their woman—Ayries Blanck—and her journal entries, dated 2015, which the prosecutors are sure she wrote in 2015. According to court filings, they plan to use it as their bombshell evidence (it is so well-written).
Defense Challenges the Journal’s Authenticity
The defense claims Ayries did not write her journal in 2015, just after she left OneTaste—and maybe did not write it at all. But whoever wrote it did not write it until 2022, and Ayries or whoever wrote it wrote it for a Netflix documentary.
Which is the truth? We aim to find out.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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Frank finally posted a pic of Miss Blanck which makes her look cute.
What’s going on?!?
Onetaste always has one really good photographer with them
but that picture isn’t cute. she looks like a little girl in fancy dress.
She looks cute.
She’s 1/2 my age.
And she’s out of your league Alex!
She needs a boob job. Her breasts are saggy
But, yea, she does look kinda cute with the wavy hair, decent face. Shoulder line looks nice. But just cannot get past the low hanging tits. Not on a girl that young. She should have perky, bouncy tits.
Regarding “saggy” boobies:
1. Women’s boobs come in many shapes.
2. Your perception is skewed: SoCal girls boobs have fake boobs.
3. Real “saggy” look like pancakes.
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Here she is in a video:
https://youtu.be/vFPjOOetHBU
Checkout her out at the 9:35 min mark. No sag!
I didn’t watch the full video but she seems to have a semblance of intelligence.
Sir, IMHO, you need to stop debating the sagginess of this woman’s tits — and begin thinking about how to repent for the sin of being a LAPSED REPUBLICAN!!
Elon and Trump are gonna save the country — and you must REPENT for the sin of voting for the Harris/Walz Socialist ticket.
The American people REJECTED those 2 socialist losers (whom you likely voted for).
You are on the WRONG side of history.
Most Beantown liberals suffer from toxic empathy. Why? Because it makes you feel more virtuous.
IMHO, you need to refocus on reclaiming the honor you once held (before the fake news media enticed you into switching away from the republican party).
You and your WHORE WIFE are nothing but malleable sheeple who have lost the ability to think for yourselves.
Oh, and if you tell me you didn’t vote for Harris/Walz — then I’ll know that you’re a fucken liar too.
Baaaah! Baaaah! Baaaah! That’s a good little sheeple.
I am here to show you the way back to salvation — so that you may eventually be in the good graces of MAGA.
You must learn to THINK FOR YOURSELF and stop suffering from toxic empathy.
Even if you can’t support MAGA, then please consider supporting the MAHA movement.
Bobby Kennedy Jr. is a good man who will Make America Healthy Again.
I implore you to stop being a socialist, Beantown pussy.
Oh… And please have a good day. 🙂
Merry Christmas Bangkok!
Hope all is well!!!
I bet Frank is celebrating
kwanzaa drinking eggnog at the local VFW.
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Hi NiceGuy,
1. True. I do like pretty much all boobies.
2. Lol. I am not from SoCal!! Rhode Island. I did live in some other states, but only briefly visited SoCam twice.
3. According this official breast shape domain, Ayries has “Relaxed” breasts. I am an “East West” man, myself. https://www.thirdlove.com/blogs/learn/breast-shape-dictionary
they maniulate – lie withoiut impunity
maniulation is the worst
This charge is unprecedented because it does not allege that forced labor actually occurredonly that it was planned. Rachel Cherwitz’s legal team will argue that it is impossible to convict someone of conspiring to commit a crime without proof that the crime occurred or even came close to happening.
We all would be incarcerated if prosecutors had their way
The trial will likely be compared to other controversial cases where the EDNY stretched the limits of legal interpretations, challenging its credibility.
the defense will argue that this case is a slippery slope. How can prosecutors claim forced labor conspiracy without proving forced labor? It’s as if they’re punishing the defendants for a crime they didn’t commit.
Conspiracy law can be misused. Without specific evidence of labor or overt acts, the jury might struggle to understand the charges.
Butt plugs are a dime a dozen. You shagged many wankers Judge.
If you don’t like alternative lifestyles, don’t join them. But dragging people into federal court over vague claims smells like a witch hunt.
People paid for services they believed in. It’s ironic that the government now says it was coercion when participants sought personal growth.
I understand why people are skeptical, but coercion happens. If there’s evidence, it should be clear and undeniable!
Obviously the journal is key to the case, but authenticity must be proven. If fabricated, the whole case falls apart. If real, it’s damning evidenc
This case sets a dangerous precedent. Charging conspiracy to commit forced labor without defining what labor occurred or proving overt acts opens the door to prosecutorial overreach and into the gutter.
Frank, you don’t understand conspiracy law. A conspiracy is an agreement to commit a crime, with an overt act toward commission of that crime. For instance, if two people plan to blow up a powerline transmission station and buy burner cell phones to prevent their personal phones being tracked to the power station site as part of that plan, we have agreement plus an overt act therefore a completed conspiracy. The feds do not have to prove forced labor to convict of conspiracy, only an agreement to force labor and overt acts toward forcing labor.
Your example identifies they conspired to blow up a power line transmission station and an overt act of buying burner phones to prevent being tracked to the targeted crime.
In this case what they conspired to do is unidentified/ forced labor? What labor? Labor is a broad term- what labor were they trying to force? How is a defense supposed to be prepared without specifying what they conspired to do?
And what is their overt act related to covering up the unspecified forced labor?
The lives of two innocent women and an entire company are being destroyed by the most vague accusations of an alleged conspiracy
They’re only innocent until proven guilty
I think Frank gets conspiracy law. The government and legal community have been drinking their own Kool-Aid for so long that they can’t see the forest from the trees. Where is the substantive crime?
Also, where is the WHY? And that is more important for the jury.
WHY are your people blowing up the powerline transmission station? Because it is leaking toxic ooze, and half the town has cancer?
WHY are Daedone and Cherwitz seeking to commit FORCED LABOR violations? Well, they’re not. This isn’t some coolie sweatshop. This is wealthy urbanites having SEX.
I hope this thing goes to trial and the Government loses. It’s such an overreach, and conspiracy law should begin to crumble doctrinally under its own weight because conspiracy isn’t inherently wrong. We innocently conspire all the time. It is human nature. I think there has to be some malum in se act somewhere along the chain to morally and legally justify a conspiracy prosecution.
Where is the malum in se act in One Taste? It’s not there.
right like what if these guys didn’t want to get paid to rub off old ladies because their bitch baby moms would just get child support for no reason while the men who can’t even see the children do all the work
Rich-
Conspiracy?
Ex-cons always claim conspiracy it’s why you all end up in prison.
Right?
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Over reach?
The Rebs now want the to go after
Liz Cheney like the left went after
Donnie Trump.
Rich you may be delusional, but
I know your heart is in the right place. I mean it! Hope all is well!
Richard has a good heart but he has an unrealistic view of the legal system and the world, IMO.
He’s basically implying that if this case goes to trial, the jury will nullify the law against conspiracies (i.e., the jury will disregard the judge’s instructions and acquit the defendants because they disapprove of conspiracy law).
Also, Richard is implying that the government has no evidence to support a reason of ‘WHY’.
But… When it comes to ‘labor’ — the reason WHY is usually self evident.
IMO Richard is acting like a legal retard & jackass. 🙂
Also, IMO, Richard kinda sounds like a brainwashed Antifa sympathizer with regard to his comment about powerline stations.
FYI: I agree that the jury may very well acquit these defendants at trial — but they’ll only do so based on the witnesses being exposed as liars during cross examination (NOT based on nullification of conspiracy laws).
PS — Niceguy, please stop insulting the MAGA movement!!!! You beantown liberal pussy!!!!
You and your WHORE WIFE likely voted for Harris/Walz. What a disgrace! Those 2 losers were quickly swept into the dustbin of history on November 5th.
You are a disgrace to real republicans. Years ago you claimed to be a republican — but you have lost your way.
Only Elon and Trump can save this country.
The people are tired of socialistic liberals fucking up the border and the economy with out of control spending and inflation.
The people have spoken. It’s a brand new day in America.
Have a good day. 🙂
Back off of Richard.
Richard’s only here because Frank was kind enough to offer him the job he needed to get out of Federal prison.
Give him a break, he’s doing his best.
You are the smartest guy EVER, Richard, because you use Latin phrases!
So messed up you got disbarred for a few felonies! I mean… what’s a few felonies compared to your BRILLIANCE!?
Any updates on how its going on getting your guilty pleas reversed?
How are your multiple lawsuits going?
What’s up with you FOIA requests?
Tell us all about it!!!!!!!
Chinese Communist Party has entered the chat
Case is about Nicole Daedone planning to rip people off.
That journal is a red herring that has nothing to do with it.
Hoping they give this bitch some diesel therapy after they lock her up.
Ayries is such a (redacted)!!!!!!
What crime was committed?
This case should not be in criminal court.
It could be a civil case i.e., a lawsuit in the context of employment law!
I can only hope the jury finds the Frank Report to read the truth!
NutJob-
Stop voting down my comments you Floridian douchè!
NutJob Dude – what’s your beef dude?!?
Someone piss in your cornflakes?
Stop voting me down!!!!!