Frank Parlato
Outside the Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, Defense Council Jennifer Bonjean spoke to press about her client’s case. Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz are charged with an alleged single-count conspiracy of forced labor for their leadership roles at the company OneTaste, which teaches Orgasmic Meditation.
After a hearing before US District Judge Diane Gujarati on Wednesday, Bonjean answered questions from the journalists from the New York Post, Law360, and the Daily Mail who had attended the hearing.
Bonjean highlighted FBI agent misconduct discussed in the courtroom, which she noted would be especially relevant for the new administration, given the recent interest in DOJ and FBI reform.
Jennifer Bonjean: We think that if The Department of Justice looks at this case closely, and we hope they are, that this is exactly the type of case where you have extraordinary FBI misconduct. And I don’t say that lightly, but this is the case. This is, you know, this is the case that they should be looking at, and particularly on this specific administration that seems to have such interest in looking at what the FBI has done systemically. This is the case right here. So yes, we hope they will, and we hope that it will result in the right result, which is dismissal.
Reporter: Clarify who you are calling to be prosecuted, or at least investigated because there was that exchange at the end of the hearing today that seemed tense. So who do you believe should be investigated and or prosecuted as a result of the alleged misconduct?
Jennifer Bonjean: So agent Elliot McGinnis, who was the lead FBI investigator in this case, we believe and have shown and demonstrated to the court and it is on the public record that he is engaged in a series of misconduct, not just as it relates to these journals. This is the same FBI agent who obtained attorney client privilege materials and created an investigation around it. It’s the same agent who instructed Ayries Blanck or suggested, directed her to delete an entire email account that had exculpatory material in it. It’s the same FBI agent that told witnesses, hey, send me this discovery in this civil case, so you don’t have to produce it there. Okay, is the same agent, who, and I’m not going to name names here, who tried to convince people that they were victims when they said, I’m not a victim. That’s not what happened. You have it all wrong. And like, you know what you need, you need to speak to some witness. Some some expert is gonna persuade you you’re a victim. There is a range of misconduct. Oh, and we also know, and I will say this is an important piece the media should be covering is that some of these witnesses are getting paid. And I don’t say that lightly, they get it through alleged restitution. At least one, maybe more, have already been paid $30,000 allegedly for reimbursement for therapy. That’s a lot of money. That’s a lot of money, and this is paid by New York State victim services, but through the apparatus of the federal government.
And what I said to the judge today, when she, in that tense, she thought that maybe my language was too harsh, but I don’t take that lightly, I would not accuse the prosecutor, or even at the law enforcement of misconduct unless I had the goods. And as for McGinnis, we have the goods, there is a record, and yes, absolutely, it should be investigated for criminal misconduct. If this is what he did, I’m sorry there isn’t an exception, FBI agent exception to obstruction of justice. The government has said they’re not going to call him [as a witness, but], we’re going to call him. We’re going to call him. But in what case does the government say, hey, we’re not going to call our lead agent. I know what case.
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Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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Great article, Frank.
I have a good suggestion for future articles that you can write.
I think you should begin writing more articles which expose various myths & facts about FBI agents, as described below.
For example, just like most people in America, I had always assumed that FBI agents were the most ultra-qualified, ultra-accomplished, and ultra-professional law enforcement officers in the country.
I had assumed that only the ‘best of the best’ could even apply to be an FBI agent — and only the most qualified could be accepted.
But, I’ve recently learned that’s not even close to the truth. Oh, how wrong I was. LOL.
I’ve learned that many FBI agents are people who’ve made no arrests (or very few arrests) and many of them have almost no real experience fighting ‘serious’ crime — (i.e. they are more akin to Keystone cops than experienced law enforcement, LOL).
That’s probably why many of the ‘J6’ FBI Teams dressed up in SWAT gear just to raid a bunch of family homes with nothing but grandmas, children, and ordinary folks inside — while acting like they were taking down a heavily-armed drug cartel or something, LOL.
I also heard that 5,000 FBI agents (nearly 15% of all FBI agents) were assigned to investigating non-violent J6 protesters who didn’t do anything except walk on government property without violence. What a joke.
I saw a post on Twitter that said average FBI agents:
1) Are paid between $130k-$170k
2) Have made no arrests (or very few arrests)
3) Accrue 50 paid vacation/leave days per year
4) Are basically no different than the lazy bureaucrats which occupy other bloated government agencies that waste money hiring useless idiots
Of course, I don’t know if all of those things are true or not (since I only know what I read on the Internet) — but, I think you should write some articles to confirm various facts about FBI agents in general.
Help eliminate the ‘myths’ that people tend to believe about FBI agents.
While it’s nice that this toenail of the (redacted) is close to destruction, It isn’t nowhere near good enough!
If only the first five words of the title of this article was replaced with “(redacted)”, then our world would be at peace!
😫 Alas, it’s unfortunately still so far away from us! 😣😖🥺😢😭
👆🏻 🧐 Ummmmmmm….. … Mr. Parlato, sir.
I would kindly ask you to please refrain from robbing people of their 1st Amendment rights. Especially in the hypocritical fashion that you are doing. You have allowed Mr. Fox and other fellow patriots to say the word “nigger”. Not to mention the countless other times that you’ve allowed random commenters to say it as well and these days people had nothing to do with the IFB and TABW Movements, but have cocked blocked this poor devil’s right to pure and untainted commentary in 100% verbatim, as is spelled out in the 1st Amendment, out of sheer hypocritical cowardice and spite.
Please stop being a worthless piece of shit and a scared little bitch and try for once in your life to be a true man who, with intense therapy and medication, can finally overcome your Onomatophobia and Kakologophobia and learn to love yourself despite having to use self-made cushioned tweezers to masturbate your tragically pathetic 1 inch penis and the great insecurity and self loathing at yourself and the world that having to be born into something that emasculating would understandably plague your psyche and is the true root behind your inexcusable unconstitutional and ball-less behavior.
Thank you kindly.
Sincerely, George McBlack
👆🏻 🧐 Ummmmmmm….. … Mr. Parlato, sir.
I would kindly ask you to please refrain from robbing people of their 1st Amendment rights. Especially in the hypocritical fashion that you are doing. You have allowed Mr. Fox and other fellow patriots to say the word “nigger”. Not to mention the countless other times that you’ve allowed random commenters to say it as well and these people had nothing to do with the IFB and TABW Movements, but you have cocked blocked this poor devil’s right to pure and untainted commentary in 100% verbatim, as is spelled out in the 1st Amendment, out of sheer hypocritical cowardice and spite.
Please stop being a worthless piece of shit and a scared little bitch and try for once in your life to be a true man who, with intense therapy and medication, can finally overcome your Onomatophobia and Kakologophobia and learn to love yourself despite having to use self-made cushioned tweezers to masturbate your tragically pathetic 1 inch penis and the great insecurity and self loathing at yourself and anger at the world and the OCD to control it, because of what you really want to control but can’t, that having to be born into something that emasculating would understandably plague your psyche to be like and is the true root behind all of your inexcusable unconstitutional and ball-less bullshit behavior.
Thank you kindly.
Sincerely,
George McBlack
I thought you were black.
Why would you assume such a thing?!…. Because of my last name?….. That’s a very foolish and unreliable justification. But even if I was black, even then I still wouldn’t want you being a cyber tyrant and taking away people’s free speech.
Now dear sir, enough with your autistic red herrings! Please act like somebody who is decent and has a regular dick size and stop redacting people’s comments like a pathetic little bitch!
Thank you kindly.
Sincerely,
George McBlack