May, 2025 - Frank Report

PROSECUTORS TARGET FINGERING IN ONETASTE CASE, NEXT UP—FOREPLAY

May 31, 2025

Brooklyn, N.Y. — Inside the Eastern District courtroom on May 28, 2025, the DOJ assembled Kayla Bensing, Kaitlin Farrell, Nina Gupta, and Sean Fern. Judge Diane Gujarati presided. For the defense were Celia Cohen, Michael Robotti, Kelly Lin, Schuyler Lebarge, Richard Hobbs,…

OneTaste

VIDEO VILLAIN: DOJ Witness Chris Kosley Turned Explicit Footage Into a Netflix Payday

by Frank Parlato

May 29, 2025

From Apple to Orgasm: Techie-Turned-Tantra Guru Now DOJ Tool Jennifer Bonjean cross-examined Christopher St. John Kosley — the federal witness. “You were working at Apple when you started associating with OneTaste, correct?” That’s how it started. No accusation. Just a reminder: this…

OneTaste

OneTaste ‘Priest of Orgasm’ Sings for the Prosecution; Kosley meditated, he documented, he testified—badly

by Frank Parlato

May 29, 2025

In Frank Report’s ongoing coverage of the OneTaste trial (USA v Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone), we look at the witnesses and their testimony. In this post, Chris Kosley’s direct examination. A subsequent post will cover his cross-examination. He Filmed Everything –…

Bernhard Fritsch

‘Time-Travel Fraud?’ DOJ Says 2016 Lie Swindled Investor in 2015

by Frank Parlato

May 28, 2025

The inventor Bernhard Fritsch developed the core technology and started StarClub in 2008. By 2017, many deals were in the pipeline, money was in the bank, 50 employees were working, and there were no missed payments to creditors or staff. A company growing,…

OneTaste

BBC Yanks Star Witness Episode in Orgasm Trial; Feds Drop Lying Star Witness—But Keep Her Lies in Court

by Frank Parlato

May 27, 2025

In the middle of the trial of the USA v Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone, the BBC made an editorial decision to “suspend access” to Episode 9 of its podcast Orgasm Inc. – a 10-episode series deeply slanted against the defendants. The…

Family Court·General

CONtempt of Court: Family Law Attorney Sues Mom Over Money He Still Holds

by Frank Parlato

May 26, 2025

Edward Nusbaum, a family law attorney based in Connecticut, has filed a motion to hold his former client, Karen Riordan, in contempt of court. The dispute centers on Riordan’s alleged failure to pay arbitration fees in a case involving Nusbaum’s billing practices.…

Bernhard Fritsch

FRITSCH #3: GUILTY OR NOT, AUSA MONICA TAIT DOESN’T BLINK – IF SHE CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT, SHE INDICTS

by Frank Parlato

May 26, 2025

TRIAL OF BERNHARD FRITSCH MAY ALTER SIXTH AMENDMENT LAW The April 2025 trial of Bernhard Fritsch in the US District Court for the Central District of California may mark a pivotal moment in Sixth Amendment jurisprudence. Despite securing funding for private counsel,…

General

Niagara Falls No-Brainer: Mayor Fights Off $1.5B Data Center That Any City Would Fight to Secure

by AnnaMercury

May 25, 2025

By Nick Del Vecchio Niagara Falls Redevelopment’s proposed $1.5 billion data center adjacent to downtown Niagara Falls has been temporarily derailed by Mayor Robert Restaino’s administration. The mayor and his attorneys have invoked eminent domain in order to claim NFR’s property planned…

Bernhard Fritsch

Bernhard Fritsch #2: $200M BUSINESS DESTROYED! StarClub tanked by the feds, not fraud

by Frank Parlato

May 25, 2025

A Case That Questions the Very Nature of Justice The Fritsch prosecution raises fundamental questions about prosecutorial discretion and governmental priorities. Bernhard Fritsch was the largest investor in StarClub, and according to all available evidence, no one lost any money until the…

Bernhard Fritsch·Criminal Justice·Featured·Wrongful Convictions

IS FORCING UNWANTED COUNSEL A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH? FRITSCH CASE MAY DEFINE ‘EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE’ FOR A GENERATION

by Frank Parlato

May 25, 2025

The April 2025 trial of Bernhard Fritsch in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on two counts of wire fraud may represent a critical point in defining the Sixth Amendment protections. Despite securing millions to retain private counsel,…

Sandusky

FROM FILTH TO FORTUNE: Fina’s Porngate Shame Didn’t Stop His Climb to Top of Gaming Industry

by Frank Parlato

May 22, 2025

HARRISBURG, PA — Pace-O-Matic, a leading national developer of “skill-based” gaming machines, has named suspended attorney Frank Fina, its new Chief Operating Officer. Pace-O-Matic makes slot machines with minor skill elements—like puzzles or memory games—which allows them to claim legal status as…

Criminal Justice·Investigations·Sandusky

John Ziegler Interviews Bob Costas Who Admits Joe Paterno ‘Not a Villian’

by Timothy Vale

May 20, 2025

Episode Twenty: Costas Returns In a bonus installment of the “With the Benefit of Hindsight” podcast, the host John Ziegler provided an update on the Penn State–Paterno–Sandusky case. The occasion was prompted by a recent interview conducted with veteran NBC sportscaster Bob…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste

THE DOOR WAS OPEN, STUPID; Fern’s OneTaste Fantasy Case Falls Apart

by Frank Parlato

May 20, 2025

The issue is freedom of choice. Brooklyn Federal Prosecutor Sean Fern would ask you to believe that the freedom to stay or go isn’t freedom. He talks about sex, power, and sales. Prosecutor Fern uses many words, some big and some small. He…

OneTaste

NO SHACKLES, JUST STROKES: Feds’s Sean Fern Claims OneTaste Women Forgot They Could Leave

by Frank Parlato

May 18, 2025

It is hard to improve on Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Fern’s opening statement in the Eastern District of New York courtroom in the case against Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz. While Fern’s delivery was poetic it lacked a certain candor which I…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste

STOP IN THE NAME OF LUST: Feds’ Sean Fern Says Women Rubbed for Freedom, Ended Up Enslaved

by Frank Parlato

May 17, 2025

His name was Sean Fern, an Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, and he was making legal history in the Brooklyn federal courthouse. He was making his opening statement in the case of the USA v Rachel Cherwitz…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Law enforcement

The DOJ’s Descent into Authoritarian Theater

by Frank Parlato

May 15, 2025

In time, the US Department of Justice may come to be viewed as a historical caution—compared to the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, or Stalin’s show trials. But with more paperwork. More press releases. Historians may record it as the unchecked power…

Bernhard Fritsch·Criminal Justice·Wrongful Convictions

Feds Railroading Tech Whiz Bernhard Fritsch? Inside the DOJ’s StarClub Takedown

by Frank Parlato

May 14, 2025

Welcome to the DOJ Funhouse. Bernhard Fritsch built a platform—StarClub—to let creators deal directly with fans. No gatekeepers. No corporate leash. No middlemen. A digital back door to the advertising-industrial complex that bypassed the brands, agencies, and editors. By 2017, the…

Law enforcement

Work, Not Whining: Police Chief Stauffiger Holds the Line

by Frank Parlato

May 13, 2025

Town of Tonawanda Police Chief James Stauffiger is engaged in a labor dispute with the local police union, which represents approximately 90 officers. The union is led by Officer Andy Thompson, its elected president. And front and center? Officer Bikramjit Singh resigned…

May 2025