Congressional Letter Alleges Widespread FBI Misconduct – But the Show Trial of OneTaste Must Go On

The Daily Mail obtained a letter from a Member of Congress to FBI Director Kash Patel, which accuses New York-based FBI special agent Elliot McGinnis of misconduct in the OneTaste investigation, citing a “long and extremely troubling list of alleged investigative abuses.”

The letter accuses Agent McGinnis of ‘participating in Netflix productions while investigating targets’ plus making up evidence ‘through entertainment media’, filing misleading affidavits, directing witnesses to destroy evidence, and using personal email to avoid official scrutiny.

In his letter to FBI Director Patel, the representative said that the agent ‘transformed the Netflix-created content into federal evidence’ to go after ex-OneTaste wellness company executives Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone.

‘Most disturbing is the systematic effort to transform Netflix-created content into federal evidence,’ the congressman added. ‘This isn’t just overreach – it’s deliberate fabrication of a criminal case through entertainment media.’

The Daily Mail declined to disclose the Conressional member describing him only as “a Member of Congress – who is also a member of the House Judiciary Committee and a former law enforcement official.”

This limits the Congressmen to one of these two:

1. Congressman John Rutherford (R-FL):

   • Former Sheriff of Duval County, Florida.
   • Serves on the House Judiciary Committee.
   • Brings extensive law enforcement experience to his role.

2. Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX):

   • Former Texas Sheriff.
   • Also a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
   • Advocates for law enforcement and border security

Blanck’s Fake Journals Collapse the Government’s Case

The letter comes weeks after federal prosecutors acknowledged that former OneTaste employee Ayries Blanck fabricated her journals.

Blanck claimed in her journals that OneTaste’ forced and manipulated her into having sex and taking part in orgasmic meditation with OneTaste staff….” And that he wrote them in real time, right after she left OneTaste in 2105.

Blanck’s journals were created in 2022 for Netflix’s documentary Orgasm Inc., a slick, highly produced hit job, and not in 2015, right after Blanck left OneTaste, as the government claimed for more than a year.

“The government no longer believes that the disputed portions of the handwritten journals are authentic,” prosecutors wrote to the judge.

A grand jury indicted Daedone and Cherwitz a month after the prosecutors submitted the fake journals in 2023.

The charges came five months after the Netflix documentary.

The Star Witness Implodes, But the Trial Continues

From the start, Ayries Blanck had been the linchpin of the government’s case. But now her journal has been thrown out as a steaming crock of half-memory and made-for-Netflix therapy bait.

Though FBI Agent McGinnis knew that Blanck wrote the journal for Netflix in 2022, he lied and called it evidence from 2015.

He would have gotten away with it if Frank Report had not broken the story that the journals were fake – a year ago, Journal of Lies: How Ayries Blanck Deceived Netflix and the FBI.

During a subsequent FBI interview, Blanck admitted she lied and changed the file she later called authentic.

When the government disavowed the journal, Judge Diane Gujarati refused the defense’s request to conduct an inquiry.

Defense Demands Accountability for Perjury and Misconduct

Cherwitz’s attorneys, Celia Cohen and Michael Robotti, wrote: “The government has admitted that Blanck committed federal crimes, by falsifying evidence and lying to federal agents, and that the government relied on those lies and false evidence in prosecuting the defendants.”

Cohen and Robboti accused the government of failing to do its ‘due diligence‘ on the false claims, accusing them of “repeatedly taking Blanck’s word” that the journals were authentic.

Cohen and Robotti wrote, “The government does not indicate whether it will investigate and prosecute Blanck, nor whether it will drop the charges against the defendants. But it should immediately do both.

“Blanck’s crimes not only have wasted extensive judicial and defense resources but also led the government to bring a baseless indictment against the defendants.”

Judicial Blindness and the Ongoing Trial

And as for Agent McGinnis? For him, evidence was mutable, made or unmade. Pro-prosecution Judge Diane Gujarati did not object. Irrelevant to Judge Gujarati is that an FBI agent had helped Netflix create fiction. He worked the case. He worked with Netflix. He told witnesses what to say. He told others to destroy evidence. He lied on papers. He used his email to try to hide his evidence tampering.

Nothing phased Judge Gujarati – in her willfully blind desire to protect prosecutors. Gujarati was a prosecutor for 21 years before recently becoming a judge.

Even when the evidence forced prosecutors to admit Blanck faked her journals, and they backed off their star witness like she’s a rabid dog, Judge Gujarati continued to say “nothing to see here.”

Judge Gujarati knows the old secret: When the government lies to the court, it’s “a misunderstanding.“ When the defendant lies, it’s 20 years in a cage.

The Stakes Remain High as Trial Opens

The victims of these lies – Daedone and Cherwitz – are on trial right now in Gujarati’s prosecutor-friendly Brooklyn federal courtroom, accused of a conspiracy to commit a forced labor scheme that allegedly involved participants in OneTaste courses and employees between 2006 and 2018.

But this case is not about female empowerment or orgasmic healing. This is about an FBI agent building a criminal case from Netflix content. And the trial goes on. Opening statements in the case began today following jury selection.

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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