May, 2025 - Frank Report

The OneTaste Trial #3: Becky Uma Halpern: I Was Happy, Orgasmic… and Brainwashed

May 12, 2025

Becky Uma Halpern was a grown woman, not a prisoner of war. The jury heard her talk about how she met her husband and found meaning in life because of the people on trial. She took every OneTaste course because it helped her. She…

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The OneTaste Trial #2: Prosecution’s Secret Weapon: Presiding Judge Diane Gujarati

by Frank Parlato

May 11, 2025

The Prosecutor in a Robe Judge Blocks Texts Showing Affection in Federal Trial Against OneTaste Leaders On Day Five of USA v. Cherwitz and Daedone, Judge Diane Gujarati again sided with the government, blocking the defense’s request to admit a text exchange…

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California Dreamin’, Brooklyn Screamin’: The OneTaste Trial #1: ‘Preserve the Tapes’? Judge Flips Out, Ends Hearing

by Frank Parlato

May 10, 2025

In an ongoing federal trial in Brooklyn, prosecutors allege a conspiracy at the company known as OneTaste. This series tells that story. Two women started a company. The feds touched the indictment button. Now they’re in federal court facing 20 years. The…

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Niagara Falls’ Centennial Park: A Vanity Project Built on Empty Wallets

by Frank Parlato

May 7, 2025

A Little Arena and a Lot of Pain Niagara Falls NY — The tax money of the people is not money. Not in the way a man thinks of coins in a jar or a dollar in his wallet. It’s something different. It…

Investigations·OneTaste

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

by Frank Parlato

May 6, 2025

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…

Criminal Justice·Investigations

Blood Atonement or Cold Case? The LeBaron Mystery in North Dakota

by Frank Parlato

May 4, 2025

By Nathanial A. Barrera and Frank Parlato The Name Nobody Mentioned Twelve years have passed since the disappearance of a teenage boy in North Dakota. He was a LeBaron. That’s the thing that nobody has mentioned yet, not in print. Departure to…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste

20 Prosecutors, No Arguments: DOJ Flash Mob Storms Brooklyn Court in OneTaste Case

by Frank Parlato

May 2, 2025

The trial of OneTaste executives Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz is set to begin with jury selection on Monday. In an extraordinary show of force this week, the Department of Justice deployed 20 prosecutors to a Brooklyn courtroom on April 29—not to…

May 2025 - Page 2

The OneTaste Trial #3: Becky Uma Halpern: I Was Happy, Orgasmic… and Brainwashed

The OneTaste Trial #2: Prosecution’s Secret Weapon: Presiding Judge Diane Gujarati

California Dreamin’, Brooklyn Screamin’: The OneTaste Trial #1: ‘Preserve the Tapes’? Judge Flips Out, Ends Hearing

Niagara Falls’ Centennial Park: A Vanity Project Built on Empty Wallets

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

Blood Atonement or Cold Case? The LeBaron Mystery in North Dakota

20 Prosecutors, No Arguments: DOJ Flash Mob Storms Brooklyn Court in OneTaste Case