Frank Parlato
In March 2025, former television writer Christopher Ambrose filed a federal defamation lawsuit against Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a psychiatrist and author. Ambrose claims Lee defamed him by publicly accusing him of child abuse. Lee previously said her application of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist scored Ambrose 32 out of 40—two points above the clinical threshold for psychopathy.
Attempt to Waive Court Fees
Seeking to avoid a $405 filing fee, Ambrose applied to the court to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP). Federal law allows waivers of filing fees if paying would cause hardship. To qualify, applicants must disclose their finances under oath. A false affidavit requires dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(A) and possible referral for perjury charges.
Ambrose asked to seal his affidavit, but the judge refused, ruling the public has a right to examine such claims.
Affidavit Filed March 16
Ambrose’s March 16 affidavit, now public, includes:
“I am not employed. My gross pay or wages are: $0.00. My take-home pay or wages are: $0.00….
“I have been unemployed for three years and unable to find work. I support the kids and myself by invading my modest 401(k), already depleted by enormous divorce expenses. My kids and I are on Medicaid (Husky Health). I just learned I am eligible for SNAP.”
Under “dependents,” Ambrose stated:
“I have sole legal and physical custody of our three children: our younger son, SA, is 14; our older son, Matthew, and daughter, Mia, are 18 but full-time high school students. I provide all their financial support.”
Reported Expenses
Ambrose reported his monthly expenses:
Rent: $2,450
Utilities: $750
Groceries: $750
Car Insurance: $221.37
Cell Phones: $132 (for “four lines”)
Credit Card (Visa): $440/month (on a balance of $21,954.64)
Declared Assets
He declared that he had $294.98 in cash or bank accounts.
A 2015 Audi Q5, which he said had a value of $4,539 based on Kelly’s Blue Book.
Household furniture, valued at about $3,000.
He reported owning no stocks, bonds, art, jewelry, or anything else of financial value.
At the bottom of the form:
“I declare under penalty of perjury that the above information is true and understand that a false statement may result in dismissal of my claims.”
Signed: Christopher Ambrose
Date: March 16, 2025
Rent Discrepancy
In his affidavit, Ambrose reported paying $2,450 per month in rent. He lists his residence as 153 Middle Beach Road in Madison, Connecticut—a four-bedroom, two-bath home on Fence Creek estuary, across from East Wharf Beach Park on Long Island Sound. Real estate site Redfin estimates the property’s market value at about $2.26 million.
A 2024 online listing advertised the Middle Beach Road property at $3,750 per month. Frank Report obtained a copy of the lease signed by Ambrose, confirming the $3,750 rent —$1,350 more than the $2,450 Ambrose reported in his affidavit.
Dependent Claims
In his March affidavit, Ambrose listed his daughter Mia, 18, as a dependent and full-time high school student. But Mia told Frank Report she left his home in July 2024, lives in another state without his support, and is no longer in school.
Ambrose reported that his son Matthew, 18, was still in high school. Records show Matthew formally withdrew on March 12, four days before the affidavit.
SNAP Filing
In his March 16 affidavit, Ambrose wrote, “I just learned I am eligible for SNAP.” Yet state electronic benefit records show he had been receiving SNAP benefits since December 2024.
Ambrose listed $750 in grocery costs but did not disclose SNAP. He reported a four-person household to the federal court, including Mia, who says she does not live with him. Whether counted as three or four, the SNAP benefit would exceed his stated grocery costs.
More significantly, Mia has contacted the Connecticut Department of Social Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General to investigate whether her father fraudulently listed her as part of his household on his SNAP application. If confirmed, misrepresentation on federal benefits forms can carry both civil and criminal penalties.
Cell Phone Claims
Ambrose reported paying $132 for four phone lines. But billing records show he canceled his children’s lines in 2023, with relatives now paying for their three phones. He did not clarify which four lines he was referring to.
Car Valuation
Ambrose valued his 2015 Audi Q5 at $4,539 — a low-end trade-in figure. Fair-market estimates run from $7,000 to $11,000, meaning his affidavit understated the car’s value by roughly 35 to 60 percent.
Assets and Accounts
Ambrose wrote that he had had zero income and that he was “invading [his] modest 401(k).” He did not report a balance on his account. He also did not report the withdrawals from his retirement accounts as income as required by federal law.
Family court records, however, show he assumed control of joint assets and moved funds into various Fidelity Investments accounts.
Records reviewed by Frank Report reveal he is managing more than one account and employs advanced strategies like stock/bond allocation, tax-loss harvesting, and legacy planning — consistent with a seven-figure retirement and not a single account.
Inheritance Omitted
Ambrose also did not disclose an expected inheritance of about $800,000 from his parents’ $2.5 million estate, now in probate. Court filings show he is suing his brothers, Neil and Colin Amborse, over access to a Fidelity account and proceeds from the family home. Federal courts generally consider a pending inheritance a financial resource that Ambrose must report.
Multiple Inconsistencies
Court filings reveal multiple inconsistencies: understated rent, SNAP benefits undisclosed, dependents misrepresented, a car undervalued, retirement assets blurred, and an inheritance omitted. If the court finds Ambrose’s affidavit materially untrue, it must dismiss his case under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(A) and may impose further sanctions. His defamation suit against Dr. Lee may hinge less on her words than on the accuracy of his own.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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… for anti-monopoly/conflict of interest/every crime except murder and treason oversight?
Remember:
Well dressed small groups of people don’t plan deceit and corruption in secret meetings behind closed doors.
Well dressed small groups of people never have and never will plan deceit and/or corruption.
Anyone looking for the source of corruption in family courts and politics should loudly and dramatically wear purple hair and/or spray paint swastikas in well planned locations to blame, in public:
Long live the secrets and the deceit protecting us from ourselves! 🤫
“… You may be eligible to participate by phone if you are not residing in Connecticut. 🧐
Using Support Enforcement Services:
If you have a child support case with the state child support program, you may ask Support Enforcement Services (SES) in writing, by phone or by e-mail to review your court order to see if a change may be needed. 🤔 You will be asked to complete a written request form which includes providing information about you and the other parent. If your court order is from Connecticut and either parents’ income has changed enough that the support order is at least 15% higher or lower than the amount required by the child support guidelines, then SES will prepare the court forms and tell you the court hearing date. …” 🧐
https://www.jud.ct.gov/childsupport/faq_eng.htm#12
She studied accounting, worked in the field almost 30 years and receives “63.8 percent higher than the average pay” (plus benefits). She should be ethical enough, experienced enough, smart enough and compensated enough to take the time needed to note the blatant theft, corruption and near-total victimization of the mother in that case.
It looks like someone somewhere told her to target that mother.
Re: The “EUREKA GRAND CHAPTER, PRINCE HALL ORDER, EASTERN STAR, INC.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hall_Freemasonry
Where can parents in Connecticut family court cases see the lists of members of all those private groups which pledge secrecy in formal oaths?
Secret formal oaths and pledges — over and above government office oaths — betray public trust.
”all the secrets”
Did Attorney Benedict R. Daigle Deputy Asst. Public Defender the awful history of the Ambrose case — and/or the racketeering in the Boyne case before 1/27/2025, when he showed up as one of two family support magistrate nominees? 🤔 Is his role basically the same as Mr. O’Neill’s role?
In the state’s press release:
In the 2024 Office of Chief Public Defender Summary:
https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/ocpd/bills/bills-2024/2024-legislative-summary.pdf
The Office of Chief Public Defender orchestrated the AFCC Inc./Connecticut Judicial Branch AMC/GAL training disaster… then tried to manage the fallout in the Boyne case.
It looks like Mr. O’Neill and Mr. Daigle served to try to sweep forty years of “family court” racketeering under the rug.
“… The Office of Chief Public Defender is accepting applications for FY 16/17 representation of indigent adults on the Family Support Magistrate docket …
… Approved applicants will be compensated at the per-diem rate of $150 per day and must be available throughout the day as needed by the Magistrate or the family court. …”
https://portal.ct.gov/ocpd/assigned-counsel/xfamily-support-magistrate-application-information
“… The Division of Public Defender Services ensures that children and indigent parents who require legal services and guardians ad litem in child protection, child custody and child support cases in Superior Court and the Family Support Magistrate Court, receive high quality, competent and zealous representation …
… Division of Public Defender Services
State of Connecticut
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF PUBLIC DEFENDER
__________________________________________
FAMILY SUPPORT MAGISTRATE COURT
training manual
June 2016
… B-3 DEVIATION CRITERIA
There can be a deviation from the presumptive child support obligation if the court finds one or more deviation criteria. The criteria for deviation from presumptive support amounts are as follows:
[…] this week, Frank Parlato used public records to expose Ambose’s new pattern of lies in his in forma pauperis petition. Ambrose claimed $2,450 rent on a $2.2 million Madison, Connecticut, beach house, actually leased […]
… will Connecticut allow transparency in discovery? 🧐
… and transparent discovery in that case finds the New Haven office has been withholding exculpatory evidence all over the place, then what?
Public records of private groups
influencing government
would help
I work for the schools. Ambrose is controlling, obsessive and demanding. The schools position was to stay as far away from him as possible. His single type page long emails and endless phone calls do he can document what a good parent he is was evident. He underestimates everyone and is arrogant as hell. Then he thanks people profusely and can turn on crocodile tears – we’ve come to learn his tricks. Unfortunately the teens have suffered with him. Their story never changed.
Dcf was useless in this case and rejected many of the 136 forms we completed out of concern for these kids. We hope he gets exposed and held accountable. I wouldn’t trust any child or teen to be in his care. The parents of Madison and the kids in town know him to be a major creep.
Thank you, Frank Parlato, for continuing to expose the shocking hypocrisy and manipulation perpetrated by Christopher Ambrose. It is utterly repulsive to watch him exploit public resources while residing in a $2.2M beachfront home, all while claiming poverty under oath. The lies in his affidavit — from rent and SNAP benefits to dependents and assets — show a blatant disregard for the law and the truth. His misuse of legal and financial systems, coupled with his ongoing defamation suit against Dr. Bandy X. Lee, is not just manipulative — it’s a slap in the face to real victims and families suffering in silence under the broken family court system.
Ambrose has long demonstrated a pattern of deception, and this latest stunt further proves his willingness to defraud the court and the public. The inconsistencies and misrepresentations in his affidavit should not only result in dismissal of his case but also prompt immediate criminal investigation for perjury and benefits fraud. The time for accountability is now. We stand with Dr. Lee — and with every child and parent harmed by the corruption in Connecticut’s family courts.
#FamilyCourtReform #ExposeTheLies #JusticeForSurvivors #FrankReport #ProSeMomsUnite
Ambrose’s arrogance will take him down. It was a cake walk through family court where outcomes were predetermined. Bought and paid for case and everyone knows it.
The gal and court appointed experts scurried away as soon as possible. But Ambrose can’t stop himself.
He is obsessed with his ex-wife. He can’t stop. He hates that his kids still love her and see through him.
He’s determined to discredit anyone who exposed him. He spent 6 months stalking Dr Lee, contacting all her colleagues and slandering her to all that would listen. Endless Letters, verbose emails, phone calls and complaints.
And he failed to have her medical license taken which he was determined to do. The medical board aligned with Dr Lee and dismissed Ambrose’s fabricated complaint and manufactured evidence. Such a shame he devoted endless hours to that screenplay.
So then he turned to a civil suit where he’s trying to blame Dr Lee for his career that ended with the fan base of Bones and Instinct publicly outing him for plagiarism and theft of intellectual properties. It was his own reckless act that got him blackballed from Hollywood- with no career and a wife demanding a divorce- he researched and launched a new storyline to cover up his criminal activity and silence his wife from exposing the fraud of a marriage. Parental alienation was hatched…
Just as his arrogance in lying for months to his colleagues, the showrunner, actors, and producers allowed him to pull off the unthinkable— he deceived everyone- they bought his lies. They were all played for fools. He was paid well for his hoax.
The episode “secrets and lies” aired. To his great surprise it was the fans who called him out. Showrunner Hart Hansen made a public apology to the showrunner of Bones. Ambrose never worked again. His agents dumped him. Needing a new career he returned home to become Mr mom and forced his children into isolation from the mother they loved. But just like the television fans saw the truth, his children and everyone outside the hired guns of family court know the truth.
And now his arrogance led him to believe his federal fee waiver would be sealed by the court. His rationale is all lies- but the same lies spun in family court don’t hold water beyond the walls of family court.
The federal judge denied his motion to conceal his application for a fee waiver. And the public has only just begun exploding the lies and fraud contained therein.
It was the public that exposed him and got his tossed from Hollywood and the public that can expose his lies on his affidavit. He’s committed fraud among other things.
Ambrose has done it to himself.
Hey Ambrose you trimming anyone’s Lettuce or have you moved onto young spanish cabbages you sick f*ck.
I still remember your alleged post,
“Looking for Spanish boys”. Something around those lines.
Sounded a little pedo if you ask me.
What’s on your itinerary tonight, pulling your pud to an old Menudo video?
Hey? Mia, Matthew and Sawyer? I bet you’ll probably think I’m lying but honest to God, cross my heart and hope to die? I actually stopped reading the frank report about 2 years ago. I had NO idea Frank had just posted this article, but for some weird reason? You guys popped into my mind today. I want you to know you that guys are absolutely not forgotten and that I’m praying for you.
In case YOU forgot? I’m that weird girl that was a former foster kid. I remember when you were bullied not only by your dad but also by the police.
My best advice to you guys? PLEASE don’t give up on each other. I’ve been through stuff like this. I know it’s hard. But? Pease stick together? And do the best you can to be good? I’m sure everything hasn’t really felt like this for you, but life can actually be truly abundant and beautiful and generous and good!
My biggest mistake ever was getting disassociated from my sibs. Turns out? They are the ones who understand all the heartache the most. Please stick together.
Seriously just sending you the BIG love.
XOXO
My2cents?
Please, go back to 1st grade? And learn how to use question marks? Cuz, My2cents? You sound like a groomer
when you abuse question marks like that?
You’re an adult? Mocking a teenager? WTH?
Hey, Anonymous?
I guess you don’t know? My2cents is NOT a teenager?
18 is eighteen and 19 is nineteen.
twenty isn’t much older than that.
You’re an adult picking on kids.
that’s creepy.
⬆️
my last comment to you – whoever you are.
Reason for Withdrawl: Done 😎
Well put. Me too. I am so done with Connecticut’s charade.
Bravo, Matt. Everyone in Connecticut “family court” under the boot of those same horrible judges, lawyers and “evaluators” … after a day … or a week …or a month are “done” with Connecticut “family court” torture. It really is torture. Literally.
As some say: “When you’re going through Hell, keep going.”
You endured and survived it and now your future is bright. Well done.
State and federal employees haven’t bothered to collect data on how children in those kinds of cases survive that hell and keep going, anyway.
Your strength, courage and wisdom is exemplary. I hope you write a book. I’ll buy 100 copies and send them to Connecticut legislators, judges and lawyers who care enough to see the need to reform those shameful “family courts”.
https://www.azsenaterepublicans.gov/post/committee-on-family-court-orders-sheds-light-on-stories-of-system-abuse-devastating-consequences-fo
After The Hartford Courant reporter mysteriously stopped reporting about “family courts”, nice to know the threatening looks 😡 😠 from a state judge and a state representative didn’t scare away all reporters.
Connecticut’s legislators aren’t like the legislators in Idaho and Arizona who care about children and families. The corruption in Connecticut “family courts” has been out in the open for years, but mainstream news ignores it and so do most Connecticut legislators.
It’s interesting that ghost busters plan to start working out of the Warren Museum in a few months.
Would they look for answers in the Dulos case? What happens if they do? Will good people in authority start investigating Mr. Mawhinney’s role in the Hessler case?
Will The Hartford Courant eventually report about how Mr. Mawhinney and Mr. Hessler shared a jail cell and why someone in a position of authority dropped the Mawhinney case … and who owns and operates the “torture chamber” in New Haven … and why there’s a statue of a man with horns on Route 1 in Greenwich … and why someone put statues of naked children in a courtyard in Middletown?
Of all places, the Warrens choose Connecticut to establish that museum. Of all places they could have chosen, ghost busters bought the Warren museum a few weeks ago.
Christians, Jews and Muslims in Connecticut’s three branches of government:
Start comparing notes!
Where are public lists of Connecticut Lodge memberships?
“There are eight newspapers published in Hartford, where I live; and yet, it is impossible to procure the insertion of anything regarding Freemasonry in any one of them, except in the one recently established by the Anti-Masons”. …
So he’s ruined the lives of his children and his x wife and now he’s starting on his siblings? What a guy!!
It’s all about control. He’s the oldest but parents knew what a nut he was so the younger brother is the executor. He can’t take it. All about money and control.
Maybe someone’s holding off splitting up the assets….
…. Helping to hide Ambrose’s money.
The ex wife should hire another attorney or a forensic accountant in the years time.
Maybe both.
Albino boy hasn’t worked. So he’s getting his money from somewhere.
***
Hey Ambrose, Karen will get her money.
Keep hiding it, and the judge will reward her more.
Maybe you’re contesting the Will or it’s still in probate or maybe you are hiding money.
He’s always been a liar but maybe this time he’ll find out how much of a bitch karma can be. I hope this judge is an oddity in Conn and does the right thing. If he’s really broke, which I doubt it’s his own fault, he can’t blame anyone else.
Prosecute this sick fuck
Chris hasn’t given his daughter a dime in over a year! Mia ran for the last time a year ago after he tried to force her back into his home and care. He’s a POS who literally locks his kids up and has threatened them with psych hospitals and dcf lockdown if the day anything about him to the schools, police, or dcf. These kids have been tortured for years and Ambrose is the psychopath Dr Lee determined him to be.
Frank, why aren’t you publishing my posts!
This was a very informative post. I appreciate the time you took to write it.
Very sad that Frank and Karen continue to put Mia and the other kids in the middle of their own personal vendettas against her father.
Maybe he pays the lower rent bc he has a boarder? Just a wild guess.
Guess again. He’s a pathological liar. Lies about everything. Long history.
Yeah, it must be frank and karen who forced him to commit perjury and violate federal laws. That’s it. you’re right. Did Frank write his affidavit? Collect benefits he’s not entitled to? Force Ambrose to sue Dr. Lee and then be arrogant enough to ask for his lies to be sealed to avoid public scrutiny?
Can you not see he filed to be sealed to hide the blatant lies?
I don’t see any evidence that he committed perjury and violated federal laws.
You are a bit obtuse- but I will try to help you see it more clearly in my next post.
This falls in the ‘very not good for Chris’ category. Karma rides a slow train, but it always arrives on time.
It doesn’t look good for Chris.
If Ambrose is indeed lying, then not even the great Gary Cohen can save him.
🤦🏻♂️ OOOOHHHHH, GINZO!!!!!!!! YOU STUPID FUCKING NIGGER!!!!!
Why is so hard for you to post up the rest of my posts on the Raniere posts that respond to important accusations?!
Are you really this big of a pussy that you’re going to let me not respond to false accusations and answer the true reason about why I’m only a colonel?!
STOP PLAYING DICKS WITH YOUR GODDAMN DILDO UP YOUR FAT ASS AND GET MOVING BEFORE YOU THE NIGGER BEATEN OUT OF YOU!!!!!!
THAT’S AN ORDER, NIGGER!!!!!!
Even metals aren’t forever.
Fuck you, you fat fuck
Tell him to go to the food pantry I hear they have great spam, they grind up swine and even their bones stuff it in a tin can – sounds like good inspiration for one of his TV episodes.
KarmaKarmaKarmaKamelean.
Chris Ambrose is a lying and conniving parasite. He is a poor excuse as a father and husband and has been assisted by the court to destroy his family.
Chris hidden secrets like a criminal court show.