Frank Parlato
He is Suing Me
I cover other people’s lawsuits for a living. I also cover my own. This one is mine.
Christopher Ambrose is suing me. In federal court for defamation. I have written a number of stories about him. Mostly about how he won custody of his three teenage children and kept all the marital funds depriving his wife of 18 years of her assets and their three children of their mother.
He is suing me for the second time for defamation. The first time in 2023, a judge dismissed the case.
But Ambrose is not singling me out for lawsuits. He is suing several others. And some others are suing him.
He is Suing Dr. Lee
Dr. Bandy Lee is a pyschiatrist. He is suing Dr. Lee for defamation.
His main complaint is that Dr. Lee once wrote that based on her personal observations of him, emails to her initiated by Ambrose prior to any publication, interviews of his family, including his daughter, Mia Ambrose, interviews of medical and investigative professionals, review of hospital and medical records, and his voluminous court filings that in her professional opinion, and according to the Hare Psychopathy test, Ambrose qualified for a diagnosis of psychopathy.
Dr. Lee’s findings:
On his dangerous nature and the specific risk to children:
“Separating growing children from their mother and primary caregiver is one of the worst forms of abuse… and can be a sign of this dangerous personality disorder.”
“This potential for Mr. Ambrose’s dangerousness, especially where children are involved, should not be overlooked.”
On his manipulative behavior and inability to be truthful:
“…it is a common characteristic of psychopathic individuals to mislead, cheat, or otherwise violate the rights of other people.”
“They, through a superficially-charming presentation, are often capable of eliciting exceptional levels of sympathy from others as an effective means of escaping accountability for their violence*for example, they may recruit others as ‘patrons’ or ‘pawns’ to help them turn the narrative around to incriminating their victims instead.”
On the clinical assessment and its results:
“…yielded results that make it highly likely and reasonably reliable that (Ambrose) suffers from psychopathy.”
“Mr. Ambrose’s score adds up to 32. This is strongly suggestive that a diagnosis of psychopathy is present and justified—or, at the very least, that disturbing levels of psychopathic features are present.”
He Appears to Have Misled Court
In his lawsuit against Dr. Lee, the plaintiff, Christopher Ambrose, asked the court for a special privilege: the right to sue for free, to be declared so destitute that he could not afford the $405 filing fee. To obtain this status, he had to swear to the truth of his financial circumstances. He had to sign his name to a document, inviting the court to trust him.
There are some serious falsehoods in that affidavit:
Rent: Swore under oath he pays $2,450 per month. His signed lease proves he pays $3,750.
Dependents: Claimed his 18-year-old daughter, Mia, was a dependent and full-time student living with him. She states she moved out in July 2024, lives in another state, and is not in school.
Dependents: Claimed his 18-year-old son, Matthew, was a dependent and full-time student. School records show he had formally withdrawn four days before the affidavit was signed.
Government Benefits: Wrote “I just learned I am eligible for SNAP.” State records show he had already been receiving SNAP benefits for four months.
SNAP Fraud: He is allegedly receiving SNAP benefits for a 4-person household that includes Mia, who does not live with him. This is now under investigation for potential fraud.
Assets: Undervalued his car by 35-60%, claiming it was worth $4,539 when its market value is estimated between $7,000-$11,000.
Assets: Claimed to be depleting a “modest” 401(k) but omitted that he likely controls multiple investment accounts with a seven-figure balance, using advanced financial strategies.
Assets: Completely omitted his expected inheritance of approximately $800,000 from his parents’ $2.5 million estate, which is currently in probate.
Ambrose also failed to disclose that he has a company Eyes Above Productions in California that continues to collect residuals for his previous TV work. Ambrose claimed he has no income whatsoever.
All of these statements were made under penalty of perjury on a federal form to avoid a $405 court filing fee by claiming extreme financial hardship. The court can dismiss his lawsuit if it finds these misrepresentations material. US District Court Judge Sarala B. Nagala, a former prosecutor, is presiding in the case.
He is Suing a Woman With Life-Threatening Illness
Ambrose is suing another blogger, a woman with cancer (wholly unaffiliated with Frank Report) who wrote a story on her blog about him in 2023. The blogger took down the article after receiving a cease and desist demand from Ambrose threatening a defamation lawsuit. The blogger would not issue a public apology and say the story was untrue. Ambrose has filed a defamation lawsuit, but the docket does not indicate that service of process has been completed.
He is Suing His Brothers
Ambrose is suing both of his brothers – Colin Ambrose and Neil Ambrose – over his parent’s estate.
Colin Ambrose is the Chief Investment Officer of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, a major health legacy foundation with $3.7 billion in assets which it uses to award grants to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable communities in New York State. His apparent position is that his brother Neil painstakingly cared for their parents during their decade-long illnesses, while Chris rarely, if ever, saw them.
Neil Ambrose is a successful attorney in New Haven with the law firm Letizia, Ambrose & Falls.
Neil Ambrose’s practice focuses on defending workers’ compensation claims. He is a member of the Workers’ Compensation Chairman’s Legal Advisory Panel, the New Haven County Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association Workers’ Compensation and Employment Law Sections, and the American Bar Association. Neil Ambrose was a member of the first class of attorneys to be board certified by the Connecticut Bar Association as a specialist in workers’ compensation.
Ambrose Was Cost-Conscious Looking to Preserve Inheritance
Ambrose family members say that Christopher Ambrose always recommended the most cost-efficient health care and low-cost housing for his parents so as not to dissipate the estate while they were living. They say the younger brothers, Neil and Colin, pushed back, arguing that it was their parents’ money and that their care required expenditures during their lifetime for their comfort.
The amount in dispute in the lawsuit is little more than $30,000 for Chris Ambrose. Observers believe the suit may have more to do with discrediting Neil and taking control of the estate than the money. Chris claims that Neil, who established a bank account at the direction of his father to care for his wife (whom he predeceased) and who suffered from Alzheimer’s, did not optimize the interest the bank would pay. Chris alleges this resulted in a monetary loss of around $95,000 in unrealized potential interest over several years.
Other family members have all expressed admiration for Neil Ambrose’s remarkable devotion and care of his elderly parents, noting that the eldest, Chris, basically ceased visiting his parents during their illness. They believe that without Neil, their last years would have lacked proper care.
“Chris tried to act like he cared for his parents but he never tried to see them. He used to lie and say he was going to see his mother as a regular excuse for other activities. My brother and I caught him several times telling people he was visiting his mother ‘in hospice; when we knew for a fact he was home,” his 18-year-old daughter, Mia, told Frank Report.
Sibling Rivalry
It might be understandable that Chris Ambrose has more interest in fighting his brothers over what amounts to about 1.5 percent of their parents’ estate. Both of his younger brothers have forged successful careers while Chris Ambrose’s career ended in disgrace.
Christopher Ambrose also had at one time a successful career in TV script writing. In 2018, he got caught up in a plagiarism scandal and his career ended. It made headlines in Readers Digest and many other publications. Plagiarism Today wrote an indepth analysis. He has not worked in TV since 2018. In his lawsuit against Dr. Lee he filed a sworn statement that he has no income and no assets.
He Sued His Son’s Godmother
Ambrose also sued Michelle Pawlina because she gave an interview to Frank Report in 2022.
Michelle Pawlina, the godmother to one of Ambrose’s children, gave an interview to Frank Report detailing how Ambrose reacted with extreme, furious aggression, screaming at her to get off his property and threatening to call the police simply for delivering gifts to her godson. During the encounter, Pawlina observed that his daughter appeared deeply depressed, fearful, and “brutalized.”
Later that evening, police arrived at Pawlina’s door to serve her with a formal trespass warning because Ambrose had filed a report against her. The interview portrays Ambrose as an unhinged and controlling individual who is systematically alienating his children from their loved ones, using legal threats and intimidation to maintain total isolation. Pawlina, a psychiatric nurse and mandated reporter, expressed grave concern for the children’s mental and physical well-being under his sole care.
Ambrose sued Pawlina for defamation in Connecticut Superior Court. There were extensive legal motions and significant costs incurred by Pawlina in defending the lawsuit.
Ultimately CT Superior Court Judge Robin Lynn Wilson dismissed Ambrose’s case against Pawlina with prejudice – meaning he cannot sue Pawlina again on the same issue.
Judge Wilson found:
“Instead of complying with court orders, by filing a formal revised complaint in accordance with the requested revisions, and the rules of practice, the plaintiff filed an objection to defendant’s motion for order in which he gives numerous excuses that are totally irrelevant as to why after seven months he still has not filed a revised complaint. Attached to plaintiff’s objection is a purported revised complaint, however, the complaint still contains allegations which defendant requested be revised and/or deleted. Plaintiffs conduct shows a deliberate, contumacious and unwarranted disregard for the court’s authority.
“The plaintiff is very intelligent and quite articulate, and while he is appearing as a self-represented party, he has been able to navigate himself reasonably well through the litigation process. The plaintiff’s failure to file a revised complaint, therefore, has not been due to his inability to do so.”
Others Are Suing Him
Pawlina’s attorney, George Bourguignon is suing Ambrose for false statements he made about him to the courts. Judge Angelica Papastavros is hearing the case.
Ambrose’s divorce and custody lawyer Nancy Aldrich sued him for non-payment of $64,000 in legal fees.
Journalist Richard Luthmann is suing him for making false statements to federal officials. Luthmann wrote in his complaint about Ambrose:
Defendant CHRISTOPHER AMBROSE (“Ambrose”) is an attorney admitted to practice law in the State of New York. Ambrose is a disgraced Hollywood writer and plagiarist, an NYU Law graduate, and a molester of children. He has an affinity for “Latin Boyz.” He has three adopted Hispanic children, all of whom have made credible and substantiated allegations of abuse against Ambrose, a white Connecticut elite with connections to the Democratic National Committee and Bill and Hillary Clinton. He is a clinically diagnosed “psychopath.”
Ambrose’s former landlord, Maureen Luden sued him for non-payment of rent at his old address on Horsepond Rd in Madison, CT. NHH-CV-24-6023606-S. He left without paying the rent.
And just t0 be clear- Luden is not the landlord of his current residency – which is the Maureen Johnson family trust- a $2.2 million beach house in Madison where he presently lives and pays $3,750 per month in rent. It is of interest because in his lawsuit against Bandy Lee he applied to the judge for in pauperis status – saying he could not afford the $400 plus to file. As I reported earlier, he did not state the truth on his financial affidavit – claiming to Judge under penalty of perjury that his rent is $2400.
His Children Have Decried His Abuse
All three of the Ambrose children, two of them now 18, and one 15, have signed affidavits that for years Ambrose has emotionally and psychologically abused them, and sexually abused two of them.
Back to His Lawsuit Against Me
But now we are talking about me — Ambrose’s lawsuit against me is for defamation. This is a good development because now we have a new way to determine the truth – the power of discovery and sworn testimony. He says I lied about him in my articles and now we have a method to get to the truth.
Ambrose is representing himself. He is a lawyer but the New York Unified Court System website says he was suspended from law practice on November 13, 2006, by the Appellate Division for a Violation of the Judiciary Law.
For my part, I will probably retain a lawyer. In fact I expect to retain a recently retired deputy US Attorney with 35 years of federal prosecution under his belt. He knows what, if any, federal crimes Ambrose has committed and will be able, if Ambrose has committed any crimes, to refer them to the appropriate authorities.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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The Ambrose and Riordan marriage. The couple entered into a union through a legal marriage. They lived on different coast. Three children were adopted and raised by the mother for the majority of their early childhood. Ambrose was terminated from employment from the West Coast and returned home. It appears an unhealthy dynamics was created with Mr. Ambrose returned. What ever life style that Mr. Ambrose was living became a problem under the new living arrangements. The agreement between the two was no longer working due to change in condition. Prior to Mr. Ambrose returning the children appeared to be thriving in a one parent households despite filing a two parent tax return. It’s very interesting that the court would disrupt the children’s lives and change circumstances. Several years later we are still watching endless litigation on this case. All lives have been brought into a shambles. Both parents are financially challenged. Attorney has been disbarred. Judicial ethnics, Attorney eithics and psychology eithics have been under serious questions. Has Connecticut made changes to the system? If the children remained in Karen’s care where would their lives be now? How much time and resources would the state and judicial branch have saved? Would Mr. Ambrose be employed? Would the children be doing well in school? If Connecticut cleaned up it’s court system how much money would the state and federal tax payer save? Should the federal government through Congress enact legislation to force the judicial branch to keep actual records of outcomes of custody cases? Should the bar association complaints be published with redaction of names? Should the court system have an ombudsman? Should a the psychologist be investigated by someone outside of the state department of public health? Should the largest non profit organization for court reform be allowed to guide legislation or should the judicial branch fix their court system to function in fashion that doesn’t leave people life in shambles.
Why haven’t the feds come poking around? Not the New Haven office.
Because there’s not enough Feds to go around…..
Ask not what your government can do for you …
From Fairfield, CT Patch:
Two years before 2014 …
https://www.wtnh.com/dulos/uncovered-blog-post-written-by-jennifer-dulos-reveals-long-time-fear-she-felt-toward-husband-fotis-dulos/
The unregistered, briefly registered and unregistered again (after the Connecticut Judicial Ethics Committee ruling) CT AFCC, Inc. has been and still is violating CUPTA since they established themselves as a monopoly decades ago in Connecticut’s public-private “family courts”.
Did a few insiders arrange for Mr. O’Neill, Mr. Cuda and Mr. Goulden to sabotage Ms. Riordan’s case to hide the racketeering in the case?
Why would Mr. Moukawsher go on the attack against Attorney Cunha (Ms. Riordan’s attorney) when she raised concerns about the possibility of a criminal conspiracy in that case?
Mr. Moukawsher knows about Freemasons’ networks in business and politics and he knows they keep secrets. He also knows many Freemasons pretend to be various religions — such as Jewish, Episcopalian and Latter Day Saints etc. to deceive the public. He knows the Jewish symbolism in Freemasonry has fooled probably a few billion people around the world since before the 1500s.
When Ms. Cunha raised her concerns about corruption in the Ambrose case, Mr. Moukawsher was obliged to consider reporting her valid concerns to state and/or federal law enforcement offices. Instead, he mocked her valid concerns and he disbarred her. Mr. Moukawsher stepped down shortly after his involvement in the Ambrose case.
Ms. Munro also stepped down from the bench after her involvement with the CT AFCC, Inc. public-private monopoly. She stepped down about a year after the Connecticut Judicial Ethics Committee ruling of 2013.
Did Ms. Munro “step down” to avoid prosecution for AFCC Inc. racketeering?
If Mr. Moukawsher stepped down to avoid embarrassment, that’s a message to us all: No more secret governments of the few, by the few and for the few.
It’s long past time for a Truth and Justice Commission in Connecticut.
Without transparency investigations and reform, how many should accept responsibility for the upcoming “family court” tragedies today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year and from now on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_commission
Rep. Steven Stafstrom
with black and white checkered tie
enthusiastically recommended Mr. O’Neil.
Mr. Stafstrom’s last minute comments to Mr. O’Neill during Mr. O’Neill’s 2023 confirmation hearing ostensibly reminded the unsuspecting nominee of how boring family court cases might be after all those big-time white collar crime cases. That little conversation (on taxpayers dime and time) looked and sounded like an insider joke about insider finagling in Connecticut’s decades-long public-private family court industry.
It would help for someone to ask all state representatives and senators what they know about Connecticut “family courts”.
https://frankreport.com/2023/08/09/why-was-rookie-judge-called-in-to-make-significant-jennifers-law-distortion-judge-oneill-took-three-teens-from-mother-against-their-wishes/
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Secrets in government offices controlled the people of this world before the 1700s and before the 1500s … and before that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee
According to computer databases (also known as “artificial intelligence”) …
He’s obsessed with courts and filing lawsuits A vexatious litigator who files cases not necessarily to win or even complete, but to drag people through court – to file endless pages long motions which force opposing counsel to spend hundreds of hours responding to regardless of their validity
He had no case against the godmother and no case against any of these people But he takes vindictive pleasure in depleting their finances to defend themselves from his manufactured claims
In both the first Parlato case and the case against the godmother, the cases never went to trial because Ambrose stalled, evaded and then the cases were dismissed or decided/tossed because he was forcing them to drag out without moving forward in any credible way
Even if Parlato didn’t retain counsel, anytime away from his own life and business is a treat for psychopathic Ambrose
The judges saw through Ambrose’s games and ruled accordingly
He’s will not prevail in any of these cases He’s going to be exposed His need to see himself as a victim is clear – and in his mind only – nothing to do with reality
The real question is whether Ambrose is a homosexual who likes children?
Two separate things
Luthmann does not sound crazy at all in his lawsuit filing.
If you don’t like a free, adversarial legal system, you should move to China or Cuba.
Adversarial divorces in America Connecticut style : Follow the federal funding dollars . Non profits Since 2021 less than10% TANF block grant funding has been spent on the families in need. The Moe and TANF block grant funding TANF block grant funding is one of the largest funding for fatherhood programs. A 503 non profit organization for fathers just like Ambrose. The U.S department of health and use child and family services grants support the fatherhood initiative. The administration of child and family services announced several funding opportunities nationwide.
Forge fatherhood grants The Family Opportunity act , resilience , grit , Engagement fatherhood (FORDGE fatherhood )are to promote responsible fatherhood. Well Chris is now asking to collecting welfare. Through responsible education parenting and economic services. Has Chris the pale daddy in any of these programs ? The grant targets fathers deadline July 29,2025.
Eligibility: Various entities were eligible to apply, including state and local government, tribal governments and NONPROFITS.
NATIONAL PARENTS ORGANIZATION (NPO) is the largest nonprofit working to reform family court to promote SHARED PARENTING . ACCESS and VISITATION grants are the largest funding for equal and shared parenting studies through the fatherhood initiative. Through Administration of Child and Family Services.
WHERE IS THE WELFARE FUNDING GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, Leader of the silver bullet band your nose has reached California from Connecticut. ” go to criminal court ” ” Parents that are not found unfit ”
“If Karen and Chris had just split custody the kids would be spending half time with Dad and half time with Mom and going to school in Madison” ” If Jennifer just split custody and the assets she would still be alive”.
White Daddy wonderland
Judicial branch employee and paid speaker for fatherhood funding. Receiving pension and benefits to promote access and financial value of the male parent. While promoting the maternal gatekeeper and malicious mommy syndrome. ” Prioritize fatherhood over criminal matters”. The self proclaimed baby whisperer and ” volunteer.” On the board of the children law center providing legal services to represent at risk children in divorce procedures.
” Why is Connecticut comptroller at fatherhood round table?” June 2025
Anthony Jenkins child support services. Alec and Jenkins multiple custody books and child support navigation. 211 has multiple resources for fathers we just need you to tell people I got help.
The never ending chronic victimization of fatherhood . The equal and shared parenting groups have continued to sell the notion that it’s a bunch of women in the richest section of Connecticut. As the state of Connecticut exclusively provided funding for fathers and limited to no financial resources to domestic violence victims. Abuse within a family is ignored and blamed on the mothers for provoking it. Men are being lured into the bedroom of women for child support and Cash assistance. These mothers and the attorneys are the entire system failure. Good luck finding an attorney that will fight for a battered woman and the children. They are destined for disbarment. These tramps are barrios to the fatherhood kingdom. Guilty of not crossing their legs even in long term relationships. Anyone who dare land at the court house with a problem is responsible for their own abuse. Including at the courthouse. They all signed up for the abuse when they laid down with out realizing that the person they choose to lay down with was going to resort to emotional, financial and physical abuse to control the relationship. With the 50/50 legislation the divorce rates goes down. Trapping women and some men in relationship because of equity. A lack of evidence is false reporting. When children refuse to subject themselves to abuse the mother or father will be arrested. Cause the family court judges are trained to find parental alienation in every case. The fundamental right of fathers is more important than safety. Just ask the department of child and family services. Even when family services make a finding of abuse the court of equity believes the child is to be divided equally or given to the father. ” Changing the stigma of domestic violence victims” . To gold diggers, gatekeeper and a liar. So that the state can reduce violent crime statistics, collect federal funding for gender based programs and a false utopia. Family court fights are expensive and the community is looking for home studies. All we need is the department of child and family services who can’t protect children and place them in group homes for trafficking to be more involved in the case. An agency full of shenanigans funded to promote fatherhood and eliminate biological mothers who creates a barrier. The lack of financial resources for child and family services so we can promote equal access under any conditions.
Connecticut is crying over funding for Medicaid and food. The state has emassed a surplus. They are redirecting funding for the poor into programs that are not actually working. The government is failing to act in the best interest of the public. Children are exploited by the state. The entire government needs to be exposed. The sooner the better.
Please post all the comments. People deserve to know who is helping to drive family court into operations dysfunction.
“free”? 🧐
He should sell the freakin’ Audi and get himself a used Toyota Corolla. There’s his $405 filing fee…plus the SNAP money he’s going to have to repay to the Connecticut Department of Social Services.
Social services is encouraging fathers in Connecticut to apply . They are advertising to ensure fathers are aware that eligible for benefits.
Usually, responsible fatherhood is a good thing. Responsible motherhood is also a good thing. So is responsible childhood. Years ago, no one needed those reminders.
Today, Connecticut offices tell fathers and mothers the same thing about “eligibility”: Mothers, fathers and children who need help can find help. Here’s what Connecticut offices don’t say: The details of “help” for mothers, fathers and children vary according to the whims of state “family court” judges.
There is no help for mothers and children. The entire state is based upon fatherhood. Women are not failing because of the lack of responsible fatherhood. They are failing because the state is failing to provide equal value. The entire judicial branch is pampered the fight for fatherhood. The judges have been conditioned. When I father has neglected or abandoned their children they are encouraged to engage. When a mother is systematically eleminated they are charged to be re- engaged on a limited basis. Fatherhood is seen as fragile. Mothers are seen as barrier. Mothers are encouraged to step aside from the father and become a minimal factor. It sure didn’t work out well for these three children.
This case mirrors the Wilconson case. It’s crossed state lines, resulted in to a real nightmare. When is the FBI and doj going to start to look into the family court in Connecticut? Blumenthal used his position as the attorney general to stop the arrest of the family court judges. Tong is busy fighting Trump. Perhaps these two need to step out of the way in order to save the children of the state. Mr. Wilconson did exactly what Chris is doing.
“This case mirrors the Wilconson case.”
You mean, “Wilkinson”?
“Blumenthal used his position as the attorney general to stop the arrest of the family court judges.”
How so?
A state attorney at the time believed Linda Weigand and the children. He wrote a long statement explaining why he believed Ms. Weigand and the children. And, the typical lack of in-depth reporting from mainstream news outlets certainly stopped the arrest of family court judges.
Which specific facts support your theory that Mr. Blumenthal stopped the arrest of family court judges? His inaction certainly stopped prosecution, just as Mr. Tong’s inaction in family court racketeering cases.
So many other states are making Connecticut state government look so bad.
Send the feds. Not the New Haven branch. Not the New York branch.
Survivors tell Knesset lawmakers of organized assaults on children by those claiming mantle of religion, alleging longstanding phenomenon made worse by official indifference
25 August 2025, 12:47 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/horrifying-testimonies-seek-to-lift-shroud-of-silence-around-ritual-sex-abuse-claims/