Frank Parlato
It was a small wedding in Los Angeles, reportedly held in her parents’ backyard. Allison Mack, a former member of the NXIVM cult, stood beneath a Jewish chuppah and married Frank Meeink, a self-professed former neo-Nazi.
TMZ had the photos — June 2025. Mack was in a halter-neck gown with wildflowers in her hair and Meeink in a gray suit. They exchanged vows under the chuppah.
Us Weekly reported that Mack met Meeink at a dog park. They connected over shared interests, and the relationship developed quickly. Their shared interests include the quest for redemption.
Meeink made redemption — or at least a redemption story — his life’s work.
Allison Mack’s Fall and Sentence
Allison Mack, Erika Durance and Kristin Kreuk – part of the cast of Smallville.
Mack is best known for her role as Chloe Sullivan on the television series Smallville (2001–2011). Her career took a nosedive when she left it for NXIVM and followed a man she became a slave to — then recruited women to be her slaves and his ‘grand-slaves.’
In 2018, Mack was arrested and later convicted for her role in the master-slave group DOS, comprised of 105 women and one man — Keith Raniere, founder of NXIVM. She pleaded guilty in 2019 to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced to three years in federal prison. She served 21 months and was released in July 2023.
She is on probation.
Prosecutors accused Mack of recruiting and coercing women into DOS, where members were exploited for sex and labor and branded with Raniere’s initials — many of them unaware that the brand’s design formed his initials upside down.
In court, Mack, facing life in prison, took a plea and admitted that she manipulated, extorted, and forced women to perform acts under threat of blackmail and public humiliation.
The judge cited her cooperation in granting a reduced sentence. Mack was ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service and pay a $20,000 fine, along with her three years in prison.
The Redemption Podcast
Mack is now pursuing her own redemption story and is the subject of a new CBC podcast, Allison After NXIVM, launching November 10, 2025. It is a six-part, audio-only podcast. It will be her redemption story.
The Husband’s Redemption Tale
Little has been reported about her husband, as her husband, that is. His is a redemption story. Unlike Mack, whose fall and crimes were documented by prosecutors and the press, Meeink’s tale rests on his own telling. Frank Meeink’s legend—the skinhead leadership, the brutal crimes, the prison awakening, the anti-hate crusade—comes from one source: Frank Meeink.
Born Francis Steven Bertoline on May 7, 1975, and raised in South Philadelphia, Meeink says he dropped out of high school during his teens and was convicted of kidnapping and aggravated assault at age 17 in Illinois. He says he served about three years in prison for that violent crime.
According to Meeink, he lured an unidentified man to an apartment under false pretenses, kidnapped him, and forcibly assaulted him over several hours, an attack he says was videotaped. He claims he held the victim at gunpoint, beat him, and terrorized him. Meeink identifies the victim only by a first name, Josh, and describes him as a rival gang member.
Meeink says he experienced an “epiphany” in prison that led him away from extremist ideology. After his release, he began describing himself as a former neo-Nazi and claims to have spoken at schools and public events.
Meeink’s memoir, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead, was published in 2010. Meeink presents himself as a gang leader, television-show host, and top recruiter in the skinhead movement. These claims, though repeated by several outlets—including NPR, The Des Moines Register, and The New York Post—lack independent corroboration.
The story may very well be 100 percent true, but FrankReport was unable to corroborate any of it, including his arrest and conviction. Meeink says his life inspired the film, American History X, which also may be true, but he does not appear to be credited. It appears the filmmakers do not corroborate it.
From Nazi to “Woke”
In March 2021, Meeink—moving from Nazi to ‘woke’—appeared on the left-leaning, some say radical, CNN program New Day to discuss political radicalization.
He said, “Fox News has completely radicalized so many Americans,” comparing its messaging to Rwandan hate radio.
His remarks aligned with left-leaning critiques of conservative media.
Mail-Order Miracle
Meeink’s claim to Jewish ancestry is based on a 23andMe DNA test reportedly showing he is 2.4% Ashkenazi Jewish. This claim, widely repeated by media outlets, fits his narrative of redemption perfectly: a former neo-Nazi finds out he is part Jewish.
He bought a mail-order miracle. Spit in a tube, sent it off, and came back reborn — two percent Jewish and a hundred percent marketable. A hell of a plot twist for a guy with no paper trail. Even the grifters in Hollywood would’ve called it too on-the-nose.
The Alibi of Ideology
Still, overall, Meeink has turned a criminal act into a political parable. The beatings, the gun, the kidnapping—if they happened at all—are framed as symptoms of ideology, not choice. It’s an alibi: blame the belief, not the man. He found a way to tell his story so people would forgive him.
Mack needs to do the same thing.
The Redemption Business
Mack escaped a cult and a brutal controlling freak named Raniere, and she served her time. She was once beloved and is now hated. Literally hated.
She needs to adopt the Meeink model. Replace Nazi with Raniere, and spread peace and love.
While Meeinck’s story may be authentic, it has to be admitted that several former extremists, grifters, and self-styled reformers often rebrand themselves by presenting a backstory of abuse, neglect, or trauma. It converts them from villain to wounded survivor, and that shift makes audiences more forgiving.
Mack needs to become a wounded survivor, like her husband.
Six months after she married him, it’s Mack’s turn: make her crimes the fault of an ideology, not her own pathology.
Two redemption peddlers walked down the aisle, and half a year later Mack is in full redemption mode. Meeink succeeded. He is, at least to the left, one of us.
As for Mack — let’s wait and see. They got married. After meeting in a dog park. Maybe she thought he was proof that people can change. Or that someone else still believes in second chances. She left NXIVM. He left the neo-Nazis. Maybe they both needed to walk away from something to find someone who’d believe them. Maybe that’s what they both wanted: someone to listen and say, I believe you, even when the world is unlikely to agree — in Mack’s case.
Let’s see what Allison offers on CBC. We’ll know today. I think the test of truth is that she does not throw everyone under the bus — not Nancy Salzman who kept her tethered or Lauren, who taught her the mass of garbage that was NXIVM’s curriculum, or Kristin Kruek who brought her in with tales of NXIVM’s splendor, or Sara Bronfman, who used her wealth to get her set up for getting gobbled up by the great volleyball guru, or Sarah Edmondson and Mark Vicente, who in NXIVM were her hierarchal upline, who sold her classes and more classes and profited off of her.
She can blame Raniere, yes, up to a point. But in the end, the test of truth is that, at least equally if not more, she blames not Raniere but herself. That is, I believe, where she will find it. Redemption, that is. The public might forgive her.
Her husband did that. He blamed himself. Called his actions brutal. And the audience forgave him and wanted to foirgive him so badlly they put aside his brutal violence and put the blame on the Nazi ideology.
The road for Allison is to blame herself hard and then the audience will – it’s pyschology – blame NXIVM and Raniere.
They want to believe a woman can walk into a cell and come out new.
Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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Omg American and their obsession with races. his 2.4 % are a joke. I never thought about doing a DNA test (waste of time and money) but I wouldn’t be surprised if it says I have 2% of spanish (Spain for ignorants) MOST PERUVIANS has it too probably we were all conquered. That not means im going to call myself Spanish XD or dance the flamenco on my wedding. LOL
What Allison Mack did was wrong and ugly, but I still hope that she can redeem herself in body and soul and truly overcome this, honestly.
This article made me spill my $9 coffee. Someone has to take responsibility for this because it definitely wasn’t me. There clearly needs to be a warning that you shouldn’t drink coffee while reading.
Allison is a fucking bitch! She said I was fat and made me feel insecure.
I love Allison with all of my Aryan heart!
Allison was born in Germany, so it makes sense why she would love a pure blood like me.
I guess he flipped her.
Recap of episode 2 of Allison After Nxivm podcast:
1. She hated women, yet wanted to be a “role model” to women in Jness.
2. Keith insulted her upon their first meeting then moved on from her. When she left, Loreta Garza explained that he is the “smartest man in the world” and she should have asked him a question. They turned around and went back and Allison asked him a question about art. Keith basically ridiculed her and her question. This seems to be where she fell in love with him.
3. She was out “out of touch” with her sexuality, so she had sex with Keith daily, yet never seemed to get in touch with it.
4. Although she hated women, she was impressed with Dani Padilla. Dani started grooming Allison for BDSM torture, sex dungeons and other weird sexual stuff.
5. Keith recruited Allison into DOS.
The overarching theme of both episodes is, Allison is psychotic and dangerous…
I just could not finish watching!
It’s just a jelly doughnut sums up the podcast and this silly cult. Overthinking and over analyzing creating absolute stunted paralysis with a vacuum of any success or happiness…..a complete inability to simply be or be in the moment. Shit just isn’t that deep. She needs to stay in therapy and stop the circular thought dissection.
The truly puzzling part of this is that somehow a fat, uninspiring, slovenly guy that spoke in dizzying circles of complete utter, nonsense was compelling to anyone. All you need is two minutes of listening to him to make that assessment……. What was missing in those that didn’t have that immediate gut reaction to his very basic concepts and lunacy. He found the broken birds.
Opinions on Mack’s podcast are sharply divided.
A platform for an abuser? Many critics and listeners have expressed outrage that a convicted sex trafficker is being given a public platform from which to profit. Comments on social media about the release of the podcast show strong opposition, with many citing the pain caused to victims.
Investigative insight: Some media outlets and commentators have defended the project, explaining that it challenges Mack and provides new insight. For example, Variety reported that Mack was approached by producer Vanessa Grigoriadis, who had previously interviewed her, and that the podcast “challenges Mack at every turn”.
Accountability vs. sensationalism: There is a debate over whether the podcast truly promotes accountability or is a form of sensationalism that benefits Mack more than the victims. In the podcast, Mack herself states, ‘I don’t see myself as innocent’, but also insists that part of her motivation was altruistic. This duality of victimhood and villainy is a key theme of the show, but one that many find difficult to accept from someone convicted of such serious crimes.
Meeink Surname
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Origins
The surname Meeink has Dutch origins, derived from the Middle Dutch word “mink,” which means “monkey.” It is believed that the surname may have originally been a nickname for someone who exhibited monkey-like traits or behavior. Over time, the surname evolved and became a hereditary family name passed down from generation to generation.
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https://surnam.es/meeink-surname
News @ TheU
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Meeink, born Frank Bertone, was introduced to the world through a drug-addicted, Irish-Italian family in South Philadelphia. Soon after his birth, his mother and father divorced, leaving Meeink with a dependent mother and violent stepfather. At the time, his Italian birth given name still remained, causing anguish among his Irish stepfather and neighbors.
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https://news.miami.edu/stories/2017/02/a-personal-fight-against-prejudice.html
News @ TheU
A Personal Fight Against PrejudiceIn a lecture presentation at UM Hillel, a former skinhead shared his inspirational story of overcoming a life of hatred and violence.
https://news.miami.edu/stories/2017/02/a-personal-fight-against-prejudice.html
Wikipedia
Frank Meeink
Frank Meeink (born Francis Steven Bertoline; May 7, 1975) is a former white supremacist skinhead gang member in the United States. After a three-year stint in prison, he left the racist skinhead movement and now lectures against it.[1]
Early life
Born in South Philadelphia, Meeink claims to have lived a violent and unpleasant childhood with a lack of a structured family.[2] In his early life, he had no relationship with his biological father and had an abusive stepfather.[2] Meeink’s mother abused drugs and alcohol.[2] As a teenager, Meeink was constantly bullied and taunted at school because his peers considered him to be an outcast. At age thirteen, Meeink was out with his cousin when he discovered the Neo-Nazi movement.
Meeink has some ancestors who were Jewish but had no idea of this fact until much later in his life when he left prison in the midst of his anti-hate work. While studying for a documentary, a rabbi helped Meeink discover his Jewish roots.[3] Since his Jewish heritage is matrilineal, he is halachically Jewish. He now claims to be an observant Jew. Meeink has said that goes to Torah study classes three times a week, keeps kosher and attends synagogue.[4]
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So, Judaism saved him? Judaism made him kind and humane? lol! I’ll bet he knew he was a Jewish all along.
Alison held the same role as Virginia, but decade older.
No one owes these two anything. They’ll have to go the rest of their lives like us, weighed down with guilt.
No more celebrity privilege, Alison
Ill drink a drink – or 50 – to their wedding!!
Congrats FRALLISON!!!
Forget “Brangelina”
“Bennifer” is so 20 years ago
Meet “Frallison”!!!!!!!
Allison is a beautiful, pure, gentle soul. Just because she facilitated child molestation, sex trafficked women, blackmailed people, lied about the brand, belittled others, etc. does not make her bad. Many do those things. And Keith Raniere is God.
The worst thing about Allison’s crimes is not that she committed them. It’s that she got caught.
I can’t wait for Kevin’s defense of Allison’s most recent psychotic decision to marry this clown. He goes straight from victimizer to victim, no in-between.
She responsible for her own life, and can do what she wants. Making the podcast is a mistake, and will help provide more content and ammunition for the company’s upper management that seven years later continues to avoid any kind of legitimate job.
The way forward was to continue with education and gainful employment.
Gainful employment where? She is a felon who sex trafficked women to a pedophile. She had women branded with a cult leaders initials. Should she be allowed around children?
Also, what exactly is she qualified to do? Being an “orange sash with two stripes” has no practical application in the real world.
Kevin, what do you suggest she does for work?
The whole “Redemption ” schtick worked for Hugh Grant, Bill Clinton, Jim Bakker, etc. I give them one year, top.
Hopefully she follows in the footsteps of epstein
But I love Allison. She is pure Aryan white.
Frank Parlato is a greasy ginzo wop. He needs to be deported back to Italy.
You are partially right here!
First of all, Allison lost all credit here by submitting herself to a Jewish cult leader like Keith and Nancy!
Now she’s even worse by marrying a punk ass ex wannabe Nazi!
Those type of assholes pretending to be Nazi are just niggerized dumbasses slapping that sacred label on themselves! They act like niggers! They run their system like niggers! They act like every other nigger gang in history! They are niggers in everything, but their skin!
That is not how the true noble men of that sacred Reich acted! The Grand Führer wouldn’t even spit in their direction! They are imposters that deserve to die for tainting the sacred name of the national socialists and then fucking it all up even more with their “conversion testimonies” when they never spoke for us to begin with!
Now as for Ginzo, sending him back with his goat-fucking ancestors isn’t good enough for him after all the damage that he has caused in our sacred country and how long he has abused the patriots and coddled the traitors and Marxists!
He needs to be publicly and slowly skinned alive while on an open fire with an barbed spear shaped like a small black dick (the accurate size) penetrates all of his marinara-shit stench orifices with no lubricant as he cries and begs for mercy while he slowly receives his departure present as he’s sent back to Nigger Hell! It should be an a turning circle so everybody can laugh at him and spit in his face as he dies!
If he wants to join the Jews (like he always does) and protest that “black dicks are bigger” than the special dildo we’ve prepared for him, well we can always help him fulfill his fantasy on that faithful day and the more room for more barbed wire, the merrier!
🔥😈🔥
IF WE BELIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEVVVEEEEE!!!!!! ✊🏻🫡
THERE’S A BETTER WAY!!!!!!
I’m definitely going to apply what I’ve learned here. He is brilliant. How did he wind up in prison is what I want to know?
I had heard of this lunatic before, but I had no idea he was the guy who married Alison. Try settling in Israel with your alleged 2.4% Jewish DNA, pal! He would be laughed out of the country.
I’m sorry to hear that Alison is involved with this bozo. Keith might actually have been a better choice for a husband. There is something majorly sinister going on with this fool.
You made me really wonder about the husband. Maybe he is for real or maybe more like it a little fiction in it too.
So, Frank, what is your take on this?
My belief is people can change; but usually, they have get knocked down by life quite a bit and go to the bottom, before they can “get it”. And by “get It”, I mean, understand they are responsible for their life, for their11 choices and understand what made them make bad choices and thus a harmful life. And finally see there is something much better to move towards.
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The cure is rarely easy: she was beloved, Now she is reviled. I suppose her redemption begins the moment this actor realizes she’s also the author. It begins with a mirror.
My advice to her would be not to tell the world what she was snookered into doing what she did and how Raniere was so evil in making her do it in a six part podcast with her obnoxious spin and especially how much she was hurt. But rather for her to go find some small good thing to do and do it. Then do another. And another. But if she is going to do a podcat by all means blame herself. Her podcast should begin and end with a mirror. That’s my opinion.
The world doesn’t give a sh1te. Most had no clue who she was.
She’s going to have to deal with her mistakes like we do.
Accountability includes the lifelong stigma.
Women and betas hate accountability
Frank, why is Franks last name different from Bertoline?
He changed it when he found out he is 2.4 percent Jewish to his maternal name.
These days, people have more opportunities to choose their own gender. For instance, a man can choose to identify as a woman and transition. So why shouldn’t someone also have the option to choose their own ancestry?
Because he is a fraud of the highest order.
He knew he was a majority Jew the whole time.
Just want to let you all know that I am cumming out of the closet as gay. Patriot God and me are a couple. We are married and have sex multiple times per week.
I had heard that rumor – and George McBlack is involved in some perverted way.
HAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Look at all of these faggots so desperate for attention that they have to make up erotica for faggots in order for attention!
Looks like everybody wants in on the patriots! One way or another!
Yeah, that’s more your own sick fantasy, Ginzo! Not reality! I always knew that you were a faggot! Just not this pathetic of a one! 🤦🏻♂️
Ha! This is hilarious that you were this pathetic! See! We new that all of this slander against The Great Patriot God was really about all your depraved Jewish sexual fantasies!
Look! Even the old faggot Ginzo himself has to get on the gravy train! 👇🏻
Listen faggots! No matter how much you pull this slanderous bullshit neither the Col. nor The Great Patriot God is going to fuck any of y’all! So either find yourselves a real faggot or just do the world a favor and kill yourselves!
This is so pathetic! 🙄
That darn Jew, Frankie, used be in my LGBTQ+ friendly neo Nazi group. We used to pin up a picture of Hitler, then have a circle jerk to it. Frankie always drank up all our Aryan cum. He hs so silly!
Is Allison still in college? She was goin to school and i hope that works out for her.She’s a sweet kid.
God damn, Frank! Dropping a BOMBSHELL on a Monday morning!
A few thoughts:
1. Allison Mack did not “escape a cult”; Allison Mack WAS the cult. She fell in love with Keith immediately and willingly went along with all of his horseshit because that is what made her happy. She facilitated the rape and sexual torture of underage girls because it pleased Keith, which made her full of “joy”.
2. Allison may have, literally, the worst taste in men I have ever heard of. A child rapist, a neo-Nazi, etc. What is next for her, a serial killer?
3. Frank sounds like real winner. He waa a neo-Nazi who beat and tortured people, and blames Fox News? How about taking responsibility for kidnapping and beating people? He sounds like pure scum to me.
Frank, this is an incredible revelation into the mind of a deranged, psychotic woman…
… I very much hope you continue to dig deeper into this.
I wonder if Allison will talk about this in her upcoming podcasrs?
Has your opinion of Allison changed at all after listening to the pods?
I’d be done with all 7 by now but I keep needing to make runs to the grocery store for more chiclets.
Hey Nutjob,
A little. Based on the first episode, it sounds like her mother and father were the typical “stage parents”, shoving her into showbusiness at five years old and letting the “business” teach Allison morals, manners ethics and etiquette. This is a recipe for disaster because she was overly competitive with other girls/women. Also, her obsession with pleasing directors is a straight line into abusive relationships with boyfriends and eventually the most toxic partnership with Vanturd.
Even the host stated she did not trust Allison. I feel very little has changed with her.
In my view, it seems she ceased maturing at a very early childhood age. Hearing that her friend was “singing in my ear” while she was being driven to sentencing tells me, she was in a very altered and deteriorated state of mind.
Let me be clear: Allison is a convicted felon who took pleasure in the unspeakable pain of others. This behavior would have escalated into manifestations of more brutal sexual torture, very disfiguring mutilations, and possibly even thrill killing and cold blooded murder.
I look forward to listening to episode 2 tonight.
So Allison married the due from American History X? Interesting.
Was Tabby Chapman invited to the wedding?
I heard she was not invited, but she crashed it when she learned the reception was at an “all you can eat” lasagna buffett, with “bottomless” chocolate iced cream milk shakes and deep fried Twinkies for dessert.
Benji, thank you for not continually humiliating me for wiping Clare’s ass. I am glad we have pivoted to busting on Tabby Flapman. She turned on Allison, so she is a suppressive.
If I’m not mistaken, “Meeink” is urban English for “I did my own neck tat.”
Thanks for making this easy to understand. I wish them good forturne. ONe day they’ll put this all behind them. God bless Allison and Frank Meeink, but Frank P not so much.
Another manipulative narcissist to use Alison to further his cause- he’ll help her on the road to redemption. Is he the smartest man in the world too?
Any idea when he allegedly converted to Judaism? While all could be true its feeling scammish –
At his briss
Maybe he did kaballah Judaism like madonna….