2025 - Frank Report

NXIVM

The IQ Test That Let You Cheat — And the Cult Leader Who Built an Empire on It

November 15, 2025

It was sometime in 1988, when Keith Raniere took an IQ test. He was 27. The test Raniere chose was the Mega Test, a creation of the Mega Society, founded by Ronald Hoeflin in 1982. The Mega Society said its test was…

General·NXIVM/Raniere/Bronfman Documents

‘Allison After NXIVM’: Sculpting Mack Into the Girl Things Happened To

by Frank Parlato

November 15, 2025

A breathless, self-serious overture on a long redemption path. The podcast is called Allison After NXIVM. Natalie Robehmed tells the story. Vanessa Grigoriadis helps her. CBC carries it. And Allison Mack is the subject and she does a lot of talking too.…

NXIVM

‘Allison After NXIVM’ Episode 1 – Begins the Mack Rebrand

by Frank Parlato

November 13, 2025

A breathless, self-serious overture on a long redemption path. The podcast is called Allison After NXIVM. Natalie Robehmed tells the story. Vanessa Grigoriadis helps her. CBC carries it. It is Allison’s first post-sentencing true confession. She made a nice one in front…

Criminal Justice·Department of Justice·Legal Issues·Wrongful Convictions

Weinstein, Alexander Brothers, OneTaste: When Legal Reality Diverges from Media Narrative

by Juda Engelmayer

November 12, 2025

By Juda Englemayer HARVEY WEINSTEIN Manhattan prosecutors today urged the court to reject Harvey Weinstein’s motion to vacate his conviction, dismissing juror-misconduct claims that two jurors themselves have now sworn under oath. The same office that once argued for his retrial now…

NXIVM

Keith Raniere’s Bio, Corrected and Updated for the Prison Era

by Frank Parlato

November 10, 2025

Oldies But Goodies: Much of this post was published in Frank Report in 2018. But a lot has happened to Keith Raniere since then. The bulk of the 2018 material was previously published on www.keithraniere.com. The [Bracketed] Truth Behind the NXIVM Founder’s…

NXIVM

Allison Mack’s Next Act: Marriage to a Former Neo-Nazi and a Public Quest for Redemption

by Frank Parlato

November 10, 2025

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…

Sandusky

I Challenge Bullyville’s James McGibney to a Public Debate on Jerry Sandusky

by Frank Parlato

November 9, 2025

The Bullyville Crusade James McGibney of Bullyville, an online platform that claims to target cyberbullies, has recently been trying to discredit me for supporting Jerry Sandusky. McGibney calls Sandusky a “child predator and convicted pdophile.” I say he’s an innocent man. McGibney says:…

Family Court

Christopher Ambrose and the Case of the Missing Service

by Frank Parlato

November 8, 2025

Christopher Ambrose, a Connecticut man once of Hollywood, used to write TV scripts about people ruining each other’s lives. He says I defamed him, but he became infamous in 2018 for plagiarizing a Bones script for the CBS show Instinct. When he…

Cancel Culture

Judge Slaps TikTok Creator with Immediate $62,320 Sanction; Lawsuit in Jeopardy

by Frank Parlato

November 7, 2025

FORT MYERS, Fla. — TikTok content creator Danesh Noshirvan was ordered by a federal judge to pay $62,320 in attorney fees to Garramone Plastic Surgery for conduct the court described as “bad-faith” during his suit against Dr. Ralph Garramone, Jennifer Couture, and…

General·NXIVM

No Way Out: Appeals Court Rejection Leaves Raniere with Nearly Impossible Path to Freedom

by Frank Parlato

November 5, 2025

End of the Line for Direct Appeals There is not much left for Keith Alan Raniere now that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected his bid for a new trial. He is likely to finish out his career…

General

Private Messages of Two Online Vigilantes Gives Insight Into Cancel Culture

by Frank Parlato

November 4, 2025

They were men who exposed bad actors and stood up to bullies. Tough guys — online. Danesh Noshirvan and James McGibney. McGibney, the virtual vigilante, whose work, he says, is to help the helpless and make the web a safer place. His handle…

General

The Raid That Killed a Company: Bernhard Fritsch’s Story of American Injustice

by Frank Parlato

November 1, 2025

The Man Who Took His Genius and Left America Part I –The Case Against Him German inventor Bernhard Fritsch left the United States, transferring several potential multibillion-dollar technology ventures, including his intellectual-property assets and patent portfolio, to Germany rather than spend 15…

General

The Man Who Mined Paper: Inside Radovan Vitek’s Empire of Mirrors

by Frank Parlato

October 29, 2025

The Croesus of Luxembourg He saw a system to be beaten. He was steady, patient as a man waiting for fish to rise. The trusts, the laws, the stock exchanges: to him, an invitation. He understood that the richest veins of gold…

Cancel Culture

Attorney Admits Creating Fake Email to Impersonate Opposing Counsel

by Frank Parlato

October 29, 2025

In a federal lawsuit in Florida, attorney Nicholas Chiappetta’s bid for a multimillion-dollar defamation victory has taken a turn — from a fight over damages to a battle for his career, possibly his freedom, after admitting he created an email account impersonating…

NXIVM

Second Circuit Rejects Keith Raniere’s Latest Appeal, Upholds NXIVM Convictions

by Frank Parlato

October 27, 2025

Appeal Denied: No New Trial, No New Judge On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied Keith Raniere’s appeal, affirming Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis’s rulings that rejected his motions for a new trial, post-conviction discovery, and judicial…

Bernhard Fritsch·General

The Perfect Victim: Why a Man Who Never Lost a Dime Cried Fraud to the FBI

by Frank Parlato

October 27, 2025

The DOJ got its headline: “Prosecutor Nails Fraudster.” My take is the headline should be: “Venture capitalist, who is a known predator, manipulates ambitious federal officials to destroy a company and its inventor for ulterior motives.” This is just an opinionated piece.…

Bernhard Fritsch

One Count Guilty, One Not — Then Gone: The Disappearance of Bernhard Fritsch

by Frank Parlato

October 26, 2025

Bernhard Fritsch disappeared on June 2, 2025. I’d covered his trial for months. He was quiet in court, polite, careful with words. When the verdict came, he didn’t flinch. One count guilty. One not. Fifteen years on the table. Then he was…

Family Court·Parental Alienation

The $405 Lie: How a Fallen TV Writer Exposed His Own Psychopathy

by Frank Parlato

October 24, 2025

When Hollywood writer Christopher Ambrose returned home to Connecticut after being caught plagiarizing on INSTINCT in 2018, he was unemployable but sitting on $2 million in marital assets. He then weaponized a controversial legal theory—“parental alienation”—to flip the script. He documented ordinary…

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