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udge Dismisses Ambrose Lawsuit Over False Poverty Claim

April 19, 2026

A federal judge dismissed Christopher Ambrose’s defamation lawsuit against psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee on April 15, 2026, finding that his sworn claim of poverty was untrue — and that the law left her no choice but to throw the case out.…

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Poloncarz’s $40 Million Lie: The Numbers He Never Corrected

by Frank Parlato

April 18, 2026

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants to replace the Assigned Counsel Program — a 60-year-old system that meets the state-mandated obligation to provide lawyers to people who cannot afford one, those charged with crimes, and indigent parents in Family Court proceedings. He…

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Ambrose Claimed SNAP Benefits for a Daughter Who Never Lived There

by Frank Parlato

April 14, 2026

A Question from Ms. Rose ‘Mo’ Ruan Dear Frank: “Listen you blowhard. You wrote about my very good friend Chris Ambrose as follows: You wrote: “The SNAP fraud — collecting benefits in his daughter’s name using her Social Security number while…

General·Grillo

Clark for Grillo: The Trade the FBI Made and the Question It Never Asked

by Frank Parlato

April 13, 2026

James D. Clark delivered gold. He stole some too. He took their money. He told them the gold was coming. It did not come for 118 people. He stole $6,333,973.74. A thief. That made him a good candidate for the FBI. A…

OneTaste

Brooklyn Just Made It Legal to Prosecute Donald Trump for Brainwashing His Followers

by Frank Parlato

April 13, 2026

The term ends January 20, 2029. The man who held it steps back into the jurisdiction of ordinary law. The great man remains, but the office no longer stands between him and the process that his enemies would try to deploy. Whether…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Investigations·OneTaste

OneTaste Verdict: How Forced Labor Conspiracy Theory Redefined Consent and Coercion

by Frank Parlato

April 11, 2026

No one had brought a case like this before. Only a conspiracy, stretched across years. They admitted there were no chains or locks. It did not matter. A person could be held without being held. A woman could stay because she felt…

Featured·Investigations

Ambrose Moves to Hide Financial Records — Reveals He Has Been Liquidating Assets

by Frank Parlato

April 11, 2026

Christopher Ambrose filed an emergency motion on Wednesday asking a federal judge to seal his financial records from public view. In the motion, he disclosed that he has been liquidating assets. This contradicts his sworn affidavit of poverty, which allowed him to…

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Sylvia Luke: Budget Hawk, Immigrant Daughter, Hawaii’s Indispensable Leader

by Frank Parlato

April 9, 2026

There are leaders who are manufactured — polished in the right rooms, introduced to the right people, handed a path already cleared. Then there are those who are made by something older and less forgiving: by loss, displacement, by the daily friction…

Bannon Guo

Why Trust Bannon After Partner Stole $1B?

by Frank Parlato

April 8, 2026

Steve Bannon, host of War Room, had a partner named Miles Guo. Together they built a media and political enterprise that collected more than a billion dollars from Chinese immigrants told they were funding a movement to bring down the Chinese Communist…

Law enforcement

Stefanya Ramirez Ospina Used Green Card to Steal; Now ICE Has Her File

by Frank Parlato

April 7, 2026

New Immigration Era What One Case Reveals For most of the past three decades, immigration enforcement in America operated on a set of priorities. Violent criminals, drug traffickers, and national security threats were the targets. Everyone else existed in a gray zone,…

Featured·Investigations

Ambrose Has Nine Days to Prove Poverty in Bandy Lee Case

by Frank Parlato

April 5, 2026

Christopher A. Ambrose was a television writer whose career imploded in a plagiarism scandal in 2018. He is a suspended New York attorney. He sued psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee after she publicly declared he was a psychopath and a danger to his…

Grillo

FBI Informant James D. Clark PT 3: The Gold Wasn’t There

by Frank Parlato

April 4, 2026

This is part three of FBI Informant, the story of James D. Clark, the man to whom the FBI gave a pass his crimes, so he could entrap Leo Grillo. See part 1 James D. Clark FBI Informant: Pt 1: The Trade…

NXIVM

Ask Frank: What Did Raniere Do?

by Frank Parlato

April 4, 2026

Dear Frank, You told Alex who Keith Raniere is. What I need to know is what he actually did. My professor Steven Hassan says the BITE model explains it. What did he do to people? I kind of dig the dude though…

Sandusky

Judge Skerda Rescinded Sandusky Dismissal

by Frank Parlato

April 4, 2026

Judge Skerda and the Sandusky PCRA Pennsylvania Rule 907 requires a judge to issue a Notice of Intent to Dismiss and give a petitioner 20 days to respond before dismissing a post-conviction petition without a hearing. The rule exists to let the…

Grillo

FBI Informant PT 2: The Clark Family Buz

by Frank Parlato

April 3, 2026

James D. Clark did not invent the gold dealer fraud scheme. He inherited it — from a father who went to prison for securities fraud and a business partner who owed $7.5 million in restitution to 4,200 victims and paid $4,030. When…

General·NXIVM

Ask Frank: Who Is Keith Raniere?

by Frank Parlato

April 3, 2026

Dear Frank, I have to do a college paper on a cult. My professor Steven Hassan says everyone — including you — is either in a cult or is a cult leader. I decided I would write about Keith Raniere. Could you…

Featured·Grillo·Investigations

James D. Clark FBI Informant: Pt 1: The Trade

by Frank Parlato

April 2, 2026

THE INFORMANT SERIES How James D. Clark Cheated Retirees, Dodged a Federal Fraud Investigation, and Bought His Freedom With Leo Grillo PART ONE: THE TRADE It is not often that we get inside the FBI to see how its informants work. Happily,…

Featured·Investigations

Ambrose Has Until April 14. His Options Are All Bad.

by Frank Parlato

April 1, 2026

Christopher Ambrose has 13 days to decide how to respond to a federal judge’s order requiring him to produce his bank records. U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala on Tuesday ordered Ambrose to file monthly statements for March 2025 covering every financial…