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BBC Yanks Star Witness Episode in Orgasm Trial; Feds Drop Lying Star Witness—But Keep Her Lies in Court

May 27, 2025

In the middle of the trial of the USA v Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone, the BBC made an editorial decision to “suspend access” to Episode 9 of its podcast Orgasm Inc. – a 10-episode series deeply slanted against the defendants. The…

Family Court·General

CONtempt of Court: Family Law Attorney Sues Mom Over Money He Still Holds

by Frank Parlato

May 26, 2025

Edward Nusbaum, a family law attorney based in Connecticut, has filed a motion to hold his former client, Karen Riordan, in contempt of court. The dispute centers on Riordan’s alleged failure to pay arbitration fees in a case involving Nusbaum’s billing practices.…

Bernhard Fritsch

FRITSCH #3: GUILTY OR NOT, AUSA MONICA TAIT DOESN’T BLINK – IF SHE CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT, SHE INDICTS

by Frank Parlato

May 26, 2025

TRIAL OF BERNHARD FRITSCH MAY ALTER SIXTH AMENDMENT LAW The April 2025 trial of Bernhard Fritsch in the US District Court for the Central District of California may mark a pivotal moment in Sixth Amendment jurisprudence. Despite securing funding for private counsel,…

Bernhard Fritsch

Bernhard Fritsch #2: $200M BUSINESS DESTROYED! StarClub tanked by the feds, not fraud

by Frank Parlato

May 25, 2025

A Case That Questions the Very Nature of Justice The Fritsch prosecution raises fundamental questions about prosecutorial discretion and governmental priorities. Bernhard Fritsch was the largest investor in StarClub, and according to all available evidence, no one lost any money until the…

Bernhard Fritsch·Criminal Justice·Featured·Wrongful Convictions

IS FORCING UNWANTED COUNSEL A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH? FRITSCH CASE MAY DEFINE ‘EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE’ FOR A GENERATION

by Frank Parlato

May 25, 2025

The April 2025 trial of Bernhard Fritsch in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on two counts of wire fraud may represent a critical point in defining the Sixth Amendment protections. Despite securing millions to retain private counsel,…

Sandusky

FROM FILTH TO FORTUNE: Fina’s Porngate Shame Didn’t Stop His Climb to Top of Gaming Industry

by Frank Parlato

May 22, 2025

HARRISBURG, PA — Pace-O-Matic, a leading national developer of “skill-based” gaming machines, has named suspended attorney Frank Fina, its new Chief Operating Officer. Pace-O-Matic makes slot machines with minor skill elements—like puzzles or memory games—which allows them to claim legal status as…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste

THE DOOR WAS OPEN, STUPID; Fern’s OneTaste Fantasy Case Falls Apart

by Frank Parlato

May 20, 2025

The issue is freedom of choice. Brooklyn Federal Prosecutor Sean Fern would ask you to believe that the freedom to stay or go isn’t freedom. He talks about sex, power, and sales. Prosecutor Fern uses many words, some big and some small. He…

OneTaste

NO SHACKLES, JUST STROKES: Feds’s Sean Fern Claims OneTaste Women Forgot They Could Leave

by Frank Parlato

May 18, 2025

It is hard to improve on Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Fern’s opening statement in the Eastern District of New York courtroom in the case against Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz. While Fern’s delivery was poetic it lacked a certain candor which I…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste

STOP IN THE NAME OF LUST: Feds’ Sean Fern Says Women Rubbed for Freedom, Ended Up Enslaved

by Frank Parlato

May 17, 2025

His name was Sean Fern, an Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, and he was making legal history in the Brooklyn federal courthouse. He was making his opening statement in the case of the USA v Rachel Cherwitz…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Law enforcement

The DOJ’s Descent into Authoritarian Theater

by Frank Parlato

May 15, 2025

In time, the US Department of Justice may come to be viewed as a historical caution—compared to the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, or Stalin’s show trials. But with more paperwork. More press releases. Historians may record it as the unchecked power…

Bernhard Fritsch·Criminal Justice·Wrongful Convictions

Feds Railroading Tech Whiz Bernhard Fritsch? Inside the DOJ’s StarClub Takedown

by Frank Parlato

May 14, 2025

Welcome to the DOJ Funhouse. Bernhard Fritsch built a platform—StarClub—to let creators deal directly with fans. No gatekeepers. No corporate leash. No middlemen. A digital back door to the advertising-industrial complex that bypassed the brands, agencies, and editors. By 2017, the…

Law enforcement

Work, Not Whining: Police Chief Stauffiger Holds the Line

by Frank Parlato

May 13, 2025

Town of Tonawanda Police Chief James Stauffiger is engaged in a labor dispute with the local police union, which represents approximately 90 officers. The union is led by Officer Andy Thompson, its elected president. And front and center? Officer Bikramjit Singh resigned…

OneTaste

The OneTaste Trial #3: Becky Uma Halpern: I Was Happy, Orgasmic… and Brainwashed

by Frank Parlato

May 12, 2025

Becky Uma Halpern was a grown woman, not a prisoner of war. The jury heard her talk about how she met her husband and found meaning in life because of the people on trial. She took every OneTaste course because it helped her. She…

OneTaste

The OneTaste Trial #2: Prosecution’s Secret Weapon: Presiding Judge Diane Gujarati

by Frank Parlato

May 11, 2025

The Prosecutor in a Robe Judge Blocks Texts Showing Affection in Federal Trial Against OneTaste Leaders On Day Five of USA v. Cherwitz and Daedone, Judge Diane Gujarati again sided with the government, blocking the defense’s request to admit a text exchange…

OneTaste

California Dreamin’, Brooklyn Screamin’: The OneTaste Trial #1: ‘Preserve the Tapes’? Judge Flips Out, Ends Hearing

by Frank Parlato

May 10, 2025

In an ongoing federal trial in Brooklyn, prosecutors allege a conspiracy at the company known as OneTaste. This series tells that story. Two women started a company. The feds touched the indictment button. Now they’re in federal court facing 20 years. The…

Featured

Niagara Falls’ Centennial Park: A Vanity Project Built on Empty Wallets

by Frank Parlato

May 7, 2025

A Little Arena and a Lot of Pain Niagara Falls NY — The tax money of the people is not money. Not in the way a man thinks of coins in a jar or a dollar in his wallet. It’s something different. It…

Investigations·OneTaste

Congressional Letter Alleges Widespread FBI Misconduct – But the Show Trial of OneTaste Must Go On

by Frank Parlato

May 6, 2025

The Daily Mail obtained a letter from a Member of Congress to FBI Director Kash Patel, which accuses New York-based FBI special agent Elliot McGinnis of misconduct in the OneTaste investigation, citing a “long and extremely troubling list of alleged investigative abuses.” The…

Criminal Justice·Investigations

Blood Atonement or Cold Case? The LeBaron Mystery in North Dakota

by Frank Parlato

May 4, 2025

By Nathanial A. Barrera and Frank Parlato The Name Nobody Mentioned Twelve years have passed since the disappearance of a teenage boy in North Dakota. He was a LeBaron. That’s the thing that nobody has mentioned yet, not in print. Departure to…