Frank Parlato

Appeal Denied: No New Trial, No New Judge

The DOJ got its headline: “Prosecutor Nails Fraudster.”

Bernhard Fritsch disappeared on June 2, 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.

A 2016 email written by Elizabeth “Lizzie” Harding Weinstein—who died in July after years of accusing her husband of pedophilia—shows that she once recognized her bipolar disorder and the damage it caused her family.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles is asking Judge Dale S. Fischer to impose a 15-year sentence on Bernhard Fritsch on October 20.

After having written several stories about his trial and conviction, to my surprise, Bernhard Fritsch disappeared just before a remand hearing ahead of sentencing on June 2.

This hearing was the single greatest threat to the prosecution’s case and the NCAA’s timeline. In Pennsylvania, a preliminary hearing gives a defendant the right to review the Commonwealth’s evidence, identify the accusers, and test whether there is sufficient cause to proceed to trial.

The Method

It began the way most things do—small and stupid. A quarrel in a parking lot. Two people. Two tempers. One phone. It should have ended there, with engines starting and doors slamming. But it didn’t. The camera stayed on. And in the age we live in, that means the story was just beginning.

From 1969 to 1999, he was a coach at Penn State. He spent the majority of that time as defensive coordinator, holding that position from 1977 until his retirement.

TikTok’s @ThatDaneshGuy – Danesh Noshirvan. Noshirvan uses the image on the left to depict himself on TikTok.