Where the Judge is King: Inside America’s Last Absolute Monarchy: Family Court
The Ordinary Building Where Extraordinary Power Lives
Frank Parlato
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Chief Stauffiger vs. The Police Union: Inside Tonawanda’s Fight for Control
This is the first part of an investigative series about the fight between the Chief of Police in the Town of Tonawanda, and the men and women of the Police Club.
The Government vs. Orgasm: The Case of OneTaste
IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, A CRIME OF IDEAS
In Family Court, The Fight is Fake — But The Money (and Destruction) is Real
It happens every day in Family Court. Two lawyers walk in. They bow to the judge like it’s church. They shake hands like it’s Christmas. Then fight.
Family Court Isn’t Broken — It’s Doing Exactly What It Was Built to Do
In the beginning, there was love between a man and a woman. Then they had kids. Then came the fighting. Enter Family Court: where people go to lose everything.
MAYOR TO TECH: DROP DEAD Restaino Risks $1.5B Over His Arena Obsession
The Ten-Acre Battlefield
False Recovered Memories at the Root of Sandusky Conviction – and Nobody Challenged the Junk Science
The investigation into Jerry Sandusky and the trial missed the most basic marks of science and honesty. That is the record.
Will DOJ Prosecute Ayries Blanck Before OneTaste Prosecution Collapses? Acting US Attorney John Durham Knows; NY Times Reports
Will the Department of Justice indict Ayries Blanck, the central accuser in the federal case against OneTaste? After revelations that she fabricated key evidence used to indict company founder Nicole Daedone and executive Rachel Cherwitz, the odds have gone up.
Buried Twice: How the U.S. Tried to Erase the Muwekma Ohlone from History—Then from the Law
In 1978, the Bureau of Indian Affairs omitted the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe from its list of federally recognized tribes. There was no hearing. The Tribe—previously acknowledged by the federal government as the Verona Band of Alameda County—had never been terminated by Congress or executive order.
Consent Is No Defense? The DOJ’s War on Orgasmic Meditation
The defendants are Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz. The charge is forced labor conspiracy—not forced labor, but the conspiracy to make it happen. At the heart of the case is Orgasmic Meditation—OM. Through that, the government saw a conspiracy to coerce adults into sex.
