On June 9, 2025, in United States v. Daedone et al., a federal jury in Brooklyn returned guilty verdicts against Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz on a single count of conspiracy to commit forced labor. On March 30, 2026, U.S. District Judge Diane Gujarati imposed sentences of 9
Two Czech businessmen — Marek Čmejla and Jiří Diviš — placed their trust, and a great deal of money, in a real estate operator named Radovan Vítek. Vítek ran the company. They called it a “parity partnership.” With Čmejla and Diviš’s money Vitek bought buildings, land, hotels, an
United States v. Daedone and Cherwitz: A Series on the Precedent On June 9, 2025, in United States v. Daedone et al., No. 1:23-cr-00146-DG (E.D.N.Y.), a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against defendants Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz on a single count of conspiracy to
The more one examines it, the more obvious it becomes that Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez not only because it was in America’s geopolitical interest but also because it was in the interest of justice. It will take many stories to explain how the U
Part 1 made the geopolitical argument for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Part 2 examined the case the Biden Department of Justice put on. Part 3 examined how the prosecutors lied to get the trial in front of a biased judge and an uninformed ju
Part 1 made the geopolitical argument for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. Part 2 examined the case the Biden Department of Justice put on. Part 3 is about how the prosecutors got a biased judge and an uninformed jury. The legal name for what th
Leo Grillo, 77, founded the world’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary. He has no criminal record. He sits in federal detention on the word of James Clark — a gold dealer who stole $6 million from retirees and needed a story to save himself. He found Leo Grillo.
He Took It to Mexico. Now It’s Back in the U.S. A Phase 2 clinical trial has begun enrolling patients in the United States for an experimental immunotherapy designed to treat metastatic prostate cancer, according to its developer, Syncromune, Inc. The trial would test an idea bot
Part 2: The Case Part 1 made the geopolitical argument. President Juan Orlando Hernández was an ally of the United States. The Biden DOJ indicted him the day a Chinese-aligned Honduran government took his place. Trump’s pardon was part of a multi-pronged intervention in the Novem
Part 1 On December 1, 2025, Donald Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández. He was in a US prison. Hernández had served less than four years of a 45-year sentence when he was pardoned. He was 57. Hernández walked out of FCI Hazelton on the day Trum
Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz ran a San Francisco company called OneTaste that focused on sex and enlightenment. Sixteen thousand people took courses. Years later, they found themselves in a federal courtroom not in permissive San Francisco but in Brooklyn, where the rules a
Frank Rose spent 30 years in national security. The United States Senate confirmed him twice. The nation entrusted him with the nuclear arsenal. Kathryn Hewitt was once his research assistant. Years later, she alleged that he retaliated against her for reporting sexual harassment
