Criminal Justice
WHO REALLY KILLED FIRST BRANDS Pt 5: Two Executives Have Confessed
First Brands collapsed owing $11 billion. Two executives confessed to the fraud. Did founder Patrick James direct it, or just own the company?
A Judge-Made Probation Deal in the Kessler Protest Killing
Loay Alnaji admitted killing Paul Kessler with a megaphone. A Ventura County judge signaled probation — no prison.
The Framing of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez Part 9; The Show Trial
Castel let the prosecution build the case it wanted. He kept out what hurt the government. The Hernández trial was a show trial in every measure.
Grand Jury Rejects Felony Case Against Ex-DA John Flynn’s Accuser
The grand jury would not indict Ryan Flynn. Now only a misdemeanor remains against the man who accused ex-DA John Flynn of child abuse.
The Difference Between Justice and Vengeance: The Case for Mercy in the Frank Rosenthal Case
The Difference Between Justice and Vengeance: The Case for Mercy in the Frank Rosenthal Case
Who Really Killed First Brands, Part 4: How a Trillion-Dollar Firm Profited
Apollo Global Management bet against First Brands' debt, then profited as the auto parts maker collapsed and its founder was indicted.
STEFANYA RAMIREZ OSPINA: 309,000 Followers, One Federal File
She has 309,000 followers, a CEO bio, and a $4M federal theft case. Inside the double life of Stefanya Ramirez Ospina.
Part 7. The Framing of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez: The Venue Lie
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…
Who Really Killed First Brands? Part 1
What Was Lost First Brands, a Cleveland-based auto parts company, went into bankruptcy last year. It employed 26,000 people on five continents. About 6,000 of those workers were Americans in…
Inside Vítek’s CPI: A Czech Billionaire’s House of Cards
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…
PART #2: The Framing of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez by Biden’s DOJ
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…
The Framing of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez by Biden’s DOJ: Part #1
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…
OneTaste Verdict: How Forced Labor Conspiracy Theory Redefined Consent and Coercion
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…
Stefanya Ramirez Ospina Used Green Card to Steal; Now ICE Has Her File
New Immigration Era
Feds Indict Grillo: DELTA Rescue Founder Faces Kidnapping Charge Based on Fraudster’s Entrapment
On March 13, 2026, the United States government indicted Leo Grillo, 77, founder of DELTA Rescue, an animal sanctuary in Acton, California, on a charge of attempted kidnapping. He faces up to 20…
Judge Brown’s Two Lies in Boyne Trial
We examined how Judge Peter L. Brown buried the Counterman standard in 145 pages of jury instructions in the Paul Boyne cyberstalking trial — stating once the constitutional protection at the heart…
The Stench from the Bench
Senior Judge Maureen Skerda pulls a dirty trick to bury the Penn State prosecutors scandal
LA Times Got the Grillo Kidnap Story Wrong
The LA Times Reported Leo Grillo’s Arrest and Missed the Important Facts