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Weinstein, Alexander Brothers, OneTaste: When Legal Reality Diverges from Media Narrative

By Juda Englemayer HARVEY WEINSTEIN Manhattan prosecutors today urged the court to reject Harvey Weinstein’s motion to vacate his conviction, dismissing juror-misconduct claims that two jurors themselves have now sworn under oath. The same office that once argued for his retrial now…

November 12, 2025

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When Insurance Becomes Betrayal: How NIAC Failed D.E.L.T.A. Rescue

by Frank Parlato

October 6, 2025

Part I: The Sanctuary and the Suit D.E.L.T.A. Rescue sits in the high desert above Los Angeles. Fifteen hundred dogs, cats, and horses live there. For forty-five years, Leo Grillo, now seventy-five, has kept his promise: no animal rescued will ever be…

Criminal Justice·Department of Justice·Law enforcement·Legal Issues·Wrongful Convictions

Where is the Fingerprint Card? Richard Luthmann says missing records void his 2020 plea. Now he’s demanding answers—and calling in the feds.

Staten Island DA McMahon Accused of Justice Cover-Up in Vanished Docket Case

by Frank Parlato

August 7, 2025

Former Staten Island attorney Richard Luthmann says the missing fingerprint card from his 2020 Supplemental Criminal Information (SCI) proves his plea deal was never legal. Luthmann was never booked or fingerprinted—he was in federal prison at the time. Now he’s asking a…

Criminal Justice·Department of Justice·Law enforcement·Legal Issues

BREAKING: NYPD Detective Wilkinson Caught on Tape Admitting to Obstruction of Justice: “I Get Whatever I Want” From Judges Because of DA McMahon

by Frank Parlato

July 30, 2025

On July 21, 2025, NYPD Detective John Wilkinson revealed on a recorded call that he gets “whatever [he] want[s]” when Staten Island DA Michael McMahon is the victim. The tape, obtained by journalist Richard Luthmann, exposes a rigged warrant scheme: Wilkinson confirms…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Investigations·Legal Issues·Sandusky

When Politics Took the Field: Pressure, Power, and the Collapse of Due Process

by Guest View

July 12, 2025

This is the sixth of a series. By John Atwell Moody Governors, Grandstanding, and Grief: When Politics Replaced Protection Not to blame anyone, but during the disspiriting, literally endless wild goose chase for abuse, the child turned forever to actual drugs, to…

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Niagara Falls’s $200 Million Arena Rests on a Report That Forgot the Truth

by Frank Parlato

July 5, 2025

A city on the edge of debt. A mayor with a vision. The feasibility report came. It said: Build it. It did not say how. Or who would come. Or what would happen if they didn’t. So, the good people of…

Featured·Legal Issues·Politics

Niagara Falls is Perfectly Positioned To Become a Tech Hub for a Better Future

by Timothy Vale

April 16, 2025

By Tony Farina A new report released by NFR by MRB Group, a leading engineering, architecture, and municipal planning company, highlights tax revenue, job creation, and economic spin-off benefits that will be generated by the Niagara Digital Campus data center, including property…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Law enforcement·Legal Issues

Chief Stauffiger vs. The Police Union: Inside Tonawanda’s Fight for Control

by Frank Parlato

April 13, 2025

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. There are men who hold a title, and there are men…

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MAYOR TO TECH: DROP DEAD Restaino Risks $1.5B Over His Arena Obsession

by Frank Parlato

April 10, 2025

The Ten-Acre Battlefield This is a story about ten acres in Niagara Falls, New York. Ten acres of grass and trees called Parcel 0. Niagara Falls Redevelopment LLC—NFR for short—owns Parcel 0, along with 130 other acres it bought over 25 years. Billionaire…

Criminal Justice·Family Court·Featured·General·Legal Issues

CT Lawyer Ed Nusbaum Wants Court to Punish Client Who Fired Him — and Let Him Keep $64,000

by Frank Parlato

March 30, 2025

Arbitration The case is Nusbaum v Riordan. The arbitration order came on November 4, 2024. Both parties share the arbitration fee. If one party paid more, they could ask for it back later. A regular lawsuit by a judge and a jury…

Featured·Legal Issues·Ozy Media·Wrongful Convictions

Trump Commutes Carlos Watson’s Sentence Amid Judicial Conflict Allegations

by Frank Parlato

March 28, 2025

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Carlos Watson, co-founder of Ozy Media, just hours before Watson was due to report to prison for a nearly ten-year sentence. Watson was on a plane headed to prison when…

Bernhard Fritsch·Featured·General·Legal Issues

Danny Guy: The Investor Who Profits When You Lose Everything

by Frank Parlato

March 25, 2025

This is part 3 of our series on Canadian Danny G. Guy. He is reportedly a criminal fraudster. Frank Report is investigating. Part 1: Meet Danny Guy: The Alleged Hedge Fund Hustler Who Manufactures Financial Crimes Part 2: Danny Guy Helped Russia…

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Niagara Falls Mayor’s Genius Plan: ‘If We Can’t Buy It, Let’s Just Say We Own It’

by Frank Parlato

March 17, 2025

There are two kinds of mayors in the world: the kind who build things, and the kind who spend taxpayer money hiring lawyers to explain why they can’t build things. Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino, for reasons known only to him, has…

Criminal Justice·Legal Issues·Opinion

JPMorgan vs. Frank: A Corporate Cover-Up in Disguise?

by Charlie Taylor

March 13, 2025

When JPMorgan Chase acquired Frank for $175 million in September 2021, it appeared to be a strategic move into the student financial aid space. But what initially seemed like a smart business decision quickly unraveled into a high-profile legal battle, with JPMorgan…

Criminal Justice·General·Law enforcement·Legal Issues·Wrongful Convictions

Stay Away from Her, Or Else: The Threat That Led to a Setup in Fallsburg in the Catskills

by Frank Parlato

March 5, 2025

The Catskills rise like an old promise, rolling hills thick with pine and shadow, where the air smells of wet earth and woodsmoke. The towns are small, tucked between valleys, their pasts stitched together with fading postcards of grand hotels, ghost resorts,…

Criminal Justice·Legal Issues

Designed to Convict: Lease Locked: Tenants Welcome for Terms That Last

by Frank Parlato

January 1, 2025

This is Part Two of the ‘Designed to Convict’ Series — whether through news, opinion, satire, or appeals to common sense or conscience, we try to capture the true spirit of the Department of Justice, Orwellian-named and dedicated to the subversion of…

Criminal Justice·Legal Issues

Designed to Convict: Federal Court Seating Creates Bias Against Defendants

by Frank Parlato

December 30, 2024

The Flaws of Federal Trials A System Designed to Deter Trials The federal judiciary does not focus on fairness in jury trials. Instead, it emphasizes deterring defendants from proceeding to trial. And keeping up the appearance of the legal fiction that the…

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Illegal Alien Wins $6.7 Million Judgment Against No-Kill Animal Sanctuary – Uses Fake Social Security Number

by Frank Parlato

December 24, 2024

Adriana Duarte Valentines’ story may be a modern American rags-to-riches tale. Yet she hasn’t received her money, and she is not an American. The 45-year-old illegal alien utilized the U.S. legal system to secure a victory over D.E.L.T.A. Rescue, a no-kill animal…

Criminal Justice·Legal Issues·Ozy Media

BREAKING NEWS: Judge Eric Komitee Faces Calls for Impeachment Over Financial Conflicts in COVID-19 Vaccine Case

by Frank Parlato

December 2, 2024

Brooklyn, NY — Over 60 complainants, represented by attorney Jo Saint-George of Women of Color for Equal Justice, have filed a judicial misconduct complaint against U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee. They accuse the judge of corruption, self-dealing, and concealing financial interests tied…

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