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Former DA John Flynn Accused of Child Sexual Abuse by Cousin; He Prosecuted Pigeon on Similar, Uncorroborated Charges

THE FLYNN DOCTRINE — AND THE MAN NOW CAUGHT IN IT By Frank Parlato Two cases center on former Erie County District Attorney John Flynn. In one, Flynn brought the accusation. In the other, he is the accused. He set the rule.…

December 15, 2025

Legal Issues

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…

Criminal Justice

After Diddy Verdict, Questions Mount Over SDNY’s Overreach in Alexander Brothers Case; Plus OneTaste and More

by Juda Engelmayer

July 2, 2025

By Juda Englelmayer The rapid-fire verdict in the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial — where jurors rejected sweeping sex trafficking charges and convicted only on lesser prostitution-related counts — may signal a broader public shift. It suggests juries are no longer buying into…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Investigations·Politics

More Info on Angel DuBose’s Christmas Party Accusation: Will It End Letitia James’s Career?

by Frank Parlato

June 29, 2025

Angel S. DuBose says she went to a Christmas party and ended up drugged, kidnapped, assaulted, and dumped like garbage—by her own boss and her staff. That boss? Letitia James. This wasn’t in some abandoned warehouse. This was a city office Christmas…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Investigations·Wrongful Convictions

Los Angeles Judge Escalante’s Kangaroo Court Sends No-Kill Shelter to Bankruptcy

by Frank Parlato

June 24, 2025

DELTA Rescue high on a sunburnt hill in Acton, California, there’s a place where animals go not to die but to live. It was Leo Grillo’s idea. D.E.L.T.A. Rescue—Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals. He founded DELTA in 1979 as a response…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste·Wrongful Convictions

Twenty Suits, Twenty Badges: The Day Fear Ruled Judge Gujarati’s Courtroom

by Frank Parlato

June 15, 2025

The federal trial began in Brooklyn of Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone on May 5, 2025. The charge was conspiracy to commit forced labor “by means of force, threats of force, and serious harm.” It ended in a conviction in June. There…

Criminal Justice·General

In Oakland Bribery Case, Prosecutors Lean on a Witness With a History of Fraud

by Frank Parlato

June 15, 2025

On January 17, 2025, the final day of the Biden administration, federal prosecutors unsealed an eight-count indictment charging former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao; her partner, Andre Jones; recycling executive David Trung Duong; and Duong’s son, Andy Hung Duong, with conspiracy to commit…

Criminal Justice·General

DEPORT HER, DON’T PET HER; Illegal Immigrant Adriana Duarte Stole Food and Supplies From 1500 Dogs, Cats, Horses From No-Kill Sanctuary

by Frank Parlato

June 6, 2025

An Example Worth Making President Trump says it’s time to deport illegal immigrants who abuse the system. We have a candidate. Her name is Adriana Duarte Valentines, and she’s been living in Lancaster, California, for over 20 years—off the books, off the…

Criminal Justice·Trump James

‘IS SHE OUT?’: Letitia James Named in Shocking Abduction Allegation

by Frank Parlato

June 5, 2025

Note: My original story on Letitia James, Ibrahim Khan and Angel DuBose, published on Artvoice and Frank Report, attracted the attention of President Donald Trump, who shared it on his social media. Since that story, published on April 30, appeared, significant additional…

Bernhard Fritsch·Criminal Justice·Featured·Wrongful Convictions

IS FORCING UNWANTED COUNSEL A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH? FRITSCH CASE MAY DEFINE ‘EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE’ FOR A GENERATION

by Frank Parlato

May 25, 2025

The April 2025 trial of Bernhard Fritsch in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on two counts of wire fraud may represent a critical point in defining the Sixth Amendment protections. Despite securing millions to retain private counsel,…

Criminal Justice·Investigations·Sandusky

John Ziegler Interviews Bob Costas Who Admits Joe Paterno ‘Not a Villian’

by Timothy Vale

May 20, 2025

Episode Twenty: Costas Returns In a bonus installment of the “With the Benefit of Hindsight” podcast, the host John Ziegler provided an update on the Penn State–Paterno–Sandusky case. The occasion was prompted by a recent interview conducted with veteran NBC sportscaster Bob…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste

THE DOOR WAS OPEN, STUPID; Fern’s OneTaste Fantasy Case Falls Apart

by Frank Parlato

May 20, 2025

The issue is freedom of choice. Brooklyn Federal Prosecutor Sean Fern would ask you to believe that the freedom to stay or go isn’t freedom. He talks about sex, power, and sales. Prosecutor Fern uses many words, some big and some small. He…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste

STOP IN THE NAME OF LUST: Feds’ Sean Fern Says Women Rubbed for Freedom, Ended Up Enslaved

by Frank Parlato

May 17, 2025

His name was Sean Fern, an Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, and he was making legal history in the Brooklyn federal courthouse. He was making his opening statement in the case of the USA v Rachel Cherwitz…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Law enforcement

The DOJ’s Descent into Authoritarian Theater

by Frank Parlato

May 15, 2025

In time, the US Department of Justice may come to be viewed as a historical caution—compared to the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, or Stalin’s show trials. But with more paperwork. More press releases. Historians may record it as the unchecked power…

Bernhard Fritsch·Criminal Justice·Wrongful Convictions

Feds Railroading Tech Whiz Bernhard Fritsch? Inside the DOJ’s StarClub Takedown

by Frank Parlato

May 14, 2025

Welcome to the DOJ Funhouse. Bernhard Fritsch built a platform—StarClub—to let creators deal directly with fans. No gatekeepers. No corporate leash. No middlemen. A digital back door to the advertising-industrial complex that bypassed the brands, agencies, and editors. By 2017, the…

Law enforcement

Work, Not Whining: Police Chief Stauffiger Holds the Line

by Frank Parlato

May 13, 2025

Town of Tonawanda Police Chief James Stauffiger is engaged in a labor dispute with the local police union, which represents approximately 90 officers. The union is led by Officer Andy Thompson, its elected president. And front and center? Officer Bikramjit Singh resigned…

Criminal Justice·Investigations

Blood Atonement or Cold Case? The LeBaron Mystery in North Dakota

by Frank Parlato

May 4, 2025

By Nathanial A. Barrera and Frank Parlato The Name Nobody Mentioned Twelve years have passed since the disappearance of a teenage boy in North Dakota. He was a LeBaron. That’s the thing that nobody has mentioned yet, not in print. Departure to…

Criminal Justice·OneTaste

20 Prosecutors, No Arguments: DOJ Flash Mob Storms Brooklyn Court in OneTaste Case

by Frank Parlato

May 2, 2025

The trial of OneTaste executives Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz is set to begin with jury selection on Monday. In an extraordinary show of force this week, the Department of Justice deployed 20 prosecutors to a Brooklyn courtroom on April 29—not to…

Criminal Justice·General·OneTaste

Judge Gujarati’s Integrity Crisis: Privilege Violated, Evidence Tainted, Rights Ignored

by Juda Engelmayer

April 29, 2025

By Juda Englemeyer We have some major developments to share concerning Harvey Weinstein’s retrial and the OneTaste prosecution—two cases that are increasingly exposing serious issues of judicial overreach, prosecutorial misconduct, and institutional failure. Harvey’s retrial is underway at New York State Supreme…

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