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Criminal Justice·Featured·Investigations·OneTaste

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 woman could stay because she felt…

April 11, 2026

Criminal Justice·Department of Justice

How Federal Courtrooms Quietly Favor Prosecutors

by Frank Parlato

July 21, 2025

In Federal Trials, Certain Advantages Favor the Prosecution Two Bites at the Apple Prosecutors deliver both the opening and the final closing arguments, thereby securing the benefit of primacy and recency—psychological effects where people tend to remember best what they hear first…

Criminal Justice·Family Court·Featured

Elizabeth Harding Weinstein, at Center of Contentious Divorce and Mental Health Dispute, Dies at 53

by Frank Parlato

July 16, 2025

Someone sent this: “Lizzie Harding Weinstein was just found dead in a hotel room. Now there’s an investigation. It’s suspicious. The courts took her kids, her freedom, her driving license. All her money. She was wealthy and they put her under guardianship….”…

Criminal Justice

Weaponized Justice: Inside the Stunt Raid That Took Down Oakland’s Mayor

by Frank Parlato

July 14, 2025

OAKLAND, Calif. — On January 17, federal prosecutors unsealed an eight-count indictment charging former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her partner Andre Jones, and recycling executives David Duong and Andy Duong with conspiracy, bribery, and wire fraud. All four defendants pleaded not guilty.…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Investigations·Politics

Oakland Mayor Indicted—But DOJ’s Star Witness Bounced the Bribe Check

by Frank Parlato

July 12, 2025

OAKLAND, Calif. — Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was charged January 17 with bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud, and aiding and abetting in a sweeping federal indictment. The date coincided with the last day of the Biden administration. Prosecutors say Thao conspired with…

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…

Criminal Justice·Featured·General·Investigations

Juarez’s Bounced Check Blows Hole In DOJ’s Case Against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and ‘Recycling King’ David Duong

by Frank Parlato

July 11, 2025

On January 17, federal prosecutors charged former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao in a public corruption case, alleging she conspired with her boyfriend, Andre Jones, and recycling executives David and Andy Duong to accept $170,000 in bribes in exchange for political favors. The…

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…

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