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Pennsylvania Prosecutors Respond to Sandusky PCRA — By Ignoring the Evidence

Part 1 of a Series: What the Commonwealth Won’t Talk About On December 18, 2025, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office filed its response to Jerry Sandusky’s Post-Conviction Relief Act petition. It was 73 pages. It repeated trial testimony. It cited procedural deadlines.…

January 12, 2026

General·Wrongful Convictions

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

by Frank Parlato

December 15, 2025

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.…

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

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

by Juda Engelmayer

November 12, 2025

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…

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·Law enforcement·Wrongful Convictions

Emailgate: Staten Island DA McMahon Suffers Selective Amnesia, Forgets Decade-Long Feud with Luthmann

by Frank Parlato

August 2, 2025

Former Staten Island attorney and now Florida-based investigative journalist Richard Luthmann is due in court on August 1, 2025. But this isn’t a typical hearing—it’s set against the backdrop of politically-charged claims driven by DA Michael McMahon, who says Luthmann’s Substack newsletter…

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…

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,…

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…

Criminal Justice·Wrongful Convictions

Martin H. Tankleff: Andre Brown Must Be Saved from Going Back to Prison – a Potential Death Sentence

by Guest View

April 24, 2025

Update: Andre Brown was supposed to turn himself in to Bronx Criminal Court on March 14, but got a temporary reprieve by the district attorney’s office when he filed a clemency petition with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. The victims’ families have…

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…

General·Wrongful Convictions

From Witness Tampering to the Mann Act: How the DOJ Played a Shell Game with Intersex Toni Fly’s Life

by Frank Parlato

March 25, 2025

The arrest of Toni Fly came without warning: no explanation or warrant. On a Friday in July—2016—in Idaho Falls, Fly was taken into custody by local police on orders from an unnamed federal agency. “They say it’s federal,” an officer told Fly…

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,…

General·Wrongful Convictions

Judge Escalante vs. 1200 Rescued Dogs and Cats in No Kill Sanctuary: “Don’t Tell the Jury ‘the Animals are at Risk'”

by Frank Parlato

March 3, 2025

The road to D.E.L.T.A. Rescue wound up a California mountainside, past sun-scorched brush and brittle dirt, through desolation where things—dogs, cats, people—could disappear without a trace. The sanctuary sat at the peak, a sprawling 115-acre haven for creatures no one wanted, where…

Ozy Media·Wrongful Convictions

Watson’s Innocence Defense: Two Liars and a Loaded Bench

by Frank Parlato

December 11, 2024

Judge Conflict or Innocence: What Matters More? What if, in the end, we find the judge is conflicted, and the defendant is innocent? I believe many people view Carlos Watson’s motion before the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit—where he…

Ozy Media·Wrongful Convictions

Meme Stock Madness: Federal Judge Komitee Bets on GameStop During Court Sessions

by Frank Parlato

December 5, 2024

Nick Pinto of Hell Gate, an online, worker-owned publication focused on local New York City news, wrote a story about Eric Komitee, the federal judge in the Eastern District of NY. The story adds new insights into a federal judge accused of…

Criminal Justice·Ozy Media·Wrongful Convictions

Federal Judge or Wall Street Insider? Judge Komitee’s handling of the Watson Case

by Frank Parlato

November 30, 2024

He Judged Himself In two weeks, unless the 2nd Circuit steps in, US District Judge Eric Komitee will sentence Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson to likely decades in prison. US District Judge Eric Komitee denied Carlos Watson’s motion to dismiss his conviction…

Ozy Media·Wrongful Convictions

96% Market Moves, 4% Justice: Meet Wall Street’s Favorite Judge Eric Komitee

by Guest View

November 27, 2024

I have been covering the story of conflicted Judge Eric Komitee and his show trial of Carlos Watson. A gentleman who claims to know Komitee submitted this guest view. I changed his name at his request. He claims he knows of four…

Ozy Media·Wrongful Convictions

Watson’s Recommended Sentence Exceeds Billion-Dollar Fraudsters; as Probation Department Panders to Angry Federal Judge

by Frank Parlato

November 25, 2024

Carlos Watson was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, as well as aggravated identity theft. When a defendant is convicted in federal court, the US Probation Department prepares a report before sentencing and submits it to the sentencing…

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