Investigations - Frank Report

Clark for Grillo: The Trade the FBI Made and the Question It Never Asked

April 13, 2026

James D. Clark delivered gold. He stole some too. He took their money. He told them the gold was coming. It did not come for 118 people. He stole $6,333,973.74. A thief. That made him a good candidate for the FBI. A…

OneTaste

Brooklyn Just Made It Legal to Prosecute Donald Trump for Brainwashing His Followers

by Frank Parlato

April 13, 2026

The term ends January 20, 2029. The man who held it steps back into the jurisdiction of ordinary law. The great man remains, but the office no longer stands between him and the process that his enemies would try to deploy. Whether…

Criminal Justice·Featured·Investigations·OneTaste

OneTaste Verdict: How Forced Labor Conspiracy Theory Redefined Consent and Coercion

by Frank Parlato

April 11, 2026

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…

Featured·Investigations

Ambrose Moves to Hide Financial Records — Reveals He Has Been Liquidating Assets

by Frank Parlato

April 11, 2026

Christopher Ambrose filed an emergency motion on Wednesday asking a federal judge to seal his financial records from public view. In the motion, he disclosed that he has been liquidating assets. This contradicts his sworn affidavit of poverty, which allowed him to…

Featured·Investigations

Ambrose Has Nine Days to Prove Poverty in Bandy Lee Case

by Frank Parlato

April 5, 2026

Christopher A. Ambrose was a television writer whose career imploded in a plagiarism scandal in 2018. He is a suspended New York attorney. He sued psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee after she publicly declared he was a psychopath and a danger to his…

Grillo

FBI Informant James D. Clark PT 3: The Gold Wasn’t There

by Frank Parlato

April 4, 2026

This is part three of FBI Informant, the story of James D. Clark, the man to whom the FBI gave a pass his crimes, so he could entrap Leo Grillo. See part 1 James D. Clark FBI Informant: Pt 1: The Trade…

NXIVM

Ask Frank: What Did Raniere Do?

by Frank Parlato

April 4, 2026

Dear Frank, You told Alex who Keith Raniere is. What I need to know is what he actually did. My professor Steven Hassan says the BITE model explains it. What did he do to people? I kind of dig the dude though…

Sandusky

Judge Skerda Rescinded Sandusky Dismissal

by Frank Parlato

April 4, 2026

Judge Skerda and the Sandusky PCRA Pennsylvania Rule 907 requires a judge to issue a Notice of Intent to Dismiss and give a petitioner 20 days to respond before dismissing a post-conviction petition without a hearing. The rule exists to let the…

Grillo

FBI Informant PT 2: The Clark Family Buz

by Frank Parlato

April 3, 2026

James D. Clark did not invent the gold dealer fraud scheme. He inherited it — from a father who went to prison for securities fraud and a business partner who owed $7.5 million in restitution to 4,200 victims and paid $4,030. When…

General·NXIVM

Ask Frank: Who Is Keith Raniere?

by Frank Parlato

April 3, 2026

Dear Frank, I have to do a college paper on a cult. My professor Steven Hassan says everyone — including you — is either in a cult or is a cult leader. I decided I would write about Keith Raniere. Could you…

Featured·Grillo·Investigations

James D. Clark FBI Informant: Pt 1: The Trade

by Frank Parlato

April 2, 2026

THE INFORMANT SERIES How James D. Clark Cheated Retirees, Dodged a Federal Fraud Investigation, and Bought His Freedom With Leo Grillo PART ONE: THE TRADE It is not often that we get inside the FBI to see how its informants work. Happily,…

Featured·Investigations

Ambrose Has Until April 14. His Options Are All Bad.

by Frank Parlato

April 1, 2026

Christopher Ambrose has 13 days to decide how to respond to a federal judge’s order requiring him to produce his bank records. U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala on Tuesday ordered Ambrose to file monthly statements for March 2025 covering every financial…

Department of Justice·Featured·OneTaste

The Corrupt Judge on Trial: How Diane Gujarati Set A New Dangerous Precedent During The OneTaste Case

by Frank Parlato

March 31, 2026

By Troy Smith A 2025 federal trial — a single charge of forced labor conspiracy without the underlying charge of forced labor, known by many as the OneTaste trial — is our textbook case for testing whether a judge can be entirely…

OneTaste

OneTaste Founder Gets Prison in First Brainwashing Conviction in US History

by Frank Parlato

March 30, 2026

Nicole Daedone got 9 years. Rachel Cherwitz got 78 months. Every witness said she was free to leave. Every witness signed consent forms. The government's answer: they were brainwashed. United States v. Cherwitz is the first federal criminal conviction in American history…

OneTaste

Can OneTaste Case Be Used Against Trump?

by Frank Parlato

March 28, 2026

Will a Brooklyn Federal Prosecution Make It Possible to Prosecute Trump for Running a Cult? On March 30, 2026, in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Judge Diane Gujarati will sentence two women for a crime the jury was told it did not…

Featured·Investigations

Erie County’s Poor May Lose Their Lawyers

by Frank Parlato

March 26, 2026

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants to replace or drastically reduce the Assigned Counsel Program with either a government-run public defender’s office or an expansion of the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo. He thinks it will save money. Or if he doesn’t…

Sandusky

He Guessed. Fisher Nodded. Sandusky Went to Prison.

by Guest View

March 21, 2026

By Orson Voss A jury convicted Sandusky of abusing ten boys. Eight of those 10 boys testified in the courtroom to confront Sandusky. There were two boys whom the prosecution couldn’t locate. Only God knows where they are. Or who they are. …

NXIVM

Eight Years a Jailbird: Happy VJ-Day, Keith

by Guest View

March 18, 2026

Happy VJ-Day, Vanguard — Eight Years a Jailbird On March 25, 2018, a king became a convict in a single day. Bangkok marks the anniversary. By Bangkok We are very close to a special anniversary. VJ-Day (Vanguard-Jailbird Day) On March 25th, Vanguard…