A federal judge dismissed Christopher Ambrose’s defamation lawsuit against psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee on April 15, 2026, finding that his sworn claim of poverty was untrue — and that the law left her no choice but to throw the case out. Judge Sarala V. Nagala’s order, filed in

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants to replace the Assigned Counsel Program — a 60-year-old system that meets the state-mandated obligation to provide lawyers to people who cannot afford one, those charged with crimes, and indigent parents in Family Court proceedings. He s

  A Question from Ms. Rose ‘Mo’ Ruan Dear Frank: “Listen you blowhard. You wrote about my very good friend Chris Ambrose as follows: You wrote: “The SNAP fraud — collecting benefits in his daughter’s name using her Social Security number while knowing she was not in his hous

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 crook turned informant. Sent out to make a case. Any case. Lead

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 he may pardon himself remains unresolved, a quest

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 she could not leave. Loss of job, friends, family,

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 sue without pay

There are leaders who are manufactured — polished in the right rooms, introduced to the right people, handed a path already cleared. Then there are those who are made by something older and less forgiving: by loss, displacement, by the daily friction of a life that asks for more

The brain, for all its thoughts and worries and flashes of brilliance, is 60 percent fat. By composition, then, the brain is mostly fat, which is funny when you spend your life trying to lose fat, and the thing running the show is built out of it.

Steve Bannon, host of War Room, one of the most listened-to political podcasts in America, had a partner named Miles Guo.

New Immigration Era

Christopher A. Ambrose was a television writer whose career imploded in a plagiarism scandal in 2018 . He is a suspended New York attorney .

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.

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 my professor says both you and Raniere are brainwashers— Gus Montenegro

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.

This is the second in a series on James D. Clark, the FBI informant who manufactured an attempted kidnapping case against Leo Grillo, 77, founder of DELTA Rescue, the world’s largest no-kill, care-for-life animal sanctuary.

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 tell me who he is?

THE INFORMANT SERIES

Christopher Ambrose has 13 days to decide how to respond to a federal judge’s order requiring him to produce his bank records.

Court names Bank of America, Fidelity, and Eyes Above Productions — sets April 14 deadline

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Nicole Daedone, founder of the sexual wellness company OneTaste, was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison for forced labor conspiracy. Rachel Cherwitz, the company’s former head of sales, received a 78-month sentence. United States District Judge Diane Gujarati imposed both sentences at

Forbes puts his worth at $7 billion. That ranks him 525th in the world. They call him self-made.

Will a Brooklyn Federal Prosecution Make It Possible to Prosecute Trump for Running a Cult?

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.