Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz face sentencing on March 30 on a single count of forced labor conspiracy in a Brooklyn federal courthouse before US District Judge Diane Gujarati. The prosecution is asking for 20 and 14 years, respectively.

Orgasmic Meditation, or OM, is about clitoral stimulation as a method to improve health and growth.

“Abandon all hope, ye brainwashed fools.”

If you laid out every issue in the Jerry Sandusky case — not the headlines, not the emotion, but the actual procedural record — no honest lawyer in America could tell you this man got a fair trial.

The Promise

The Case Against the Case:

His Daughter’s Sworn Declaration Dismantles His Poverty Claim Point by Point

Every publication of consequence eventually attracts its own heckler. Frank Report has the Crank Report.

Eight days after TikTok permanently banned Danesh Noshirvan, he’s back on TikTok.

by Ralph Cipriano

The Age of Conviction

Seven months from indictment to conviction. Forty-eight counts. Ten alleged victims.

In November 2022, Netflix released Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste , a Lena Dunham-produced “true crime” documentary about a sexual wellness company that taught a partnered practice called orgasmic meditation.

A Woman Alone in a Dark Parking Lot

Steven Hassan is a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts who has built a career on a single claim: that he can identify “destructive cults” using a diagnostic overarching highly simplistic completely subjective tool he created called the BITE model. He has applied this confirmation-bias

In June 2025, two women were convicted of forced labor conspiracy in the Eastern District of New York. No one was physically restrained. No one was threatened with violence. No substantive crime of forced labor was charged. Nine out of 35,000 former participants in a meditation and wellness company

The government wants Rachel Cherwitz sentenced for a crime she was never charged with, never tried for, and never convicted of.

Rachel Cherwitz is Nicole Daedone’s co-defendant, who is currently incarcerated at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while they await sentencing.

As the journalist who broke the NXIVM branding story and played a role in exposing Keith Raniere’s criminal enterprise, I want to explain the role of Roger Stone and NXIVM.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

In June 2025, a Brooklyn federal jury convicted Nicole Daedone, 58, co-founder of OneTaste, on conspiracy to commit forced labor.

For five years, Danesh Noshirvan used TikTok to target individuals, publishing personal information and harassment campaigns.

By Rebecca Martin

Firouz Shahbazi:

This is Part #3 of the Danesh Chronicles