Part 2: The Case Part 1 made the geopolitical argument. President Juan Orlando Hernández was an ally of the United States. The Biden DOJ indicted him the day a Chinese-aligned Honduran government took his place. Trump’s pardon was part of a multi-pronged intervention in the Novem

Part 1 On December 1, 2025, Donald Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández. He was in a US prison. Hernández had served less than four years of a 45-year sentence when he was pardoned. He was 57. Hernández walked out of FCI Hazelton on the day Trum

Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz ran a San Francisco company called OneTaste that focused on sex and enlightenment. Sixteen thousand people took courses. Years later, they found themselves in a federal courtroom not in permissive San Francisco but in Brooklyn, where the rules a

Frank Rose spent 30 years in national security. The United States Senate confirmed him twice. The nation entrusted him with the nuclear arsenal. Kathryn Hewitt was once his research assistant. Years later, she alleged that he retaliated against her for reporting sexual harassment

If you are looking for the moment American federal criminal law crossed a line, this is it. The people who built the case hate Donald Trump. Steven Hassan wrote a 300-page book called The Cult of Trump. Bandy X. Lee organized a conference at Yale to have psychiatrists declare Tru

By Ralph Cipriano In the Penn State sex abuse case, Senior Judge Maureen Skerda is resolutely engineering a cover up. But last week because of a procedural error, the Honorable Judge Skerda was forced to reverse herself. And in the process, perhaps out of concern that her extreme

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