Frank Parlato

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20 Years for a Blog: Boyne Gets a Death Sentence at 64

By Frank Parlato NEW HAVEN — A Connecticut judge on Tuesday sentenced Paul Boyne, the 64-year-old Virginia blogger behind The Family Court Circus, to 20 years in prison followed by 10 years of special parole with conditions that include monitored internet use. Superior Court Judg

Former President Trump addresses the media.

Trump to USA: Pardon Is Justice, Not Mercy

What Trump Did That No One Else Had Done Donald Trump did something no modern president had done. He treated clemency as a constitutional answer to institutional abuse. Other presidents used the pardon quietly and defensively, usually at the end of a term and with little explanat

Who Really Killed First Brands? Part 1

By Frank Parlato What Was Lost First Brands, a Cleveland-based auto parts company, went into bankruptcy last year. It employed 26,000 people on five continents. About 6,000 of those workers were Americans in Midwestern factories. The other 20,000 were in China, Mexico, Europe, an

Was Radovan Vítek’s €52 Million Payment to His Son a Crime?

Czech billionaire Radovan Vítek is the majority stockholder of CPI Property Group, a debt-heavy European real estate conglomerate that borrowed billions from institutional investors while enriching insiders through a maze of dubious transactions. In 2020, when Vítek’s son Patrick

How the OneTaste Prosecution Rewrote Federal Sentencing

The Old Switcheroo The case of United States v. Daedone and Cherwitz was the first federal forced-labor conspiracy conviction that relied entirely on psychological coercion, with no physical restraint and no spoken threats. In fact, it rested entirely on a conspiracy-only charge.

How Radovan Vítek Bought a Yacht With Bondholders’ Money

This is the latest installment in a continuing series on Czech billionaire Radovan Vítek and the financial structure of his publicly traded real estate empire, CPI Property Group. I have been contacted by officials in the Trump administration who have expressed interest in whethe