By Frank Parlato 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,
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
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
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
By Frank Parlato 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
By Frank Parlato 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 un
By Frank Parlato 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.
By Frank Parlato 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 all
