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July 11, 2025

Juarez’s Bounced Check Blows Hole In DOJ’s Case Against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and ‘Recycling King’ David Duong

By Frank Parlato On January 17, federal prosecutors charged former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao in a public corruption case, alleging she conspired with her boyfriend, Andre Jones, and recycling executives David and

Arts & Culture·Climate Change·Environment·Lifestyle

July 4, 2025

DSNDP celebrates 500 Green Milestones with a Mega Cleanliness Drive and Tree Plantation

In an extraordinary demonstration of global unity and environmental commitment, a nonprofit organization Dr. Shri Nanasaheb Dharmadhikari Pratisthan (DSNDP) organized a MEGA Cleanliness Drive and Tree Plantation/Conservation Event, titled “500 Green Milestones

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor: This July 4th, we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday. So, I have

CharityWatch Exposed: A Self-Appointed Watchdog with No Oversight

July 4, 2025 by Frank Parlato I saw CharityWatch’s report on DELTA

Mixed Martial Arts Promoters Have Tough Road Despite Passage

It may be bloody and highly controversial, but mixed martial arts will be coming to New York in the not too distant future, and

March 24, 2016

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Shaky Union Support May Have Delivered Key Blow To Panepinto

It could be more than an office scandal and financial pressures that drove State Sen. Marc Panepinto’s decision two weeks ago not to seek

March 24, 2016

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Jimmy Kemp To Speak At Conservative’s Tribute Dinner To Dad

Jimmy Kemp, son of legendary Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, will be the guest speaker at the Conservative Party of Erie County Conservative Forum’s

March 24, 2016

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Complaints Against Violante No Surprise To Lawyer Representing Donatello

It was in the Sept. 3, 2013 editions of the Niagara Falls Reporter that I broke the story that one of the top prosecutors

March 24, 2016

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Brian Meyer To Head Regional News Partnership at WBFO

Award-winning veteran journalist Brian Meyer, who has served as news director at WBFO in Buffalo since 2014, has been promoted to the position of

March 24, 2016

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As $250 Grant for BMHA is Debated, Delinquent Debt to City Rears Head

Many BMHA tenants pay about 30 percent of their rent [about $100 per month.] The rest of the sum is subsidized by taxpayers. These

March 17, 2016

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Snowden Seen as Trumpiest of Trumpsters, Develops Line of Campaign Button

Flamboyant and entrepreneurial Rick Snowden, who owned a nightclub and the historic Miller Mansion on Nottingham Terrace in Buffalo where he hosted several spectacular

March 17, 2016

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Hamburg’s Quinn Eyes Panepinto Seat

Hamburg Councilman Michael Quinn, a lawyer, former ironworker and an infantry paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, has reportedly told Erie County Democratic Chairman

March 17, 2016

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State Bureaucrats, Hamister Silent on Failed Hotel Project

The sad truth behind the state development agencies that helped push through the proposed Hamister Hotel project in Niagara Falls four years ago is

March 17, 2016

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Great White Hunter Opens Sandwich Shop on Elmwood

Some of the menu items at the recently-opened Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches on Elmwood Avenue may lend a whole new meaning to the term

March 10, 2016

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Flaherty, Flynn to Mix Politics, St. Patrick’s Celebration At Famed Irish Center Luncheon

Just in case you are a newcomer to these parts, we’d like to remind you that St. Patrick’s Day next Thursday (March17) is more

March 10, 2016

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A Modest Suggestion for Change of Emblem for the National Security Agency

At Artvoice we seek to serve the interest of the people. And, as we reviewed our cover story this week, it occurred to us

March 4, 2016

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Unkind, Bud

After waiting almost two years for the rollout of New York’s medical marijuana program, many people who have sought to use medical cannabis to

March 4, 2016

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Delaware North Loses Yosemite Contract

News of potential import to the city of Niagara Falls broke late last year when details of an epic legal showdown at Yosemite National

March 4, 2016

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Congratulations to Lawyers for the Arts

Over $37,000 was raised at the 5th Anniversary of the Lawyers for the Arts. The musical performance by ten bands comprised entirely of lawyers

March 4, 2016

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State Money Flows Again, But Question Remains: What Happened?

The carpenters, all 70 of them, are back on the job at SolarCity, but more than 120 plumbers were still out as of Tuesday

March 4, 2016

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Panepinto Ready to take on all challengers for 60th district seat

State Sen. Marc Panepinto may face a Democratic primary in the 60th District this year and if he is victorious he will likely face

March 4, 2016

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THE CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART 13: SHOULD THERE BE AN INVESTIGATION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT?

>BY FRANK PARLATO Frequent readers of Artvoice have seen our long running series The Cult of NXIVM. The series exposes over and over again

February 18, 2016

NXIVM

CULT OF NXIVM PART 12: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR HAREM

>BY FRANK PARLATO Keith Raniere, 55, the founder of NXIVM, keeps a harem that averages about 20 women – a few of whom come

February 11, 2016

NXIVM

CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART 11: RANIERE HANDLES HIS HAREM AND A LOT MORE

>BY FRANK PARLATO Recap from last week: I was hired as a consultant by NXIVM, in September 2007 when the company was embroiled in

February 4, 2016

NXIVM

KING CON SHMUELI SUES OWN MOTHER, PROVING ONCE AND FOR ALL HE’S A CLASS ACT

> BY FRANK PARLATO We were shocked at the number of emails complaining that we had omitted a story about the notorious swindler and

February 4, 2016

Shmueli

‘THE RAT’ SPEAKS ABOUT ‘MOLESTER’ NXIVM FOUNDER, KEITH RANIERE

Next week we will feature shocking and lurid tales of people who were inside NXIVM. Here is an excerpt from comments one person calling

January 28, 2016

NXIVM

CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART 10: THE LOVE CULT OF EL-SICKO

BY FRANK PARLATO When I was hired as a consultant by NXIVM, in September 2007, the company was embroiled in multiple litigations. In addition,

January 28, 2016

NXIVM

SHMUELI TO BE ARRESTED? THE POWER OF THE PRESS AND THE POLICE MAY TOPPLE THE KING CON

BY FRANK PARLATO This publication has been running an ongoing series on the notorious conman and serial defrauder, Shmuel Shmueli, who we have dubbed

January 21, 2016

Shmueli

CULT OF NXIVM PART 9: A BOILING POT OF POISON STEW

>BY FRANK PARLATO Some of our readers probably feel that over the last few months they’ve read all they need to read about Keith

January 21, 2016

NXIVM

KING CON SHMUELI: FACT OR FICTION

BY FRANK PARLATO Several readers have commented that my series on Shmuel Shmueli must be a fabrication. No one could be such a rascal.

January 14, 2016

Shmueli

CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART8: THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF ENEMIES

>BY FRANK PARLATO NXIVM leader Keith Raniere made it clear that for NXIVM to thrive, its enemies must be destroyed. Lawsuits and crimi-nal indictments

January 14, 2016

NXIVM

KING CON: SHMUELI DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

BY FRANK PARLATO Last week the notorious conman Shmuel Shmueli was evicted from a Niagara Falls luxury condo at the Parkway Condominiums on Buffalo

January 7, 2016

Shmueli

CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART 7: “DON’T CALL ME ‘PAPA'””

BY FRANK PARLATO Every December more than a billion people celebrate the birth of Christ, a child born of immaculate conception who would change

January 7, 2016

NXIVM

KING CON SHMUEL SHMUELI CHALLENGES ISRAELI NATIONAL HERO

BY FRANK PARLATO This week in our series on that fascinating conman, Shmuel Shmueli, we go to Shmueli’s native country Israel. Shmueli, who by

December 23, 2015

Shmueli

CULT OF NXIVM PART 6: RANIERE AND THE BRONFMANS TRY TO BUY THE DALAI LAMA

>BY FRANK PARLATO During my tenure as a press consultant for purported cult leader, Keith Raniere, and his benefactors, Clare and Sara Bronfman (heiresses

December 23, 2015

NXIVM

KING CON SHMUEL SHMUELI LEARNS NEW TRADE:

Stiffing Lawyers and Winning Through Losing – Lawsuits > BY FRANK PARLATO We’ve previously written in this series that while living in Brooklyn Shmuel

December 17, 2015

Shmueli

CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART 5: BRONFMAN SISTERS JOIN NXIVM AND LOSE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

> BY FRANK PARLATO It’s worth noting that well before I was hired as a consultant at NXIVM in 2007, the two Seagram heiresses,

December 17, 2015

NXIVM

SHMUEL SHMUELI SAYS WE LIE

> BY FRANK PARLATO This week the extraordinary conman Shmuel Shmueli contacted this publication to inform us that we told “lies” about him and

December 10, 2015

Shmueli

CULT OF NXIVM SERIES PART 4: RANIERE’S HAREM

BY FRANK PARLATO Thanks to the recommendation of my friend, G. Steven Pigeon, and following an interview in Albany, I began work for the

December 10, 2015

NXIVM

THE CULT OF NXIVM SERIES:

Keith Raniere, self-proclaimed smartest man in the world and spiritually evolved guru > BY FRANK PARLATO I lived and worked with NXIVM for several months

December 3, 2015

NXIVM

CONMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE SHMUEL SHMUELI COMES TO NIAGARA FALLS

> BY FRANK PARLATO This week we return to the extraordinary conman Shmuel Shmueli, who defrauded dozens of local lawyers along the way to

December 3, 2015

Shmueli

FRANK PARLATO’S STRENGTH AS JOURNALIST WILL HELP HIS DEFENSE

Veteran Journalist and close personal friend of Frank Parlato Speaks Out >BY TONY FARINA Long-time businessman Frank Parlato, 60, joined the Fourth Estate later

November 26, 2015

U.S. vs. Parlato

THE BRONFMAN/RANIERE CULT DEMANDS INVESTIGATION

This newspaper will continue to do it and encourage the Feds to join in BY FRANK PARLATO This is another installment of a

November 26, 2015

NXIVM

FBI SHOULD INVESTIGATE BRONFMANS AND CULT LEADER KEITH RANIERE: PART 1

BY FRANK PARLATO The federal government is actively investigating whether the Bronfmans are my victims. But they are the ones who should be investigated

November 19, 2015

NXIVM