Crime and Justice
Investigations
Strengthening the Cooperation Bargain: A Call for Institutional Integrity
A major drug seizure, two federal districts, and a cooperator whose supporters say extraordinary assistance went unrecognized.
A major drug seizure, two federal districts, and a cooperator whose supporters say extraordinary assistance went unrecognized.
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
May 20, 2026 by Frank Parlato Allan Myers, the “Unknown Boy” in the Penn State Shower Case, Dies at 39 Allan C. Myers of Pottersdale, Pennsylvania, died at home on Sunday, May 10, 2026. He was 39. The obituary placed by his family with Wetzler Funeral Service in Bellefonte tells
A jury found former New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs not guilty of all charges on Tuesday May 5, 2026, concluding a two-day trial in Dedham, Massachusetts that produced tense cross-examination, a demand for $5.5 million, a judge who had to scold a witness for going
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,
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
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.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was not in the room on Thursday morning when his lawyers were at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse
The Netflix documentary The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson premieres today, April 3, 2026, and it is not a true crime story in any conventional sense.
