Frank Parlato

4 days ago | frankreport.com | Frank Parlato

FacebookXRedditLinkedInEmailBecky Uma Halpern was a grown woman, not a prisoner of war. The jury heard her talk about how she met her husband and found meaning in life because of the people on trial. She took every OneTaste course because it helped her. She loved the community, the practice. Becky Uma Halpern said she was happy. Happy in the way people rarely are when they speak under oath. She testified, “I was so happy. Like, I loved it there. I loved my friends. I loved — I loved Rachel.

5 days ago | frankreport.com | Frank Parlato

FacebookXRedditLinkedInEmailThe Prosecutor in a Robe On Day Five of USA v. Cherwitz and Daedone, Judge Diane Gujarati again sided with the government, blocking the defense’s request to admit a text exchange between Rebecca Halpern and Nicole Daedone. The defense wanted the actual text messages admitted into evidence instead of relying, as the prosecution did, on Halpern’s hazy memory and their selective, out-of-context questioning.

6 days ago | frankreport.com | Frank Parlato

FacebookXRedditLinkedInEmailIn an ongoing federal trial in Brooklyn, prosecutors allege a conspiracy at the company known as OneTaste. This series tells that story. Two women started a company. The feds touched the indictment button. Now they’re in federal court facing 20 years. The OneTaste trial is an artifact of the scorched-earth tactics of a government drunk on power, of how language is twisted, memory rewritten, and freedom rebranded as coercion. It isn’t about crime.

1 week ago | frankreport.com | Frank Parlato

FacebookXRedditLinkedInEmailA Little Arena and a Lot of PainNiagara Falls NY — The tax money of the people is not money. Not in the way a man thinks of coins in a jar or a dollar in his wallet. It’s something different. It is hours. It is sweat. It is bent backs and sighs in living rooms where a father pretends he is not tired. It is a mother doing math on the backs of envelopes to make the light bill disappear for one more month. It is old men eating beans. It is children in hand-me-down shoes.

1 week ago | stonezone.com | Frank Parlato

They called her a crusader. The woman who brought down giants. A leader who said what others wouldn’t say, not because it was hard, but because it was good for headlines. Letitia James stood tall on stage. She spoke of men who had too much power. “She believed women,” she said. And the crowd clapped. Yes, she believed women. But believing is easy. Listening is hard. When it was against Con Ed, she believed. When it was the National Women’s Soccer League, she believed.