Spotting the Lies
Lies are not difficult to detect. For example, Ayries Blanck claimed she wrote a journal in 2015 documenting the suffering she endured at OneTaste just after it happened.
But she did not write the journal in 2015. She wrote it years later, when she knew there was an FBI investigation into OneTaste. She wrote it to make money.
Ayries’s sister Autymn Blanck reads from Ayries’ fake journal on Netflix for Orgasm Inc. The Story of OneTaste, and for which the gullible producers paid the Blancks $25,000.
I will offer $25,000 if either of the Blanck sisters, federal prosecutors, FBI Special Agent Elliot McGinnis, or the Blancks’ civil lawyers can show that Ayries Blanck’s journal is not fake.
Of course, if they fail, they must pay me $25,000.
Contact me for the terms of this offer: 305-783-7083 or frankparlato@gmail.com.
The Absurdity of the Case
Let me tell you about this criminal case where Blanck’s journal undoubtedly figures. In a sane world, a fake journal would figure nowhere, especially not in a criminal prosecution. But this is a federal prosecution where allegations can be untethered to truth and evidence can be fake or stolen.
The federal prosecution of Nicole Daedone, co-founder of OneTaste, and Rachel Cherwitz, her former head of sales, is a joke.
The US Attorney for the EDNY alleges a 12-year conspiracy existed between Daedone and Cherwitz – starting one year before they even met. That is a rookie mistake by prosecutors who don’t know the file. Nobody in the prosecutor’s office knows this file. They have relied on an FBI agent with a highly inappropriate relationship with the Blanck sisters, and an unusually serious aversion to the truth.
The prosecutors will have to confront his errors soon enough.
A Weak Case Deflated
Ayries Blanck
Initially, the prosecutors probably didn’t think the case would boil down to a one-count forced labor conspiracy. I believe they thought they had many victims and co-conspirators. They didn’t. Their case hinges on Ayries Blanck and a few others equally willing to lie.
I am not aware of any case in the EDNY where the FBI started investigating six years ago – in 2018 – where they hoped to end up with a one-count indictment on conspiracy without any substantive charge. That is, they charged a 12 year failed scheme to commit forced labor. The US Attorney did not charge the women with the actual substantive crime of forced labor.
I believe the prosecutors intended this case to be NXIVM 2.0. Then the case started to deflate. Ayries Blanck was perhaps the main reason the case deflated.
Judge Gujarati’s Role and Challenges
US District Court Judge Diane Gujarati
Maybe it does not matter if a case is as thin as a 98 pound weakling – and 80 pounds of it is compacted fecal matter.
In the EDNY, the judges are more than usually accommodating to prosecutors.
Nine times out of 10, ties go toward the prosecution. Most judges are former prosecutors, and if they were not, they at least know that they must live in the same building as the prosecutors. They must see them every day. The judges are collegial, and sometimes deferential to the prosecution throughout the federal system. In Brooklyn, they don’t even pretend.
One of the worst things that can happen to a new judge like Diane Gujarati is to attempt to buck the system by coming out with rulings contrary to cases the prosecution put a lot of effort into. They can make her otherwise easy, comfortable life, hell. Plus, Gujarati was a prosecutor herself.
The FBI’s Questionable Tactics
When confronted with a justice issue, the misuse of a stolen attorney-client privilege document that a too-sly FBI special agent took and used, Judge Gujarati punted. She understood what was going on, but declined to look in the direction of justice and whether some blame should attach to an FBI agent up to his nostrils in misconduct.
What OneTaste experienced with this FBI agent shocks the conscience of people familiar with due process. At the hearing, Judge Gujarati went out of her way to ignore the misconduct, prop up the FBI, or at least not give the stolen privilege argument any judicial notice.
That may be because the US Attorney’s Office and the FBI came in a show of force – 11 representatives in total (though conspicuously absent was the FBI agent in question, Elliot McGinnis).
It may be contextual. Dealing with stolen documents and hiding their existence from the defense may be common at the EDNY. Telling potential witnesses like Ayries Blanck to delete evidence or her sister to hide evidence – like the fake journal – may be a standard operating procedure here.
I am not saying the prosecutors are in bed with McGinnis in taking stolen privileged documents and hiding them from the defense or conspiring with grifter sisters in the obstruction of justice.
But I have to think that any prosecutor with a few years’ experience would not want to try this case, because there’s no theory to the case. And the defendants have enough money, competent lawyers, and confidence to go before a jury.
The Prosecution’s “Coercive Control” Argument
One of the disadvantages the prosecution has is they have only a one-count conspiracy charge. It’s hard to back up from that when you’re opening play is the two of clubs.
To show how weak their forced labor conspiracy case is, they want to call junk science blatherer, Dr. Chitra Raghavan, as a coercive control expert. Is there a card lower than the two of clubs?
“Coercive control” where all the world is forced to do everything – and weakness is the anthem, rather than strength – is at best/worst feeling forced to do something with the inability to exit. You can have a boss who’s a table pounder and yeller. He makes you stay till 10:00 pm, but if you’re free to go, it’s not coercive control. But if there’s something that keeps you there that may not be on the level, then you may have something.
No one was forced to stay at OneTaste. Everyone was free to go and the discontented did. Why Ayries Blanck beat up her rich boyfriend, then she beat up his new girlfriend, then quit.
If the prosecutors want to go down that road, it’s going to be hard, because they’d have to come up with credible witnesses (not Ayries Blanck) that could show they had a rational feeling (that a Brooklyn jury would understand) that they could not leave. This must be backed by documentary evidence in the communications between Cherwitz and Daedone, which shows their business plan was based on coercive control.
It’s not a good theory.
There were no people chained in a galley rowing a ship. So the prosecutors need brain control, as in, more or less zombies.
If it was coercive control, how were they not able to decide the time they wanted to leave OneTaste?
The government’s view of Blanck and other OneTaste students.
That’s the key. Who decided when they were going to leave? If it was in the hands and mind of the individual OneTaste student or employee, there’s no coercive control. It may have gotten unpleasant for them. Unpleasant is not a crime, if you can leave.
People left when they wanted. Some got refunds, some just quit. Some were pissed and cried to the media. Some quietly went away.
But the ratio of unhappy campers to satisfied customers and employees at OneTaste is very low. There were a few malcontents. Who does not have malcontents? From my investigation, these malcontents are a motley crew of liars and opportunists. I only hope the government is not exerting coercive control in getting them to testify and the ultimate embarrassing impeachment.
The government would have you believe Blanck and others were zombies with no will of their own.
A Whole Controversy Based on One Hurt Feeling
This whole controversy started because Ayries Blanck got her feelings hurt. Her rich boyfriend left and went with somebody else.
“You took my boyfriend, therefore you are illegal.”
Maybe Ayries wants to believe that it wasn’t her fault that her rich boyfriend left. Maybe she wasn’t a good love interest to Ravi.
But Ayries blamed OneTaste for taking her rich boyfriend, and she responded with violence and left. Then she tried to allege her insatiable sexual appetite with other men (which may have caused their split) was not her own doing, but coercive control. The devil made me do it.
Fuckaday
The poor fool. Even though FBI Special Agent McGinnis told her to delete all evidence, they did not realize that a treasure trove of texts and emails is in the possession of the defense – because the recipients did not delete their texts and emails from her.
At the time, Ayries Blanck seemed like a dog in heat as she waited for her lubricious lovers to come to her. Now she claims it was coercive control.
The Spark That Ignited the Investigation
There are no consequences for FBI Special Agent Elliot McGinnis. Is he going to get fired over telling Ayries Blanck to delete her emails with evidence that she was the nymphomaniacal aggressor-predator of many men, so she could claim coercive control?
Will he get fired because he told her sister to secrete Ayries’ journals to him, to hide them so the defense wouldn’t find out that the journals are fake? (This came out in a civil case in open court.)
Will he get fired because he hid a stolen attorney-client privileged document? No.
FBI Special Agent McGinnis obtained a hacked document in January 2021, whether it was privileged or not, and did not reveal it to the defense in discovery. I think when the trial is held, the FBI will assign McGinnis to an urgent top secret assignment in Ghana, and he will not be available to testify.
An artist’s interpretation of Special Agent Elliot McGinnis with his stolen documents that he said he could not find.
The Ayries Blanck Saga Continues
By the way, Ayries’ whole journal is a lie. But I especially enjoy disputing her saying she was 98 pounds when she left OneTaste, as she wrote in her fake journal.
She forgot that a former OneTaste student – a man she took sexual advantage of while at OneTaste – took pictures of her at the time she left. (I have covered his face with an emoji to protect him since he is a victim of Blanck.)
The pictures of Ayries were taken on January 5, 2015 – five days after she said she left OneTaste.
Here are these pictures side by side with her fake journal entries of January 17, 2005.
“Every morning I count my ribs as I get dressed.”
“As I stand in front of the full length mirror I barely recognize the woman I have become. My hollowed out cheeks, deep circles under my eyes.”
(I am not sure what cheeks she refers to, but her face cheeks do not look hollowed out.)
“My bony ribs stick out even when I don’t lift my arms above my head.”
(I think she looks rather corn-fed.)
“The smile that at one time reached my eyes is no longer there.”
“The innocence and young girl filled with sparkle and magic is no longer there.”
“Only deadness. Flat and endless.”
“At times I feel the wasting in my body is only a reflection of the disintegration of my will to live.
(But not her will to lie.)
The Journal That Never Existed
Ayries’ journal is fiction. It is not even good fiction. It was not written in 2015. Why, the dummy even put in her journal entry of Feb 22, 2015, that she was reading a book not published until 2019.
Whoops.
How did Ayries read the Traumatic Growth Guidebook in 2015, when it was not published until 2019?
In a subsequent post, I will explain how I know Blanck’s journal is fake, using all the info publicly out there.
America’s Cult of Blind Faith in Prosecutors
When I say the prosecution of Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz is bullshit, many don’t hear a word I say.
I am interested in the legal rights of people wrongly accused, and I try to be a credible chronicler.
But I have learned that much of America is in a cult I like to call “Subserviently Trusting Unwarranted Power In the DOJ” or better known by its acronym, STUPID.
These American cultists do not want to hear that power corrupts even unelected officials. It spoils their supper.
Congress is corrupt and the president is an idiot, but at least we have honest prosecutors to defend us. S.T.U.P.I.D.
Justice or Smokescreen?
Maybe somebody on the jury will not be stupid. Bullshit has a detectable odor. It can be sniffed all the way from the prosecutors’ table to the jury box. McGinnis’s case is falling to pieces.
Before we conclude, I want to say Blanck’s fake journal is a wonderful example of purple prose. And since the entire journal is fiction, I thought I’d add a few lines culled from the Bulwar Lyton Purple Prose contest, and adapt them slightly to Blanck’s journal in case she wants to revise it again.
Now some people think it is awfully cruel to pick on little Ayries. But she went out with malice and lies to destroy others. She is in my opinion a criminal and deserves to be exposed, whether she uses the name Ayries Blanck or her latest alias Ares Milligan.
Here are some suggestions (I’ll have more later.)
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What’s his name had everything I had dreamed the perfect Tinder hookup would have: hair as soft as a baby bunny’s, dimples like the marks you could make pressing your thumb into unbaked cookie dough, eyes as beautiful as a thousand Thomas Kinkade paintings, and the smile of the male lead in an early Olsen-twins comedy, plus he fucked pretty good, too.
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Aubrey had a body that reached out and slapped my Ravi’s face like a five-pound ham-hock tossed from a speeding truck.
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Ravi dumped me and married Aubrey. At least it was a creative way to be dumped, I mused to myself as I looked at the new location of my name on the updated seating chart for Ravi’s wedding reception—the singles’ table.
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If broken hearts were made of simple syrup, and shattered dreams were made from white rum, and agony and despair came from ¾ ounce of lime juice, freshly squeezed, and three mint leaves respectively, then I just served up a mojito cocktail straight from the ninth circle of hell when I told FBI Special Agent McGinnis that OneTaste made me do it.
