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The OneTaste trial was never about justice. From the beginning, it’s looked like a textbook example of Biden-era lawfare: politically motivated charges, government overreach, and a clear attempt to punish ideas and lifestyles that don’t fit the approved mold. The case isn’t about forced labor. It’s about forcing a belief that the government has the right to decide what kinds of relationships, communities, and teachings are acceptable.
And that’s exactly why conservatives, libertarians, legal experts, and even former prosecutors are speaking out. They may not agree with OneTaste’s lifestyle, but they understand something deeper. This isn’t just an attack on a wellness group. It’s a test run for a much broader crackdown on speech, consent, religion, and unconventional thought.
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Matt Gaetz put it bluntly: if the FBI can fabricate evidence against consenting adults for living an alternative lifestyle, they can do it to anyone.
Matt Gaetz: “If people were harmed by OneTaste, they should have a fair chance to make their case in court. But FBI agents fabricating evidence against consenting adults living an alternate sexual lifestyle doesn’t sit well with me.
Because once the feds get OneTaste of that kind of power… it can be weaponized against anyone.”
MATT GAETZ: “FBI used fake journals to investigate OneTaste and an FBI agent actually helped edit them.”
“Once the feds get OneTaste of that kind of power, it can be weaponized against anyone.”pic.twitter.com/2pnJmXV8UF
— Revolver News (@RevolverNewsUSA) May 21, 2025
Natalie Winters called out the fake journals, astroturfed evidence, and Netflix-produced propaganda as just more tools in the government’s war on inconvenient groups in a segment with Mike Howell of the Oversight Project. Howell said what a lot of people are thinking: the FBI teaming up with Netflix to help build a federal case should set off alarm bells for every American. It’s a disturbing example of government and media working together in all the wrong ways.
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NETFLIX COLLUSION: FBI Agent Accused Of Fabricating Evidence For Documentary Film, Mike Howell Reports @MHowellTweets pic.twitter.com/sgeHBr3Fag
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) May 9, 2025
Roger Stone asked the obvious question: how do you charge someone with forced labor when there are no locked doors, no chains, no coercion, and no proof that anyone was detained against their will?
"This whole case seems to me to be a fabrication. And as you point out, the FBI actually colluding with producers at Netflix to create a documentary which becomes the basis for a subsequent indictment…"
– Roger Stone@RogerJStoneJr @realfrankreport pic.twitter.com/Kw2vlrVoZb— OneTasteCase (@onetastecase) May 11, 2025
James Lawrence III, a former HHS legal counsel and conservative Christian, said it best. If this kind of coercive control case can be aimed at OneTaste, it can be aimed at churches and ministries next.
My client OneTaste, Inc. is a sexual wellness company that teaches the practice of “orgasmic meditation.” Two former OneTaste executives, Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone, are now on trial. Given the R-rated allegations in the indictment, one would expect Cherwitz and Daedone to be up on sex trafficking, prostitution, or sexual assault charges. Not so—they face up to twenty years in prison each for something called “forced labor conspiracy.”
In the federal government’s telling, as part of a conspiracy to obtain labor from their victims, Cherwitz and Daedone prevented OneTaste members from exercising “independence and control,” isolated the members from others, leveraged “sensitive information” against them, and ultimately excluded them from the group. In pre-trial filings, the government forecast it would provide evidence about how Cherwitz and Daedone used “means of coercive control” to extract labor from their adult victims.
Whatever you think of Daedone’s Buddhist-influenced teachings, the theory undergirding the government’s coercive-control prosecution should give all Americans, including conservative evangelical Christians like me who believe sex outside one-man-one-woman marriage is a sin, reason for pause. The criminal case against Cherwitz and Daedone, replete with allegations of recruitment, trauma, and shunning, can be readily repackaged and deployed against churches, religious institutions, or other designated enemies of the moment.
Even Congress is starting to ask questions. A judiciary inquiry sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray raised alarms about turning Netflix content into federal evidence.
An FBI special agent leading the investigation into two former leaders of an ‘orgasmic meditation cult’ featured in a hit Netflix show has been accused of fabricating evidence by a Member of Congress, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
The representative has written to new FBI director Kash Patel, alleging the agent ‘transformed the Netflix-created content into federal evidence’ to go after ex-OneTaste wellness company executives Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone.
[…]
DailyMail.com has seen a letter to FBI director Patel from a Member of Congress – who is also a member of the House Judiciary Committee – ‘seeking answers’ about the special agent in the case.
The representative, whose name is redacted, alleges a special agent of the New York City division has ‘a long and extremely troubling list of alleged investigative abuses which demand accountability’.
DailyMail.com has decided not to name the agent in the letter, whose ‘actions appear to represent a fundamental corruption of the investigative process and a failure of agent accountability,’ writes the Congress member.
The letter accuses the special agent of ‘participating in Netflix productions while investigating targets’ plus making up evidence ‘through entertainment media’, filing misleading affidavits, directing witnesses to destroy evidence, and using personal email to avoid official scrutiny.
‘Most disturbing is the systematic effort to transform Netflix-created content into federal evidence,’ they add. ‘This isn’t just overreach – it’s deliberate fabrication of a criminal case through entertainment media.’
Garret O’Boyle and Kyle Seraphin, both former FBI whistleblowers, have accused Special Agent Elliot McGinnis of manufacturing evidence, coaching witnesses to destroy information, and pushing a politically charged agenda from within the Bureau.
McGinnis has a lengthy, sordid history in law enforcement as detailed by @realfrankreport here in Part 1 of their reporting on the OneTaste case. https://t.co/Pj6TsnmWvA
— Garret O’Boyle ن (@GOBactual) May 8, 2025
.@KyleSeraphin spotlighted the FBI’s lawfare campaign against OneTaste Wellness.
This case is everything wrong with our justice system—fabricated evidence, corrupt agents, and media collusion.
CC: @FBIDirectorKash , @dbongino https://t.co/IBBdffU6g5
Everyone needs to see… pic.twitter.com/53F2QgTZ3g
— Revolver News (@RevolverNewsUSA) May 1, 2025
Moira Penza, a former prosecutor known for taking down the NXIVM cult, even admitted this case looks shaky. Key evidence has been lost. Witnesses have vanished. And the prosecution has changed hands multiple times. It’s a mess.
And then there’s Douglass Mackey. A young husband and father who knows a thing or two about sham trials. He was railroaded by Biden’s stormtroopers at the Eastern District of New York and convicted of “election interference” for posting an anti-Hillary meme back in 2016.
The FBI is REFUSING to call its lead agent as a witness in the OneTaste case.
Unprecedented? Not quite.
The FBI also refused to call its lead agent, Maegan Rees, in my case.
She appears to have left the bureau.
EDNY, SDNY, and NY FBI need a thorough housecleaning.
The FBI is REFUSING to call its lead agent as a witness in the OneTaste case.
Unprecedented? Not quite.
The FBI also refused to call its lead agent, Maegan Rees, in my case.
She appears to have left the bureau.
EDNY, SDNY, and NY FBI need a thorough housecleaning. https://t.co/qWA0gZmsih
— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) May 14, 2025
The prosecutor who led the investigation of Raniere, Moira Penza, who left the US Attorney’s Office in 2019, told me that she found a few aspects of the case against Daedone and Cherwitz unusual. The government had pursued a novel strategy, lost a key witness and evidence at the finish line, and swapped out all its prosecutors on the case. “Keith Raniere wasn’t doing TED Talks and appearing in South by Southwest and talking to Gwyneth Paltrow,” Penza said, describing Daedone’s media profile…“As a former prosecutor, I can tell you you don’t want to be trying a case with those things stacked against you.”
Reason Magazine laid it out clearly: the trial isn’t about labor or coercion. It’s about putting OneTaste’s beliefs on trial. That’s the only thing the government has really proven.
“A week and a half into the federal trial, it seems more clear than ever that prosecutors are trying to put OneTaste’s teachings and Daedone’s and Cherwitz’s beliefs on trial.
The government’s whole theory of the case rests on the idea that OneTaste’s teachings around sexual openness and promiscuity, as well as being open and receptive to foreign or uncomfortable experiences more generally, were a form of psychological abuse.”
Loni Coombs, a former prosecutor with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, appeared on Dr. Phil and said this case doesn’t fit any standard model of forced labor, explaining that “in forced labor cases like young girls being brought into the country, being told you’re going to have this wonderful job, and instead they’re put in a sweatshop and they’re told they have to pay off their expenses first, all their documentation is taken away from them. That’s the kind of thing you’re usually looking for in a forced labor charge. That’s not really what’s going on here.”
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Even the New York Times, which normally toes the line for the regime, had to break the chains. They noted that the prosecution threw out its best evidence, a set of journals they once claimed proved psychological harm.
Turns out the journals were forged and fake.
“For months, prosecutors had told the judge that the journals indicated “a high degree of trustworthiness” and represented the best evidence of Ms. Blanck’s psychological and emotional state at the time. The prosecutors now say that Ms. Blanck’s journals are unnecessary and irrelevant. Without her as a witness, they plan to call several other former OneTaste members and employees to testify. To the defendants, the hard-fought victory points to a flaw at the heart of the case.”
This case was weaponized during the #MeToo era and is now being carried out by power-crazed Biden holdovers.
READ MORE: Why the OneTaste lawfare trial is every Christian’s problem now…
This case is over-prosecuted, full of errors, and built on something that isn’t even a crime. It should be tossed out before it turns into legal ammunition to target any group the regime doesn’t like.
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