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There’s a dangerous trend happening in this country that we’re all aware of—and it’s picking up speed. The federal government is using the justice system as a weapon. Not to punish real crimes, but to punish the people it doesn’t like. That’s what lawfare is, and it’s been the go-to move of the FBI and DOJ for years now.
Conservatives have felt the bitter sting of lawfare more than anyone. From Douglass Mackey to the January 6ers to President Trump himself, the feds have gotten really comfortable twisting the law into a pretzel to go after political enemies. But here’s the curveball—what happens when they start using those same dirty tactics on people or groups who aren’t categorized as Trump supporters?
That’s what makes the case against the California-based wellness company OneTaste so disturbing. Not because the group is conservative—far from it—but because their prosecution reveals just how brazen and far-reaching lawfare has become.
OneTaste started as a Silicon Valley wellness company, but over time, it started to be accused of being a “sex cult.” We’re talking taboo rituals, a tight rein on emotions, and a setup that felt more like a tribe than a business. Most conservatives would take one look at this group and say, “No thanks”—but that’s not the point of this story, as you’ll find out below. And that’s precisely what makes the case so important.
But here’s where things get really ugly…
Yes, OneTaste was countercultural. To many, it was strange, extreme, and way outside the norm—but that doesn’t give the FBI a free pass to go scorched earth just because the group sat on the fringe of society. America is full of people living unconventional lives. We don’t have to like or understand every lifestyle, but we do have to draw the line at using fake evidence and manufactured crimes to destroy people.
However, unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened here.
The FBI didn’t just investigate OneTaste—they staged an all-out hit job. And when they couldn’t find any actual crimes, even after building their case around selectively edited clips from a Netflix docuseries, they conjured up a convoluted “slavery” charge that is officially called “forced labor conspiracy. The charge made zero sense. No one in the group was ever forced to be a slave.
But it gets worse. High-ranking officials allowed the key witness to lie under oath, submit fake “handwritten” journals, and then turned around and used those same doctored materials to bring criminal charges. And despite their initial cries of ignorance, court records suggest the FBI and prosecutors knew exactly what they were doing. What was supposed to be evidence turned out to be a script—polished, edited, and packaged for both the camera and the courtroom.
And the system didn’t blink.
The supposedly all-powerful, all-knowing DOJ—the top law enforcement agency in the land—isn’t supposed to prosecute people on shamelessly fake evidence. That’s the line, right? Yet here we are…
Sadly, in truth, it’s not hard to see why they might have thought they could get away with it. This all played out during the height of the #MeToo movement, when weaponized federal agencies were itching to jump on the bandwagon and prove how tough they were on anything that even looked like abuse. And what better way to flex than by taking down a “female orgasm” startup filled with progressive new-age types? The media was already eating it up. All the FBI had to do was help write the plot twist ending.
What worked for the feds is that this story is easy to brush off. Let’s be honest—most people aren’t lining up to defend what everyone thinks is a sex cult. And that’s exactly the point. The feds pick targets they know the public won’t stand up for. That way, they can run their playbook with zero resistance. If no one’s paying attention, they get to test-drive the worst kinds of abuse—and see just how far they can go.
But what happens when a “weaponized system” becomes normalized? No one—not even regular people who live more conventional lives—is safe from it.
The Truth Behind the OneTaste Case
So what actually happened with this group?
OneTaste was an unconventional wellness startup out of California, built around orgasm-centered meditation as a path to healing and deeper human connection. Some called it a high-dollar sex cult disguised as empowerment and trauma therapy. Others saw it as a bold but increasingly edgy and volatile experiment in alternative intimacy. Still, the business itself was thriving—until Bloomberg published a hit piece in June 2018, cashing in on peak #MeToo hysteria. After that, the exodus began. And in the now-familiar #MeToo cycle, some former members came forward years later, claiming they’d been manipulated, sexually exploited, and financially drained.
That was all the federal government needed to start building its #MeToo-style case against OneTaste.
But here’s where it gets tricky.
All the people involved in OneTaste were consenting adults. They knew what they were signing up for. They paid for the trainings, showed up willingly, and took part in the experiences by choice. No one was forced. No one was coerced. No one had a gun to their head.
Just because something is strange—or even deeply unsettling to outsiders—doesn’t make it criminal. And feeling shame or regret after the fact doesn’t magically turn a consensual experience into a crime.
But sadly, we’ve seen this pattern before—especially during the height of the #MeToo movement. Women who made reckless or impulsive choices have, at times, used victimhood to cover their tracks. It’s not a new phenomenon. Think of the teenage girls who sneak out of the house, get caught, and then claim they were kidnapped. Or the college student who regrets a one-night stand and rebrands it as rape. Sometimes it’s emotional self-preservation. Sometimes it’s malicious. Either way, it happens.
And now, thanks to the “believe all women” credo, emotion and feelings have been elevated to evidence, and regret is treated like a criminal smoking gun. The old rules—facts, due process, actual proof—have been tossed aside. It’s the Salem Witch Trials all over again. But this time, we’re not just burning men at the stake—we’re burning anyone who challenges the narrative, anyone who dares to question the #MeToo orthodoxy. All it takes is a story, some shame, and the right kind of social pressure—and you’re done.
In this case, the prosecutors and the FBI were not only swept up in the cultural moment—many would argue that they also helped script it. Together, they pushed a story that was more theater than truth.
The government’s star witness was a former OneTaste member named Ayries Blanck.
She appeared front and center in the Netflix docuseries “Orgasm Inc.,” playing the victim and pushing what we now know were some highly fabricated claims of abuse. Turns out Blanck wasn’t just telling her side of the story—she submitted a set of “journals” she claimed were written in 2015. But according to court records, they were actually created in 2022—during the production of the Netflix docuseries, with the FBI directly involved in editing and presenting them as evidence.
Two women accused in Brooklyn of mistreating employees of their “orgasmic meditation” group argued that key evidence against them had been concocted for a true-crime documentary and had it thrown out of court.
The women, Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz, won a major pretrial decision in March when prosecutors said in court papers that they no longer considered a key witness credible for their criminal case.
That witness, Ayries Blanck, had been expected to testify this year in Brooklyn federal court and offer her journals about her experience at the company in question, OneTaste.
“The government no longer believes that the disputed portions of the handwritten journals are authentic,” prosecutors wrote to the judge overseeing the case. The diaries, they said, were actually transcribed by hand years later, and they will no longer call Ms. Blanck as a witness nor “seek to admit any of Blanck’s journals at trial.”
Their decision means a woman who had been central to prosecutors’ case will not be heard at all.
The federal agent in charge, Special Agent Elliot McGinnis of the FBI’s New York Field Office, didn’t just accept the fake journals—he helped edit them. According to court filings, McGinnis was actively involved in shaping the materials just days before the DOJ filed charges against OneTaste co-founder Nicole Daedone and sales executive Rachel Cherwitz.
Emails obtained by the defense show McGinnis communicating with the government’s star witness, Ayries Blanck, regarding the editing of journal entries in March 2023—right before charges were filed in April 2023.
The defense accused the FBI of knowingly using fabricated evidence and pointed out that anachronisms in the journals made it factually impossible for the evidence to be authentic.
In prosecutors’ own filings, they acknowledged that the journals were not authentic and withdrew them from the case—essentially conceding the defense’s point.
How did everyone find out the journals were edited?
Well, for starters, they included references to a book that wasn’t even published until 2019—a detail that blew the whole thing wide open. And yet, those same phony journals were presented to the public, the media, and may have even been shown to a grand jury, according to a letter to the court filed by the defense.
Eventually, prosecutors admitted the truth in court: the journals were fake, the witness had lied, and the FBI knew. They quietly pulled Blanck and the tainted evidence from the case. But it was too late. The fire was already lit, and the witches were lined up for burning.
Here are eight pages of court documents spelling out the government’s misconduct in black and white.
This wasn’t an investigation. It was a production. A witch hunt.
Propaganda, courtesy of the FBI.
Court documents and internal emails show that FBI Agent McGinnis was involved in shaping materials that later appeared in both a federal case and the Netflix documentary—blurring the line between law enforcement and narrative production. The “evidence” presented in court closely matched a transcript of the edited Netflix version. It wasn’t truth; it was reality TV content. It was a Netflix-scripted emotional rollercoaster—and the DOJ ran with it. That alone should trouble every single American. Shouldn’t our esteemed Department of Justice be above this kind of misconduct?
How on earth is this justice? How is this our United States court system? It’s a joke.
We’d really like you to stop and think about this for a moment: The FBI helped shape a federal case using material that mirrored a Netflix documentary. That same documentary—built around fake journals and a discredited witness—ended up forming the emotional backbone of a prosecution. And they moved forward with it, fully aware of what they were doing. Because they figured no one would care. After all, who’s going to go to bat for an alleged sex cult?
But this isn’t about defending a sex cult.
This is about calling out a dangerous federal machine that’s grown so massive, so wildly untouchable, it now feels free to crush anyone it deems unsavory—for any reason under the sun. This time, the barrel wasn’t aimed at Trump supporters or conservatives. This time, the targets were progressive, spiritual, new-age types. And even they weren’t safe.
That’s how far gone we are. When the FBI starts laying down the law on the other side and the fringe is fair game for lawfare, you know we’ve crossed a line.
That’s not justice. That’s raw, unchecked power. And that should scare every American, no matter where you stand politically.
Long before they brought it to the fringes of the left, they perfected this brand of lawfare on people like Douglass Mackey.
This is the same formula that was used against Mackey, a Trump supporter who was convicted in 2023 for posting a meme on Twitter. His case, also handled by the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), relied on the same legal tricks—conspiracy statutes with no underlying substantive crime, just an invented offense built on vibes and emotion. The timing of Mackey’s case and the OneTaste charges couldn’t have been more suspicious. Mackey was convicted on March 31, 2023. Just three days later, on April 3rd, sealed charges were filed against Daedone and Cherwitz. Same district. Same tools. Different targets.
This is not random. It’s calculated.
Even The Economist—not exactly a MAGA-friendly publication—has raised some serious red flags about the Eastern District of New York’s unhealthy appetite for power. An article from last year described EDNY’s “striking list of high-profile indictments” as proof of a “prosecutorial wanderlust possibly unmatched by EDNY’s 93 peer district courts.”
The piece even points out how Brooklyn prosecutors have snatched up cases from California, Chicago, and even overseas—stretching jurisdiction like a bar of taffy and far beyond anything the average person would think is normal.
And now, thanks to this new precedent and playbook, FBI agents are bringing their biggest cases straight to EDNY—because, as The Economist put it, they treat the FBI “almost like a client.”
Brooklyn’s reputation for treating the FBI almost like a client is one reason agents bring their high-profile cases to EDNY. Brooklyn alumni in Washington are inclined to tap their old colleagues who, according to an EDNY prosecutor, are “intensely motivated and creative”, a description that could raise eyebrows.
Lawfare has evolved. It’s not just about targeting Trump supporters anymore. It’s about total government control. It’s about sending a message—left, right, or anyone in between—that stepping out of line comes with a price. And “out of line” just means whatever they decide the rules are that day.
This isn’t justice—it’s damage control.
The OneTaste team hasn’t stopped fighting. They’re working around the clock to expose this federal misconduct—not just to the American people, but to Trump’s DOJ. Sources close to the defense tell Revolver News that they’ve filed over 550 FOIA requests to the DOJ and FBI, all in an effort to get the truth on record and into the right hands.
This case has been a fiasco and a fraud from the start—and now it’s officially falling apart. Lead prosecutor Gillian Kassner is out, and the entire original prosecution team has been quietly replaced. Every DOJ attorney still on the case was brought in after the indictment, including Kaitlin Farrell, who was added just as Kassner stepped aside. You can read the docket update and see for yourself here.
Now that the fraud case against OneTaste has been fully exposed—and the evidence shown to be manipulated and faked—it’s time for the Trump administration to put this lawfare case out of its misery and pull the plug. These Americans deserve the chance to rebuild their lives—lives that have been completely crushed by a justice system that’s lost its way.
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.
“People watch a movie on Netflix and think it’s true, but it’s not,” Ms. Cherwitz said. “If you can slap the word ‘cult’ or ‘sex cult’ on it, it seems nefarious and dangerous, which is just woefully untrue.”
In the end, it doesn’t matter if it’s a Trump-supporting meme-maker or an unconventional orgasmic meditation group; if the FBI can lie to a grand jury, fabricate evidence, and get away with it—nobody is safe.
We either stand for justice across the board—even when it means locking arms with people who might make us feel uncomfortable—or we don’t stand for anything at all.
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