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The rot inside the FBI isn’t hidden anymore. It’s right out in the open for everyone to see. And few agents embody that corruption more than Special Agent Elliot McGinnis of the FBI NYC field office. For those unfamiliar, McGinnis was the point man behind the investigation of a controversial, new-age-style wellness company called OneTaste.

We at Revolver have reported on the witch hunt against OneTaste in depth, and what we’ve seen is largely a circus of misconduct, bias, and backroom shenanigans. Because OneTaste is a controversial company that many would probably view as immoral or unorthodox, as the group embraces an eastern practice called orgasmic meditation, the FBI feels it can get away with pushing the bounds of the law and due process, just like they did to the J6ers, President Trump, Douglass Mackey, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Jeff Clark, and countless other Trump supporters. And of course, once the FBI blazes a legal trail that bushwhacks through the Constitution and a thousand years of English common law protections, the rights of all of us become imperiled.

The point of our reporting is not to endorse or promote the highly unorthodox practices of OneTaste, but rather to raise the alarm about deep state overreach and abuse against United States citizens that threatens us all.

Back to McGinnis.

According to court documents and reporting by the New York Times and Revolver, instead of acting like a federal agent bound by the law, McGinnis blurred the line between investigator and activist, cozying up to Netflix producers, feeding them narratives, and helping build a media-driven farce that should never have made it off the cutting room floor.

The New York Times:

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.

As we reported back in April, McGinnis was behind this evidentiary and investigative mess.

Revolver:

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.

Clearly, McGinnis’ track record is littered with accusations that would end the career of any other agent in a serious country. He is accused of things like fabricating evidence, colluding with the media, mishandling key materials, and conducting himself in ways some suggest are illegal. Yet, even though there’s been a mountain of controversy surrounding this guy, McGinnis remains firmly rooted at the FBI’s New York City field office, operating as though nothing ever happened. McGinnis was even spotted in the gallery as the OneTaste verdict was read, according to sources who attended the trial.

While everyday Americans would be jailed for a fraction of this misconduct, the FBI, now running under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, is still protecting its own. It’s a disturbing pattern we’ve seen over and over, where corruption is rewarded, accountability doesn’t exist, and the Bureau keeps weaponizing its power against ordinary citizens who dare to step outside the approved narrative… like peacefully meandering through the halls of Congress with a fanny pack and police escort.

And speaking of Congress, former Rep. Matt Gaetz said it best when he opined that “FBI agents fabricating evidence against consenting adults […] doesn’t sit well with me. Because once the feds get OneTaste of that kind of power, it can be weaponized against anyone.”

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That’s exactly the problem. If the FBI can invent evidence, doctor narratives, and collude with Netflix or other media outlets to create a case where no crime actually exists, what’s stopping them from doing it to anyone they decide to target?

The Evidence Fabrication Scandal

Roger Stone didn’t mince words when he exposed how the FBI used a shady Netflix documentary about OneTaste to push their agenda:

“This whole case seems to me to be, to be a fabrication. And as you point out, the FBI is actually colluding with producers at Netflix to create a documentary, which becomes the basis for a subsequent indictment. While that may seem outrageous, frankly, the FBI did this all the way back to the days of J. Edgar Hoover working with the tabloids to plant stories that would then become the basis for a prosecution.”

Even the New York Times had to admit that evidence used by the prosecution, the so-called diary of Ayries Blanck, was bogus. The diary was ultimately tossed from the case after it was revealed it had been fabricated.

Mike Howell, Executive Director of the Oversight Project, called it exactly what it is:

“The FBI shouldn’t be working with Netflix or any media at all for that matter. They have a long history of doing so going back to Hoover and the G-Men, but in 2025 the government is proceeding on a case involving the FBI working with Netflix to fabricate evidence? C’mon.”

Every American needs to understand that the FBI worked hand in hand with Hollywood producers to build a federal case against educated, consenting adults and then tried to pass off the footage they helped create as credible evidence.

A Pattern of Misconduct

The corruption in this case doesn’t stop with Netflix. What McGinnis and his team pulled off during this five-year “investigation” reads like a how-to manual for FBI abuse, and it’s all documented.

By December 2, 2024, highly respected former senior federal prosecutor Paul Pelletier had seen enough of McGinnis’s shenanigans. According to court records, he filed a 36-page complaint with the Office of Inspector General that spelled out nine separate allegations of misconduct, backed by over 100 pages of exhibits.

According to Pelletier’s complaint, McGinnis and his team mishandled privileged attorney-client documents, interviewed the company’s former in-house counsel and discussed privileged issues, and even filed a sworn affidavit so riddled with inaccuracies that a judge threw out the resulting seizure warrant. They also gave improper legal advice to witnesses, which led to evidence being hidden, destroyed, or mishandled.

But it didn’t stop there.

Witness interviews were inaccurately recorded in FBI systems, witnesses were labeled as “victims” and misrepresented, and at one point, an interview was conducted while cameras rolled for Netflix. Pelletier even documented how FBI Victim Specialist Karen Gale was soliciting witnesses on behalf of a private attorney, a move that raises serious ethical and legal questions.

Mr. Pelletier isn’t some outsider throwing stones. This is a seasoned prosecutor who knows exactly how federal investigations are supposed to work. His complaint makes it clear that what happened here wasn’t sloppy or accidental; it was more like calculated misconduct.

Evidence Mishandling That Can’t Be Ignored

According to records, the misconduct in this case didn’t stop with fabricated narratives and Netflix pow-wows. It also bled into how critical evidence was handled, or more like mishandled, by Mr. McGinnis and others on his team.

On April 2, 2025, another formal complaint was filed with the Office of Inspector General over McGinnis’s failure to turn over a key hard drive to the FBI’s CART team within the required 10-day window. Instead, that hard drive sat in limbo for four long months, a clear violation of FBI protocol.

Then a bombshell dropped from someone who knows the FBI’s evidence standards better than anyone. Richard Kiper—a 20-year FBI Special Agent—who actually “trained the trainers” of the Bureau’s forensic examiners. That is how deeply he understands proper protocol. After reviewing the evidence logs, Kiper didn’t hold back in a scathing expert report obtained by Revolver:

“In my 20 years of FBI service as a Special Agent, I have never seen such chaotic activity in a chain of custody for an evidence item. There is simply no justification for SA McGinnis, who collected the WD HD, and SA Schmidt, who authored the search warrant for its contents, to have multiple weeks of unsupervised access to the original digital media. Neither of these employees was authorized or qualified to review the contents on the original device, and it is unclear whether FE Radice ever followed CART SOPs to preserve it from alteration.”

Former Special Agent Kiper’s scathing statement should have set off blaring alarm bells inside the Bureau. But it didn’t. Instead, that bombshell was met with crickets.

No investigation. No accountability. Nothing.

Congressional Pressure Mounts

The mess with McGinnis and the FBI had gotten so big it was now impossible to ignore. By April 1, 2025, House Judiciary member and former sheriff Rep. Troy Nehls fired off a formal inquiry to the FBI demanding answers. His letter didn’t pull punches. It called out what he called a “systematic effort to transform Netflix-created content into federal evidence” and the “fabrication of a criminal case through entertainment media.”

The very next day, another complaint over the mishandled hard drive was filed with the Office of Inspector General. That complaint explained how McGinnis sat on a critical piece of evidence for four months, violating the Bureau’s 10-day rule for submitting digital evidence to the CART team.

That’s a big deal. Every part of this mess is a big deal.

Yet, despite all of these legit complaints, congressional inquiries, and public outrage, the FBI has offered zero explanation for any of it. They haven’t even bothered to acknowledge it. There’s no accountability whatsoever. And McGinnis is still working cases out of the New York field office like none of this ever happened.

Key Questions the FBI Refuses to Answer

Even with all the evidence, complaints, and congressional pressure, the Bureau has gone silent. And truthfully, their silence raises even more questions and concern.

For example, who ordered 20 FBI agents to pack the courtroom gallery on the first day of the OneTaste trial? This “show of force” actually blocked the defendant’s own husband from attending court to support his wife, and the timing couldn’t have been more suspicious. The FBI “gang” showed up in the courtroom the day after that congressional letter went public.

Also, why did McGinnis accept editor access to the fake “diaries” in Google Docs via his personal email account rather than receiving the document via his official FBI address or by upload to FBI servers? Is entering as “evidence” in a federal case a document you are an editor of actually part of FBI protocol?

And another question: why did those same “diaries” conveniently have the cinematic header “SERIES ONE: DARKNESS” deleted on the day they were entered into the case file?

These are serious questions that demand answers. And there’s more.

What about McGinnis’s sudden trip to Dublin, Ireland, to meet with Ayries Blanck on March 12, 2025, the same day prosecutors withdrew Blanck as a witness in the case? She’s the same witness who admitted to US attorneys that she fabricated the so-called “diaries”—diaries that the entire shady Netflix documentary was built on. What really went down at that Dublin meeting, and who signed off on McGinnis’ travel? And what about the witness who fabricated evidence? Why has she never been prosecuted? If this had been a Trump supporter, they’d already be rotting in solitary confinement.

Serious questions also remain about McGinnis’s coordination with Netflix producers Lena Dunham and Sarah Gibson. Where are the communications that would show how they turned what should have been a routine federal interview into a staged Hollywood production?

Then there’s the lack of accountability for what looks like blatant evidence tampering, destruction, and cover-up… from the fake journals to the mishandled hard drive and everything in between.

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These aren’t minor oversights. They go straight to the heart of the FBI’s integrity, and every day these questions go unanswered, the rot inside the Bureau becomes more undeniable. Perhaps most damning of all, McGinnis remains on the job, still conducting investigations as though none of this ever happened.

The facts surrounding Special Agent Elliot McGinnis are undeniable. From the fabricated evidence and Netflix collaboration to the mishandling of critical materials and a long list of unanswered questions, this case reveals deep problems that can no longer be ignored. Every document, every complaint, and every filing points to misconduct that demands transparency and accountability.

Americans deserve answers. They deserve to know why an agent tied to allegations of evidence fabrication is still conducting investigations and why key witnesses who admitted to falsifying information haven’t faced prosecution. But most importantly, why the FBI is silent in the face of congressional inquiries and official complaints.

How long will they keep getting away with this level of shameless disregard for the American people?

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It is our hope that the Department of Justice and FBI leadership will take a hard look at this case, address the misconduct, and restore an ounce of trust to an institution that Americans have lost faith in.

Until that happens, the questions surrounding Agent McGinnis and OneTaste will remain, and so will the doubts about the integrity of the system.

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