from Revolver News:
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.
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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.
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.
Watch:
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
"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.
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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.
