Corrupt FBI Agent

LAWFARE & MISCONDUCT

The FBI never found any of the sex crimes they were originally investigating.

In 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article about a women’s empowerment company, OneTaste, which sparked a five year FBI investigation into the company looking for sex trafficking, racketeering, and various sex crimes. Through the course of the investigation, media outlets including VICE, BBC, and Netflix published similar stories to the original Bloomberg article, alongside the phrase “the company remains under FBI investigation.” The Netflix “True Crime” film that aired six months prior to indictment even featured a live FBI phone interview with a government witness.

Timeline

In 2023, prosecutors charged a “single count of forced labor conspiracy.”

The indictment maps to the original Bloomberg article and the Netflix film.

It alleges the forced labor conspiracy that lasted twelve years, from 2006-2018:

  • No actual forced labor is charged despite five years of federal investigation

  • This is the first time in US history anyone has ever been charged with stand-alone forced labor conspiracy (it has always been charged alongside a substantive crime)

  • The indictment was issued 5 years after the alleged victimless conspiracy ended

  • The indictment lists no overt agreement to conspire, no acts of physical force, no withheld immigration documents, only “coercive control” tactics by co-defendants

  • Company HQ was in San Francisco, no nexus to EDNY where it was charged

  • The indictment re-uses the Douglass Mackey meme prosecution template

Evidence shows the lead FBI agent engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct.

The judge presiding over the case has seen the evidence but rejected defendants’ request for  dismissal or evidentiary hearings. OneTaste has recently filed an OIG complaint against this agent. The evidence shows the following:

In 2018, Agent instructed an attorney to breach a civil contract by withholding evidence from OneTaste 

  • In 2021, Agent threatened a witness with arrest if she did not cooperate with his designation of her as a victim. The witness made these claims in a signed affidavit and filed a lawsuit.

  • In 2021, Agent accepted stolen documents and hid them from his superiors and defendants

  • In 2022, Agent instructed a witness to destroy evidence; the witness told her attorney, who informed the court

  • In 2023, Agent allegedly used excessive force to arrest a 115 pound woman who had her hands above her head openly attempting to surrender. He pointed a gun to her head, swearing at her, saying, “stand the fuck down,” and deliberately placing handcuffs on her wrist so tightly to cause bruising, which allegedly caused a law enforcement officer to openly express disgust at his unnecessary brutality.

  • In 2024, Agent allegedly told a witness to commit discovery misconduct and hide evidence with him to obstruct a lawful subpoena. The witness under pressure of charges of perjury revealed Agent instructed her to obstruct justice and secrete the evidence with him. A judge recently ordered the Agent to return the secreted evidence back to the witness.

  • In 2024, Agent allegedly misled the court about the nature of a certified check and the circumstances of its issuance. Documents revealed his false statements, which may constitute perjury, led the government to withdraw a motion for asset seizure..

  • In 2024, Agent allegedly lied to the Justice Department about his possession and use of a missing stolen attorney-client privileged document, claiming he did not remember seeing it. The document turned up only after a witness swore in declaration he gave it to the Agent. The document appeared for the first time on an FBI digital workspace more than three years after the date the witness swore he gave it to him. Who put it on the FBI digital workspace is unknown.

The government’s primary target, Nicole Daedone, has been speaking out about women’s empowerment, sexual health and consent long before MeToo. Through workshops and lectures to tens of thousands around the United States, she espoused that treating women solely as victims without upholding due process and without training women in volition and agency disables women and leaves them disempowered. Beyond this work with women, Daedone founded nonprofit organizations that provide resources for over 60,000 people in prison and offer over 25,000 free sit-down meals every year in Harlem, NY.