Rick Luthmann and I were back to talk about current events, including my exclusive on Diddy, Hurricane Helene, and an interesting anti-trust lawsuit filed by Michael Jordan.
We also discussed how New Jersey mom Lori Grossi was trying to violate her ex-husband’s, John Grossi, first amendment rights.
Last week, Rick and I discussed how Lori Grossi may be using the “silver bullet technique” to gain a protective order. The discussion started thirty-nine minutes in.
Lori was none too happy about this discussion, and through her lawyer, Thomas Monaghan, filed to ask for injunction barring her ex-husband from uttering her name just about anywhere.
It’s fairly common for parties in both civil and criminal court cases to run to judges and ask that the first amendment go away once media publishes something they don’t like related to the case.
In the broadcast, I brought up Judge Diane “Mengele” Walker in Idaho. After my initial article, Kyle Engels, an abuser who temporarily got sole custody, ran to Judge Mengele and begged to have his case sealed.
Judge Mengele sealed the hearing at which they would argue if the case was to be sealed. Here is what the Ada County, Idaho courts told me about getting the audio from the hearing.
The hearing you are requesting is sealed due to the nature of the hearing.
Judge’s approval is needed before audio can be release.
Frank Parlato recently faced a similar issue in his ongoing coverage of the One Taste prosecution. Prosecutors have refused to abide by discovery due to the ongoing coverage on his blog.
Assistant US Attorney Gillian Kassner said the government was “monitoring very closely” The Frank Report, and they were reluctant to hand over legally required discovery to the defendants because they said, without evidence, the prosecution was seeing the names of witnesses written about in the Frank Report.
It’s a funny thing. The Assistant US Attorney wants to avoid turning over its legally required discovery, including disclosure of witnesses, because they are worried I might write about their witnesses.
Check out the interview Rick and I did with Frank about One Taste.
In 2021, after Megan Fox and I did an interview with Gabe Shapiro about his child custody case, his ex-wife’s attorney, Dori Foster-Morales, immediately filed to have Gabe’s first amendment rights violated.
The so-called illegal recording that Dori alluded to is a recording of a caseworker and her bosses at a supervised visitation center discussing Gabe’s case.
The interview with Gabe is below; it starts approximately thirty-five minutes in.
In the most stunning display, Judge Nicole “Devil horns” Zellweger demanded that Angela Freiner remove an audio from YouTube which Angela did not put on YouTube.
The audio was of Angela’s then fourteen-year-old daughter telling Zellweger that her father was molesting her and begging not to be sent to live with him.
After the audio leaked, Zellweger demanded it be removed from the internet.
When the secret court recording was posted to YouTube, Zellweger issued a sweeping rebuke of the mother and convened an emergency hearing on Friday to order the mother to remove all postings from the internet. She is gagging everyone involved from talking about what she is doing inside her courtroom. She is also threatening the mother with six months in jail if she does not have members of the media delete the above video from the internet.
This is an impossible order. Freiner does not have control over members of the media who are doing their jobs and reporting court corruption and judicial overreach to the public. Zellweger herself is responsible for the seeming judicial overreach in this case that alerted the press to her actions. The fact that Zellweger thinks she has the power to tell the media what to report should concern the public. She does not have the power to control what the media prints, but she sure thinks she does. In the order,
Zellweger wrote: “The Court also intends to enter an Order requiring that the parties/counsels remove any and all recordings previously posted on the internet, obtain all recordings disseminated to third parties, and turn over to the Court all originals and copies of all Court proceedings that were recorded by the parties or in the possession of the parties…no later than March 3, 2021.”
