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Boardroom to Bedroom Horror: Did He Give Her Cancer?
A Washington, D.C. courtroom is about to test the boundaries of medicine, law, and credibility. Retired CEO Dan M. Blaylock, 70, accuses his former partner, attorney and ex–White House counsel Petra Smeltzer Starke, 51, of defamation and extortion. Starke counters that Blaylock’s repeated sexual assaults not only traumatized her but caused her anal cancer through…
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CANCER PATIENT DUMPED: Luthmann Demands Answers from United Airlines
Investigative journalist Richard Luthmann is demanding answers from United Airlines after cancer patient and Instagram influencer Petra Smeltzer Starke was kicked off a flight in Cabo San Lucas over an alleged “odor.” Starke, who was traveling first-class to Sloan Kettering for urgent treatment, was left stranded, collapsed in the terminal, and later hospitalized with sepsis,…
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TRUMP DROPS KIRK BOMBSHELL: SHOOTER IN CUSTODY
President Donald Trump dropped a political thunderbolt on Fox & Friends this morning, announcing that the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk is “with a high degree of certainty” in custody. Trump said the stunning breakthrough came when a pastor recognized the suspect’s photo in the media, contacted a U.S. Marshal, and together they…
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Petra vs. United Airlines: A Woman Fighting Cancer, Stranded
Petra Smeltzer Starke, a cancer patient and social media influencer, boarded United Airlines Flight 706 expecting a routine trip from Cabo to New York. Instead, she was humiliated, ejected, and left stranded in Mexico after a flight attendant complained of an “odor” — her luxury fragrance. Petra missed her treatment at Sloan Kettering and later…
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Judgment Day For Judge Michael Aloise
Justice Michael B. Aloise is staring down his own judgment day. The Queens Supreme Court judge turns 70 this year, triggering New York’s mandatory retirement rule. But Aloise wants to dodge the clock with a two-year extension. Critics say his time is up. A blistering letter from the Center for Community Alternatives lists dozens of…
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Rape Victim Angel DuBose? Says Letitia James’s Staff Drugged and Restrained Her Before Assault in Official Vehicle
Angel S. DuBose says she was drugged, abducted, and sexually assaulted in December 2014 by staff of then–NYC Public Advocate Letitia James. DuBose alleges James’s chief of staff, Ibrahim Khan, tried to spike her drink before she was forced into James’s official vehicle, where a “ritualistic” assault took place. Her detailed EEO complaint was rewritten…
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Swamp Witch Hunt Déjà Vu: Burr and Trump Targeted by the Same Old Game
Episode 54 of The Unknown Podcast turned into a showdown of history and politics. Co-host Richard Luthmann hailed Donald Trump as a hero besieged by the Swamp, while Michael Volpe clung to his odd Bill Clinton nostalgia. Historian Dennis A. Brennan stole the show, proving that Aaron Burr’s treason trial of 1807 was America’s first…
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TikTok Terror Crumbles as Accountability Backfires
TikTok influencer Danesh Noshirvan, once hailed as a crusader for “accountability,” is now facing accountability of his own. A federal judge sanctioned his lawyer, rebuking Noshirvan’s courtroom conduct and enabling a $100,000 sanctions motion. At the same time, a Texas grand jury is weighing criminal charges over his alleged cyberstalking campaign that drove high school…
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The Lone Juror Who Hung the State
A lone juror stood against the state. While eleven peers accepted the evidence and the judge’s instructions, one refused to convict. He believed the law was unjust, the punishment excessive, and that the jury’s duty was greater than obedience. This act—jury nullification—remains little known but profoundly powerful. In a locked room, twelve citizens are the…
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The Fall of McMahon
Irish luck just ran out in Staten Island. Richmond County DA Michael McMahon faces a pounding one-two combination: his Fighting Irish football team’s shocking defeat at the hands of the Miami Hurricanes, and Richard Luthmann’s vow of “legal Armageddon.” On The Unknown Podcast, Luthmann shredded McMahon and Judge Ron Castorina with a mock cross-examination that…
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