I hate it when people just put a link and title and I have to get off Lemmy. Why not copy paste a few paragraphs??

A company in San Francisco that prosecutors likened to a sex cult has embarked on a campaign to court allies of President Trump as it seeks pardons for its two convicted leaders, CBS News has learned through interviews and records.

OneTaste, a self-described "orgasmic meditation" company, is on the hunt for clemency for its former CEO and founder Nicole Daedone and former head of sales Rachel Cherwitz. In late March, a federal judge sentenced the two women to prison — nine years for Daedone and over six for Cherwitz — after their conviction in 2025 for forced labor conspiracy.

OneTaste has taken the traditional step of submitting pardon applications to the Justice Department for Daedone and Cherwitz, according to federal records.

But it is also adopting some of the elaborate back-channel protocols of a new, less-formal pardon process during Mr. Trump's second term. The undertaking involves efforts to win support from allies of the president by approaching attorneys, political operatives, media figures, and others in his orbit — all part of a playbook used by others to land clemency since last January.

Rachel Barkow, a law professor at New York University and expert on executive clemency, said OneTaste's efforts to make outreach to MAGA allies and influencers shows how pardon-seekers increasingly navigate informal channels to get the president's attention.

"It's of a magnitude that I've never seen before," Barkow told CBS News. "We don't seem to have a functioning clemency process for everyone else who doesn't have these connections."

"Likened to"?

Another rage bait stunt from MAGA. They all rally around two Mar-a-Lago faces.

I "love" how they invoke the constitution whenever it pleases them but never when their own actions are involved.

Criminals seeking pardons from a criminal. Sounds like a solid plan.

Alternative to CBS.

The picture is close to perfection : how they are grinning with such contempt and arrogance (like they know how f****** rigged the game is). It really makes you want to lose even more !