BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A law firm is accused of feeding the FBI information rather than protecting the interests of its client - a company offering sex advice.
A lawsuit was filed July 8 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York by Alisha Price against the law firm Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. and attorney Neil L. Glazer.
Price, a former employee at OneTaste who was drawn to the company as an outlet for her "sexual energy and potency as a woman," alleges that the defendants prioritized their financial interests over her best interests during an FBI investigation into OneTaste Incorporated.
She left OneTaste in 2013, years before an FBI investigation and BBC podcast that followed a Bloomberg story in 2017 that she describes as a "hit piece." Netflix also produced a documentary called "Orgasm Inc.: The Story of OneTaste."
By 2021, FBI agents came to her mom's home in Florida with a subpoena. The company had been accused of operating like a cult, with sex trafficking and prostitution among claims.
She hired the Kohn firm for help with the subpoena, but they "viewed Plaintiff as a target rather than a witness, transforming her peaceful life into utter chaos for their own financial benefit," she says.
They claimed she had been victimized so much she was unaware it happened then groomed her as a "crime victim," she says. Her story did not fit their goals of finding a victim to sue OneTaste, she said.
"Rather than protecting her rights, the law firm collaborated with and aided law enforcement in their quest to prosecute a business guaranteed to garner publicity due to its focus on teaching practices such as orgasmic meditation and slow sex," the suit says.
This led to severe emotional distress and financial harm for Price, she says.
The complaint alleges how Price was coerced into cooperating with the FBI despite repeatedly stating she was not a victim.
The case accuses the defendants of legal malpractice, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, violation of Judiciary Law § 487, unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duties, and breach of contract.
Price is seeking compensatory damages exceeding $75,000 along with punitive damages and other relief deemed appropriate by the court.
Robert Hantman of Hantman & Associates represents the plaintiff.