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OneTaste Founder Gets 9 years for Forced Labor Scheme

On Monday, a Brooklyn judge sentenced Nicole Daedone, co-founder of OneTaste Inc., to nine years in federal prison on forced labor charges and ordered her to forfeit $12 million.
Prosecutors argued Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz ran a yearslong scheme using "orgasmic meditation," or "OM," to groom adherents and force members into sexual acts they found repulsive through intimidation and abuse.
Supporters including Actor Richard Schiff and CNN correspondent Van Jones submitted letters seeking leniency, with defense lawyers calling a lengthy sentence "bonkers" and casting Daedone as a "ceiling-shattering feminist entrepreneur."
The company, which enjoyed glowing media coverage in the 2010s, has since rebranded as the Institute of OM Foundation; Daedone sold her stake in the California-based business in 2017.
More than 200 people submitted letters attesting to Daedone's character and lack of prior criminal record, though her lawyers maintained the charges against the former executive were unjustified.

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