Ariel Roman, an ex hostess at Tao Group Hospitality, shares her story about how she tried to come forward about employees of Tao Group spiking innocent young womens' drinks and doing the unspeakable. When she tried to speak up, they did everything they could to silence her. Ariel Roman was framed for a crime she did not commit on June 19th, 2023 by Jack David Potenza, an employee of Tao Group Hospitality. Two employees of Tao Group Hospitality, Samantha Laurito and Jonas Young-Borra, Threatened witnesses to her alibi and destroyed the security footage. Tao Group Hospitality threatened all of their employees not to testify to her innocence and slandered her to the press. Ariel was kept on trial for one year for something she never did and is seeking reparations and legal action. This is the real story.

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I created this website to show people the truth about the justice system in NYC and also disprove the false narrative spread about me in the media. New York Post wrote several articles about me stating completely false information that they knew to be false. They refuse to issue a correction or retraction, and I do not have time to sue on top of my existing lawsuit for false arrest and related offenses. These articles are extremely damaging to my corporate career and reputation. Reporters from NY Post attended my arraignment in criminal court where they personally witnessed the charges read against me. They stated that i was arrested for assault; which was not true in any capacity. The reporters shared the story told by Tao Group, not the one in court records. I hope that this website appears in online search results alongside the defamatory articles to provide the real story to anyone who takes a gossip magazine as truth.

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I have filed lawsuit 100165/2025 against the city of New York, Jack Potenza, Samantha Laurito, and Jonas Young-Borra. My end goal is law reform so that what happens to me won't happen to other victims. Please sign the petition for Ariel's Law to help protect New Yorkers from gross constitutional rights violations committed by NYPD and Prosecutors.