Some factual tweaks and suggestions for phrasing/framing. Use or ignore as you want:
• Nick pleads guilty to a very favourable sentence, and has received a stay of adjudication
He has not received anything yet.
(i.e. stay out of trouble for a yet-to-be-revealed period of time). He is not currently a felon, and it is unclear whether he will be upon sentencing in April.
If the agreement for a stay of adjudication is allowed, he will not be a felon upon sentencing. This is in the Sentencing Guidelines. He will be under the jurusdiction of the Court, however, until he meets required conditions. If he does not meet them, the Court can find him guilty of a felony and impose sentence.
It has been noted that his status under a stay would preclude his owning guns, much like now, even if not a convicted felon.
• His kids have also been returned to him.
He says so, yes.
• While he might smugly gloat that he's bested the system, his entire reputation has been irrevocably destroyed. Everyone will forever know him as an alcoholic and cocaine addict whose daughter, despite his claims to the contrary, tested positive for a metabolite only found upon ingestion of cocaine.
What people will remember, and which will remember what, is not a fact, so I wouldn't include it.
• He seldom streams, and when he does it's often impromptu. He prefers being a guest on streams hosted by friends.
We don't know his preference, but it is accurate he has not streamed much in months.
He also hasn't seemed to be much of a guest (not regular, at least), though he has certainly been active in chats (your next bulletpoint).
• Despite this, he is not a hermit who has fled the Internet, and he is appearing in the YouTube chat of (and sending as much as $100 to) Patrick Melton on a daily basis.
As written this suggests he's not only in chats daily but also contributes daily up to $100/day. Don't know if that's accurate or not, but if not, recommend separating frequency of posting in chats (and is it just Melton or Melton and others?) and giving money to Melton. Might suggest staying away from quantifying either as a "typical" act unless you have substantiation.
Melton is an obsessive hater of the former Qover (polycule) member Aaron Imholte, so much so that he has made sexual comments about Aaron's children;
Again, recommend something like, "Melton has frequently criticized Aaron Imholte, a streamer and former professional radio disc jockey in Minnesota, who was married to April Imholte from [date] to [date] and who has been critical of Nick Rekieta, alleging drug use and blah blah blah.... Melton has commented on his stream [multiple times, if true] about Aaron Imholte's minor [child/children], including once stating....[if it's a damning quote]. (or alternatively, "referring to a child in a manner some/many observers considered sexual" or something like that)
Or less formal if you don't care or think people already know who Aaron is, etc. But I'd keep to facts.
despite repeated insistence from both Aaron and those close to him, he is gleeful in talking about Aaron's kids being fucked and laughs at superchats about his daughter starting an OnlyFans when she is older.
See above.
• In collaboration with Melton, he attempted to embarrass Aaron by revealing his google search history, which fits the definition of computer hacking.
"In [month year], on his stream [or wherever], Melton said [X, including what he said that referenced Nick]. Aaron Imholte has stated that he contacted Stearn County Police Department to request they investigate potential crimes related to these assertions and the facts underlying them."
• After years of being tight lipped about his Jamaican trip to Hedonism II, he confirmed that he went to Jamaica in leaked DMs with a former mod, Kalea, and revealed he gave $1000 to a woman at the resort who claimed to be pregnant (whether this was to cover pregnancy expenses as he claims, was used to pay for an abortion or was simply a scam by con artists, we'll never know)
Not sure why this^ matters, but again you could give more background - in [month year] alleged direct messages between Nick and a [who kalea is in relation to Nick], revealed that Nick [and Kayla?] had attended Hedonism II, an adult resort in Jamaica, in [month year]. These messages also referred to attempts by Nick [and Kayla] to give money to a female dancer/ entertainer for the resort. In later [messages], Nick asserted that he [his version of trying to reach her and why]."
You could add speculation about the reasons but put it as speculation.
• He also confirmed that he was indeed in a relationship with April Imholte (née Anderson), telling a panel that included Melton that Anderson was "[his] girlfriend at the time."
He is still very likely in regular contact with her, and despite his attempts to pretend he has not been in contact with her, she was present for a Zoom hearing months ago and was sitting in the room where Nick regularly streams. Like with Hedonism, he seems to take joy in heavily implying the obvious without outright admitting it.
Did he claim they weren't in contact before those hearings? They were still flirting and getting gross in public messages way after that. He's been stronger about claiming they aren't in contact since the last hearing, not that that's worth anything.
• He is still being sued by Steve Quest, a.k.a. Monograph,
@AnOminous may kill you for this. Montagraph.
for defamation per se for his 2022 comments explicitly calling Montograph a pedophile. Even as recently as last month, he reiterated his belief that Montograph is a pedophile.
OK though didn't he just say he stands by what he said, or something like that? Or did he repeat it?
It was also revealed in December that he took out a $300k loan against his house which is believed to have been used to pay his attorney Mark Randazza (edit: while this is still a possibility, the mortgage could also very likely be for legitimate construction he was doing on his house, as in 2023 he talked about the construction of a "sex dungeon" in his house).
I think speculation about how he spent money isn't helpful except as "what people are saying." Bigger news on his house is that he was running up against foreclosure after his ever-so-sophisticated investment approach.
Long version: In December 2024 a Notice of Foreclosure was posted [where] for the larger of Nick's two homes, which is owned by [trust name], for which Nick and Kayla serve as trustees, if that's objectively confirmed] . It was revealed that in [month year] the Rekietas [or was it just Nick?] took out a mortgage on that home, in the initial amount of $______, with the mortgage being Evergreen Financial, a money management firm in Minneapolis, MN. [Notes about when last payment was made]. Nick has claimed he leveraged his home for investment purposes."
Short version: "Nick and Kayla took out a mortgage on their larger Willmar property in month year for just over $300k, with the lender being an investment management firm. By month year, the home was identified for a foreclosure sale in month year. Nick has claimed he leveraged his home for investment purposes."
• Likely due to his many legal cases, he has been forced to downside. His second property was sold and half of his primary estate was sold. The second house was believed to be where April was living.
"In month year the Rekietas put up the smaller of their two Wilmar properties (widely believed and stated by Keanu whoever to be where April was living for several months in 2024 ) for sale...." Then add when the sale closed and amount.
Since the sale of the smaller property, Nick has stated that he has now paid off the mortgage on the larger home.
• Finally, Nick Rekieta - the man whose channel and firm is called "Rekieta Law" and who spent years providing analysis of legal documents and cases - is no longer allowed to practice law for not keeping up with the Minnesota bar's Continuing Legal Education rules.
I'd add that he was initially noted as unauthorized to practice law due to failure to pay annual fees, and now for failure to report the CLE you mention.
Also: His Rekieta Law, LLC and its DBA have been inactive for years, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State. There is a Texas [? Iirc] LLC named Rekieta Media, LLC [that I think someone said is active].
Despite being unauthorized to practice law and without a law firm, Nick appears on Instagram as
@RekietaLaw; his YouTube summary refers to him as a Minnesota lawyer and owner of Rekieta Law, and uses his former firm's logo with "RL" and a set of scales; and his X profile logo includes the words, "YouTube Lawyer."
Remember, I am writing this for people like Ana Kasparian who like to peruse this thread or show to friends, who aren't spending hours and hours combing through discussion. Again, if I've left anything out of gotten something wrong, please let me know
