Nick Rekieta, a Minnesota lawyer, rose to prominence in 2020 and 2021 due to his shows covering the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and Johnny Depp lawsuit.
Rekieta is married and has 4 children, with his wife Kayla.
Rekieta was at first very well regarded, and saw his YouTube channel and Twitter account quickly gain popularity. His YouTube channel "Rekieta Law" has 448,000 followers, and his Twitter has around 150,000. Nick is 42, and his wife is 40.
However, as time passed, he started to run into some controversy. In 2022, he represented accused sexual harasser Vic Mignogna in two defamation suits which Mignogna filed against his accusers, and then talked about the case extensively on his show. This allegedly caused a lot of Rekieta's fans to harass the accusers, which became a bad look for Rekieta.
More troublesome was the suspicion that Rekieta was getting involved with drugs. His appearance started to change, he was increasingly agitated and jumpy in his videos, and he lost a ton of weight.
At the same time, Rekieta was involved in drama (and possibly an affair) with another YouTuber, April Imholte.
April is a fairly hot chick who married a guy named Aaron Imholte three years ago. Aaron is also a YouTuber, who runs sometihng called the "Steel Toe Morning Show". Many people resented Aaron at the time he married April, because a bunch of simps wanted her, and Aaron was seen as kind of a dork (plus 8 years older than her).
Someone actually even started a hate site regarding their marriage: https://www.imholtedivorce.com/
Well, predictably, the marriage was a huge fail, there were fights during the Steel Toe Morning Show for everyone to see, and the two of them separated.
And where did April run? You guess it... to Nick Rekieta.
Rekieta and Aaron Imholte were friends for awhile, but had some kind of falling out. April kept going over there, and Aaron was suspecting it was to use drugs, as he had long suspected April was an addict herself. He was also suspicious that April was fucking Nick, even though Nick's wife Kayla was typically home.
On May 23, the cops served a warrant, forced their way in when Nick Rekieta wouldn't let them, and searched the home. Lots of cocaine and other drugs were found, and much of it was easily accessible to the kids in the house (though there's no evidence the kids ever touched it). Nick, Kayla (his wife), and April were all arrested. They are all currently out on bail.
There are now rumors online that Aaron Imholte actually was the one who reported the whole thing. One of Aaron's longtime YouTube rivals, a Las Vegas comic named Patrick Melton, believes Aaron called the Rekietas' pastor, reported the drug use in the home, and then the pastor was required to report this to law enforcement. It is well documented that Aaron kept warning April to "get out of the house" this past weekend, and come back home to him, as if he knew the hammer was falling.
Here's Aaron's two recent shows about the matter:
What a fucking mess.