Susan Bradford
[Editor’s note: Strictly speaking, of course, a defamation case does not qualify as a criminal proceeding, where I have added a few videos and blogs to round out the story. But Susan explained to me the intentional ambiguity: the justice system itself has become “criminal”! I think she has a point.]
In 1971, economists admonished President Richard Nixon against implementing Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson’s recommendation to replace the gold-backed dollar with a fiat currency. Granting the Federal Reserve the authority to create unlimited amounts of money would result in unbridled inflation; the financial ruination of American citizens; and unchecked abuses of power.
Peterson scoffed at such concerns, stating that they were unfounded. He then went on to establish the Blackstone Group, which launched BlackRock, an advisor to the Federal Reserve and the largest asset manager globally. By 2025, BlackRock would hold over $9 trillion assets under management while national filings for bankruptcies rose 13.2% year-over-year. Meanwhile the government, which owes the public honest services, is increasingly being weaponized on behalf of monied interests.
Take for example, the defamation judgments against InfoWars host Alex Jones and Dr. James Fetzer that followed their reporting on Sandy Hook. Both Fetzer and Jones faced massive judgments over their reporting that the Sandy Hook shooting was actually a FEMA drill in which nobody died. (Jones has since retracted his statements.)
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Jones admitted that his defamation suits were “show trials coordinated by HBO,” a television network operating under Warner Brothers-Discovery, a corporate partner of Sandy Hook Promise, an entity founded by the parents of alleged Sandy Hook victims.
Sandy Hook Promise continues to raise millions of dollars from a tragedy billed as “the deadliest school shooting in American history.”
Fetzer’s Defamation Trial
In 2018, Leonard Pozner, the self-professed father of an alleged Sandy Hook victim, filed a defamation suit against Fetzer in the Dane County Circuit Court in Wisconsin over Fetzer’s claim that Pozner had fabricated his son’s death certificate.
The following year, Pozner was awarded $450,000 in damages after the judge ruled in Pozner’s favor. To prove defamation, Pozner would have had to establish that Fetzer’s claims were false. The U.S. Constitution, in turn, protects Fetzer’s right to due process, allowing him to prove his claims before being deprived of his property.
Yet Judge Frank Remington, who presided over Pozner v Fetzer, somehow overlooked this constitutional requirement and denied the Nobody Died at Sandy Hook co-author an evidentiary hearing.’
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On May 3, 2025, Remington announced his retirement – five years before the end of his term, which was set to run until August 1, 2030.
In his retirement letter to Gov. Tony Evers, Remington wrote, “I have tried to be fair and impartial, but I am increasingly concerned about the influence of money in judicial elections and the pressure it places on judges to appear aligned with political interests.”
Remington was appointed by a Republican governor and later elected in nonpartisan judicial elections in Dane Country, Wisconsin. During his recent re-election in 2024, which was uncontested, he won 99 percent of the vote.
Was Remington signaling that he believed that political interests were undermining his ability to adjudicate with judicial independence?
If money influences the judicial system and Jones’ trials were “coordinated” by HBO, a subsidiary of a corporate partner of Sandy Hook Promise, could Fetzer’s case have been similarly influenced?
It’s a question worth asking as Fetzer’s allegations, if true, stood to challenge millions, if not billions of dollars in government contracts awarded to Republican-aligned interests which exploited the Sandy Hook shooting for profit and power.
The Financial Interests behind Judge Remington
In 2011, Republican Gov. Scott Walker appointed Remington, who has served previously as Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General for 24 years. Appointments to the bench are typically political in which the appointed judge is expected to be prejudicial to the interests of the political figure who appointed him, though this expectation is often unspoken.
Given Walker’s investment in the narrative Fetzer challenged, Remington, who owed his judgeship to the governor, might have considered recusing himself in this matter to have avoided the appearance of a conflict of interest.
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Among the Republican interests most heavily invested in the Sandy Hook narrative – that children had actually died at the hands of a crazed shooter in Newton, Connecticut – was the National Rifle Association (NRA).
The Sandy Hook shooting provided momentum for Democrats to advance legislation challenging the Second Amendment, thereby causing the NRA’s membership and profits soared.
Since the 1930s, the NRA has opposed federal gun control laws.
Between 2010 and 2018, the NRA and its affiliates donated $4 million to Walker’s political campaigns. The NRA, the nation’s leading pro-gun advocacy group, was among Walker’s most influential financial backers.
Walker, in turn, consistently supported NRA-backed legislation. For example, he signed the concealed carry and Castle Doctrine into law, inspiring the NRA to honor him with the Harlon Carter Legislative Achievement Award.
As Governor, Walker opposed measures to restrict access to firearms after mass shootings – an agenda that only works it the mass shootings aren’t exposed as FEMA drills through books like Fetzer’s.
The Governor supported NRA proposals on behalf of gun manufacturers to arm teachers in response to school violence, citing the Sandy Hook shooting.
In December 2012, just days after the incident, NRA CEO Wayne LePierre recommended staffing every school with armed guards on grounds that “gun-free zones” made schools vulnerable.
The following year, the NRA published a National School Shield Report which recommended training school personnel to carry firearms. Mark Mattioli, a Sandy Hook parent, even appeared at the NRA’s press conference supporting the initiative, stating, “as parents we send our kids off to school, and there are certain expectations and obviously at Sandy Hook those expectations weren’t met. (The NRA’s) recommendations for solutions will make our kids safer.”
During the 2018 campaign cycle, the NRA donated nearly $1 million to Walker. His defeat to Tony Evers marked a major setback for the NRA’s influence in Wisconsin politics.
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Having served under both Democratic and Republican administrations as Assistant Attorney General, Remington attempted to maintain his judicial independence.
In May, he could no longer do so as the partisanship behind his defamation suits had been exposed after Fetzer filed two civil complaints in Wisconsin court over the defamation to which he was subjected on Bit Chute and Rumble.
An obviously defamation campaign on these platforms were attempting to silence, discredit and deplatform Fetzer and his colleagues over their coverage of the Sandy Hook.
As was discovered, major investors behind Bit Chute and Rumble, including, for example, Jeffrey Wernick and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, align with the political networks of Sandy Hook Promise.
Wernick’s interests, including, for example, Facebook/META, overlap with corporate partners of Sandy Hook Promise while Bongino’s “recognize the signs (of shooters)” inspired the premise upon which Sandy Hook Promise was founded.
In 2018, moreover, Bongino hosted a show, “We Stand,” on NRA-TV, the media arm of the National Rifle Association.
Could financial interests aligned with Rumble and Bit Chute account for their refusal to enforce their own contracts to police their own platforms and rein in defamation and other unlawful speech against those who challenged the official Sandy Hook narrative?
Fetzer raised the question, and Remington promptly tendered his resignation.
Walker’s Post-Sandy Hook Security Measures
The Sandy Hook shooting generated billions of dollars in government contracts in the interests of “safety.”
For example, in 2018, the year in which Ponzer filed suit, Walker signed legislation which provided $100 million in grants to schools to hire armed guards, install surveillance cameras, among other safety measures.
Walker also supported emergency preparedness drills and lock-down protocols aligned with national trends promoted by Sandy Hook Promise.
In 2015, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections awarded a contract (No. C4698A) to U.S. Corrections, LLC, a private extradition and transport company based in North Carolina that extradites inmates to prisons operated by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which contracts with GEO Group, a former client of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
President Donald Trump, in turn, has generously supported initiatives backed by Sandy Hook Promise.
In March 2018, for example, Trump signed the STOP School Violence Act as part of a $1.3 trillion spending bill, authorizing $100 million annually for school safety programs.
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Sandy Hook Promise helped craft the legislation and was eligible to receive funding through it.
Mark Barden, co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise praised the bill at the time, affirming that it would help scale the organization’s programs nationally.
“It’s no coincidence that the STOP School Violence Act signed by (President Trump) … will award $100 million in annual grants to precisely the types of programs that Sandy Hook Promise runs,” AP reported. “The homegrown nonprofit, which has become one of the premier gun violence prevention groups in the country, was instrumental in developing the STOP bill.”
In 2024, the Department of Justice awarded a $1 million grant to Sandy Hook Promise and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office to expand youth violence prevention training in up to 75 schools.
Both Bondi and Bongino are tasked with implementing the Trump Administration’s law enforcement agenda.
Susan Bradford is an investigative journalist, historian, and author who follows the money and documents its influence on public policy and leadership. She has reported extensively on the Royal families, Vatican, election fraud, the Trump Administration, and the mechanics of the Deep State. She is the author of such books as Royal Blood Lies, Tartar Treachery, The Saudi Swindle, The End of Globalism, Fl33c3d, United Church of Heist, Lynched!, The Shadow Dragon, The Second American Revolution, Dethroned, Taking Back America, The Tribes that Rockefeller Built, United Church of Heist, among many others.
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