Will NY State Judge Sabrina B. Kraus Bankrupt The Brimelow Family?

Or just VDARE?

New York State Hon. Judge Sabrina B. Kraus

PETER BRIMELOW WRITES: This is an update that I’ve just posted to my family’s personal GiveSendGo Appeal , first issued just days before Christmas. I‘m sorry to say things are getting worse.

Three months ago, I wrote to you with a heavy heart. New York Attorney General Letitia James had just sued my wife Lydia and myself personally, threatening our family

with bankruptcy after four years of lawfare that had already destroyed VDARE.com, the patriotic immigration reform nonprofit that we built over 25 years.

You responded. More than 280 of you donated over $35,000 here on Givesendgo to help us fight back. That money has gone directly to our personal legal defense—we have been forced to hire lawyers representing Lydia and myself quite separately from the VDARE Foundation—keeping a roof over our daughters’ heads and a lawyer at the table. From the bottom of my heart: thank you.

Now we are at a critical moment.

In January, VDARE Foundation’s lawyers and our personal lawyers together filed a motion to dismiss the NYAG lawsuits. These lawsuits have no legal basis—we have received no monies personally from any of the VDARE Foundation transactions under investigation—and should be thrown out.

What happened next was... unsettling.

The NYAG took their opportunity to reply and we prepared our final brief. This back and forth is standard. Then our legal team requested a simple extension—a professional courtesy routinely granted. The AG’s office agreed to an adjournment until March 17.

But then the New York State court intervened.

A clerk for New York State Judge Sabrina B. Kraus [pictured above] emailed both legal teams and informed us that she had never agreed to the extension—despite all parties consenting—and that everything was due by midnight the next day.

Our VDARE lawyer, with twenty years of experience, has never seen a court override an agreement between all parties like this.

Our personal lawyers had to plead with the clerk directly, citing urgent personal circumstances, just to get the additional time they had already been promised.

VDARE’s reply was ready and filed immediately. But our personal lawyers’ filing remains pending until March 17.

And yet Judge Kraus has already ruled on the motion to dismiss VDARE’s case. She denied it.

It is extremely rare to see a case decided like this, before all parties have had their say.

And, as if that weren’t enough, Judge’s Kraus decision misstated the facts, claiming that we might have owned two entities that a) we did not and do not and b) the NYAG never even claimed we owned.

Where we stand now:

Our personal lawyers have until Tuesday March 17 to file their final reply. After that, Judge Kraus will decide whether the claims against us personally will proceed.

If she grants our motion to dismiss, the threat against our family, specifically, will end. The suit against VDARE Foundation will continue, but Lydia and me—and our three daughters—would be spared personally.

If Judge Kraus denies our motion, NY AG Letitia James gets discovery against my family.

And we know what that means: years more of invasive demands, crushing legal bills, and the state rifling through every corner of our lives— the process as punishment, which is what the NYAG attorney Rick Sawyer bragged about in his speech to the Anti-Defamation League as the way he could get around our First Amendment protections.

We are not optimistic.

But we are not without hope.

What we need now cannot be bought with money. We need prayers.

• Pray for our lawyers, writing under immense pressure.

• Pray that Judge Sabrina B. Kraus reads every word of our filings.

• Pray that she sees the truth: that we are innocent of these allegations, that no penny was ever taken for personal gain, that this entire prosecution is a political act dressed up in legal language.

• Pray for a miracle.

If the motion is granted, our need for this personal fundraiser will greatly diminish. But if it is denied, we will face discovery—and all that entails.

For now, we wait, we pray, and we trust that the truth has a power even resistant judges cannot forever ignore.

Thank you for standing with us. Your support—financial and spiritual—has been a light in a very dark time.