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From Journalist to Clickbait Hitwoman: Megan Fox Exploiting a Sick Child for Views

04/30/2025  |  Guest View
From Journalist to Clickbait Hitwoman: Megan Fox Exploiting a Sick Child for Views
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Michael VolpeMichael Volpe

By Michael Volpe

She was once a journalist. Then, she teamed up with YouTuber Jeremy Hales. She went from watchdog to lapdog, from reporter to carnival barker.

She lies and calls it news. Think of a mind so tangled it loses itself in ego and algorithm. Meet Megan Fox and her costar – a sleazy dude with a God complex, a dime-store tyrant.

Fox is storyline fluffer in Hales’ YouTube show. She spins lies with a smile, stomping on children for clicks. She calls it “accountability.” In 2024, YouTuber Jeremy Hales filed a defamation suit against Michelle Preston and John Cook – his neighbors.

Spinning Lies for Clout: Megan Fox aids Jeremy Hales in a media war that smears mothers and buries real family court abuse.Spinning Lies for Clout: Megan Fox "reporting" to Jeremy Hales and his wife, George.

They have a sick child.

In 2025, Fox joined the show—advancing an allegation that the mother was faking her daughter’s illness. Fox became a hype girl in a freakshow Imagine a lawsuit less about legal recourse than digital optics- streamed, monetized, manipulated, and devoid of honesty.

That Hales would sue over mean words is no surprise. That Fox would back him by attacking a sick child is a departure from what she was. Despite having no evidence, Fox said that Michelle Preston fabricated her child’s rare diagnosis of Glutaric Acidemia Type 1.

The accusation was irresponsible, cruel and a lie. No physician, no second opinion, no consultation but Megan Fox declared a child’s suffering a fiction. She went on air and accused a mother of faking a rare disease.

Spinning Lies for Clout: Megan Fox aids Jeremy Hales in a media war that smears mothers and buries real family court abuse.A letter from USF Health confirming that any suggestion of Munchausen by Proxy was bogus.

Megan Fox is now a content creator for YouTuber Jeremy HalesMegan Fox is now a content creator for YouTuber Jeremy Hales

She made a suggestion designed to stain, and when offered the doctor’s letter confirming the child was truly ill, she declined to comment. It was never about truth. Hales files lawsuits for clicks on his YouTube channel.

Megan smiles and said, “What the Hale$?!”

And so, with cruelty masquerading as concern, Fox and Hales conspire to cast aspersions upon a mother — not with evidence, but with depositions and omissions.

The depositions had no purpose but punishment. The protective order had no basis but geography. And Megan Fox had no question but this: How do I monetize it?

What the fuck happened to Megan Fox? I remember her screaming about CPS abuses and fighting MSBP smears. Now she’s doing TikTok yoga while a mother is interrogated off-screen.

The record shows that thirty reports yielded nothing. That a child’s doctor affirmed her care. That a protective order was rejected, then resurrected across state lines. Megan did not report this.

We all want to be seen, to matter. But sometimes people forget the cost of being seen is someone else being hurt.

She didn’t report. She performed. And the mother bled for it.

Spinning Lies for Clout: Megan Fox aids Jeremy Hales in a media war that smears mothers and buries real family court abuse.Spinning Lies for Clout: Megan Fox aids Jeremy Hales in a media war that smears mothers and buries real family court abuse.

You want the truth? Here’s the truth: Megan Fox traded a spine for a subscription button. It ain’t that she fell. It’s that she smiled on the way down.

You don’t need to imagine a dystopia where truth dies in laughter — it’s already here. It streams nightly. It mocks sick children. It calls itself journalism. But one day, when the cameras are off and the court files are sealed, there will be no clout left to chase — only silence.


 

 

 

 

 

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Comments (91)

  • Karen RiordanApril 30, 2025
    Thank you Michael Volpe for holding everyone accountable and for valuing the parent child bond. I've followed Megan Fox for years and not sure why the change, but hope she makes her way back. I've not known her to target the innocent as she has done to the mother and family in this case, and hope she ceases making unfounded allegations. It seems this mom and family have enough to manage without being accused of manufacturing an illness.
    • AnonymousMay 1, 2025
      Thank you Karen Riordan for holding everyone accountable and for valuing the parent child bond. 💕
    • Helen HighwaterMay 1, 2025
      The problem is, she will never be able to go back to what she was doing because of her connection with WTH. When it is all over, she will be forever seen as a sellout and not taken seriously if she decides to cover any legal cases or issues. She basically ruined her entire career for a few months of fame and fortune. Sad really.
      • AnonymousMay 3, 2025
        What career?
      • AnonymousMay 3, 2025
        She should never have been taken seriously in the first place. Get it?
        • AnonymousMay 5, 2025
          Everyone should be taken seriously.

          … even the hairs of your head are all counted …
  • AnonymousApril 30, 2025
    very well written! Get the truth out there!
    • NiceGuyMay 1, 2025
      I try to do my best!

      Thank you!
      • RoguemommaMay 3, 2025
        Volpe is this your sock account? Try harder. 3.5/10 isn’t your best. Megan’s article rated much higher.
        • NiceGuyMay 6, 2025
          Sorry Rogmammma-

          Are you by chance, Tran Scott?
          • NutjobMay 7, 2025
            If not, maybe it's “Sniveling, Craven, Cowardly, Anonymous & Cruel.”

            I do not miss that shit…
      • NutjobMay 5, 2025
        The good ole days….When NiceGuy kept getting accused of being a sock account.
        • NiceGuyMay 7, 2025
          Perhaps RogueMoma is none other than are dear friend

          Anti-anti-cultist ‘Allen Stanfield’,

          Better known as Aloonzo….

          I wish it were Shivani, Peaches, my favorite female Britt across the pond or someone with a beautiful Russian name. Or

          Orange County Dreams,

          I miss them all.

          I don’t miss that shit either NutsJob. I surely don’t.

          😉
        • AnonymousMay 8, 2025
          I replied!!!

          Frank hates us long time readers!!!!

          I still love h*m.
  • NiceGuyApril 30, 2025
    Frank-

    Where is Megan Fox?!?

    When I clicked on this article I was expecting an article on the movie actress Megan Fox.

    Instead I see a cafeteria worker.

    The title could be about the author of….

    “From Journalist to Clickbait Hitwoman: ”

    Is Volepe a hitwoman?

    FYI:

    Hitwoman is not a word according to

    Webster Dictionary.
    • NutjobMay 1, 2025
      THANK YOU!!! Same thing happened to me but couldn't figure out how I recognized this beat Megan Fox.

      And she's not just any cafeteria worker. She was MY lunch lady.
      • NiceGuyMay 6, 2025
        NutJob-

        Adam Sandler brilliant link LmaO!

        Hope all is well my friend.
      • NiceGuyMay 6, 2025
        NutJob-

        Long live the 90s!!!!
    • RoguemommaMay 3, 2025
      lol.
      • NiceGuyMay 6, 2025
        Thanks momma!!!
  • AnonymousApril 30, 2025
    • Frank ParlatoApril 30, 2025
      yes
      • NutjobMay 1, 2025
        I don't know. The tribal warfare and European dependency seemed to be working fine…

        But if this keeps moving forward, and Roger Stone & Frank are already in the mix, I'm anticipating some Basit Iglet & Sara Bronfman sightings. Maybe we'll hit the lottery and poor Vanguard will make some moves to try getting his grubby paws on some cobalt riches…
  • AnonymousApril 30, 2025
    Fantastic article
    • RoguemommaMay 3, 2025
      ChatGPT rated it 3.5/10 🤔
      • Frank ParlatoMay 5, 2025
        I would not rely on Chat to rate anything. It writes like garbage.
  • Stop lying and frauding, truth united.April 30, 2025
    This letter, was it verified, notarized, submitted as evidence? It actually looks fake, so please donthat ok. It also looks like you have a big vendetta against this Megan lady. May we see the evidence the protective order was rejected? Because we were watching and he knew Florida laws were changed and death threats from others were no longer enforced in Florida like they are in ohio. It seemed your missing some key facts. Dont just erase me, prove these to me.

    Thanks, signed a viewer for a long time and sus of all of the parties grifting and conning and here YOU even USE this child as a weapon in your article. SHAME.
    • Michael VolpeApril 30, 2025
      Death threats are no longer enforced in Florida. What are you talking about?
      • RoguemommaMay 3, 2025
        John Cook made threats in Facebook messenger. I wish you would do your research, I am tired of having to do it for you.
        • Michael VolpeMay 5, 2025
          I meant that Florida does take death threats seriously. When you say John made threats in Messenger, I bet he didn't make them directly to Hales.
        • AnonymousMay 5, 2025
          Roguemomma,

          Why not just take an extra minute to quickly type helpful facts?

          As some say, “who, what, when, why, where and how”.

          You’ve shared three facts:

          John Cook made threats in Facebook messenger.

          Why leave out the most important facts?

          What threats did Mr. Cook send? (What words did he type?)

          When did he send threats? Did Mr. Hales provoke Mr. Cook first?

          Did Mr. Cook send threats in response to any specific thing?

          What’s “so sad and so bad” is:

          so many have been harmed (that’s sad)

          the Hales entertainment is a distraction (that’s bad)

          The phrases “bread and circuses”, “social engineering” and “global governance” should come to mind because We the People are more than half-way there.
    • Helen HighwaterMay 1, 2025
      You say “Thanks, signed a viewer for a long time”. A viewer of whom? Meagan, WTH, Michael Volpe? If it is WTH, I have watched for years as well. Lisa lee was a mod for him. I saw Hales lie, cheat and coerce everyone he came into contact with. He has been in court either suing or being sued since 2012. His divorce took ten years because he kept filing useless stupid, unfounded, motions to keep it going. His own children have/had protection orders against him. His past 2 girlfriends have protection orders against them. He told George family is nothing and blood doesn't matter, then threatens to sue her sister.

      The letter was verified by several people, but the opposition will never tell you that. 30 CPS visits with no infractions found. None. All called in by either Hales himself or his viewers. And yes, the health of the child is also looked at by CPS, including any special needs the child has. I dare to find even a great mother who could pass 30 CPS visits. Michelle must be an exceptional mother.

      Hales tried 3 times to get a protection order in Florida and all were denied because they said the claims were unfounded, did not meet the criteria, Hales never showed any fear and that Hales was the actual problem. Yet the Ohio magistrate (not a real judge), gave him the order based on his own word with no police reports and no evidence allowed my Michelle. She will be facing sanctions for this soon, along with the lawyer in Florida who tried to get the adoption unsealed and then tried to claim the biological aunt had a fictive or unbreakable bond with the aunt. Hales teamed up with the family of the child to try to get her removed from the home. The aunt has never met the child; much less do they have an unbreakable bond. Again, he got some lawyer to do his dirty work. Both motions were denied as the aunt had NO STANDING. Yet the aunt raked in over $56,000 to pay for 2 motions to be filed. Approximate cost? less than $1000, plus whatever the lawyer charged for 2 hours of work. Where is the other $54,000? The aunts got it. For what? Lying to promote the Hales, Bad Neighbor content? Because that is what she did. she lied to him, his viewers, the courts and her own family. She knew it was wrong because the address she listed for her home was a vacant field. A false address. The actual, legal adoption papers were read on Two Lee's in a Pod, under the title “Royal Flush”. you know, the thumbnail and personal, copywritten artwork that Shara the shit show used on her latest video (which was taken down for a copyright strike, just from the thumbnail).

      And Meagan dares to ask Lisa Lee what she did with the few donations she received from a single donor, which was less than what the aunt took in on one live stream (featuring DUI GUY and Hales's own lawyer), even though she saw the fence go up, the Christmas party happen and she sees the work on the home. If you think Hales is in the right and Michelle is in the wrong, please tell me what she did to Hales. Omit the forged signs because Michelle has an expert also, who owned the school where Hales's expert learned the trade and Michelle's expert deduced that they were forged by someone who tried to copy her handwriting. In his professional opinion, Hales forged the signs. The entire report can be seen on the channel Two Lee's in a Pod for verification (Aces High). But people like you refuse to look at both sides of the story. I am assuming you did not come here to see the other side. You came here to support one side and irritate the other. If so, you are a hypocrite of the highest form. I believed him at first, but his actions did not match what he was saying, so I looked elsewhere and found the truth. But if you have been seriously following both sides of this story and you still think Hales is the victim, then you are just an idiot, or too ashamed to admit you were wrong.
  • A Former SupporterApril 30, 2025
    I've watched the self-implosion of Megan Fox Writer in real time over the past 2 years. I had admired her tenacity as a journalist with the utmost integrity, but she decided clicks and superchats were worth throwing integrity out the window to become a figurative and, at times, literal cheerleader for Jeremy Hales, a walking contradiction and man-child. Along with her sidekick TUG, their content consists of mocking and humiliating attorneys and judges who don't jump for Hales and a couple and their adopted 5-year-old daughter in tandem with the 20+ other pro-Hales YouTube channels ecosystem. In a scenario that desperately needed a critical voice with objective thinking skills, Megan failed at her journalistic duties. It's comparable to Jeremy Hales running for political office with Megan Fox as his political strategist. It's disheartening to see Megan go from a dogged advocate for victims to “I'll show you my hair or my new AI song mocking (victims) for 100 super chats, minimum,” and threats to her livestream viewers, “Come on guys, seriously, if you all don't get the super chats flowing in I'm going to turn ads on.” Nice way to punish her audience for supporting her by engaging. It's sad and pathetic.
    • RoguemommaMay 3, 2025
      It’s a joke! You guys have no sense of humor. People would support her work without seeing her hair. She does it to troll the haters!
  • Eric Arthur BlairApril 30, 2025
    If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
    • Corrupt “family courts” didn’t happen by mistake.May 10, 2025
      … Of the many symbols and phrases of Freemasonry, a few mottoes are important enough to be prominently, and sometimes publicly displayed on flags, seals, or regalia. The phrase “Ordo Ab Chao,” is the motto of the 33rd degree, which can be found on the grand decorations of the Order of the Sovereign Grand Inspectors General …

      This phrase being depicted so prominently, particularly in relation to the 33rd degree, indicates a tremendous importance to Freemasonry. Indeed, Ordo Ab Chao, translated to “Order from Chaos,” is also associated with another latin phrase, Lux In Tenebris, which translates to “Light from Darkness.”

      Why is the idea of Order from Chaos or Light from darkness so significant to Freemasonry? …

      A few more questions:

      Who planned what kind of “order” out of which “chaos”, exactly?

      Which individuals orchestrated that “chaos” to prompt their “order”?

      After their “Knights of the Golden Circle”, “The Red Shirts”, the Chicago riots, the dynamite clubs and godless revolutions leading to their first two “World Wars”, which individuals at this point in history now plan to impose what kind of “order”?

      Do they plan to start their World War III any time soon? Will that be their final “chaos” before their new “order”?

      In their “Light from Darkness” philosophy, the “darkness” seems to be their blatant political corruption, their horrible wars, their secret meetings and their deceit.
  • AnonymousApril 30, 2025
    What a BIG pile of bullchit!
    • Helen HighwaterMay 1, 2025
      She certainly is…
  • AnonymousApril 30, 2025
    That doctor’s letter looks very fake. One big red flag is the way he referred to the mother as the “adoptive” mother.

    Megan Fox never had any ethics just like you don’t have any ethics Volpe. You have a problem just because she probably gets way more clicks than you. You are a dirtbag bottom feeder preying on vulnerable people just like her.

    Have a nice day.
  • AnonymousMay 1, 2025
    You can tell alot about an article on how it is written. Your choice of tone and words shows clearly that this is a personal attack. News worthy articles would NEVER be written in this manner. If you have followed the ENTIRE case from the get go, there would be much more information provided on BOTH sides. And hearing about the authors sexual inappropriateness with multiple people is alarming to say the least. Put all that together and this article is clearly not anything to be proud of. If a case interests me, I do a lot of research before I even come close to making my own personal opinion. You have every right to speak your opinion! But how you write an article speaks more of YOUR character than anything else.
    • RoguemommaMay 3, 2025
      ChatGPT rated it 3.5/10
      • AnonymousMay 5, 2025
        ChatGPT?

        … Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and the architect of ChatGPT, is behind a venture that wants to solve a modern-day problem: proving you're human amidst a proliferation of bots and artificial intelligence. …

        Will ChatGPT also eventually tell us whether or not we’re good humans?
  • AnonymousMay 1, 2025
    Oh you're an anti-WTH'S trying to stay relevant member! Journalist, hardly. Tick tock tick tock!
  • AnonymousMay 1, 2025
    She was once a journalist? What are her credentials? Do you mean she was once a self-proclaimed journalist with zero training in journalism ethics and zero understanding of the calling? A pretender? has she actually been employed as a journalist in the past?
    • Michael VolpeMay 3, 2025
      Yes. She worked for PJ Media for a long time. She still does. She was ethical, but that all changed when Hales dangled his 750,000 followers at her.
      • #FreeJohnFlynnMay 12, 2025
        YouTube overlords removed Megan Fox’s thoughtcrime and sent her to reeducation camp.

        In November of 2023 she posted on social media:

        I'm currently being reeducated by YouTube about vaccines in order to get a warning removed from my channel. I guess I said something at one point that was vax skeptical (which is not allowed).

        It was removed so efficiently that I wasn't allowed to see what the offensive content was. I was allowed to appeal the decision but without knowing what the content was, the appeal was useless. All they would tell me is that it was “medical misinformation.”

        That's code for “You said you don't like vaccines” or something. The strange part was it was a family court video. Several years ago I was doing weekly family court updates with all the most egregious family court horror stories going on across the country. The only one I could think of where I might have mentioned vaccines was the case of Rachel Bruno whose sons were taken from her after she was falsely accused of child abuse. Bruno's older son, a toddler, was forcefully given twelve vaccinations at once by “child protective services” without consulting his pediatrician or getting parental consent. …

        …. There were more stupid questions like this and one hilarious scenario about 5g towers (can you guess that you're not allowed to speculate that 5g towers might be unhealthy for people?) that made me think what the hell is YouTube going to become if you can't get good conspiracy content there anymore?

        Megan surrendered and John didn’t.
    • RoguemommaMay 3, 2025
      She is paid and punished by PJ Media. She has been featured on Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters….you might want to actually look at her resume.
      • FactsMay 6, 2025
        Ahaha omg PJ Media? And you mean Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters featured her idiotic opinions and you call that being a journalist? You people are lost in a swamp of your own stupidity.

        “ PJ Media, originally known as Pajamas Media, is an American right-wing subscription-based commentary website.”
  • AnonymousMay 1, 2025
    Frank isn't publishing any critical responses to this article because Volpe is a big crybaby.
    • Michael VolpeMay 3, 2025
      About 20% of the responses are negative towards me and the article. I don't control the comment section.frank doesn't care about negative comments.
      • FactsMay 6, 2025
        You’re wrong that Frank doesn’t care about negative comments. Try posting comments that disagree with an author’s POV anonymously and watch what happens. either they won’t get published at all, or he waits about three to five days after you post a negative comment to publish it in the apparent hope that no one will revisit the article to read it. #Facts
        • NutjobMay 7, 2025
          Nah. Frank's been sitting on all our comments. He needs an intern. No disrespect to what mamma taught, but the world doesn't revolve around you.
      • AnonymousMay 8, 2025
        Megan Fox is clickbait!!!

        I haven’t been this upset since Frank posted…

        Fake Skin, i.e, Photoshopped before the era of filters & AI.

        Please Note Old Friend:

        I used the proper punctuation for i.e.
        • Clickbait HaikuMay 12, 2025
          Clickbait distraction 👋

          (just like today’s news headlines)

          isn’t new deceit.
          • AnonymousMay 17, 2025
            Roses are red

            Violets are blue

            Your haikus suck big doo! doo!

            Ionic pentameter all the way!
          • AnonymousMay 17, 2025
            Haiku-

            Frank hates us old-time readers!
  • Meanwhile, foxes still guard the henhouses.May 2, 2025
    … Prescott has served on the state Appellate Court since 2014, after a decade on the Superior Court bench. He spent most of his time as a lawyer in the public sector — most notably in the Office of the Attorney General, where he led the special litigation department, managing attorneys, accountants, paralegals, and support staff in high-stakes cases for the state. …

    https://www.ctpost.com/connecticut/article/eliot-prescott-inspector-general-ct-judge-20302812.php
  • AnonymousMay 3, 2025
    WHY did Fox & Hales start “picking on” their neighbors Michelle Preston and John Cook??? It's not explained what started this entire “saga”.
    • AnonymousMay 6, 2025
      It looks like maybe Mr. Hales prompted or noticed bad behavior that he should have ignored … and u$ed it for clickbait … for money.
  • RoguemommaMay 3, 2025
    • AnonymousMay 5, 2025
      “… so sad, too bad …”

      Please note: For the past several years, anonymous online accounts have popped up out of nowhere to gang stalk good journalists who investigate corruption in America’s judicial branch. Are you one of those gang stalkers “Roguemomma”?

      Most of the anonymous stalker comments look the same: juvenile taunts, simple mocking, ad hominem attacks and sometimes threats in private messages to the journalists. That kind of stalking happened to Bill Windsor when he toured the USA to document corruption in America’s judicial branch. Anonymous stalkers stalked him relentlessly and then corrupted officials joined in the stalking to ruin him.

      If you’re one of those stalkers Roguemomma, stop and think about the short and long-term consequences of your stalking. If you’re actually a momma, what kind of country do you want to leave your children and your grandchildren?

      Do you not see the corruption in the courts? Do you want effective journalists in America to investigate corruption in the government or not?

      Effective journalism informs the public.

      Do you want to live with informed citizens in a healthy country or not?
  • California, USA …May 3, 2025
    … International attorney Richard Fine, formerly with the Justice Department, was disbarred and put in solitary confinement for 18 months when he stood up to the judicial system in California for bribery and corruption. He discovered that the County of Los Angeles, some of its supervisors, and many of its judges were accepting illegal payments in addition to their salaries that violated the law, ethics, and the trust of the people of California. …
  • Good question:May 4, 2025
    How did a hard-working journalist transform into an unethical pseudo-Jerry Springer?

    https://substack.com/home/post/p-162771541
  • AnonymousMay 4, 2025
    Apr 7, 2025 …

    (Was that pretend pillow talk with her co-host for clicks while her husband slept in another room?) … then …

    “… I have to show you this we won't read the whole thing but you have to see this you guys you have to see this this is so nuts …

    27:30

    … we have article yeah we have evidence that he has done this before 🤔 and he always runs away 🧐 my theory was that he was going to leave the country and everyone was like “That's crazy he's not going to he's he's not going to leave the country that would be insane.” Oh yeah you want to bet he's done it before when he got in trouble in Connecticut he moved to Armenia and then he wrote about it and it's the most whiny [ __ ] you've ever read in your whole life let me let me share this with you um because this is crazy and he wrote an article about it by the way if he's going to complain that people are stalking him and harassing him …”

    Does “investigator/writer” Megan Fox really not know about the horrible corruption in Connecticut? HOW can she NOT know?

    Bruce Matzkin wrote about corruption in Connecticut state courts in 2012. Did Megan not see or purposely ignore the corruption?

    These articles are online:

    Connecticut Law Tribune

    Judicial Robe-itis: Confusing Power And Discretion

    The legal profession encompasses a broad array of sub-professions, one of which consists of civil litigators who represent litigants without financial resources, investing their time in cases based on their sound professional assessment of the facts and the law. It is this sub-profession that fulfills the promise of equal access to justice for those who otherwise would be unable to pursue legal redress.

    February 06, 2012 at 12:00 AM

    By BRUCE MATZKIN

    The legal profession encompasses a broad array of sub-professions, one of which consists of civil litigators who represent litigants without financial resources, investing their time in cases based on their sound professional assessment of the facts and the law. It is this sub-profession that fulfills the promise of equal access to justice for those who otherwise would be unable to pursue legal redress. … The judicial profession is charged with the unique and awesome responsibility of deciding matters that profoundly impact people’s lives. In order to perform this function judges are instilled with discretion, but this discretion is, and must be, carefully circumscribed by oath, statutes, court rules, judicial conduct rules and common law. These authorities distinguish discretion from another trait inherent in the judge’s position: Power. … the right of appeal is no excuse or justification for a trial judge failing or, as is inferable here, refusing to acknowledge and apply established controlling law to material facts, and it is no assurance a litigant with a meritorious appeal can afford an appeal or find a lawyer willing to take it.

    Acknowledging the law and giving an intellectual rationale for how it applies or does not apply is a judge’s legitimate exercise of discretion. Ignoring the law and giving no rationale for the decision in light of it, is abuse of power. A colleague recently described this to me as “robe-itis”.

    It’s a condition only the Executive and Legislature can cure. …

    ###

    New Haven Register

    FORUM: Lawyer can't be silenced in fight for justice

    By Bruce Matzkin

    Aug 1, 2012

    Connecticut's Code of Judicial Conduct states: “A judge shall apply the law.”

    But when a judge apparently refused to apply the law and I protested, I was the one subjected to professional opprobrium and threats of official discipline.

    In August 2011, I and my client, an income-less company seeking several hundred thousand dollars for a title insurance claim, were shocked when Superior Court Judge Daniel Shaban, in his written opinion deciding the case of Bristol Heights v. Chicago Title Ins. Co., omitted Connecticut law governing insurance policies.

    I and my client had relied on this law in litigating against the insurance company since 2006.

    One month earlier, Shaban had issued an opinion in another case applying the very law omitted from his decision in ours. That law requires him to interpret an insurance policy as a whole and to award coverage if supportable under any rational interpretation.

    Shaban's decision did not mention, let alone interpret, the policy provisions we relied on. He denied a reconsideration motion, in which his own prior decisions were cited, without a hearing or reasoned opinion.

    Why Shaban acted so disdainfully toward us is beside the point: A judge must apply the law. No lawyer I've discussed this with could recall another trial judge issuing two written decisions nearly contemporaneously, governed by the same law, applying the law in one and ignoring it in the other, despite its being prominently cited.

    In February, I wrote an article in the Connecticut Law Tribune, “Judicial Robe-itis: Confusing Power and Discretion,” in which I described a judge ignoring the law as an “abuse of power.”

    Then on March 2, I testified before the legislature's Judiciary Committee against Shaban's reappointment for another eight-year term. I'd been encouraged by the comments of panelists at November's Connecticut Bar Association “judicial independence” symposium — including the Judiciary Committee co-chairmen and current and former Connecticut Supreme Court justices — each attesting to the relevance in judges' reappointment proceedings of the very issues I raised.

    “A whole subprofession of lawyers, those who invest their time in cases for parties without financial resources, are at risk when they cannot rely on the judge to apply the law,” I testified. “And when these lawyers disappear, so does access to the courts for people who need them.”

    Only two of the 40-plus committee members, about half of whom are practicing lawyers, voted against Shaban's reappointment.

    The efforts to silence me had already begun. The day before, the CT-N network altered its March 2 schedule, eliminating coverage of the judicial reappointment hearings, although it had covered two prior hearings in February.

    Then, the Tribune's editorial board, chaired by former state Supreme Court Justice Joette Katz, one of the symposium panelists, harshly criticized me for my Tribune article, asserting in a March 12 editorial that I “directly attacked” a judge, even though Shaban was not named in my article.

    The editorial insinuated I had an unspecified “personal agenda.”

    Next, the Statewide Bar Counsel's office called for an investigation into whether my article warranted discipline against me. The state court Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit false statements “concerning the qualifications or integrity of a judge.”

    Recently, I received notice that a grievance panel voted not to initiate disciplinary proceedings, from which I infer they determined my statements were true.

    Why such responses to my protest? Might the judicial elite be concerned about perceptions from the fact that the insurance company's counsel is the spouse of Connecticut's chief justice?

    Not only did Shaban ignore the law in ruling for them, but in 2009, then-Superior Court Chief Civil Judge Arthur Hiller ordered the case transferred resulting in a two-year delay. Of the many cases Hiller transferred, only his notice in our case omitted the opportunity to object. …

    ###

    New Haven Register

    Cool Justice: DCF boss / ex-judge Katz has robitis bad, and that ain’t good

    By Andy Thibault

    May 5, 2014

    *Robitis: An affliction developed by otherwise semi-normal people wearing robes: Undue deference and power go to their heads and they think they have actually become smarter since being frocked. As such, they do not countenance anything approaching viable oversight. In cases of malignant robitis, these behaviors continue even after nominal hanging up of the robe. …

    ###

    It’s easy to understand why Ms Katz misleads the public.

    Why is Megan Fox misleading the public?

    https://www.youtube.com/live/rSv_PhljTNA?si=7sbVmwt6Sb0IzX0g&t=1571
  • AnonymousMay 5, 2025
    Amy way to mend the situation? I'm not liking the break up. You broke up with Megan to get in bed with Richard.
    • Michael VolpeMay 5, 2025
      I stopped working with Megan in early 2022. I started working with Richard in the summer 2024. Our first guest was Megan. Your assertion is not accurate. She stopped being friends with me because I went on a YouTube show she didn't like to talk about a story she was not covering.
      • Wolf in sheep clothing ?May 7, 2025
        For several years Mike has been a fearless advocate for the false claims of parental alienation. The initial interview with Megan and Richard was on reunification camps. The Alienation industry was being exposed. Since Richard has entrenched himself in the family court reporting world, we are back to the popular parental alienation is to blame. Several of the stories he has run has been for Men attempting to dominate the way in which family court is running. He was contacted for his assistance for Monica and David Wegal exploited it for the warrior project. Cause Richard Luthmann contacted Richard. She pled guilty to get out of jail. The project didn't help her custody case. David attached several women and insists that their just pieces of shit. He's solicited women influencers and placed countless people on the internet. People without money to defend themselves. Threatened to toss them and dangling million dollar lawsuits in their face.to expose themselves on the internet. While a Connecticut father is excused due to pending litigation. A gentleman who's DV charges were never investigated, just dropped. Pushing women and children into a project for 50/50 legislation even if it's not good for them ( selfish) . While claiming it's not a gender issue, but runs to father's rights groups that relentlessly bash women. Megan may have made a mistake. You are still running with someone who is pushing with the opposite of what you used to believe in. Your running with someone who doesn't defend you when the industry professionals call you an abuser. The coverage that has been so important has been hijacked with the assistance of your new podcast mate. Some people make mistakes and others are intentional.
      • 🎪 life in the Panopticon 👀May 10, 2025
        Dear Michael & Megan,

        Kindly fill in the blanks.

        The goals you both share are:

        ___________________ .

        ___________________ .

        ___________________ .

        ___________________ .

        ___________________ .

        ___________________ . … etc.

        Please let reading this be first on that list:

        “When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.”

        One symptom of political cancer: purposeful division

        👉 please cure the purposeful division asap 👈

        It looked like Michael offered a few olive branches already. Megan is reasonable and would probably be open to a truce if Richard would agree to less shock jockeying and more law.

        Then, if Richard is willing to moderate a series of discussions about family court law in the context of “family court” corruption in America (and the same in most “Western” countries) maybe Michael can chose a few others to join the discussion … and Megan can choose a few others to join the discussion and that series of videos would prompt a few million views. Maybe more.

        🙂

        Our choice: Squeeze into the mold or break it.
        • Michael VolpeMay 10, 2025
          I'll forgive Megan for smearing me and being unethical, but I won't be friends with her. I'm covering a story. She's a part of it. She's acting unethically which is part of the story. There are no olive branches.
          • Is this war or Spiritual Warfare?May 11, 2025
            Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”

            Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
  • Not Clickbait …May 6, 2025
    Something about all those random murders in New England reminds me of “the DC sniper” (aka Mildred Muhammad’s ex-husband) who killed seven people, planning to make his ex-wife’s murder look like just one more random murder.

    Former D.C. homicide detective Ted Williams said it will “take time” for law enforcement to determine if there's a serial killer in the Northeast.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-england-serial-killer-fears-massachusetts-investigators-identify-body-pulled-from-river
    • Also not clickbait …May 7, 2025
      It all starts this Wednesday.
    • AnonymousMay 12, 2025
      … she says she never suspected she was the real target of the “Beltway Sniper” until Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents knocked on the door of her Maryland home on Oct. 23, 2002.

      “They said, 'Ms. Muhammad, didn't you know he was shooting people around you?' They said, 'The man he shot in the hand with the laptop, that's right down the street from you. The gentleman that was shot at the store in Brandywine — that's two miles away from you. You were the target,' ” Muhammad says.

      https://www.npr.org/2009/10/05/113506785/ex-wife-of-d-c-sniper-i-was-the-enemy
  • AnonymousMay 7, 2025
    … The biggest loser here is The Sun, whose editorial staff ran with Owens' false accusations and smeared Echard without doing any investigative work. …

    https://pjmedia.com/megan-fox/2025/05/07/false-accuser-laura-owens-indicted-7-felony-counts-in-paternity-fraud-scheme-against-clayton-echard-n4939551#google_vignette
  • 🎪 life in the Panopticon 👀May 10, 2025
    … The strange part was it was a family court video. Several years ago I was doing weekly family court updates with all the most egregious family court horror stories going on across the country. The only one I could think of where I might have mentioned vaccines was the case of Rachel Bruno whose sons were taken from her after she was falsely accused of child abuse. Bruno's older son, a toddler, was forcefully given twelve vaccinations at once by “child protective services” without consulting his pediatrician or getting parental consent.

    This is the only topic I could think of that may have related to vaccines or what YouTube deems “misleading medical information.” After the appeal was denied, I was offered the opportunity to take a reeducation class through YouTube in order to have the warning removed from my channel. A “warning” means the next time YouTube decides you've broken their newspeak regulations you get a “strike.” Three strikes and your channel is deleted. …

    https://pjmedia.com/megan-fox/2023/11/08/youtube-sent-me-to-reeducation-camp-and-all-i-didnt-even-get-a-lousy-teeshirt-n4923723
  • Wake up, people.May 10, 2025
    Does this show that a government apparatus is still working behind the scenes to protect powerful people involved in the scandal?

    How many elected and unelected officials in each state’s government apparatus are protected, powerful people who should be barred from governing?
    • Speaking of barred …May 11, 2025
      Under Barr's advice, President George H. W. Bush in1992 pardoned six officials involved in the Iran–Contra affair.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr
    • Speaking of barred …May 11, 2025
      On July 8, 2019, Barr announced his recusal from the Justice Department's review of the 2008 federal prosecution of American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On August 10, 2019, Epstein was found unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). Barr later announced that Justice Department officials were investigating “serious irregularities” at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr#External_links
      • AnonymousMay 13, 2025
        … The suit resulted in several Justice Department internal reviews, two Congressional investigations, the appointment of a special counsel by Attorney General William P. Barr, and a lengthy review of the special counsel's report …

        … Maxwell is alleged to have distributed a bugged version of a software, PROMIS, to a plethora of national governments and global financial institutions that enabled mass spying by the government of Israel. …

        … Maxwell was allegedly able to sell the bugged Israeli version of the PROMIS software to Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, two of the most important nuclear research and national security facilities in the United States. Maxwell allegedly employed John Tower, Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, to facilitate the sales of the bugged Israeli version of the PROMIS software to Sandia and Los Alamos. …

        A few years later, how time flies …

        “Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him ‘Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy’ . Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word ‘Lethargic’ from my statement. Thank you Bill.”
    • AnonymousMay 17, 2025
      Trump’s present for another four years, so give me a F’ing break!

      Where’da Deepstate at?!?

      “Where the white women at?”

      -Chris Rock
  • Investigative journalists on lists in Connecticut?May 11, 2025
    In this episode, I’m joined by investigative journalist John Flynn (@flynn2022 on X) and CourtroomWatch.com founder Eric Hughes Jones to bring awareness to the state of Connecticut’s attacks on Flynn, including holding him against his will and forcing him to take dangerous pharmaceuticals in a 60 day mental evaluation that could cost him everything if people don’t stand up on his behalf.

    Flynn believes that US Senators Murphy and Blumenthal are behind that attack on him because he was exposing their corruption.

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/2NbJw8BI6q6mO2NzeZCQBq?si=KTpQ0cuHQpOLKb2XCGmHtw
    • AnonymousMay 20, 2025
      “When the application for habeas corpus filed by a would be ‘next friend’ does not set forth an adequate reason or explanation of the necessity for resort to the ‘next friend’ device, the court is without jurisdiction to consider the petition.” Pritchard, 2024 WL 3595923, at *2 (internal quotation marks omitted). The petition for writ of habeas corpus is therefore dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. This Court will consider the identical habeas petition filed by Flynn himself in Flynn v. Whiting Forensic Hospital, No. 25-cv-636-SFR (D. Conn. filed Apr. 22, 2025).

      To the extent Petitioner seeks to pursue a habeas petition as Flynn’s “next friend” instead of Flynn pursuing the petition himself, Petitioner may file an amended petition by June 6, 2025. Any amended petition filed by Petitioner must explain how they meet the requirements to proceed as Flynn’s “next friend” under the legal standard set forth in this Order.

      SO ORDERED.

      Bridgeport, Connecticut

      May 16, 2025

      https://ecf.ctd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0637-6
  • Someone somewhere should notice:May 14, 2025
    Connecticut state government just jailed another investigative journalist who investigated and reported corruption in Connecticut’s state government for the past several years.

    Who chose John Flynn’s court appointed attorney?

    Dennis Bradley worked for Jim Himes’ political campaign.

    Mr. Himes tells us on his website:

    As Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), I conduct oversight of the 18 separate federal agencies that make up the U.S. Intelligence Community, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA). Since joining the committee in February 2013, I have worked to ensure the federal government strikes the right balance between respecting the privacy of American citizens and protecting our nation from acts of terrorism.

    Does Mr. Himes know the most important details about January 6, 2021?

    Following January 6th, Mr. Himes held a town hall via telephone, saying the word “insurrection” about 50 times during that call to his constituents. He then joked about citizens who walked into the capitol building that day, calling them “tourists”.

    As Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Mr. Himes should know by now who opened the doors to welcome those “tourists” in.

    https://www.newsweek.com/was-us-capitol-unlocked-code-jan-6-what-we-do-know-what-we-dont-1716136
  • Reality CheckerMay 22, 2025
    Mr. Volpe, can you provide any update on how Richard Luthmann is dealing with this prison rape trauma?

    Is he healing?

    Sending thoughts and prayers
    • Breadcrumbs?... 🧐May 24, 2025
      such random comments about a totally different writer kind of read like a passive aggressive threat. Was that your intent “reality checker”?
  • .“custody battles” on Memorial Day …May 26, 2025
    A few glued to internet screens to witness the Hales Drama-Rama might find it more productive to find out whether or not Connecticut’s jailing of independent journalists and disciplinary actions against lawyers made the phrase “a cautionary tale” too provocative in the introduction of a book about a family court case from years ago.

    One Stamford Advocate search engine result for Rich Cohen’s new book:

    New book about Jennifer Dulos 'a cautionary tale,' author says 🤔

    May 15, 2025 New York Times best-selling author Rich Cohen penned “Murder in the Doll House: The Jennifer Dulos Story” after covering her death and disappearance. …

    Does someone somewhere think “a cautionary tale” might lead too many to wonder about Connecticut’s handling of the Dulos case?

    Does the author of Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story even question Connecticut family court’s management of the Dulos case in his new book?

    Considering his dad’s many years of great work in negotiating all kinds of disputes, each time Rich noticed something off, he should have taken notes.

    [A]s the son of the man who has been

    0:25

    called the world's greatest negotiator … who advised presidents,

    0:30

    corporations, arms negotiators and even

    0:34

    advised President Carter on the release of American hostages from Iran …

    … did Rich ask Norm Pattis about the 40-year gag order that lets Mr. Pattis and his partners off the hook?

    Does Dr. Herman contribute anything about warning signs Dr. Herman might have missed?

    Is there anything in the Dollhouse book about the negotiation skills Mr. Meehan practiced when trying to convince Jennifer to live with her children, Fotis and Michelle … in the same house?

    If Mr. Meehan made that suggestion to Jennifer, did Mr. Meehan make that suggestion to make Jennifer angry?

    More anger can add more billable hours in “family courts”. Sometimes it leads to fatalities, as it did in the Dulos case.

    Will someone glued to the Hales Drama-Rama please ask Rich Cohen to write another book about how Connecticut’s judicial branch can help families negotiate without so many fatalities? “Family courts” all over the Western world are corrupt on purpose for profit and a book offering hope for families in family courts around the world would be an international best seller.
    • Michael VolpeMay 26, 2025
      All stories are important. It's important that a Youtuber uses frivolous lawsuits for content. It's important that an ethical journalist became unethical due to his influence.
  • Anything about RICO in “family courts”?May 30, 2025
    From The National Pulse:

    “There was a room, and we found a lot of stuff,” Bongino said. “We found stuff in there, and a lot of it’s from the Comey era.” The evidence, some of which was described as being “in bags hiding under James Comey,” spans multiple investigations, though Bongino did not specify which.

    The revelation comes amid heightened scrutiny of Comey, who has been accused of mishandling investigations and was recently investigated by the Secret Service for an Instagram post interpreted as a threat against Trump.

    Bongino emphasized the FBI’s efforts to declassify the findings, acknowledging public frustration with the pace. “We are working our damnedest right now to declassify. I totally understand people saying, ‘Well, do it now.’ The process is, not all the information is ours to declassify,” he said, explaining that some of it belongs to other agencies. However, he stressed that, “Once that [process] gets done and [the information] gets out there… You’re going to be stunned.”

    Comey’s tenure as FBI director from 2013 to 2017 was marred by controversy, including his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and his role in facilitating the discredited Russiagate probe, which consumed much of Trump’s first term. Recently, Comey faced backlash for an Instagram post showing “86 47” spelled out in seashells, interpreted as a call to “86” or “kill” Trump, the 47th president.
  • AnonymousJune 3, 2025
    Is the conversation between Megan, Jeremy and George published October 20, 2024 an honest representation of how and why she started boosting the Hales’ narrative? Was she under contract? Hoping to gain a few Hales’ subscribers? … that might’ve been okay if it weren’t for the insults thrown at the already vulnerable.

    https://www.facebook.com/100063501313293/videos/906789874228403/?__so__=watchlist&__rv__=video_home_www_playlist_video_list
  • ???June 22, 2025
    … 3:37

    bubbles – – bubbles has lost his mind and he's dragging all these other people in there they They're losing their mind just as much i I I'm thinking there's something in the water in Connecticut that is just making these people just absolutely batshit [ __ ] crazy oh my oh my …

    … 57:28

    okay megan the Fox that lovely woman with the lovely house she stated she spoke to Florida Bar who substantiated her claims that the plaintiff evaded this bomb by retiring license yeah she sent out an email she got an email back she showed what the email said and then she showed what the rule was that was referenced in that dumb ass during this live stream monetary donations are given monetary they sent money to her money to the Megan the fox to the tug they receive compensation for their time how dare they those evil peoples doesn't make it money how dare they make some money mocking me and my lips …

    … 1:01:32

    thank you deborah just just gave a beautiful $20 in cash up thank you Deborah you are awesome i wanted to give you a little bit something squeeze my heart oh shame on me thank you so much Deborah i appreciate it and of course we've got the ANC which just gifted a membership …
  • AnonymousAugust 26, 2026
    I watch all this and I can say What The Hales is no angel and is wrong on a lot of things. But……. No one is protecting a child living in filth with crazy people who only see her as a pay check. Why are they both on disability for over 10 years? That poor little girl listening to her screaming and more.

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