October 24, 2025
In October 2024, a sitting justice of the New Hampshire state Supreme Court, Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi, was indicted on seven criminal charges related to corruption and abuse of power.
According to prosecutors, Justice Marconi abused the immense power of her office to squash a separate criminal investigation that had been initiated against her husband (another high ranking state government official in New Hampshire).
Justice Marconi herself acknowledged that there was sufficient evidence to convict her of the crimes.
But instead, two weeks ago, she was able to orchestrate a sweet plea deal in which she plead no contest, i.e. no admission of guilt, to a single misdemeanor charge—criminal solicitation of misuse of position. All other charges, including the felony charges, were dropped. She served no jail time and paid a $1,200 fine.
It seems like a Supreme Court justice who is punished for criminal misuse of position… or realistically ANY crime… ought to lose his/her job.
Yet Justice Marconi went right back to work… as a New Hampshire State Supreme Court Justice… back on the bench, presiding over cases, as if none of it had happened.
Instead of being held to a higher standard as public officials should be, she was spared from the standards that she applies to everyone else.
She’s part of a growing list of public officials who seem to live by a different set of rules.
Earlier this year, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook was accused of mortgage fraud—lying on loan documents to secure personal financial gain.
For someone charged with safeguarding the integrity of the financial system, even the appearance of financial misconduct should have resulted in at least a temporary suspension pending further investigation. If you can’t be trusted to tell the truth on your own mortgage application, you shouldn’t be setting interest rates or supervising banks.
And then there’s Letitia James, whose conflict of interest was baked into her campaign platform. She ran for Attorney General of New York on a promise to go prosecute Donald Trump.
But now that she’s been indicted herself—for lying on mortgage documents to obtain better loan terms—suddenly it’s political. Or racist. Never mind the stack of paperwork bearing her signature.
But it got even worse the more we learned.
Why was James lying on those forms? To secure a hideout for a fugitive family member.
The property she swore under penalty of perjury she’d occupy as a second home?
Turns out it was being used by her grand-niece—who, at the time, had a criminal record and was wanted on outstanding charges.
So while the Attorney General of New York was busy lecturing the nation about how “nobody is above the law,” she was personally committing crimes to help her felon family member dodge it.
You can’t make this stuff up.
But this is a pattern in government.
Take Judge Hannah Dugan in Milwaukee, who earlier this year helped an illegal immigrant escape from ICE agents inside her courthouse.
According to a federal indictment, she misled federal officers and sent them on a wild goose chase to the chief judge’s office, then ushered the defendant out a back jury door with his attorney.
And by the way, the illegal immigrant wasn’t in court for illegally crossing the border. He beat his roommate, and then attacked his roommate’s girlfriend when she tried to break up the fight.
THAT is the man this judge helped escape from federal agents.
The list goes on.
James Comey lied to Congress about authorizing a leak that damaged a sitting president’s reputation—an inexcusable betrayal of public trust for the man who once led the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
Then there is Stacy Davis Gates, the head of the Chicago Teachers Union who opposed school choice, but sends her own kid to a private school!
She just got promoted to head of the Illinois Federation of Teachers.
Maybe there she can make all the state’s schools fail just as miserably as Chicago’s public schools are failing.
These are the people in charge of justice, finance, law enforcement, and education—and their conduct is the opposite of what their positions demand. It’s not just hypocrisy. It’s open contempt for the roles they’ve been trusted to fill.
America has a lot of problems— big problems. They’re still fixable. But before these major challenges can even be tackled, it seems like priority #1 is getting rid of the public sector officials who routinely abuse their positions.
To your freedom,
James Hickman
Co-Founder, Schiff Sovereign LLC
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