In one of dozens of contempo media appearances, Ohio advocate Thomas Renz was claiming that coronavirus vaccines were added adverse than the virus itself. “The bodies that are dying are vaccinated,” he said on a bourgeois online allocution appearance in July.
As Renz spoke, a bulletin flashed above the awning with his website address. “Donate to his cause,” it urged.
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Renz, who became a accountant advocate abandoned months afore the communicable began, has rapidly acquired bulge amid covid-19 skeptics for arch federal lawsuits in six states that claiming shutdowns, affectation mandates and the assurance of vaccines while alleging that the crisis of the virus has been overblown.
Anti-vaccine groups, cabal approach enthusiasts and far-right media accept accustomed him, and his best-known client, the accumulation America’s Frontline Doctors, calls him allotment of a “Legal Eagle Dream Team.”
It is a awful arresting role for Renz, 44, who anesthetized the Ohio bar assay in November 2019 on his fifth attack and has bound activity experience, according to a Washington Post assay of his career.
Before acceptable a lawyer, he formed an arrangement of jobs, including at a nonprofit that told The Washington Post it assured him and at a rural acclaim union. Two changeable advisers at the acclaim abutment accused him of again authoritative sexually evocative comments at assignment and one declared he affected her breast in 2014, according to belletrist the women wrote to the acclaim union’s arch controlling that were acquired by The Post.
Renz said in a abrupt annual at a contempo speaking accident abreast St. Louis that the ahead unreported allegations from the acclaim abutment advisers were “flatly untrue” but beneath to altercate them in detail, citation nondisclosure agreements.
Renz’s quick accessible ascendance illustrates how advertisement misinformation about the communicable can be an able fundraising apparatus and advance to acclaim aural the allocation of the country that charcoal apprehensive of coronavirus vaccines, admitting their accustomed accepting by the medical and accurate communities. The acknowledged challenges are agnate to the attorneys altercation that followed the presidential election, aback groups acknowledging above admiral Donald Trump aloft money and fabricated annual by filing lawsuits – or able to book them – based on arguable claims of boundless acclamation fraud.
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In contempo months, Renz anchored his own online allocution appearance and has abutting assembly of Trump such as above civic aegis adviser and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and adept political accessible Roger Stone on a civic speaking bout blue-blooded “ReAwaken America.” He has fabricated added than 100 appearances on bourgeois media outlets over the accomplished year, a Post analysis found, including on One America News, Newsmax and Infowars.
Renz additionally launched a nonprofit accumulation declared For God Ancestors Country that is accession donations for the “medical abandon fight,” according to the website of Renz’s law firm. Renz accessory Pamela Popper, the baton of an activist accumulation declared Accomplish Americans Chargeless Again, has said she aims to accession $100 actor to abutment his lawsuits.
Renz wrote in an email to The Post that his law close had been paid “around $250,000” so far for coronavirus litigation, which he said active best of his time over the accomplished year. “I am absolutely not authoritative abundant off of this,” he added.
In acknowledgment to an annual appeal for this story, Renz initially proposed a arrangement with The Post that would set altitude for the story’s agreeable and bind whom reporters could contact. Additionally beneath Renz’s proposal, all requests for admonition were to be submitted to him in writing. The Post does not access into such agreements.
A anchorman afterwards approached Renz at the accident in Hazelwood, Mo., about 18 afar northwest of St. Louis, area he answered several questions and asked to accept others beatific to him by email. He afterwards emailed responses to some of the added questions.
Renz told The Post he commendations himself as a “reluctant leader” in a all-around movement to stop coronavirus vaccines. Many in that movement accept latched assimilate a affirmation Renz aboriginal fabricated in July that, according to a declared bigmouth he has not about identified, coronavirus vaccines acquired the deaths of 45,000 people. Flynn has cited the affirmation in Telegram posts that accept been beheld hundreds of bags of times.
The accusation is at allowance with analytic trials and studies that accept begin the vaccines are safe and effective, and additionally with a contempo Centers for Disease Ascendancy and Prevention annual that a analysis of medical abstracts “has not accustomed a causal link” amid the vaccines and deaths.
In his accessible statements, Renz has gone far above the allegations in his lawsuits, claiming afterwards affirmation that government admiral and biologic companies are “murdering people” and accoutrement it up.
Renz dedicated that accent in his email to The Post. “If you apperceive there are safe and able treatments and actively assignment to awning them up to advance sales of an abstinent bang that is abandoned able to be categorized as a vaccine afterwards the analogue of the chat ‘vaccine’ is changed, again it is my claimed acceptance that what is accident is affiliated to murder,” he wrote.
All but two of the eight coronavirus-related federal lawsuits Renz has filed are in their aboriginal stages. The exceptions are a clothing adjoin a hospital arrangement in Michigan that was aloof on Sept. 10, canicule afterwards it was filed, and one adjoin Ohio admiral that was aloof in March afterwards a adjudicator said it was about “incomprehensible.”
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A built-in of the baby boondocks of Oak Harbor in arctic Ohio, Renz spent genitalia of his 20s alive at his family’s baby businesses: a six-lane bowling alleyway on a rural accompaniment artery and an electronics shop, according to bounded annual stories.
Jesse Riley, who played bluegrass shows at the bowling alleyway for several years, said Renz formed adamantine to accumulate the area going. “He would sometimes be flipping the burgers, cloudburst the beers and ambience up the pins,” said Riley.
By 30, Renz was unemployed and he and his wife were saddled with about $148,000 in claimed debts advance above banks, apprentice loans and car payments, according to an April 2007 defalcation filing.
A few months later, Renz addled out on a new path, starting law academy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Biographical admonition acquaint on his law firm’s website and the website LinkedIn cites career accomplishments. The Post begin that several traced to Renz’s time as a law student.
On his LinkedIn profile, for example, he cites his assignment “completing the final adapt of the balloon archetype for the ‘Chemical Ali’ case afterwards the Iraq war.” Ali Hassan Majeed, an abettor to Iraqi Admiral Saddam Hussein accustomed as “Chemical Ali,” was bedevilled of genocide by an Iraqi attorneys in 2007.
Michael Scharf, a law assistant at Case Western Reserve aback Renz abounding and now administrator of the school, said Renz and added acceptance helped “clean up the text” of translated Iraqi cloister abstracts the law academy had acquired and acquaint on a blog about the trial, a ability for acknowledged advisers belief the case. Renz did not acknowledge to a catechism about his assignment on the transcript.
After law school, Renz struggled to kick-start his acknowledged career. In July 2011, added than a year afterwards he got his law degree, he registered to booty the Ohio bar exam. It was the aboriginal of seven times he registered in eight years, according to admonition provided by the Supreme Cloister of Ohio. Renz bootless four times and withdrew or did not appearance up twice, annal show. Renz did not acknowledge to questions about the exam.
In the meantime, he went to assignment in his hometown as admiral of a baby acclaim union, Commodore Perry Federal Acclaim Union, starting in 2011, according to an commodity in a barter publication.
Two changeable advisers afterwards declared that he frequently arrive them into his appointment and fabricated comments of a animal attributes that larboard them uncomfortable. The Post does not about analyze victims of declared animal aggravation afterwards their consent.
“Tom has created a assignment ambiance that is unacceptable,” one of the women wrote to the acclaim union’s arch controlling in July 2015. The agent declared that the conduct had gotten added advancing over the antecedent year. She accustomed in a abrupt buzz annual with The Post that the letter was accurate but beneath to comment.
The agent wrote in her letter that on added than one occasion, Renz asked her to “forget to lock the door” to a clandestine allowance area she pumped breast milk so he could watch. He “often asks ‘are those things bigger today’ apropos to my breasts,” she wrote. In backward 2014, she alleged, Renz began massaging her close adjoin her wishes in his appointment and “slipped his duke bottomward the advanced of my high breast, and commented ‘oops.'”
A macho agent additionally wrote to the CEO, acknowledging that the changeable aide had contemporaneously told him about Renz’s declared comments and conduct, including the accusation of affecting her breast.
A additional woman wrote to the CEO alleging that Renz fabricated sexually evocative comments to her and joked about masturbation. “It makes it actual afflictive to be abandoned in his appointment discussing business,” she wrote. In a argument bulletin to The Post, the woman beneath to comment.
Renz’s administration at the acclaim abutment assured a ages afterwards the belletrist were anesthetized to the organization’s lath of directors, lath annual show.
“Tom all-embracing accustomed dismissal,” the Aug. 25, 2015, annual state, afterwards elaboration.
During the abrupt annual in Hazelwood, Renz said he would alarm himself as “a God and ancestors man.”
He additionally acknowledged the allegations from his above colleagues. “Obviously, I abjure that. It is flatly untrue,” Renz said.
Asked why he larboard the acclaim union, Renz said: “I did resign. I larboard for added reasons,” crumbling to accommodate details.
In a consecutive email, Renz said: “I artlessly am clumsy to animadversion on some of the questions you asked as I am accountable to NDAs,” or nondisclosure agreements.
The acclaim union’s CEO, Mike Barr, beneath to comment, as did the lath members.
After abrogation the acclaim union, Renz formed briefly at ACT for America, a Washington nonprofit that says it aims to bottle “America’s culture,” in allotment by endlessly a “radical Islamic cultural invasion,” according to its website. Renz’s LinkedIn contour does not name the accumulation but states that he was amenable for the “complete restructuring of the better grassroots civic aegis political alignment in the US,” alveolate ACT’s description of itself.
ACT’s arch operating officer, Greg Allen, told The Post in an email that Renz formed there for beneath than a year in 2016 and was terminated. Allen said Renz’s description of his assignment was inaccurate. Allen did not activity capacity or acknowledge to added questions.
Renz did not abode questions from The Post about his LinkedIn profile, his assignment at ACT or his departure.
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Renz anesthetized the Ohio bar assay in November 2019 and bound launched his own law practice, application a mailbox at a bounded UPS abundance as its acquaintance address.
A chase by The Post of bent and civilian cases in Ohio courts alike abandoned two in which Renz is listed as an attorney: arresting one man answerable in July 2020 with DUI and addition answerable in June with aggravated menacing. Many attorneys assignment on affairs not handled in court, and some cloister cases in Ohio, such as prosecutions of juveniles, are not public.
Asked about his activity acquaintance and his role arduous coronavirus vaccines, Renz said in an email: “I aboveboard ambition that the big firms would footfall up but they accept not so it is larboard to nobodies like me.”
In September 2020, Renz filed a federal accusation adjoin Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, R, gluttonous to about-face calm affectation mandates and added emergency measures. Renz declared in a annual absolution that the government acknowledgment to the communicable amounted to “the greatest artifice anytime perpetrated on the American public.”
Renz’s brother, one of eight plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in a cloister filing that the state’s lockdown prevented his ancestors from reopening its bowling alley.
The clothing was adjourned by anti-vaccine activists who formed a accumulation declared Ohio Stands Up!, according to the annual release. A fundraising attack by the accumulation to pay Renz’s acknowledged bills has calm added than $147,000 from about 2,000 people, according to its webpage. The accumulation said on Facebook in October that Renz was charging $300 per hour for his assignment – which it declared as a bargain amount – and apprenticed supporters to abide donating.
Attached to the Ohio accusation was an 18-page address on the communicable by Popper, an Ohio-based vaccine agnostic who was billed as an “expert.” The Accomplish Americans Chargeless Again baton has aback become an basic amount in Renz’s acknowledged and fundraising campaigns.
Popper, 64, additionally runs an addition bloom affairs in Worthington, Ohio. Her dispensary sells comestible articles and training programs priced at up to $5,435.
In a book about covid-19 appear in April, Popper claimed that the communicable was a hoax inflicted on the accessible by aristocratic “enemies of the people.”
“It was a planned and anxiously orchestrated accident . . . that accustomed some bad actors to accretion ascendancy over billions of people, and to shut bottomward the world’s economies,” Popper wrote.
Popper did not acknowledge to emails and buzz letters larboard at her appointment gluttonous an interview.
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Last year, Renz and Popper began about soliciting money through assorted entities to barrage lawsuits in added states. Renz has acclimated appearances on bourgeois media outlets to ask audiences for support. “Feel chargeless to accelerate us money, that’s consistently great,” he said in one July interview.
During an August appointment alarm the accumulation acquaint to its website, Popper told adolescent activists that she had aloft added than $250,000 for the acknowledged accomplishment and aimed to accession $100 actor to $200 million.
The accumulation MAFA is not congenital in Ohio or registered with the IRS as a nonprofit, and acknowledged accent on its website states that it is allotment of Popper’s bloom business. The armpit urges visitors to abutment MAFA by affairs articles or memberships from Popper’s program.
The Post begin that donations to MAFA from its website are directed to a PayPal annual in the name of PB Industries, a for-profit Ohio aggregation that Popper formed with her husband.
Renz and Popper additionally are associates of the aggregation abaft For God Ancestors Country (4GFC), the nonprofit that Renz formed in August 2018, according to the group’s website and Ohio accompaniment assimilation records.
Renz’s alignment promotes alms and Christianity, and its website encourages “treating others as you would appetite to be treated,” actuality “kind and respectful” and “being appropriate to bodies and allowance them.”
The armpit additionally is a donor destination, with the website of Renz’s law close administering bodies to 4GFC’s website and allurement for abutment to armamentarium activity in the “Medical Abandon Fight.”
Records filed to Ohio’s advocate accustomed appearance that 4GFC appear acquirement of aloof $730 in its aboriginal two years. It is not bright how abundant Renz’s accumulation may accept aloft in 2020 or 2021. The group’s nonprofit cachet was revoked by the IRS in May because it hadn’t filed banking paperwork to federal admiral for three years, IRS annal show.
Renz did not acknowledge to a catechism about how abundant 4GFC had aloft but said none of that money had yet been spent. “We intend to do as abundant acceptable with this as accessible but accept not yet acclimatized on how,” he said in his email.
Popper has told adolescent activists that she and Renz are alive to accounts a absolute acknowledged advance on coronavirus restrictions.
“That’s been our activity from the get-go, book added and added and added lawsuits – book them everywhere, book altered types of lawsuits,” Popper said during a contempo appointment call.
The activity got off to a aflutter start.
Renz withdrew his aboriginal federal accusation in March afterwards U.S. District Adjudicator James G. Carr of the arctic District of Ohio declared the clothing an about “incomprehensible” assortment of dubiously sourced actual and asked the plaintiffs why he should not abolish it.
“It’s artlessly not my job to try to anticipate from plaintiffs’ scattered, off-loaded assemblage of contentions and claims to anticipate what array of believable acknowledged architecture a able acknowledged artist ability erect,” Carr wrote.
Renz told The Post: “With all due account to Adjudicator Carr, we disagree with his assessment.”
Renz filed two added federal coronavirus accompanying lawsuits in Ohio, forth with agnate apparel in federal courts in New Mexico, Maine, Kentucky, Michigan and Alabama. Renz has teamed with in-state attorneys to sue a hospital arrangement and federal, accompaniment and bounded authorities on account of association over restrictions aimed at awkward the pandemic.
One of Renz’s co-counsels was filmed on the accomplish of the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Addition has declared the government’s communicable acknowledgment a cerebral operation aimed at abrasion attrition to tyranny, while a third said during aftermost year’s protests adjoin badge that rioters should be “mowed down” with apparatus guns. They all either beneath to animadversion or did not acknowledge to messages.
Across his lawsuits, Renz has declared that the government measures are unconstitutional. He argues that the coronavirus restrictions amounted, in some cases, to actionable imprisonment of the accessible and annexation of profits because of business closures. The apparel about abjure or ball bottomward the severity of the pandemic. In one case, Renz accepted a balloon afterwards any coronavirus precautions in case they would bent a jury.
Several cloister filings from Renz and his co-counsels accommodate accent that appears to answer or alike diction from added sources afterwards attribution, a Post analysis found.
Renz’s aboriginal two federal lawsuits independent accent that absolutely matches allotment of an annotated Constitution appear by the Congressional Research Service. Genitalia of his complaint in New Mexico were identical to a 2016 Yale Law Account commodity and a 2014 account commodity by a political scientist. And a 222-word access in Renz’s complaint in Maine matches about accurately a area of a September 2020 assessment by a federal adjudicator in Pennsylvania.
Asked about the passages, Renz said in his email: “We do our actual best to adduce aggregate appropriately but I do not accept a huge aggregation of attorneys and paralegals on this.”
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Renz frequently stresses his apprehensive roots while additionally all-embracing his newfound role in the all-embracing anti-vaccination movement.
He ahead beheld anti-vaccine activists as “nuts,” but he has appear to embrace their behavior over the accomplished year, he said during a contempo podcast interview.
“I’ve been animated to a position I apparently don’t deserve as a baton in this globally, and it’s because I’ve been accommodating to fight,” he told an accuser in August.
He has announced of the anesthetic battles as a attempt adjoin aphotic forces. “I’m a Christian, and I accept actual acerb in my faith. I accept this is a activity for acceptable and evil,” he said in addition podcast annual in August.
A blemish moment was his advertisement at a July bourgeois assemblage in Anaheim, Calif., that he had begin a bigmouth with affirmation that the coronavirus vaccine acquired at atomic 45,000 deaths.
Declining to about analyze the declared bigmouth out of abhorrence for her safety, Renz filed affidavits featuring her allegations in abutment of his lawsuits in Alabama and Michigan. A abrupt filed in the Michigan case declared her as a federal employee.
The witness, whose affirmation says she is a computer programmer, cited abstracts from a government database accustomed as the Vaccine Adverse Accident Reporting Arrangement (VAERS) of counterfeit letters of accessible bad reactions to vaccinations, and claimed afterwards presenting affirmation that the “true cardinal of vaccine-related deaths” was absolutely bristles times higher. The certificate does not explain the alignment abaft the calculation.
Anyone can abide a address to VAERS, which the CDC warns may accommodate errors. Health-care workers are appropriate to address deaths of bodies afterward vaccinations to the database alike aback it’s cryptic whether the vaccine was a cause, according to federal rules.
Recent studies accept apparent that the coronavirus vaccines are alive and rarely accept austere ancillary effects. A abstraction appear aftermost ages and led by advisers at Indiana University and the RAND Corporation begin coronavirus vaccines had prevented some 140,000 deaths by May of this year. A ample peer-reviewed abstraction appear aftermost ages of about 2 actor bodies in Israel assured that adverse ancillary furnishings from the Pfizer vaccine were attenuate and mild.
“I accept added letters from added whistleblowers that accept aggregate admonition but are afraid to accomplish it accessible apropos the crisis of the vaccines and camouflage occurring,” Renz told The Post.
Renz brought the Alabama clothing on account of America’s Frontline Doctors, a conservative-backed attack accumulation that has fought government efforts to accommodate the pandemic.
California-based physician Simone Gold and several added covid-skeptic doctors formed the accumulation aftermost year. In January, Gold was arrested and answerable by federal prosecutors with entering a belted building, agitated access and chaotic conduct afterwards she was photographed central the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots. She has pleaded not guilty. A agent for Gold’s accumulation said the accuse are “irrelevant” to the group’s lawsuit.
Renz has been paid by America’s Frontline Doctors “at a fair amount for nonprofit acknowledged advice,” a agent for the accumulation said in an email, abacus that they contacted him afterwards acquainted his beforehand assignment on accompanying to issues angry to the coronavirus response.
Despite boilerplate amusing networks accepting taken the 45,000-deaths accusation offline, clips of Renz speaking at Anaheim accept been beheld tens of bags of times on addition online video platforms.
In interviews, Renz declared leaders administration coronavirus regulations as “scumbags” and likened vaccine mandates to the absolutism of apartheid-era South Africa and Nazi Germany.
Even prosecuting top accessible bloom admiral would not be abundant to adjustment the accident they accept done, Renz claims.
“Let’s say there are crimes adjoin altruism cases, like Nuremberg, and we accomplish all the bodies pay and go to jail,” he told the cabal approach apostle Sean Turnbull on the podcast SGT Report. “Well, assumption what? That still isn’t activity to accompany aback your admired ones.”
He has promised his supporters added acknowledged action, declaring in one contempo annual that “the apparel are never activity to stop” and that he was lining up his abutting targets.
“As God is my witness,” he said in Anaheim, “hell will benumb over afore I angle bottomward on this.”
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