FOOL’S GOLD RELEASES ON MARCH 11, 2025

Award-winning journalist Susan Crabtree has teamed up with Jedd McFatter and the investigative team behind the runaway New York Times bestsellers Blood Money, Red Handed, Profiles in Corruption, and Clinton Cash. They are proud to present: FOOL S GOLD: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All

By Susan Crabtree & Jedd McFatter

“Susan and Jedd are world-class investigative journalists. Their blockbuster new investigation, FOOL’S GOLD, exposes the hidden cronyism and corruption fueling California’s infamous mismanagement and progressive failures. This book is a masterclass in investigative reporting that every American must read.”

~Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Everyone knows that California is a radical dystopian hellscape plagued by skyrocketing
crime, homelessness, and surging drug addictions and deaths. What most people don’t know
are the hidden Progressive schemes, political self-enrichment con jobs, and secret backroom
dealings between leftist leaders, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), international crime
syndicates, and deadly fentanyl drug kingpins. That is, until now…

Fool’s Gold exposes the shocking truth behind California’s fall from grace—and how Progressives want to take the Left Coast’s failed social experiment and impose it on the rest of the nation. Behind California’s glittering façade are decades of corruption and decline driven by the Progressives’ leading lights—Gavin Newsom, Adam Schiff, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi.

Inside this pathbreaking new book, you will discover:

• Governor Gavin Newsom’s California wildfire cash windfall (pgs. 157-172)
• Senator Adam Schiff’s close ties to the Armenian mafia (pgs. 143-154)
• How Newsom secretly erected a monument to himself inside city hall with taxexempt
  funds (pgs. 34-36)
• Foreign criminal gangsters bankrolling California Progressives (pgs. 137-154)
• Gavin Newsom’s 70,000-prisoner jailbreak and COVID cover-up (pgs. 13-15)

With razor-sharp investigative insight, award-winning journalist Susan Crabtree and one of
Peter Schweizer’s top investigators, Jedd McFatter, reveal the network of California elites
who have cratered the Golden State—and their designs to bring California’s corruption and
dysfunction to the rest of the nation.

This stunning new exposé reveals how California’s political class cashed in on the state’s
downfall and unearths the shady Progressive deals, secret schemes, and criminal connections
that California elites hoped would remain buried. Other shocking revelations include:

• How and why California elites flung open the Golden Gates to Chinese Communists,
  mobsters, and intellectual property thieves (pgs. 118-116)
• Kamala Harris’s pedophilia & prostitution prosecution failures (pgs. 105-106)
• Newsom’s “ChinaSF” joint-venture with CCP cronies exposed (pgs. 57-76)
• Sen. Adam Schiff raised cash for mobster-backed organization (pgs. 148-151)
• The CCP’s California land grab and how Newsom facilitated it (pgs. 119-121)
• As Lieutenant Governor Newsom trademarked his wines in China and poured them
  for CCP elites at a lavish Shanghai wine tasting (pgs. 78-79)
• Newsom’s college baseball scholarship swindle exposed (pgs. 42-45)

The book arrives at a crucial time as California grapples with rising crime rates, economic
downturns, and increasing foreign influence in its industries. Fool’s Gold provides a
meticulously documented account of how the state’s leadership has been compromised by
political favoritism and unchecked power.

Fool’s Gold is available for pre-order now and will be released on March 11th, 2025. For
review copies and all media inquiries please contact Grant Holcomb or Katie Robison.