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My name is Rebekah Brewis. I was sex trafficked by the CEO of a multimillion-dollar agricultural company backed by sovereign wealth capital from Abu Dhabi. I filed a federal lawsuit. I've been fighting alone for over a year. And this week, they escalated.
What this case is about:
Brewis v. Peterson Farms Fresh, LLC, Case No. 1:25-cv-03513, Northern District of Illinois. Over 70 docket entries — every one researched, drafted, formatted, and filed by me. No attorney. No firm. The case documents a RICO enterprise spanning sovereign wealth, connections to the Epstein capital spine through Apollo Global Management, and a defense attorney who was simultaneously handling a second federal trafficking case in the same agricultural corridor without disclosing it to me.
I was coerced into a $25,000 settlement while institutionalized in a residential mental health facility, unrepresented, and under supervised care. The real estate transfer tax on my trafficker's $3 million home sale exceeded the entire settlement amount. I am fighting to vacate it.
What happened this week:
Navy Federal Credit Union denied me a new account because of an old debt — then opened one anyway, pushed me to fund it, and seized $2,349 overnight. That money was sent to me by someone who believes in this case so I could finally get transportation, start working my new business, and keep filing. NFCU took it. The debt they seized against arose from the hotel where I was sexually assaulted by a retired federal agent in January 2026. I invoked trafficking victim protections on the phone. They denied them.
Separately, Varnum LLP — the 175-attorney firm representing my abuser — filed their third motion to seal the entire case from public view. The first time, the court denied them. The second time, I refused to help them. Now they're back — days after I started publishing my investigative series — and this time they're using my autism, ADHD, and PTSD as evidence of "mental instability" to argue my allegations aren't credible. The hearing is June 23.
Why I need support:
I am not in crisis. I have people who believe in me and I am grateful for every one of them. But fighting a federal RICO case pro se against institutional defendants with unlimited resources costs real money every single week — PACER fees, certified mail, secure communications, printing, fax transmissions, forensic research tools. Every dollar the other side spends comes from a corporate account. Every dollar I spend comes from somewhere I need it for something else.
I am also building a business. I need to work. I need transportation. And I need to keep publishing the FAFO Files investigative series — three parts published so far, sourced entirely to public records — because the more the public sees, the harder it is to make this case disappear.
What your support covers:
Litigation costs, filing fees, secure communications, transportation, research tools, and building the capacity to keep this fight going for the long haul. This is not a sprint. This is a case that needs to survive long enough to reach discovery.
If public donation isn't possible for you, reach out directly.
Checks or money orders: Rebekah Brewis, 680 N. Lake Shore Drive, Suite [phone redacted], Chicago, IL 60611.
Follow the investigation: https://aeroswiftlegal.substack.com
Everything I've published is sourced to public records. Everything I've filed is on PACER. This case is real and it is not going away.
— Rebekah