The following records were obtained through New York’s Freedom of Information Law. They pertain to Luke Wenke’s outgoing mail from three different detention facilities over a 14-month period starting in June of 2023, when Wenke was arrested on suspicion of violating federal supervised release. During that time, Luke Wenke sent more than 200 letters to various recipients, including at least one person he had been banned from contacting via a state-issued protective order and as a condition of his federal probation.
Included among the recipients are Kamala Harris, former U.S. President Joe Biden, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, various federal judges (including several who are uninvolved in Wenke’s case), Olean Mayor Bill Aiello, CCSE Federal Credit Union, and the host of the Life22 podcast and YouTube series, whose name is Kevin — just to name a few.
Despite sending more than 200 letters during his time at the three jails, Luke Wenke only received a handful in return, much of which appears to be legal mail and correspondence with an elderly family friend, along with at least one piece of mail that was labelled “RETURN TO SENDER.”
Luke Wenke Jail Mail Logs
Some of the information in the following documents was already redacted when I received the records. I redacted additional information to protect certain recipients’ privacy, by both request and based on my own judgment. If you’d like to examine the documents as I received them, want your name/info removed from the records featured on this website, or have any questions, please contact me through this website’s Facebook page.
Luke Wenke Mail Logs: Chautauqua County Jail
Luke Wenke sent the following letters while on federal remand at the Cattaraugus County Jail in Little Valley, New York on a probation violation charge between 06/20/2023 and 08/10/2023. I redacted certain information to protect the recipients’ privacy.
Luke Wenke Chautauqua County Jail Mail LogLuke Wenke Mail Logs: Cattaraugus County Jail
Luke Wenke sent the following letters while on federal remand at the Cattaraugus County Jail in Little Valley, New York for probation violation charges between 10/04/2023 and 12/08/2023. I redacted street addresses and certain information to protect the recipients’ privacy.
Luke Wenke Cattaraugus County Jail Mail LogLuke Wenke Mail Logs: Orleans County Jail
Luke Wenke sent the following letters while on federal remand at the Orleans County Jail in Albion, New York for probation violation charges between mid-December 2023 and mid=August 2024.
The handwritten log is out-of-order and difficult to read, so I put an organized and chronological list below the original record. Please note: the typed list is not a word-for-word transcription of the original, because I changed the order of the listings and redacted certain names to protect the recipients’ privacy.
Luke Wenke Orleans County Mail Log Orleans County Mail Log – Luke Wenke – Sheet1Categories: Luke Wenke, FOIA/FOIL Records, obsessions: letter writing obsession, Ryan/Benjamin obsession
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