Luke Wenke mailed this letter to the Honorable Richard J. Arcara in early May of 2025 while detained at the Niagara County Jail in Lockport, New York. Judge Arcara is uninvolved in Luke Wenke’s case, but this is not the first time Wenke has written to a judge who does not oversee his legal matters. In its post-hearing memorandum urging the court to involuntarily hospitalise Wenke (Court Document #193), the prosecution mentions Wenke’s precise habit of doing this.
In this letter, Luke Wenke urges Judge Arcara to spare a fellow inmate from punishment for a federal probation violation. After dropping racial slurs and making extremely prejudiced remarks in previous letters and social media posts, he seems to suddenly see himself as a crusader for the underdog.
Also in this letter, Luke Wenke:
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Acts like he cares about a fellow inmate who “has a family to take care of” when he never gave a remote flying fuck about his victims who have families to take care of.
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Obsesses in a seemingly sympathetic fashion over Peter Gerace (which Wenke misspells as “Grazi”), the owner of Pharaoh’s Gentlemen’s Club in Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of bribery, drug conspiracy, sex trafficking, witness tampering charges, and more in December 2024. Gerace is currently awaiting sentencing and faces up to a lifetime behind bars.
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Tells Arcara that he’s heard rumours about the judge falling asleep in court and urges him to drink 5-Hour Energy in order to stay awake.
Luke Wenke – Letter #197
May 2nd, 2025
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USA v. Luke Wenke – Letter #197Luke Wenke #197 – Page 1
“You are the Senior District Judge as I have only recently learned. I am sending this to you with polite intentions as my court circumstances have (finally) reached the Appeals stage.
My mother’s mother was Carrollton NY Justice of the peace Carolyn Giardini. She died in 2020 at the Salamanca NY nursing home where [relative] is a CNA. So I come from a life where we have been face to face with judges under way more personal terms than we are in the condition I am currently in.
I am in Room P2-33 here at Niagara County Jail as I send this out to you. The person in P2-32 is a taller black man on a probation violation in your courtroom. I have listened to his story, and I would like you to consider the fact that probation jams people back into jail no matter what. To me a successful probation duration is doing not one day in jail. No, they pressure everyone on their roster to the point of a breakdown. P2-32 has a family to take care of. Bragging to me about all of the certificates from courses he’s completed getting all excited for you to review in court is what he did with me. I said ok good but I have a motion to Appeal in from the help of Frank Passafiume, so the Ronald H Jackson US District Courthouse is so yesterday to me in terms of this case. I understand P2-32’s original case involves fentanyl. You are a 91 year old federal judge. You would be interested in watching the movie series about John Adams. There is a part where he pleads to Judges in the Netherlands and the Judges scoff at John Adams as he asks for a ‘modest’ amount of money in the Revolution and they tell him ‘Mr. Adams the Netherlands was a Republic before America was an idea’. In the 21st century, you are fully aware of the more progressive civil rights reality in Amsterdam surrounding the vice industries. Fentanyl may have killed my brother’s brother in 2015, but a Salamanca High School Class of 2010 classmate of mine [name] died in 2021 of alcohol poisoning. Pope Francis liked the coca plant, Steve Jobs claimed coming up with the iPhone on LSD. You are a much ‘higher’ judge than the position my Catholic grandmother was, so I ask you to consider ‘in defense of the forbidden fruit’, Adam and Eve attained the ability to see and Jehovah made up for the transgression by giving them clothing. Donald Trump’s friend Joe Rogan is an advocate of DMT, which very much activates the largely calcified pineal gland of the brain. So rather than continuing to ramble, I ask you to just consider that P2-32 has a family to take care of, he has sound judgment on his family’s needs, and federal probation jams everyone back into jail no matter what as they are all a bunch of tax subsidized…”
Luke Wenke #197 – Page 2
“…bureaucrats disrespecting the lives of privately funded taxpayers. Perhaps in 1927 when probation was created it was a more liberating option/alternative to a criminal court sentence than what Americans like Charles Goodyear had with debtor’s prison, but on the eve of 2026 our 250th, probation is overreach and they cram all of your court calendars with nothing more than personal attacks on their assigned defendants as there is frankly a cultural stigma to existing as a criminal court defendant. I have given P2-32 US Appeals Judge Debra Ann Livingston’s information so he, a father, doesn’t have to feel submissive to his circumstances. In defense of all Judges at the Robert H Jackson US Courthouse, do consider the pursuit of the abolition of federal probation entirely and hold their hands one by one helping them find private sector security jobs so they can actually contribute to the tax base for once so none of your courtrooms are defunded by the presidential administration in the end.
It is said that you ‘won’t retire until you sentence people collectively who appear in your courtroom up to one million years’. Then I hear you are under investigation for sleeping during trials. First of all on your part I recommend 5 Hour Energy drink capsules from 7/11. Your circulatory system is not too old to handle 5 Hour Energy. Secondly, it is US Appeals Judge Debra Ann Livingston who has sent me legal mail here to Niagara County Jail as opposed to any of the other lower courts of the Robert H Jackson US Courthouse such as John Sinatra, who Frank Passafiume can confirm made a court motion concerning me the week Pope Francis died without me present. I cannot believe I live in a country where someone who did 48 years in prison in Oklahoma came out innocent last year and went on tv, and someone who did 20 years in prison for murder in Chicago came out innocent last year and is owed a wrongful incarceration check worth millions of dollars. You Richard Arcara are a Ronald Reagan appointee and it is his Republican predecessor Richard Nixon who created Sentencing Guidelines to prevent anybody from having to do a 1 million year sentence in a world that was created in 4004 BC. When we die according to the Bible, it is because we lost our righteousness and it is Jehovah who defends everyone’s righteousness. John Sinatra can’t even help his very close accomplice Peter Grazi, a former productive contributor to the tax base, get out of…”
Luke Wenke #197 – Page 3
“…his dehumanizing gag order. I absolutely got a corrections officer in trouble here at Niagara County Jail in trouble for helping P2-36 get cocaine into the facility. Can you imagine if Peter Grazi was suffering a humanitarian issue while in incarceration and wasn’t allowed to speak out about it? Last year I was absolutely getting Orleans County Judge Sanford Church investigated by the NY Commission on Judicial Conduct for conflicts of interest issues. Glad to see a year later I have the attention of authorities higher than John Sinatra aware of my elongated circumstances, and as I’ve said P2-32 has US Appeals Court Judge Debra Ann Livingston’s information. I now have a copy of what John Sinatra’s signature looks like and how easy it is for Debra Ann Livingston to be told he notarized his own resignation since he allowed the evidence exempt conviction of the Abughanem family in his courtroom.. Americans fight royalty since 1776, and I know of no noteworthy accomplishments from any Sinatra since Frank Sinatra 100 years ago. It is my great great grandfather Ergildo Martinelli, a former St. Bonaventure University music professor, who played organ for a Pope as his living grandson/my first cousin twice removed/Carl Paladino’s friend P— [last name] of the Haunted Hinsdale House can confirm.
Post-Capitol Riot, it is our former Congressman Tom Reed who resigned due to sexual misconduct allegations. At least the general public knew who he was. The general public has never heard of any of the Judges at the Robert H Jackson US Courthouse. None of you ever had an interview on Channels 2, 4, or 7 (WGRZ, WIVB, WKBW), and dare I say I feel more ‘716’ ‘Bills Mafia’ than all tax subsidized employees of the Robert H Jackson US Courthouse. The Bureau of Prisons guarantees the rights for inmates to speak to the media. Courtroom gag orders are a joke and I cannot stand the idea of John Sinatra doing nothing for Peter Grazi who everyone knows he knows. Tension is far too tough at the Robert H Jackson US Courthouse. The Appeals Courts are ready for me and I ask all Judges of Buffalo to start hosting Town Halls in rural Western New York counties before it’s too late and the Trump administration defunds a Buffalo courtroom.
I invite you into the prison story of former Italian President Alessandro Pertini who…”
Luke Wenke #197 – Page 4
“…absolutely met with Ronald Reagan. Alessandro Pertini’s second arrest had a death sentence attempt in the courtroom which failed completely in the end and he walked away friends with a Pope. All these things I hear about ‘Richard Arcara holds court hearings over video call from his Florida house and he wants a collective 1 million years out of everyone’ appears to be similar to the story of Alessandro Pertini’s transgressions.
I do not want to see a 91 year old like you fall victim to ageist prejudice as I have stated the odds are against the entire Robert H Jackson US Courthouse in the present. But I am at a point with our present world climate that I no longer want to hear 100 year old American WWII veterans acting like history’s greatest liberators as it was Russia who helped them win in the end. American joined forces with Russia in 1945 to put the DMZ up in Korea, and today it is Russia siding with the Kim family who are nothing more than a [illegible] of Judah story of the modern era having done more than enough time isolated from the world. I was born a US citizen and this has been a degrading yet educational 3+ years, so I am more than happy to push the envelope on causes beyond my own interests.
I have come to terms with how I got to where I am today. Nobody deserves to feel like their life is threatened. Oh but I too have a righteousness factor to my end of things. I invite you the 91 year old expert Judge to save yourself and push for the resignation of John Sinatra in a world where everyone has seen my handwriting published on the internet and now I move up to the Appeals Courts and we all have a copy of John Sinatra’s signature, might I recommend Marianne Mariano as his replacement as she has experience being face to face with defendants, as opposed to John Sinatra, and I see a desperate need for a feminist touch at the Robert H Jackson US Courthouse. John can prop up her court by opening up NY state’s gold plated top ranking private firm so he can learn the merits of criminal defense and better help people like Peter Grazi who he knows and help reclaim the Sinatra American has been name. The Kardashians were Old Testament Solomon lawyers who saved OJ Simpson. Consider abolishing probation first.
Luke Wenke
Former Cattaraugus County Libertarian Chairman”