The Luke Wenke Files

Because People Deserve to Know

New Document: Letter from Luke Wenke to the U.S. Appeals Court, 03/2025

Luke Wenke

Between early March and early April of 2025 — weeks before the judge overseeing his case ordered him to undergo inpatient mental health treatment — Luke Wenke inundated the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals with rambling letters filled with bizarre claims and false allegations in an apparent effort to prove his “innocence.” I find it particularly telling that he sent these letters before his case was even decided in the lower court.

In this letter, Luke Wenke:

  • Mis-addresses the letter to “U.S. Appeals Judge Katherine O’Hagan Wolfe.” O’Hagan Wolfe is the court clerk.

  • Claims that the district court judge (Sinatra) removed me from the court’s list of people Luke Wenke is banned from contacting because I dropped Wenke’s eyeglasses off at the Niagara County Jail shortly after Wenke’s arrest (and months before I ended our friendship) in 2022. (Page 1, Paragraph 1)

  • Two paragraphs later, claims that Sinatra removed me from the district court’s list of people Luke Wenke is banned from contacting because I “colluded” with the court to obtain his “psychological information.” (Page 1, Paragraph 3)

  • Claims that Sinatra removed me from the district court’s list of people Luke Wenke is banned from contacting because Luke Wenke’s signature was forged on the documents he signed in 2023 agreeing not to contact me. (Page 3, Paragraph 1)

  • Falsely claims that the court discredited one of the experts who psychoanalysed him, Dr. Corey Leidenfrost (Page 1, Paragraph 1). In reality, the court sided heavily with Dr. Leidenfrost’s findings regarding Wenke’s mental state.

  • Asserts his plans to consult with private attorney Gerald Walsh regarding various lawsuits he supposedly plans to pursue against numerous individuals.

  • Threatens to sue the court for voter suppression because he wasn’t allowed to vote in the 2024 Presidential election from jail. (Page 2, Paragraph 1)

  • Claims that I drove his junky car without “documented permission” (Page 2, Paragraph 1). I’m not worried about proving that I had permission to drive the stupid thing, because no one except Luke Wenke has accused me of unlawfully possessing or using his car. But there’s certainly evidence that I had permission, including text conversations between myself and Wenke’s mother, and Wenke’s previous letters to the court. There should also be recorded jail phone calls of conversations between Wenke and I about the car — which, if they were released, would arguably prove that he nagged me to take care of the car while he was incarcerated, not that he was doing me a charitable favour by allowing me to use it, like he’s claimed in the past.

  • Falsely accuses me of driving his car to Pennsylvania and “racking up traffic tickets” (Page 2, Paragraph 1). I didn’t get any traffic tickets while driving Luke Wenke’s car and I never drove the car to Pennsylvania. I accumulated a few toll fees, which went unpaid because I no longer had the car and couldn’t remember his licence plate number when I remembered that they were unpaid. I also frankly stopped giving a fuck about a few toll fees after needlessly paying his sky-high car insurance for three months because he refused to add me to his insurance plan as a driver, which would’ve drastically lowered the rate (since I haven’t totalled 9383524643634532 cars). If he had a leg to stand on, he’d quit his bitchin’ and make good on his endless threats to pursue frivolous legal action against me.

  • Implies that he’s been at the Niagara County Jail since his arrest by the FBI in January 2022, and that any records indicating his presence elsewhere are forged/false. During this time period, Luke Wenke spent several months in the free world and was detained at numerous facilities, including:

  • Seemingly defends an accused pedophile by claiming that the man’s computer and credit card were hacked (in another letter, he accuses me of framing the man for his disgusting alleged crimes).


Luke Wenke – Appeal Letter #1
March 17th, 2025

To read a typed version of this letter, scroll past the PDF viewer.

USA v. Luke Wenke – Appeal Letter #1

Luke Wenke Appeal Letter #1 – Page 1

“I am currently at Niagara County Jail as I write this to this Appeals Court. John L. Sinatra’s U.S. District Court recently removed Katie [last name] of [city] NY off the no contact list since she was at this jail physically in the flesh 3 years ago when these circumstances first started. The district court recently completely discredited a UB (University of Buffalo) psychologist named Dr. Leidenfrost who, a year ago, inaccurately described my psychological state of being. He is going to be sued for medical malpractice based on his testimony alone. I remain unsentenced far past the sentencing guidelines maximum due to the Dept. of Government Efficiency’s lack of awareness of my circumstances.

5000 corrections officers fired in NY state for being worthless government employees. Public defenders taking vacation after vacation as I remain very far past the sentencing guidelines maximum over a witness exempt and testimony exempt situation. Monday March 10th I look forward to speaking to private attorneys starting with Gerald Walsh of Buffalo. Lawsuits concerning my HIPPA rights being violated on a website called lukewenke.online and a Facebook page called The Luke Wenke Files created by Katie [last name] who the court colluded with to hand over my psychological information to, and that is why they took her off the no contact list which I never even signed Aug.-Sept. 2023 after my signature was forged. The district court continues to hold me year after year. Prosecutors continue to recuse themselves.

I live in a country where someone who did 48 years in prison in Oklahoma came out innocent last year and then he gets to go on tv over the matter. I live in a country where someone from Chicago who did 20 years in prison for murder then comes out innocent and now they are entitled to a wrongful conviction check…”

Luke Wenke Appeal Letter #1 – Page 2

“…of 7 digits. Phone conversations March 10th to be had concerning lawsuits suing over voter suppression in the 2024 elections as there is absolutely evidence of me asking for an absentee ballot months in advance. Conversations concerning lawsuits over how to handle my car (2019 Ford Fusion hybrid) which was repo’d after Katie [last name] frankly drove it without any documented permission from anybody in my vicinity, including in Pennsylvania where she racked up traffic tickets in my name while I sat right here at Niagara County Jail wa back in 2022.

Speaking of which, we understand it is illegal to pursue a lawsuit if the result of the lawsuit is vacating the conviction. Who is to say I’m even convicted? Niagara County Jail is a good high standards facility and they look down on those poor quality facilities out there such as the Cattaraugus County Jail, Orleans County Jail, Chautauqua County Jail, CCA in Youngstown OH, etc. Staff here at Niagara County Jail recognizes me for 3 years now. At this point it is perfectly possible that people are out there forging this well documented handwriting style writing letters to US Appeals Courts all over the Second Circuit trying to find a way out of this.

Former Cattaraugus County Libertarian Chairman Luke Wenke may very well have a bit too much information on U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra’s maternal half brother Peter Grazi the owner of Pharaoh’s strip club of Buffalo with a major drugs and sex trafficking case against him. The US Marshals may very well be sued and go the way of the recently fired 5000 NY state corrections officers if they are up in Buffalo being forced by John L. Sinatra Jr.’s court to forge paperwork lying about where Luke Wenke has been transferred these past 3 years. Lawsuits over the concern of inmates sitting in jail over emails and letters they never sent after…”

Luke Wenke Appeal Letter #1 – Page 3

“…their phones were hacked and handwriting forged, nobody present for the search and seizure of Luke Wenke’s home on 1/28/22, sitting in the same facility for 3 years while 7 other incarceration facilities out there are forging documentation claiming Luke Wenke was at their facility when he never stepped foot in any of those 7 other facilities these entire 3 years, his signature was forged on a no contact order from Katie [last name] and that is why John Sinatra’s court recently removed her from the no contact order, and this very lawsuit discussing the concern that Luke Wenke has not seen John Sinatra’s court at all since 2022 as he has been sitting at Niagara County Jail these entire 3 years unsentenced and unconvicted over an email he never sent; this is the lawsuit to be discussed on the phone 3/10/25. Everyone in John Sinatra’s court can confirm that Katie [last name] has been here to Niagara County Jail, but none of them can confirm what she is forcing Officer Gifford of this facility to do or say. Don’t ask Andrew or Krystie of the Buffalo FBI for any information nor the Olean police, because they all cooperated in a 1/27/22 phone call to lie to Luke Wenke to show up to the Olean Police and corner him to capture him over an email he never even sent. ‘Come help us with your neighbor’ they said to him over that 1/27/22 phone where they cooperated to lie. An excellent lawsuit to be pursued in a country where someone from Oklahoma did 48 years in prison, comes out innocent, and goes on tv over the matter.”

Luke Wenke Appeal Letter #1 – Page 4

“An excellent lawsuit to be pursued here in a country where someone who did 20 years in prison for murder in Chicago then comes out innocent and is now owed a wrongful incarceration check of 7 digits. An excellent lawsuit to be pursued here in a country where 5000 corrections officers were fired in NY state for being worthless government employees. Are district courts truly forging paperwork concerning what went on in their courtroom? Are the US Marshals being forced to lie about where inmates have been transferred? I’m sure US District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. doesn’t like whatever US District Judge Lawrence Vilardo is doing to his maternal half brother Peter Grazi. Word is Lawrence Vilardo’s defendant Richard Greer’s computer and credit card was hacked in a witness exempt testimony exempt search warrant exempt situation to get him where he is today.

How do we Appeal when district courts lie about our circumstances on paper? I know too much on Peter Grazi, so it’s possible speaking to me face to face over my situation might force me to lie for safety reasons.

Hopefully nobody is sending Appeals Courts anything with my forged handwriting from incarceration facilities I’ve never even been to. We need to repeal and replace interstate threats circumstances with public safety drones supervising people driving across the country and contacting any local police office if someone gets too close. I remember being told I was in the 6-12 month sentencing guideline for interstate threats after an elderly magistrate forged paperwork saying I was denied bail. I don’t know what these district courts are doing when nobody is watching. Niagara County Jail Staff has known me for 3 years now. That’s longer than 6-12 months. -Luke Wenke’s handwriting”