Luke Wenke mailed this letter to the Honorable John L. Sinatra, Jr. from the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown, Ohio in August of 2024.
USA v. Luke Wenke – Letter
August 27th, 2024
CASE #1:22-cr-00035, DOCKET ENTRY #148
Katie Mentions: 1
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USA v. Wenke (1:22-cr-00035) – Document 148 – LetterLuke Wenke #148 – Page 1
“I am starting with a letter to the court so I can do the right things to get this wrapped up the right way.
“It is impossible to place blame on any one person or agency for my arrival here. You dont place people at CCA unsentenced and get away with it. It’s a Republican jail. It’s a legal default zone. This place changed my heart’s pace probably for the better.
“It’s a private jail though. Does Google own it? You don’t know what Miss Tate the officer here tells us when we walk in. John Sinatra wants credibility. Challenge this place, they can afford to challenge your court on their own dollar. Do it John Sinatra, who owns this place? Google? I am very competent and I remember the conversation at Orleans County Jail with my mother about Google’s monopoly concerns. Is this place putting lies on its employees’ pay stubs about who owns CCA? Your court doesn’t know. Private jails make people talk, so get ambitious with these Google claims. Miss Tate is an officer’s name here. Put it on her. I remember her. Older black woman.
“It’s a legal default zone. Time to waive things. I know what was said in court July 30th. I do not have the heart to verbally hurt anyone even in writing. One day in CCA changed my heart over. I’m not even going to allow shit talking about anyone. You don’t know what someone is going through. I have an aggressive cellmate and it is teaching me new things my first day…”
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“…back at this place. One day here makes me say the words human heart. I don’t know why I never talked like that much.
“You can’t tell this place what to do with me but you can challenge its ownership. We don’t want a monopoly affecting a place like this. Google lying about what it’s own private jail residents did to get here is bad. We want John Sinatra and Frank Passafiume on Neil Cavuto together. They challenge this place in court. They will challenge back. Competition improves the quality of the product. My heart switched from Call me into court and I have a different tone than July 30th. I don’t want Fonda nervous about me. I can’t stand one more heartbreaking word from my mouth or writings about Katie, the [Ryan’s family], or the [Victim 1’s family]. Maybe I don’t like to lie but I think I’ve worded the truth too hard. I can change my wording so they are less mocking. Why should people across state lines want me around just because I have the means to get there? The Confederate Flag is a thing. The internet desensitized our hearts. All I ever did was not pay more sensitive attention to who is behind the electronic devices and how they feel for too long.
“The court and officers’ hearts matter too. Quite a bureaucratic cooperation to get me here unsentenced. Government employees’ hearts matter too. Challenging CCA’s partnership breaks no hearts. This legal default zone’s quality matters because it altered my mind on day one. -Luke Wenke”