The Luke Wenke Files

…where internet yelling meets the public record

An example of how I was treated during our friendship.

LETTER: Luke Wenke Defends Woman Beaters & Pedophiles

LETTER: Luke Wenke Defends Woman Beaters & Pedophiles

Luke Wenke mailed this letter to the Honorable John L. Sinatra, Jr. in June of 2024 while detained at the Orleans County Jail in Albion, New York.

Luke Wenke Advocates For Pedophiles & Woman Beaters

In the following letter, Luke Wenke takes a sympathetic tone toward fellow detainee Richard Greer, who’s now serving a six-and-a-half-year federal prison sentence for possession of child sex abuse material or CSAM (aka child pornography) featuring prepubescent victims. Wenke suggests that the prosecution’s case against Greer fell short of proving his guilt, even though he pleaded guilty to his crime.

Luke Wenke also touches on another person of fascination, whose name has appeared in many of his letters: 33-year-old Waleed Abughanem. In a case that dominated news headlines throughout the Western New York region, Waleed; his father, 52-year-old Khaled Abughanem, and Waleed’s brother, 28-year-old Adham Abughanem were accused of beating a female family member, making her to quit college, threatening her life, and kidnapping her to Yemen for the purpose of forcing her into an unwanted arranged marriage. The victim spent roughly 16 months being held against her will in Yemen before escaping to the United States.

In the letter below, Luke Wenke accuses the court of wrongfully detaining Waleed Abughanem. Three months after this letter was written, however, Waleed pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony for lying to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents regarding the victim’s whereabouts during her time in captivity. He received the maximum sentence of three years in federal prison.

In December of 2024, a federal jury convicted Khaled and Adham Abughanem of kidnapping conspiracy charges. Both men appear to be awaiting sentencing for the charge, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

In the letter below, Luke Wenke also mentions giving letter-writing materials from his commissary supply to fellow detainee Michael Regan of Williamsville, New York, who’s now serving federal prison time for soliciting CSAM from a 14-year-old female victim.

USA v. Luke Wenke – Letter
June 24th, 2024

CASE #1:22-cr-00035, DOC. #135

Katie Mentions: 3

To read a “transcribed” version of the letter, scroll past the PDF viewer. 🙂

USA v. Luke Wenke – Letter – Doc. #135

Luke Wenke #135 – Page 1:

“No letter should be legally considered directly from an incarcerated individual unless the letter is notarized due to the fact that I recently gave Michael Regan an extra stamp and envelope that’s liable to have my fingerprints on it. I don’t know who he plans on sending it to. That being said, whether or not this subsequent statement from me invalidates my guilty convictions made by any courtroom concerning written letters sent from an incarcerated individual is up to the judge(s) in question of the courtroom(s) with guilty convictions on the table revolving around unnotarized letters sent from an incarcerated setting. Kenny Webster was an employed corrections officer at Cattaraugus County Jail as of October 2023. He and I both went to Salamanca High School and learned handwriting from the same teachers.

“I do not lie in court nor do I make false accusations. I am not a threat to society or a public safety threat. I have not seen the guy from Massachusetts since May 2nd and he told me I would see him again at the end of May. I didn’t. He asked me if I masturbate to the thought of Benjamin [Ryan] and/or Katie [last name] while in an incarcerated state of being. I don’t know what he wrote down as my response on his laptop. I do remember telling him that I am absolutely the author behind the Urban Dictionary definition of “Flex Off”.

“I am very happy for our nation’s excellent sense of checks and balances regarding the fact that courts and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons operate separately.

“Waleed Abughanem is here at Orleans County Jail telling everybody ever since his case was picked up from the lower courts by the feds into Vilardo’s courtroom, his case is at a standstill because Vilardo is holding him here past his 18 months no probation locked plea deal’s release date. Waleed Abughanem is offering extra food from the kitchen in exchange for the address and phone number on http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-conduct-disability so he can file a complaint to the higher ups about Vilardo who he says is his judge as of 2024. Also Waleed complains that a lawyer…”

Luke Wenke #135 – Page 2:

“…named Jay Ovsiovitch out of Rochester does not answer phone calls. I think that Waleed’s complaints against Vilardo are worth taking seriously since I know for a fact that Richard Greer has a case in Vilardo’s courtroom and we still can’t prove if it was even Richard Greer using his laptop to make international transactions.

“I am above all forms of retaliation against anybody who may be attempting any form of funny business in terms of this case. I am very happy to hear that ever since a criminal contempt inmate out of Sanford Church’s courtroom named Brian had a recorded phone conversation with a redheaded employee who works for an attorney who unusually seems to be aware of who I am and that I am in the type of room I am in (for no reason on paper, might I add), he has established attorney-client privilege phone calls with that same woman who Brian says will be helping him appeal his recent sentence. Brian said this redheaded woman will be visiting him here at Orleans County Jail and that she is currently in a romantic relationship with every last officer here who is a notary.

“This court needs to start asking if Officer Ashbury/Ashberry’s last name is spelled the first way or the second way because after I questioned him asking if it was him who spoke to Katie [last name] on the phone from this jail April 2024 and if it was him helping an inmate named [enemy inmate] get Suboxone into the jail (he has since been caught), Officer Ashbury/Ashberry squinted at me and absolutely said he called the county sheriff on me (for no legitimate reason, might I add) and he tried writing me up for a non-existent jail handbook rule. Feel free to subpoena him and ask him.

“This jail has yet to find out who sent a letter to a non-existent inmate named “B. Tallywack” claiming Katie [last name] was coming here to bail out Benjamin [Ryan]. The 32 year old inmate who is a porter here claims Benjamin [Ryan] astral projects to him every night demanding to know what I am saying about him. These claims are true, subpoena and ask them. I am not mentally ill for saying so. Thank you for reading, -Luke Wenke”