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This episode is different than anything you're going to see
on television. It's different than anything that you're going to
be able to read about because it's personal to me
and it could be very important to you. This morning,
I got the craziest email, the craziest from my buddy,
Jeffrey k Levine, lawyer, friend of mine since we were
in junior high school. He's the lawyer that came with
me when I was unconstitutionally remanded. For the past four years,
jeff and I have been working the Bureau prisoned via
a Foyer request a freedom of information. We've been pushing
and pushing. Finally, they sent late last night a dump
of like four hundred documents, and while I started going
through them, I got to the second document. And you're
not going to believe what this document says. I mean,
this is so crazy. I want to show you what
the real Federal Location Monitoring Program participation agreement looks like.
And it's important because you'll understand based upon the email.
What the hell was going on here? So this is
the Federal Location Monitoring Agreement and this is the real one,
And how do you know it's the real one? Next
to life you see at the top left there is
a Federal identification number on top of that. This document
has like sixteen or eighteen different paragraphs. Now, I want
to show you what the fake one looks like. As
many people like this is the counterfeit. How do you
know it's counterfeit? First and foremost, there's no federal ID
number attached to it. Notice there's nothing on the top
left corner. And here's the second page to that. This
one signed by Patrick McFarlane, who's the residential re entry
manager over at mcc Now, I want to show you
why this is important because in the fake document it
turns around and makes me agree. Here's the first paragraph.
No engagement of any kind with the media, including print, TV, film, books,
or any other form of media slash news. Prohibition from
all social media platforms, no posting on social media, and
a requirement that you communicate with friends and family to
exercise discretion in not posting on your behalf or posting
any information about you. The purpose is to avoid get
a load of shit glamorizing or bringing publicity to your
status as a sentenced inmates serving a custodial term in
the community. Now, this is just nuts. You want to
talk about a complete and total violation of someone's First
Amendment constitutional right. Alvin ca hellesteem federal judge twenty five
years turned around and ended up on a habeas petition
having me released after another sixteen days of solitary confinement,
bringing it up to fifty one days. But this is
where things got really weird. The email, the email that
I received says this, this is the document, all right,
first part, this is literally Reuter's two public affairs at
the Bureau of Prison questions regarding me, Michaelavananti and Paul
Manifford as well, and gentleman by the name of Emery.
You said earlier that Cohen didn't agree to electronic monitoring.
At what point did this occur? Our understanding is that
he was at the courthouse to review the terms of
agreement and he never even got a chance to object. Also,
the Bureau Prison policy of pre approved of media interviews
is not what BOP was asking Cohen to say sign.
He was asked to sign a document that says he
would have no engagement with the media, which is different
from saying he needs approval before engaging with the media. Finally,
the wording of the terms presented to Cohen explicitly says
there is to be no engagement of any kind, including
through books. The plain reading of this means he cannot
release a book as means of communicating. There is no
need to reach a legal conclusion here. Are you suggesting
that this requires him to get prior approval from Bureau
of Prison before publishing, because that is clearly not what
the terms say. Best. So and so but then says PS,
I have filed a foyer as you suggested, but I
would urge the BOP to consider releasing the information outside
of FOYA, or at the very least provide us with
a number of inmates who are asked to sign terms
similar to Cohen's terms, which go well beyond the usual
BOP policies on talking to the media. Now, again, this
is from somebody over at Reuter's, and I think I
know who it is. But this is the important part.
The preceding email from the Bureau of Prisons, and these
are the folks that I will be talking about in
about half a second, Hello to so and so. This
is the Reuter's journalist. Your characterization of what is occurring
prior restraint is a legal conclusion. While the applicable BOP
Policy Program Statement fifty three to fifty point twenty seven
to which you are citing authorizes inmates to write and
publish manuscripts, it does not speak to the issue which
you are raising, which is promotion of said manuscript via
the media. We decline to comment further as to this
aspect of your line of inquiry. Is very, very dangerous
here because who are the people from the Bureau of
Prison that are actually involved in this communication. It's Hugh Horowin.
Hugh Horowitz, just so you know, is the acting director
of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He's the acting director.
Then you have Emery Nelson, who is the public affairs
specialist for the Bureau of Prisons. So he's the guy
that's supposed to release the statements. But worse worse than that,
you had Sonia Thompson, the Assistant General Counsel for the BP.
Now here's where the question becomes problematic. When I filed
the Habeast petition, who's done via my attorney, Donia Perry.
You see here on television a lot. She filed this
habeas petition for my release, which Judge, again Alvin k Helstein,
saw right through this bullshit, turned around and saw that
this has never happened before. There are no other inmates.
This document doesn't exist, it's not part of the federal system,
it doesn't have a federal ID number. It's counterfeit. So
explain how is it that I was unconstitutionally remanded? And
when we filed the Habeast petition, government not just not
just the three individuals here, but also people that worked
at Otisville and other members of government lied on their
affidavits stating that this is common practice, that this is
the same document that was used by others. It went
on to talk about how I had refused, never refused.
I wasn't even given an opportunity. So imagine you go
there to review a document with your lawyer, my buddy Jeff,
and you don't get an opportunity to ask a single
question off of the counterfeit document. It gets worse because
then I filed in order to ensure that this never
ever ever happens again. And I'm not pointing a finger
at Donald Trump here, I want to be clear, this
is Bill Barr. This is Bill Barr. Does Donald know
about it? That's the one question if I ever had
an opportunity to sit with him, that I would want
to know the answer to were you involved in this?
Did you know that this was happening? Or did Bill
Barr try to do this on his own sort of
as a trophy, so to speak, and to give Donald
plausible deniability that he wasn't involved in the first and
only incarceration of an American citizen by his own country,
making me a political prisoner because I refused to waive
my First Amendment constitutional rights. But where it gets worse
when I brought when I brought the lawsuit against the
United States of America, Trump, Bill Barr, the dojbop, they
lied again. They lied again, and they said that this
is actually this is legitimate. The document's a legitimate and
they ended up defeating me on that case. So I
filed an appeal to the Second Circuit because it's important
that this never ever happens to anyone ever again. It's
why there's too many people running around right now, all
anxiety and freaking out over what's going to happen in
another forty six days when Trump ultimately takes office. I
filed the second circuit appeal and government lied again. They
lied again about the facts and the circumstances, as outlined
in the emails that I just read to you. I
then took it all the way to the Supreme Court
via a writ of Sir Shirari in order to say,
how is it possible? How is this not what Justice
Clarence Thomas was talking about of the most unusual circumstance.
You see, I'm not asking for anybody's sympathy here. I
already went through this hell. I want to ensure that
nothing like this ever happens again to anyone else, not
to you, not to journalists, not to folks in the media,
to no one, because this is the most disgraceful violation
of the United States Constitution of the first, the fourth,
and the eighth Amendment, and it cannot stand. And that's
why I will continuously bring this up. I am hoping
that there will be a Congressional investigation. I am hoping
that they bring that bloviated asshole Bill Barr before them
and force him either to testify, provide answers, not take
the fifth provide answers or be incarcerated. Trust me, Bill
Barr will speak. He'll tell the whole story on who
was involved. You had that acting director, the public affairs specialists,
and the Sistant General Counsel to the BOP all involved
with this. This came from higher up. This didn't come
from the blows like a Patrick mcfarran or an Enid
Phoebus or an Adam Pacoula, the lowest level folk that
were there with me at the time. Now, this came
from higher up, and it's important and we can't forget
it because we can never ever allow anything like this
to ever happen again. And as always, thanks for listening.
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