John,

This image below is the cover page of what is basically Carlos Vega’s official intent to sue me, our organization Real Justice — which has elected over 20 DAs across the country — and the campaign of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.

It’s garbage. Hot garbage. And it’s coming from a man that is so afraid of his own shadow that when you tell him about himself he panics and sues you because the truth about his evil record is so ugly that he can hardly stand to have it said out loud. I don’t know how this guy lives with himself. ⁣

This is what happens when a monster of a man, Carlos Vega, who worked in an incredibly corrupt division of a corrupt DA’s office for 35 years, without any accountability, without any media scrutiny, without anybody ever saying out loud how horrible he is, finally has somebody punch back for a change.

But Carlos has a glass jaw, and is hoping that the same system that protected him for 35 years will now protect him, but it doesn’t quite work like that — because you can’t win a lawsuit against someone for the ugly truths they’ve told about you. Please allow me to explain.

But first, I need you to RUSH a split $5 donation to Real Justice and Larry Krasner’s campaign right now. The election is just 12 DAYS AWAY. And it’s clear they’re ramping up the attacks against us to unprecedented levels. I need your help, John.

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Let me break this whole thing down for you.

Carlos Vega worked in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office for 35 years from 1982 — 2017. During those 35 years, which literally coincide with the explosion of mass incarceration in Philadelphia, and the country at large, his office wrongly charged and convicted more innocent Black men than possibly any other office IN THE NATION.

They worked with corrupt cops who planted evidence and forced false confessions. They worked with corrupt cops who routinely scooped innocent Black boys and men up off the streets and randomly pinned heinous crimes on them that they had nothing to do with. Those cops used fake informants, fake evidence, fake reports, and that office used it all — and then routinely hid evidence that they had that would have cleared and exonerated the people they framed together for crimes.

In the 3 short years Larry Krasner has been District Attorney of Philadelphia, he has already exonerated a staggering 19 people that his office framed and convicted for crimes they didn’t commit before Larry got there. Let me give you the scale of that work. In 3 years Larry has exonerated more people than not just any other DA’s office in the country, but more than the Innocence Project itself during that same time. Can you imagine what it would be like to serve a single day in prison for a crime you didn’t commit? How about a month? Or a year? Or how about 25 years?

That’s not hyperbole. That’s how long our dear brother Tony Wright spent in prison after he was arrested, charged, and convicted for a heinous rape and murder of a 78-year-old woman that he had absolutely nothing to do with. For almost 25 years Tony begged the Philadelphia DA’s office to test the DNA they found in the case and they simply refused. Can you imagine? While Tony was in prison he missed 25 years of raising his son. So many members of his family died. And Tony had to carry the shame of people believing that he did something that was unthinkable. They sentenced Tony to LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.

But after DNA evidence fully exonerated Tony, and proved his innocence, the Homicide Division of the Philadelphia DA’s Office did something that was unprecedented in a DNA exoneration case — they charged him with the same crimes again. Carlos Vega was one of the two leaders in that case.

Let me be clear, DNA evidence all over the crime scene belonged to another man and no DNA evidence at all at the crime scene belonged to Tony Wright. He was never there.

In DNA exoneration cases before this, the exonerated person was then allowed to move on with their life. But Carlos Vega refused to let go. After 11 brutal days at trial, the jury came back in less than 90 minutes with a full not-guilty verdict in the case. Ultimately, what they did to Tony Wright cost Philadelphia a $10 million misconduct and wrongful conviction settlement - the largest in the history of the city. When Larry Krasner then became the DA, he fired Carlos Vega.

When I call Carlos Vega "evil," I didn’t come up with those words for him. They came from Tony Wright himself.

Instead of apologizing for all of the harm he caused Tony Wright, Carlos Vega has repeatedly lied to the media to say that he was hardly even involved with the case. Vega told the local press that saying he was very involved with the case was a "bald-faced lie" and that he was "brought in at the eleventh hour, two weeks before trial, just to question three witnesses."

And here’s the thing — for most of Carlos Vega’s career, he could tell a lie like that and nobody would check him on it, but things are different in 2021. His lies were so egregious that The Innocence Project themselves decided to violate their own unspoken rule of not critiquing people running for office.

If that isn’t enough for you, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court was forced to issue a rebuke of Carlos Vega in a death penalty case where his instructions to the jury were so deeply unethical that they were forced to intervene.

Here the Pennsylvania Supreme Court says they were "dismayed" by the words of Carlos Vega telling the jury that they should give a man the death penalty not on the merits of his case, but to send a message to everyday people across Philadelphia that sent chills down their spine if they ever considered doing evil themselves.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court continued to blast Carlos Vega.

Then they concluded by saying that if Carlos Vega did anything like this again, in "defiance" of the law that it would be at his own "peril." This, too, was why he was fired by Larry Krasner.

So yeah, I’m standing by every single word I said about you, Carlos. You are a monster. You ruined people’s lives. You worked with corrupt cops. Your office repeatedly framed and convicted Black men for murders they had NOTHING to do with. And you know this. And you never intervened for Tony Wright — you tried him again. Your name is mentioned over 900 times in the transcripts on that case. When Tony calls you evil, when he calls you the devil, it’s because you earned that moniker.

I’m going to frame this legal notice, put it on my wall, and show it off to friends and family to signify the time a monster like you tried to threaten me with a lawsuit for calling you out. Shame on you.

And to the rest of you still reading this, I APPRECIATE YOU. Thank you for making it this far.

If you can, please click here and make a split donation to help re-elect Larry Krasner and keep Carlos Vega far, far, far away from the DA’s office for the rest of his life.

Love y'all,

Shaun

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