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John,

We needed to make sure you saw this. Shaun sent an email out pretty late
last night about the latest nonsense coming from Carlos Vega.

PLEASE give the full thing a read. It's long, but incredibly important.
[ [link removed] ]And if you can, make a split donation right now to Larry Krasner and
Real Justice so we can beat back these gross attacks and re-elect Larry in
11 days.

Thank you,

The Real Justice Team

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From: Shaun King [[email protected]]
Date: Thu, May 6, 2021 at 6:10 PM
Subject: One of the longest and most important emails I’ve ever sent
To: John
[[email protected]]

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.

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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.



[ [link removed] ]But first, I need you to RUSH a split
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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.
[ [link removed] ]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.

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court continued to blast Carlos Vega.

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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.

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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, [ [link removed] ]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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