A Constituent's Call for Justice

March 23, 2026

Dear Representative Malliotakis:

This briefing is submitted on behalf of Joseph Cammarata, a long-term resident of Staten Island and your constituent, who has been incarcerated for over four years. This is one of the most thoroughly documented cases of coordinated federal prosecutorial misconduct in recent American history. Mr. Cammarata was not imprisoned for a technicality, or a close legal question, or a gray area in the law. He was imprisoned for conduct that was never a crime — conduct that a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision confirmed was entirely lawful thirteen years before his prosecution began.

This briefing is not a request based on sympathy. It is a request based on the documented record — evidence drawn from the government's own dockets, its own witnesses, its own FBI agents testifying under oath, and a series of constitutional violations so thoroughly documented that no court has been willing to put its name to an honest explanation of them.

What happened to Mr. Cammarata did not start as a cover-up. It started as a prosecution that was wrong from day one — and became a cover-up the moment the government realized it. By then, six federal agencies had committed years of resources, millions of taxpayer dollars, and 5.5 million pages of scanned documents to a case that had no crime at its center. Rather than stop, they had to achieve a conviction at any cost. And when Mr. Cammarata began documenting what they were doing — from prison, without counsel — the misconduct escalated all the way from the trial court to the Third Circuit to the United States Supreme Court. Not one institution has ever honestly addressed the central legal question. Not one.

It Was Never a Crime — And They Knew It

The government's theory was that filing securities class action settlement claims on assigned trades constituted fraud. But Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, 554 U.S. 269 (2008) — decided unanimously by the Supreme Court thirteen years before this prosecution — established that assignment of those exact rights is entirely lawful. Every claim was filed on trades legally assigned to Mr. Cammarata's entities. Every claims administrator confirmed the assignments were valid. Not one claimed any loss. Not one could identify any victim.

Sprint was not raised after the fact. It was the defense at trial — presented to the jury on October 25, 2022, when Mr. Cammarata testified directly about assignment, the Supreme Court's guidance, and why no crime had been committed. (Trial Transcript, Oct. 25, 2022, pp. 53–54.) It was raised in post-trial motions. It was briefed on appeal to the Third Circuit. It was presented to the United States Supreme Court. At every single level of the federal judiciary, the controlling Supreme Court precedent that proved this conduct was legal was simply never addressed. Not acknowledged. Not distinguished. Not argued against. Ignored.

The government compounded this by violating both Rule 5(f) — which requires courts to issue specific discovery directives ensuring Brady compliance — and Brady v. Maryland itself, by suppressing the very precedent that was exculpatory. They had an obligation to produce it. They buried it instead.

When Mr. Cammarata raised Sprint in pro se motions from prison — motions the district court itself described on the record as "very well written and compelling" and so compelling that it ordered a hearing (21-cv-04845, ECF No. 143–144, Sept. 1–2, 2022) — the SEC used every available day to respond, then quietly abandoned its entire original legal theory and invented a new one from whole cloth. The hearing that had been scheduled for October 11, 2022 was cancelled the very next day after the SEC filed its response. (ECF No. 159, Oct. 4, 2022.) The motion to dismiss was denied in a single order with no memorandum of law, five days before the criminal trial began. (ECF No. 162, Oct. 12, 2022.) The case continued not because the law supported it, but because stopping it meant admitting four years of misconduct, millions in taxpayer resources, and the imprisonment of an innocent man were all built on a foundation the Supreme Court had demolished thirteen years earlier.

The Coordinated Attack — From the First Hour

On November 3, 2021, Mr. Cammarata was arrested in Miami. That same day — within hours — the SEC filed a civil enforcement complaint. The next day, a judge who declared "I consider this a crime against the courts" before seeing a single piece of evidence signed a 900-page ex parte TRO petition freezing every asset Mr. Cammarata had ever accumulated — over $78 million — without making the finding of immediate and irreparable harm that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(b)(1) requires as a mandatory prerequisite. The word "irreparable" does not appear in the order. The legal predicate for the freeze was never established. (21-cv-04845, ECF No. 2, Nov. 4, 2021.) It expired by law on November 18, 2021 — and has been enforced for over 1,550 days past that date.

That asset freeze was the mechanism. By freezing everything before Mr. Cammarata could respond, the government ensured he could not hire counsel of his choosing for 20 of the first 24 months. His elderly parents — his father now battling cancer — refinanced the home they had lived in for 50 years to borrow $250,000 to hire attorneys less than five weeks before trial, with no time to prepare a defense. Over $59 million in assets the government later admitted were entirely untainted sat frozen throughout.

The Misconduct — Documented at Every Level

• Evidence fabrication and computer tampering: The FBI deliberately left Mr. Cammarata's three computers and critical servers with the government's paid cooperating witness, Erik Cohen, for two weeks after the raid — with no chain of custody. The October 21, 2022 trial transcript confirms Cohen was actively texting Special Agent Edward Conway while he had possession of the computers and met Conway at the AlphaPlus offices during this period. (Trial Transcript, Oct. 21, 2022, p. 225, lines 22–25.) There are photographs and emails proving Cohen was corresponding with Conway while going through the computers. Cohen physically disassembled Mr. Cammarata's hard drives and transmitted them directly to the FBI. Emails presented at trial were identified on the record as believed tampered. (Trial Transcript, Oct. 25, 2022, p. 150.)
• Passport theft and perjury at the bail revocation hearing: At arrest, SA Matthew Lanthorn took Mr. Cammarata's passport, photographed himself with Mr. Cammarata, and placed the passport in his Redwell folder. His own FBI Form 302 confirms the satellite phones were put back in the bag at arrest. The original property inventory listed only a cell phone — no satellite phones. SA Lanthorn returned to the airport locker using Mr. Cammarata's passport to retrieve the bags and take the phones on SA Conway's direction. (FBI Form 302, SA Lanthorn MOI; FAM Santana/Conway email chain, March 4–6, 2022.) At the March 10, 2022 bail revocation hearing, SA Lanthorn testified under oath that he had always possessed the satellite phones. This was false. Bail was revoked on fabricated grounds. Two days later, 3.5 million pages of deliberately withheld discovery were dumped on Mr. Cammarata while he was imprisoned and unable to review them.
• Witness suppression: SA Richard Bloodgood, an active FBI agent and personal friend of Mr. Cammarata, was the only remaining defense witness at trial — confirmed on the October 24, 2022 trial record. (Trial Transcript, Oct. 24, 2022, pp. 220–224.) He would have proven his colleagues lied under oath. The government used Touhy regulations, 28 C.F.R. § 16.21, confirmed on the record, to pressure him not to testify. He walked away. The perjury went unchallenged.
• Transcript alteration: On-the-record statements reflecting judicial bias and prejudgment — including the judge's statement that "I consider this a crime against the courts" made before any evidence was presented — were removed from official transcripts across multiple hearings. Fifteen witnesses, including criminal defense counsel, can confirm what was said and what disappeared.
• The Palantir forced liquidation: A court operating under a void TRO — with no subject matter jurisdiction and no personal jurisdiction over foreign assets — ordered the forced liquidation of 367,667 shares of Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) held in an irrevocable life insurance trust through Magellan Securities Limited, a registered Bahamian broker-dealer, outside United States jurisdiction entirely. (21-cv-04845, ECF No. 223, March 6, 2023.) The shares were liquidated at approximately $7 per share — generating approximately $2.35 million repatriated to the court's registry — while over $5 million in admitted untainted domestic assets sat available at Merrill Lynch. Those 367,667 shares are worth approximately $66 million at recent highs. The court ordered this to extract $255,000 in attorney's fees.

The Donnelly Structural Conflict and the Four Buried Appeals

The lead SEC prosecutor, John V. Donnelly III, is married to Jeanne M. Donnelly, an active attorney employed in the Executive Office of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit — the same court before which all four of Mr. Cammarata's appeals are currently pending. This structural conflict was never disclosed to Mr. Cammarata, to any court, or to the public. When raised, all twelve active Third Circuit judges voted unanimously to deny disqualification — without a single word of explanation. Under Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009), this violates due process.

The same court before which this undisclosed conflict exists has now presided over four separate appeals — and in every one of them, the pattern is identical: the government either refuses to respond or the court refuses to engage with the substance.

• Appeal No. 24-1381 — The SEC civil enforcement appeal, docketed March 2024. Now over two years old. The Third Circuit has never once asked the government to file a response brief. Not a single scheduling order. Not a single directive. The government's silence is being actively protected by the court.
• Appeal No. 23-2110 — The criminal fraud appeal. The Third Circuit intentionally mischaracterized the entire case on appeal and refused to address Sprint or the district court's violations of Rule 5(f). Not an oversight — a documented, deliberate mischaracterization of the controlling issues.
• Appeal No. 25-1188 — A writ of mandamus filed January 2025 asking the Third Circuit to consider all three appeals in the aggregate — to see the overwhelming pattern of conflict, bias, misconduct, and constitutional violations collectively. The government never responded. Never filed a reply brief. The Third Circuit waited a full year and denied it in January 2026 with no explanation and no engagement with any of the arguments presented.
• Appeal No. 24-1983 — The tax case appeal. The government filed a response but refused to address the substantive arguments. The case was scheduled to be decided on the papers on December 2, 2025. Nothing has been issued. Complete silence — months later.

And when Mr. Cammarata sought relief from the United States Supreme Court, the Solicitor General of the United States waived the government's right to respond rather than put its legal theory in writing under Rule 11. The Supreme Court denied the petition without a word of explanation.

Three Specific Actions We Are Requesting

1. Forward this documented record to Attorney General Ed Martin with a congressional request for a full and independent review of the prosecution of Joseph Cammarata, Case No. 21-cr-427 (E.D. Pa.) — with specific attention to the Sprint precedent, the Donnelly structural conflict, the FBI misconduct at the bail revocation hearing, and the pattern of unanswered appeals.
2. Support a presidential pardon application to President Trump. No victims. No loss. A prosecution built on conduct the Supreme Court established was lawful. A structurally conflicted appellate court. Fabricated evidence. Altered transcripts. Four years of imprisonment. This is precisely the case presidential clemency was designed to remedy — and Mr. Cammarata is your constituent.
3. Send a congressional inquiry letter to the Department of Justice and to the Third Circuit demanding written responses to the Sprint question and the Donnelly conflict — the two questions that four years of federal proceedings have refused to answer.

This Is Your District. This Is Your Constituent.

Representative Malliotakis, every fact stated in this briefing is documented on the public federal docket, in the government's own filings, in FBI Form 302 memoranda, and in sworn trial testimony. The full record is available at ExposingJustice.com. The legal operations dashboard tracking every active matter is at legal.joec.com.

You have spent your congressional career fighting the weaponization of federal agencies against American citizens. You have demanded accountability from a DOJ that believed it did not have to answer to anyone. This is that case — documented, verified, and sitting in federal court right now. And the man at the center of it is your constituent, asking you to make the government do the one thing it has refused to do for four years: answer the question.

We respectfully request an urgent meeting with your staff and your immediate support in forwarding this record to Attorney General Ed Martin and to the President of the United States.