It is May 15. Welcome to yestohellwith.com.
Today we arrive at one of the most important episodes in this entire series.
Benjamin Glassman.
The issue involving Glassman is fundamentally different from the conduct of Lockhart and Chema.
They failed before conviction.
Glassman encountered the contradictions years later.
By this stage, the government already possessed information showing that the foundation of the prosecution was collapsing.
The OCC reflected no four-million-dollar loan.
PNC referenced only a $250,000 obligation.
And those records existed years before the indictment was ever issued.
When I met Glassman, and his assistant Kenneth Parker, in their office in Cincinnati in 2018, he already had the OCC letter.
He knew of the contradiction.
The moment he entered the room, he stated that the DOJ had shredded evidence concerning the four-million-dollar loan.
But there was a major problem with that statement.
Federal regulations prohibit destruction of records during ongoing litigation.
And the Carter case was still active.
The case was also less than ten years old.
So why would critical criminal evidence be destroyed?
After Glassman made that statement, I handed him the OCC letter again and told him the evidence could not have been shredded because it never existed.
Glassman said nothing.
He had an opportunity to stop, reexamine the case, and confront the contradiction directly.
Instead, he protected the conviction.
I later filed FOIA requests with the EOUSA.
The EOUSA responded that there were no records showing destruction of evidence concerning any four-million-dollar loan.
That response created another contradiction.
If the records were shredded, where are the destruction logs?
Where are the retention records?
Where is the chain of custody?
And the contradiction becomes even worse.
PNC later stated it never asserted a four-million-dollar loan existed.
So now the question becomes unavoidable.
How could the DOJ destroy authenticated records proving a four-million-dollar obligation if the bank itself never asserted such a loan existed?
This is why I state that Benjamin Glassman lied.
Not misunderstanding.
Not confusion.
Lying.
That accusation is based upon:
the OCC findings,
the PNC records,
the EOUSA responses,
and the absence of any destruction records.
These facts cannot be reconciled honestly.
And that is what makes this episode so serious.
Because the issue is no longer whether mistakes occurred during an investigation.
The issue is whether a United States Attorney encountered evidence undermining the prosecution itself and chose institutional protection over truth.
Under Berger v. United States and Rule 3.8 principles, prosecutors are supposed to pursue justice.
Glassman had the authority to reopen inquiry, reconcile the contradictions, and reassess the case.
He did not.
The conviction became the thing being protected.
Not the truth.
And this is where the Orlando Carter story becomes far larger than one man.
Because once institutions begin protecting outcomes instead of examining contradictions, the justice system itself becomes dangerous.
And that brings us directly to Kenneth Parker.
Because Parker inherited the OCC findings, the EOUSA responses, the PNC records, and the structural contradictions surrounding the case.
Yet the prosecution narrative continued being preserved.
Next episode…
Parker.
And as always…
may truth reign supreme.
