Sept. 10, 2023

Jonathan Luna // 180 // Part 4 // Conspiracy

Jonathan Luna // 180 // Part 4 // Conspiracy

Jonathan Luna was a federal prosecutor, working on a plea agreement for the Smith-Poindexter case.  On the night of December 3rd, 2003, his vehicle left the Baltimore courthouse at 11:38 PM.  His body was discovered early the next morning, face-down in a creek with multiple stab wounds.    Could this have something to do with his line of work?  Perhaps this is a cover up.  Some people believe he ended his own life, but others say this is an obvious homicide.
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RECAP: Jonathan Luna was finally going to wrap up the case against Deon Smith and Walter Poindexter by putting together a plea agreement.  He got into a heated argument with the defense attorneys, but he told them that he would get the deal done and fax it to them that night.  Ken Ravenell and Arky Tuminelli did not receive the fax.  On December 3rd, Jonathan’s vehicle left the courthouse’s parking garage at 11:38 PM and went on a path that doesn’t make sense, but we’re going to take a deeper look at the timeline in part 5.  After his death, the autopsy report and anything that could be helpful in this case was sealed and information that was very damaging to Jonatha’s reputation kept getting leaked.  The FBI told the press that his death was the result of a personal relationship that had gone bad and there was no connection to his job.  In fact, they believed that he ended his own life. 

 

Since his death was being classified as unrelated to his job, this could be handled as a state murder case, not federal.  A few days into the “investigation” FBI agents were showing Jonathan’s photo to motel managers in the area near the Pennsylvania turnpike where his body was found.  This was an area known for sex workers and they were basically reporting that Jonathan had a secret life that his wife didn’t know about.  He had gone to that ATM in the middle of the night to get money to meet up with a sex worker and things went wrong.  This is a wild story that wasn’t backed up by any facts. 

 

In a document filed with the Howard County, Maryland Register of Wills dated October 8th, 2004, Angela Luna listed her husband’s credit card debt as a total of $17,677.  This was the combined total from four credit cards: $9,034.47 on his American Express, $8,500 on an MBA account, $110.69 on a Citicorp account and $32.44 from Citibank.  This isn’t even close the amount that was reported though.  Investigators claimed that he had $25k in credit card debt and the Sun reported that he had as many as 16 credit cards and some his wife didn’t know about.  He was successful and some people have cards for several different reasons, so I don’t think this is that weird.  You’re always told that you should never close your credit cards because it hurts your credit score, so that could play into this as well.  In his line of work, he would have been making a decent salary and his wife was a doctor.  They likely had a good amount of money coming in. 

 

On the morning of Jonathan’s death, Angela had received a call from the federal courthouse, and they were asking where Jonathan was.  She said he hadn’t come home that night and she hadn’t heard from him since the night before.  She had no idea where he was, and she had called the police to report him missing when he didn’t come home.  After she was thrust into the nightmare of finding out he had been murdered, the FBI made it more excruciating when they drug her husband’s name through the mud.  They painted him to be a thief, stealing the $36,000, he had a secret life, he had credit card debt, they said he was gay or bisexual, and his genitals were mutilated by a sex worker. 

 

On December 14th, 2003, Jonthan’s friends and family gathered together.  It was the night before his memorial service and funeral and they met at his home.  Angela kept saying she just didn’t understand who would do this to her husband.  He had been known for maintaining good relationships with people and he even stayed in touch with his ex-girlfriends.  This gathering was interrupted by two female FBI agents.  They pulled Angela aside to tell her that they needed to go upstairs to take pictures.  Several minutes later, another set of FBI agents arrived.  They were wearing latex gloves and began searching upstairs.  

 

Friends and family had been there to mourn together and support each other, but this interruption was deeply unsettling and some people had to leave and go drive around for awhile.  After the upstairs was searched, the agents headed to the basement bedroom where Jonathan’s mother-in-law stayed.  They spent a long time in there and when they emerged, they were carrying zip-lock evidence bags.  The agents began moving the group of people from room to room so they could continue their search.  The group was confused about a few things.  Why did they pick that day to search the house?  The day that they were gathering to mourn together.  The so called agents never properly identified themselves or produced a card.  Why were they searching the house 11 days after his death? 

 

Jonathan Luna’s body had been transported to Witzke funeral home in Ellicott City, Maryland and the undertaker, Kim MacLeod embalmed him.  She said, “I’ve seen lots of murders, but this was definitely the worst one I’ve ever seen.”  She had been selected to work on his body because she knew the pastor of his church and she had extensive experience working with badly damaged bodies.  Kim was very confused right away because she was told this was a suicide case, but she said that wasn’t possible.  There were stab wounds on Jonathan’s back.  They were in the middle of his back and around the shoulder blades.  She also said his hands had been “shredded.”   

 

Kim explained that there were long cuts between all of his fingers and cuts to the front and back of both hands.  The deep cuts were like slicing razor wounds that peeled away the skin around his fingers and in some places, cut down to the bone.  This is indicative of someone being slashed with a knife and trying to block those stabs.  These are defensive wounds.  Kim said that she tried to sew them up the best she could, but they had to put gloves on for the viewing.  She also had to sew his throat which was cut all the way around and had been slashed open on the right side. 

 

His scrotum had been slashed open and it wasn’t a clean slash, Kim said it looked like someone had been “working on it.”  His funeral was held on December 15th, 2003, but the authorities suddenly found a knife 6 weeks after his death, so this would be in January of 2004.  Kim said they actually found 2 knives, but this wasn’t the information that was told to the public.  It had also been released that most of the wounds were pin-pricks or shallow, hesitation marks, but if that’s the case, why would there be an additional $1,995 charge for professional services on the funeral home bill due to extensive sewing of the wounds on his body?  

 

Prior to Jonathan’s death, he had been planning a trip with his father to the Philippines and he told his brother that he was really looking forward to it.  Instead, on December 15th, his father was a pallbearer. 

 

There are many conspiracies looped into this case and one, is the number 36.  It was $36,000 that went missing in a court case that Jonathan was involved in and it was 36 stab wounds on his body.  Was someone sending a specific message?  Was he getting ready to expose someone?  Jonathan had several shallow wounds surrounding his deeper wounds.  Did someone intentionally add small wounds after administering the deep wounds?  This could be used to throw investigators off track.  Maybe someone was staging this as a suicide. 

 

Conspiracy recap: 

Leading up to the murder, $36,000 went missing and those included in this would be the FBI agents and the lawyers who said the money had been returned.  Jonathan Luna was part of this and so was attorney Kenneth Ravenel. 

The day of Jonathan’s murder, he agreed to a plea deal in the Smith and Poindexter case.  Smith’s attorney was Kenneth Ravenell, a lawyer involved in the case when $36,000 went missing and this remains unsolved. 

Warren Grace, the FBI’s informant, was under house arrest, but mysteriously had drugs in his possesion due to FBI oversight and Jonathan failed to disclose this in the pre-trial discovery.   

$200 was withdrwan from Jonathan’s ATM at Neward Delaware at 1 AM and the cameras in the lobby fo the rest stop weren’t working.   

At 2:37 AM, his car entered the New Jersey turnpike, avoiding the EJ Pass, and taking a ticket 

At 3:20 AM, his car stopped at a rest stop to get gas and the cameras weren’t working 

His car passed through the turnpike exit at 4:04 AM and there was a spot of blood on the turnpike ticket 

Money was lying around Jonathan’s car at the scene of the crime, but his wallet was missing. 

Reputation damaging information was “leaked” by an FBI agent 

 

Let me ask you this.  Who handles informants?  Who could know if a security camera is defective in a specific location?  Does this all trace back to Jonathan Luna?  Or do all roads lead back to the FBI?  During this specific timeframe, the FBI was being scrutinized for their mishandling of informants.  They had informants who were known murderers, which is supposed to be against the rules and they had agents that were involved in murders and cover-ups.  In November of 2003, just a few weeks prior to Jonathan’s death, the FBI released a statement. “While the FBI recognizes there have been instances of misconduct by a few FBI employees, it also recognizes the importance of human source information in terrorism, criminal and counterintelligence investigations.” 

 

In early December, which is just days prior to Jonathan’s death, his boss, US Attorney Tom DiBiagio, was getting ready to hand down an indictment against Maryland’s top officer.  State Police Superintendent Edward Norris, and Edward’s former chief of staff, John Stendrini, for broad-based corruption and fraud in the handling of police accounts.  They were caught running a sex ring out of Baltimore police headquarters.  The investigation had begun when Edward Norris was working as Baltimore city police commissioner under Democrat Mayor O’Malley.  He left the Baltimore department in December 2002 and a series of federal subpoenas started rolling in, about a week before Jonathan Luna’s death. 

 

Several months after Ed Norris was sworn in as the state’s top cop, Jonathan’s boss, Tom DiBiagio’s office requested an audit of a supllemental Baltimore police account.  The audit showed a discrepancy of $7,700 of funds that were misused for Ed Norris’s personal expenses.  Soon, several cops were being accused of using the police accounts for sexual endeavors.  They were getting luxury hotel suites, buying Victoria’s Secret lingerie, alcohol, and meeting up with sex workers.  They were using other officers as a cover up by incurring bogus overtime expenses to fund this. 

 

On December 10th, 2003, less than a week after Jonathan Luna’s death, US Attorney Tom DiBiagio announced the indictment of Maryland State Police Superintendent Edward Norris and his chief of staff John Stendrini.  They were both charged with misusing a secret police fund for personal use and romantic encounters.  On the morning of the indictment, Ed Norris resigned, but the governor said he could have his job back if he was cleared.  Both men pled guilty at first, but it gets more complicated. 

 

Ed Norris bought a house with a  down payment of $10,950.  On his mortgage application, he listed the down payment as a gift from his father, Ed Norris Sr, a retired NYPD captain.  Ed Norris Sr. Gave his son the downpayment after his driver Tom Tobin had given Tom Norris a check for the same amount and Ed Norris had given the money to his father.  That’s money laundering.  Two weeks before Jonathan’s death, Ed Norris’s father was subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury.  On December 10th, Ed Norris and two of his top co-conspirators were indicted by Jonathan’s former boss, Thomas Dibiagio. 

 

The secret police fund was being used to fund many nefarious activities and the officers were signing letters authorizing fund disbursements that made it look like the money was being used for legitimate business expenses.  Norris and Sendrini were members of the EPU Executive Protection Unit.  When someone needed money, the EPU member would deliver an authorization letter and the check would be cashed.  Then the EPU member would hand the cash to Norris and he would give it to the person that was requesting the money from the secret fund.  That’s why they were able to keep it hidden. 

 

Several EPU members and several women would later testify that Strendrini allowed Norris, a married man, to use his apartment for romantic encounters with ladies that were not his wife during the workday and sometimes this happened several times a day.  He was hooking up with women on the clock and other EPU members had to wait for him at other locations during this time and were forced to get overtime pay.  One of the odd things here is that there was basically a sex ring happening and it was Jonathan’s boss that was indicting these people and there was a very similar sex ring happening in Pennsylvania from a county courthouse that was near the area where Jonathan’s body was discovered.   

 

Ed Norris pleaded guilty to his part in this scandal and that was pretty much swept under the rug, but he was facing a possible 30 year sentence for mortgage fraud.  He accepted a plea deal and served 6 months in prison, he had another 6 months of home detention and 500 hours of community service.  Once this was completed, he was hired at a Baltimore radio station as a talk show host.  He later met up with the author of The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna and he had an interesting story.  Ed Norris said that the women mentioned in his indictment were friends or acquaintances of his.  FBI agents asked him to lie about corruption in Martin O’Malley’s administration because they were trying to falsely indict O’Malley.  Ed Norris refused to get on board with this plan, but he also mentioned that the Governor refused to talk to the US Attorney the entire last year that DiBiagio, Jonathan Luna’s former boss was in office. 

 

At the time of Jonathan’s death, there was a lot of organized crime activity, including slot machine gambling in Maryland and Pennsylvania and this all tied into the mob.  In early March of 2007, Jonathan’s previous boss, former US Attorney Tom DiBiagio, called a New York Times reporter to say he had been forced out of his job because he had been investigating alleged ties between gambling proponents and staff members for former Maryland Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich (Er-lick).  DiBiagio said he felt that his life was being threatened during the investigation, but the FBI refused to protect him.  He was being pressured to stop the investigation. 

 

At the same time, over in Pennsylvania, a convicted felon with known ties to organized crime was seeking a casino license by giving office holders in both political parties large campaign contributions.  In Pennsylvania, the mob is a service provider.  The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, whose highway had been used by Jonathan Luna on his last night alive, is a dumping ground for organized crime.  What if he had stumbled across something that he wasn’t supposed to?  Corruption seemed to be surrounding him. 

 

After Jonathan’s death, several agents who worked with him were questioned.  A review of his files showed that there was a female agent who had submitted several cases to him, so she was obviously questioned, and she became resentful.  She filed a complaint against her superiors and on February 11th, 2004, the CBS TV network reported “troubling developments that suggest the Luna investigation has become a major embarrassment.”  The report stated that supervisors at the FBI’s Baltimore field office were focusing on their own female agent as a possible suspect in the case.  It was being spun as a personal relationship that went bad. 

 

Since this female FBI agent had referred several cases to Jonathan for prosecution, investigators were accusing her of having an affair with him.  This made no sense for a few reasons.  First, why release a statement like this before thoroughly investigating the lead and making sure you’re right, which they were not.  Second, Jonathan was a muscular guy.  How did this woman completely overpower him?  That’s not to say that women are weak and can’t kill men.  He was an avid runner, he was very fit.  It just seems less likely, especially knowing that he was stabbed.  It just shows how many stories the FBI is willing to “leak” to the press to send everyone on a wild goose chase. 

 

The two agents, Gary Bald and Jennifer Smith Love that were spewing out lies to reporters, were just trying to advance their own careers.  It’s repulsive that they deliberately ruined his reputation to help themselves, but there are strange things happening here too.  Gary Bald was appointed agent in charge in late 2002 and that timing would coincide with the $36,000 that went missing, the Dawson family murders and the mishandling of FBI informant Warren Grace.  Jennifer Smith Love was named acting agent in charge of the Baltimore office in November 2003 just weeks before Jonathan’s death.  Gary Bald and Jennifer Smith Love oversaw the office that lost the $36,000 and allowed Warren Grace to run wild in the streets.  As of the time the book was written, both agents were working high up in the FBI. 

 

When CBS released the “leaked” information, they also mentioned that field agents had found the knife that they believed was used in Jonathan’s stabbing and they had a “very promising suspect.”  The promising suspect was Jonathan Luna.  Gail Gibson had posted an article for The Sun that said she spoke to three law enforcement sources who wished to remain anonymous, but they said that Jonathan took his own life.  These sources claimed they had access to FBI reports.  The article said that Jonathan had filed an internet loan application to borrow $30k and the loan was cancelled soon after the $36k went missing in court.  So, Jonathan was accused of stealing the money and that’s why he no longer needed the loan. 

 

According to the FBI’s own statistics, Jonathan was lower on the list of suspects for stealing the money.  They did a BETA report, Behavioral and Ethical Trends Analysis and it actually points towards their own agents as the probable suspect.  The BETA report says that an agent with only an undergraduate degree is 5 times as likely to commit misbehavior as an employee with a law degree.  That’s 60.2% likelihood vs a 12.5% incident rate.  Jonathan was a new employee and according to the BETA report, that further decreases the likelihood of this behavior.  Also, THE STAB WOUNDS WERE IN HIS BACK! 

 

On March 8th, 2004, The Washington Post published an article titled, “Prosecutor may have killed self: Lack of evidence fuels theory in Luna’s death.”  Allan Lengel and Eric Rich said that unnamed law enforcement sources say that they believed Jonathan’s own pocketknife or penknife was used in the stabbing.  After repeatedly searching the area where his body was found, investigators found the knife embedded in mud in the creek.  They said that the knife was found in January of 2004, but that seems impossible because according to the undertaker, they knew about the knife before Jonathan’s funeral.  Since the knife had been supposedly sitting in the creek, it was conveniently cleaned by the stream.  Reporters were saying that Jonathan was set to take a polygraph about the missing $36k and he couldn’t take the pressure of being caught. 

 

After the Washing Post published the article about this, the Baltimore US attorney’s office wrote a letter to say that they didn’t believe the missing money had anything to do with his death and the letter was addressed to Nacoe Brown, who was in prison.  It was his case that was being tried when the money went missing.  He was surprised to learn about Jonathan’s murder, but he was also shocked to find out that attorney Kenneth Ravenell was involved in the Smith-Poindexter case because he had also been involved in the missing money case.  In early 2004, Nacoe Brown called and wrote attorney Ravenell asking that his lawyer file an appeal based on missing evidence, but he refused.  Ravenell said he read the letter and found no basis for it, but told him that he was free to file this motion on his own if he wished to do so.  How would he be able to get an appeal pushed through without his lawyer?  He couldn’t.  He actually tried and the court of appeals sent everything back to him and told him to go through his lawyer. 

 

Nacoe Brown filed motions with federal Judge Andre Davis, who presided over his bank robbery trial.  He didn’t receive a response, but later learned that his appeal had been denied.  He and his wife had to hear this from the court clerk because the information had been provided to attorney Ravenell and he never reached out to his client to tell him.  Nacoe Brown said he called Ravenell and pretended he didn’t know anything about the ruling and he asked if he had received a response about the appeal and he said he hadn’t heard anything.  Nacoe called him out on this and Ravenell started cursing and yelling at him.  He filed a complaint against him, several times, but it kept falling on deaf ears. 

 

There are people that believe this is a suicide case.  Jonathan was in over his head at work, his debt was getting out of control, his boss hated him, maybe he was involved in stealing the money or knew who did it, and maybe he didn’t want to be involved in the plea agreements because he knew they were wrong.  There’s a lot of things I would question with this.  I would want to know more about why he was driving through several states that night.  Why travel so far to end your life?  Why gas up your car right before doing it?  Why would you worry about buying yourself a drink right before?  Why on earth would he attack himself in the back of his car?  That had to be where it took place because most of the blood was back there.  We learned in the Ellen Greenberg case that most people do not stab themselves through their clothing, but that’s what happened here.  Jonathan LOVED fashion, why would he be wearing one of his suits when he did this?  Why did he withdraw $200 from the ATM?  There’s too many things that just aren’t adding up here. 

 

There’s also a theory that he was staging an attack and accidentally ended his life.  If he was staging this to look like he was attacked, how was that going to work? He would get all this sympathy and maybe the FBI wouldn't administer the polygraph test in two days, but they’re not going to cancel it forever, they might just reschedule. He was a smart guy, and this doesn’t seem to be well thought out.  Also, Jonathan was actively seeking out press to be in court the next morning when he handed out that plea deal.  Why would he do that if he was so worried about getting it completed?  Or if he knew he was going to end his life?  He alerted reporters that they would want to be in court on the morning of the deal and they were there, waiting for him. 

 

How did he get clear defensive wounds all over his hands and arms if he did this to himself?  Also, why the fuck would he slash his own scrotum?  What about the blood in the rear passenger foot well of his vehicle?  There was also a second blood type later reported to have been found in the car.  How do you explain that?  And the spot of Jonathan’s blood on the turnpike ticket?  Investigators tried to explain this one away actually.  They said that the drop of Jonathan’s blood on the turnpike ticket was unrelated to his death, and they believed it was from a scratch that he inflicted on himself..... 

 

No one in Jonathan’s inner circle said that he was suicidal, and he was planning a trip that he was really looking forward to with his father.  Also, Sallie Mae was the student loan servicing agency that Jonathan was making payments to.  They returned his last payment because it was received after his death.  Why would he make a loan payment if he was thinking about ending his life? 

 

On March 12th, 2004, officials held a press conference in Baltimore, and this is where they said there were three possibilities in this case, homicide, suicide, or a random act of violence.  They went over a timeline of Jonathan’s last movements and revealed that Jonathan had actually driven through four states that night, not three.  Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.  He also had contact with someone between the time he left his office on December 3rd and when he was found dead at 5:30 AM the next morning.  Who was that person?  That part isn’t clear. 

 

Two years after Jonathan’s death, his friends, family, and other people invested in this case, held a vigil at the murder scene.  They demanded a real investigation.  There hadn’t been any movement on this case and Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Barry Walp retired and was replaced by Lancaster physician Dr. Gary Kirchner.  As the anniversary of Jonathan’s death grew closer, someone from the FBI, went to the coroner and requested that he change the cause of death from homicide to suicide.  The new coroner reviewed the facts of the case and refused, so it remains a homicide. 

 

Chief Karcher does not agree with the FBI that this is suicide, he says it’s homicide.  He said that on the night of Jonathan’s death, his department was not notified by the state police.  The state police responded to the after-hours call and one if Karcher’s men heard about the murder investigation later.  He said it’s very unusual for things to work this way and it had never happened before.  He also said that there was something so strange about the knife.  It was “discovered” almost two months after Jonathan’s death, in January.  The stream ran around a small rock and the knife was supposedly found by the rock, but it had been thoroughly searched by FBI agents and Pennsylvania state police. 

 

The state police brought in 150 cadets to search the area after the murder.  They did the shoulder-to-shoulder grid search, covering every square foot of the scene and the knife wasn’t found?  Then it’s later discovered in the exact same spot where Jonathan’s body had been?  They had weeks of high water in the creek and the knife wasn’t washed away?  Did someone come back later and place the knife there? 

 

On the morning of Jonathan Luna’s death, December 4th, 2003, he should have been in court at 9:30 AM.  Judge Quarles was there, probably irritated that he was late two days in a row.  Thinking to himself that this would cost Jonathan another $25.  It took several hours for his body to be identified and for the news to reach his boss, US Attorney Tom Dibiagio.  The court reporter, Ned Richardson, would unknowingly be a stenographer for a murder investigation.   

 

Waiting at the prosecution table was US attorney James Warwick, this was the man that Jonathan had spoken to the night before when he was trying to push the Smith-Poindexter plea agreement through.  James Warwick was also the assistant attorney who one investigator complained was pressuring him to open phony cash storefronts in his investigations.  The investigator believed that this was run by a network of unaccountable agents and informants. 

 

When court started that morning, James Warwick said to Judge Quarles “I do apologize for, I guess, my sudden appearance before the court.”  “Yesterday, I became involved in some discussions with Mr. Tuminelli relative to his client and so I have obtained at least a limited degree of knowledge of what the issues are.  I do believe that we do have something worked out with Mr. Tuminelli.  Mr. Luna was finalizing the agreement.  I spoke with Mr. Luna last night.  I don’t know where he is at the moment.  We are trying to locate him, and trying to locate the final agreement.” 

 

The plea agreement was never completed, and it was sitting in Jonathan Luna’s office on his laptop.  An internal investigations expert later reviewed this transcript and was shocked to see that James Warwick was in the courtroom that day, it didn’t make any sense for him to be there. 

 

He was also astonished that Jonathan’s boss, Tom DiBiagio would even allow the plea agreement to move forward while Jonathan was missing that morning.  When Jonathan didn’t arrive to work that morning, DiBiagio should have gone to the courtroom and told the judge that he was missing, and the case needed to be stalled until he was located.  Why were they in such a hurry to push this deal through?  James Warwick stood before the judge and laid out the facts that had been discussed the night prior with Jonathan Luna.  He said he had only been consulted for a short period, but he seemed to know all about the murder that had entered into the case.  He said they were not able to establish that the murder of Alvin Jones was related to drugs, so they could move forward with the deal to reduce the sentences for both Deon Smith and Walter Poindexter. 

 

James Warwick requested a 15 minute recess to obtain the plea agreement.  Before word reached the judge about Jonathan’s death, James Warwick went into his office, used his computer and altered the documents for the plea agreements.  During this recess, people were supposedly sent to look for Jonathan and see if his vehicle was in the parking garage.  James Warwick entered the courtroom with two completed plea agreements, and it took him between 30-45 minutes to do so.  If you think back to how long Jonathan Luna spent staring at those documents, one could potentially conclude that he simply didn’t want to finish them, maybe he couldn’t because he knew it was wrong. 

 

James Warwick said he was ready for signatures and the moment Walter Poindexter put his name on that paper, he was prohibited by the government from ever appealing the case.  Everyone signed their parts and Warwick signed both agreements as Jonathan P. Luna and he added how own initials after he signed Jonathan’s name. 

 

Attorney Arky Tuminelli says there’s no way that James Warwick didn’t already know everything about this case before Jonathan consulted with him.  He was there and Jonathan didn’t even tell him the facts.  James Warwick asked them what the problem was, and Arky Tuminelli said he wanted the murder charges dropped and James Warwick said, well, you can do that, that’s fine.  How would he be able to offer this advice without knowing anything about the case?  It’s also interesting that he was able to jump right in and take over the case when Jonathan didn’t show up and he slammed through the plea agreements pretty quickly.  Wouldn’t you need to know about the case if you’re writing up a plea agreement? 

 

 

NEXT WEEK: 

-Deeper look at the timeline of Jonthan’s last known movements 

-Jonathan’s former boss, Thomas DiBiagio ends up being forced to resign 

-Attorney Kenneth Ravenell was arrested, but it’s not in relation to Jonathan’s death 

-We will go more in depth about what happened on the day the $36k went missing 

-The county coroner was told that they did not have any records on Jonathan Luna because they had been turned over to the FBI, but his records were mysteriously located somewhere else 

 

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