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Joey Torrey, V 21699 MCSP
POB 409040, B10-220L
Ione, CA 93640-9040

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Subject: REQUEST FOR LITERARY REPRESENTATION

BAMBOOZLED

The Joey Torrey Story

My name is Joey Torrey, former pugilist and enforcer. I am in need of literary representation to tell this remarkable story. I've been requesting to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation delving into Operation Matchbook, a federally funded government investigation focused on organized crime and fixing prize fights. This covert operation ran from the golden shores of Costa Rica's betting establishments to the boiler rooms of New York City's Little Italy, originating from the casinos in Las Vegas. Said operation was fully controlled by the Nevada U.S. Attorney Bogden, who has recently been fired for not prosecuting this covert operation: for all roads led back to Washington, D.C. and one Senator John McCain. For two years I spearheaded the above entitled cause under the code name of Cross.

I did all that was requested of me by the FBI. Yet I have been betrayed and abandoned by the government, left in this quagmire of deception perpetrated by the FBI and one rogue U.S. Attorney. I currently site in a California State Prison cell with no crime having been committed. In 1979, I plea-bargained and was sentenced to five years in the California Youth Authority. With the passing of new laws I was returned back to court and not allowed to withdraw my plea agreement and was subsequently re-sentenced to a term of 25-Years-to-Life. I then went on to serve 25 years in this country's most violent of prisons. Then in 2001, after years of studying law, I found an obscure Writ of Corum Nobis which challenged the original plea agreement of five years in the CYA.

I was successful and released in 2002 on appeal bond set by Baseball's Hall of Famer Paul Molitor. My sentence was vacated. I was then offered a four fight contract by Bob Arum to return to the boxing ring. Shortly after signing the contract I was approached and bamboozled by the FBI to "clean up boxing." In exchange I would be preventing young kids from being abused in the boxing ring and I would remain free with the pending appeal dismissed. Yet I now sit in this cell serving Life all over again. The FBI has been negligent by not informing the California Department of Corrections of my informant status. They have also been malicious by not protecting me upon my return to custody. While I was housed in the Los Angeles Country Jail I called my then FBI Handler pleading for protection. My request was never answered and subsequently I was stabbed in the neck. Literally. The FBI is fully aware that I am marked for death for assisting in their investigation but have refused to protect me to date.
The FBI has also been cruel and criminally-acting in bad faith in exposing me to the world's media. For the same agent who bamboozled me into working with them to clean up boxing is the same agent and U.S. Attorney who have recently informed the media and numerous periodicals of my name, location and the part I played as Cross in Operation Matchbook. I have been left to twist in the wind with no umbrella of protection. Instead I am made out to be a liar and an out-of-control hit man by the FBI and District Attorney. This was based on the facts which have been brought to the world media by the firing of the Las Vegas, Nevada U.S. Attorney Bogden by the Department of Justice. It is also convenient to defame me so that neither the prosecution nor the defense are able to use me in any further litigation.

I proved that my fight was fixed along with numerous other prize fights on audio and visual surveillance. I also used my reputation in the organized crime family and the boxing community to plant an agent deep into the inner sanctuary of boxing's corrupt world, posing as my mob cousin "Big Frankie," from New Your's Gambino Crime Family. I reiterate that all that was asked of me was fully completed and nothing was lost in translation. As the FBI pulled my strings, dangling freedom in front of me, I danced like a marionette. Then, after securing the implementation of the agent into the boxing fold, I was deemed expendable and cast aside. Yet I was kept under contract and paid well over six figures until their ultimate betrayal and my return to this living hell, not knowing when I will be killed. I have finally completed my manuscript and reach out for both legal and literary representation on a daily basis.

Please take the time to peruse all of the facts. For even Stevie Wonder could see that something is very wrong with this picture. You can view the government's subterfuge by Googling @ Boxer Joey Torres. Possibly then you will ponder why I am back in prison and not being protected? Where are my protection and freedom? Why, after three years, has not one person been charged after millions of dollars were spent on this operation that Senator McCain was fixated on? I bargained my life and freedom based on a promise of that freedom. I kept my part of the deal per contractual agreement. If I am not used as a witness, then how can the FBI be permitted to expose - yet not protect - me? I need your help in this saga and in exposing the FBI for the true criminals that they are. I read stories about how I do not speak English and read quotes from my parents who have been dead for decades! I have been made out to be the "usual suspect" as McCain and others brush this investigation far away. This is a story that needs to be sold and then told to the world.

In closing, I ask of you to request my manuscript and assist me in exposing the corrupt FBI, and have them be made accountable. I am a good man who thought that he was doing the right thing to clean up the sport that he loved. But, mainly I did what I did for the guarantee of Freedom. The things a man will do for his freedom no one can imagine until it is held over his head.

I thank you for your time on this matter and can only hope that this remarkable story will come to fruition. Stay positive and keep your left up.

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