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Public statement source · YT624
Corrupt Judge WIPES HIS BUTT with my Lawsuit!!!
The caption's BaseBodyWorks is the tracked defendant Based Bodyworks Inc (D0037) / Based Bodyworks LLC (D0038), confirmed live in src/data/aliases.csv this session [AGENT-VERIFIED], and the speaker confirms in his own words that he filed suit against it ("Even filing a lawsuit myself") — which matches C034 (Lackawanna 2026-01160) and its removed federal counterpart C065 (M.D. Pa. 3:26-cv-00835). The actor throughout the toilet-paper passage is the judge, not the speaker: "*The judge* took it to the bathroom and wiped his ass with it. That's what *this judge* did with my paperwork. Literally br
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Moderate pattern relevanceFiling announced or confirmedJudicial or forum bias alleged00:00
I've been saying that BaseBodyWorks is corrupt and evil and has made God knows how many millions of dollars these past few years. Even filing a lawsuit myself, which got me to check up on that. And it's funny because they're just trying to get the case thrown out. The judge took it to the bathroom and wiped his ass with it. That's what this judge did with my paperwork. Literally brought it into their chambers and used it as toilet paper.
The caption's BaseBodyWorks is the tracked defendant Based Bodyworks Inc (D0037) / Based Bodyworks LLC (D0038), confirmed live in src/data/aliases.csv this session [AGENT-VERIFIED], and the speaker confirms in his own words that he filed suit against it ("Even filing a lawsuit myself") — which matches C034 (Lackawanna 2026-01160) and its removed federal counterpart C065 (M.D. Pa. 3:26-cv-00835). The actor throughout the toilet-paper passage is the judge, not the speaker: "*The judge* took it to the bathroom and wiped his ass with it. That's what *this judge* did with my paperwork. Literally brought it into *their chambers* and used it as toilet paper." It is figurative — a rhetorical characterisation of how his filing was treated, not a factual report of observed judicial conduct, and it must not be promoted as one — but it is unambiguously a bias allegation against the presiding judge. Tiered Moderate, not Strong: no core factor is present (see the tier note below).
Context pattern relevanceJudicial or forum bias alleged00:24
It's comical, dude. And I always request a jury trial in the initial complaint. And that's your amendment right. You have an amendment right to a jury trial. They can't deny you due process, but you're not you're not in the club. These people don't care about you. They'll do whatever they want. Who's Who's going to stop a judge from doing whatever they want? Nothing. They're going to dismiss the case. They're not going to give me anything.
A first-person description of his own standing pleading practice — "I always request a jury trial in the initial complaint" — across his filings generally, not this case specifically. That is a self-reported habit of pleading, but it describes a *clause he includes*, not a count of actions, so it does not reach Self-reported filing volume. He calls the jury-trial guarantee an "amendment right" twice — i.e. a constitutional amendment (the Seventh), in his own idiom; the phrase is kept exactly as captioned and is not normalised to "constitutional right." The remainder is generalised judicial-bias commentary about courts as a closed "club." No case, court or ruling is named in this segment. The caption's stutters ("you're not you're not", "Who's Who's") are preserved.
Moderate pattern relevanceAdverse outcome describedJudicial or forum bias alleged00:47
He's recommending that oh, your claims are invalid and further amendment is futile, which is we don't care. We own this system and you can't do about it, you know? Go figure.
The speaker describes a judicial officer having recommended against him, and does so in the terms of art themselves — "He's *recommending* that oh, your *claims are invalid* and *further amendment is futile*." "Recommending," plus "claims are invalid," plus "further amendment is futile," is the standard shape of a magistrate judge's Report & Recommendation recommending dismissal and denying leave to amend as futile. [AGENT-VERIFIED that this exact vocabulary is how the dataset itself records such rulings: court_findings.csv carries Appeal expressly deemed frivolous; amendment futile for C044 and Repeated previously rejected legal theory / amendment futile (R&R) for C055.] Which order he means remains [UNCONFIRMED] — he names no court, docket, date or judge, and no such recommendation is verifiable in the public record for C065/C034 (see Research Notes). So this is a party statement about an order that cannot be independently confirmed. Tiered Moderate: he describes an adverse outcome but announces no new or repeat filing in response to it, so no core factor applies.
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2026-01160 — Tufano v. Based BodyworksTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: [0:00]–[0:24] — Names the tracked defendant, confirms his own filing, and alleges the judge used his paperwork as toilet paper
3:26-cv-00835 — Tufano v. Based Bodyworks, LLC et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: [0:00]–[0:24] — Names the tracked defendant, confirms his own filing, and alleges the judge used his paperwork as toilet paper