“Slap on the Wrist” Was the Only Thing ZeroDarkTony Got Right About the Krackhead Kenny Case

Exhibit A

D’Amato describes the plea outcome, saying Brooks “pled guilty to, you know, a couple, two or three charges of harassment,” pays a fine, and calls the result a “slap on the wrist” because “the judge had a good weekend.”

The Cambria County docket shows one guilty plea. Brooks pleaded guilty to a single summary offense under 18 Pa.C.S. Section 2709(a)(3), engaging in a course of conduct with no legitimate purpose. The two actual harassment charges filed against him, misdemeanor counts under Section 2709(a)(4) and (a)(7), were withdrawn the same day. He did not plead guilty to “a couple, two or three” harassment charges. He pleaded guilty to one offense, and it was not graded as a misdemeanor at all. Summary is Pennsylvania’s lowest tier of criminal offense, below misdemeanor entirely, not a lesser class within it. It’s more or less equivalent to a speeding ticket.

Exhibit B

The updated Cambria County criminal docket, MJ-47305-CR-0000160-2026, printed the day of the plea. Both harassment misdemeanors, Section 2709(a)(4) and (a)(7), are marked “Withdrawn.” The summary offense under Section 2709(a)(3) is marked “Move to Non-Traffic,” the mechanism by which it was moved to its own docket for the plea.

Exhibit C

The companion non-traffic docket, MJ-47305-NT-0000293-2026, shows the single disposition entered against Brooks: a guilty plea to the Section 2709(a)(3) summary offense, entered in person on September 8, 2026.

D’Amato’s claim that “they have like different classes of misdemeanors, different” compounds the error rather than correcting it. Brooks was not convicted of a misdemeanor of any class. What is on his record is a summary offense, a different and lower category than misdemeanor, not a smaller misdemeanor grade.

His repetition of the felony framing, “seven years… upgraded to a felon,” repeats a claim HNZ already corrected after D’Amato’s September 3 broadcast covering the same case. There was never a felony version of either original charge available under Pennsylvania law. Both counts were graded as third-degree misdemeanors from the day they were filed, not pending a felony determination, and no felony enhancement applies to either subsection Brooks was charged under. Our correction to him was public six days before this broadcast aired. D’Amato repeated the seven-year framing anyway.

D’Amato also stated, “He did not disclose that he pled guilty to a few of the charges.”

Since Brooks pleaded guilty to one charge, not “a few,” there is nothing matching D’Amato’s version to disclose. The docket shows a single guilty plea entered in person on September 8 for a summary offense.

He stated. “Now he’s got two more, three, two or three more offenses on his record.”

The docket shows the opposite. One offense appears on Brooks’s record from this case, the summary conviction. The two misdemeanor counts were withdrawn and do not appear as convictions.

Bottom Line

D’Amato correctly described the case as resolved without a trial and the financial penalty as modest. Nearly every other specific claim in this segment, the number of charges Brooks pleaded to, their grading, what is now on his record, the felony exposure repeated from a prior broadcast, does not match the public docket. The correct information, the misdemeanor withdrawal and the single summary plea, was a matter of public record before this stream aired. 

Whether this is a failure to read, a deliberate lie, or something else entirely, the record once again doesn’t back up what Zero Dark Tony told his audience.

Sources

• Original YouTube Video
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• Date: 2026-09-08
• Stream ID: YOUTUBE · kM-jCca2jW8

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