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OUTING CORRUPT & COLLUSIVE INCUMBENTS 
& Ending their Road to Re-Election & Higher Office -- WITH EVIDENCE

"...the deafening silence of the many individuals...who learned of...criminal activity being conducted
in the...Capitol and elsewhere, and...said nothing.  No one made a call.  No one blew the whistle.  No one sounded the alarm.

US Attorney Preet Bharara, April 4, 2013

 

INCUMBENT GOVERNOR & DEFENDANT
ANDREW M. CUOMO


1.
WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT HIMSELF, circa 2018 --

his governor's website: https://www.governor.ny.gov/
-- MISSING FROM HIS ISSUES:  "Public Trust"; "Public Integrity", "Fighting Gov't Corruption"

his campaign website: https://andrewcuomo.com/  
click here for his paltry
"Record of Success -- Restoring Public Trust" --
missing, for example, is his "Commission to Investigate Public Corruption"

2.
REALITY CHECK
:
CJA's THREE LAWSUITS, "on behalf of the People of the State of New York & the Public Interest",
SUING CUOMO for CORRUPTION & "GRAND LARCENY OF THE PUBLIC FISC" pertaining to judicial & district attorney salary increases -- & his "on-time" budgets


RECORD:  CJA's declaratory judgment action
CJA v. Cuomo,...Schneiderman, DiNapoli...
(Bronx Co. #302951-2012; NY Co. #401988-2012)

RECORD:  CJA's FIRST citizen-taxpayer action
CJA v. Cuomo,...Schneiderman, DiNapoli 
(Albany Co. #1788-2014)

RECORD:  CJA's SECOND citizen-taxpayer action
CJA v. Cuomo,...Schneiderman, DiNapoli...
(Albany Co. #5122-2016)

 

PLUS --
A FOURTH LAWSUIT --

CJA's INTERVENTION,
"on behalf of the People of the State of New York & the Public Interest",
in the "Legislature's" declaratory judgment action vs.
the Cuomo-Schneiderman-rigged Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, defended by Schneiderman


RECORD:  CJA's INTERVENTION
Senate, Assembly... v. Rice...Commission to Investigate Public Corruption

(NY Co. #160941-2013)

3.
ILLUSTRATIVE UNDERLYING CORRESPONDENCE
 
& CORRUPTION & ETHICS COMPLAINTS vs GOVERNOR CUOMO
[unabridged VIDEO & documentary trail:  HERE]


CJA's May 23, 2011 letter to Governor Cuomo... --
"RE:  (1) NYS's Commission on Judicial Compensation -- Inoperative & Inaccessible to the Public; (2) Evidence Disentitling NYS's Judiciary to Increased Compensation, Presented and Proffered by the Public at the NYS Senate Judiciary Committee's June 8, 2009 and September 24, 2009 Public Hearings -- as to which There Has Been No Investigation, No Findings, and No Committee Report"

click here for VIDEO & transcripts of 2009 NYS Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct & court-controlled attorney disciplinary system

CJA's June 23, 2011 transmittal letter to Governor Cuomo -- 
"RE:  (1) Bringing Public Accessibility, Input, and Accountability to the Judicial Compensation Commission -- Facilitated by the Open Meetings Law & Executive Order #3; and  (2) Chairman Thompson's Disqualifying Conflict of Interest, Requiring his Resignation" --
  
 click here for
CJA's draft statement & substantiating documentary evidence prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee's (aborted) December 16, 2009 hearing

CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report,
addressed to Governor Cuomo...

hand-delivered to his executive office in NYC on October 27, 2011


CJA's March 2, 2012 letter to Governor Cuomo...
"RE: YOUR FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW:  Protecting the People of this State & the Public Purse from Judicial Pay Raises that are Unconstitutional, Unlawful & Fraudulent"

     Ex. A:  Executive Summary of CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
     Ex. B:  CJA's November 29, 2011 complaint to Attorney General Schneiderman's Public Integrity Bureau & its December 7, 2011 determination that "complaint does not warrant action by this office at this time"
     Ex. C:  AG Schneiderman's website info as to partnership with Comptroller DiNapoli "to investigate public corruption involving taxpayer funds"; May 23, 2011 NYT article "Accord with Comptroller Will Help Attorney General Pursue Corruption Cases"; May 30, 2011 Albany Times Union article "AG, comptroller partnership a no-brainer
"

    Ex. D:  CJA's March 1, 2012 complaint to Comptroller DiNapoli's Investigations Uni


CJA's March 28, 2012 e-mail to Governor Cuomo... --
"Subject: GIVING NOTICE: Lawsuit being commenced to stop the judicial pay raises"

CJA's March 29, 2012 e-mail to Governor Cuomo... -- "
Subject: VERIFIED COMPLAINT & OSC for STAY with TRO: Lawsuit vs Unconstitutional, Unlawful & Fraudulent Judicial Pay Raises"
                    

CJA's March 30, 2012 verified complaint
in declaratory judgment action
 

CJA's April 5, 2012 transmitting letter to Governor Cuomo
"Service is hereby made...In view of the serious and substantial nature of this lawsuit,
detailing and documenting the collusion of New York State's highest constitutional officers and three branches of government against the People of New York --
and because Attorney General Schneiderman is a party, disqualified for interest --
please have these papers reviewed by independent counsel, whose name we hereby request"

      
CJA's February 1, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"
RE: Discharging Your Constitutional Duty with Respect to the Judiciary Budget Request for Funding of the Judicial Salary Increases Recommended by the August 29, 2011 'Final' Report of the Special Commission on Judicial Compensation"

VIDEO
of CJA's testimony at
the Legislature's February 6, 2013 "public protection" budget hearing


CJA's March 19, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"RE: 
Assisting the Legislature in Discharging its Constitutional Duty:  The People’s Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget & of the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary & to be Protected from 'Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc' by Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Pay Raises, whose Fraudulence, Statutory-Violations, and Unconstitutionality are Proven by Documentary Evidence in Your Possession & the Legislature’s"       E-MAIL TO GOVERNOR      CJA's February 26, 2013 letter to Budget Director Robert Megna

                
CJA's March 29, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo's Chief of Staff --
"RE: The Governor’s Duty to Disapprove S.2601-A/A.3001-A (Judiciary/Legislative Appropriations Bill)
, Pursuant to Article VII, §4 & Article IV, §7 of the New York State Constitution, Because the Legislature Violated Express Constitutional and Statutory Safeguards, as well as its Own Rules, in Passing It TRANSMITTING E-MAIL

CJA's April 15, 2013 corruption complaint vs Cuomo, et al.
to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (SDNY) 

CJA's May 13, 2013 corruption complaint vs Cuomo, et al
to U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch (EDNY)


CJA's June 13, 2013 corruption complaint vs Cuomo, et al.
to U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian (NDNY)


CJA's June 4, 2013 letter
to Senate Committee on Investigations & Government Operations

& Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation

CJA's June 25, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"RE: Your Duty to Disapprove A.246 (establishing a special commission on compensation of managerial and confidential state employees) and to Use its Return to the Legislature, Pursuant to Article IV, §7 of the New York State Constitution, to Advance the Non-Partisan, Good-Government Legislative Rules Reforms of the 2004, 2006, and 2008 Brennan Center Reports         

CJA's August 21, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo  --
"Achieving BOTH a Properly Functioning Legislature & Your Public Trust Act (Program Bill #3) -- the Sine Qua Non for 'Government Working' & 'Working for the People"

click here for
Rules Reform Resource Page --
including 2004, 2006, 2008 Brennan Center Reports


Senate Rules Reform Resource Page --
including transcripts, videos, & reports
of the 2009 Temporary Senate Committee on Rules & Administration Reform

click here for "Reformer who called NY's Legislature 'dysfunctional'
will be Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ethics czar
" 


VIDEO
of CJA's testimony at the September 17, 2013 hearing
of the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption


CJA's September 25, 2013 e-mail to Governor --
"
NOTICE: The Governor Must NOT Sign A.246 (establishing a special commission on compensation of managerial & confidential state employees)

CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo...
-- "RE:
SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM JUDICIAL FRAUD & LARCENY:  Your Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Entirety of the Judiciary’s Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015, Over & Beyond its Concealed, Unitemized Third Phase of the Judicial Salary Increase that Will Otherwise Take Effect, Automatically, on April 1, 2014" 

CJA's December 30, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"RE: SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM LEGISLATIVE FRAUD & LARCENY
:  Your Duty to Exclude the Legislature’s Proposed Budget from the State Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Because its Absence of Certified Itemized Estimates Violates Article VII, §1 of the NYS Constitution; Alternatively, to Recommend that the Legislature Reject it, or Alter it Based on Certification of Itemized Estimates" 

CJA's January 7, 2014 letters to Governor Cuomo... --  
"RE: 'FOLLOWING THE MONEY' -- The Proposed Judiciary and Legislative Budgets for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 ..." 

CJA's January 7, 2014 supplemental corruption complaint
to Commission to Investigate Public Corruption --
& Albany County District Attorney Soares

 
 

CJA's March 28, 2014 verified complaint --
1st citizen-taxpayer action

(fiscal year 2014-2015)  

CJA's April 23, 2014 INTERVENTION
order to show cause & verified complaint
in "Legislature's" declaratory judgment action vs the Cuomo-Schneiderman-rigged
Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, defended by Schneiderman

CJA's July 11, 2014 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"RE: Getting to First Base in Achieving 'the Dream of Honest Government'

         (1) Rectifying your violation of 'The Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011” by appointing the review committee to evaluate JCOPE that you were required to appoint “No later than June 1, 2014';
        (2) Making public your 'written response', if any, to CJA’s June 27, 2013 ethics complaint against you, filed with JCOPE"     transmitting e-mails  & here

cc CJA's July 18, 2014 letter to Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) --
"RE:
The Record of JCOPE’s Handling of Complaints:       
     (1)
 
Status of CJA’s June 27, 2013 ethics complaint;
     (2)
 
Rectifying your violation of Executive Law §94.9(l)(i) ('The Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011') by supplementing your 2012 and 2013 annual reports with the statutorily-required list of assigned numbers for each complaint and referral, including the status of each complaint."

CJA's December 11, 2014 ethics complaint vs. Cuomo, et al.
to Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE)

CJA's March 31, 2015 verified supplemental complaint --
1st citizen-taxpayer action

(fiscal year 2015-2016)

CJA's June 22, 2015 letter to Governor Cuomo... --
"RE: Enabling
Honest Review by the JCOPE/LEC Review Commission:  Rectifying JCOPE’s violations of Executive Law §94.9(l)(i) by furnishing the statutorily-required yearly 'listing of assigned numbers of each complaint and referral received…including the status of each complaint'”

CJA's October 30, 2015 FOIL/Records Request to Governor Cuomo... --
"RE: Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation"


CJA's March 23, 2016 verified second supplemental complaint --
1st citizen-taxpayer action

(fiscal year 2016-2017) 

CJA's June 21, 2016 second supplemental corruption complaint
to Albany District Attorney Soares

CJA's September 2, 2016 verified complaint --
2nd citizen-taxpayer action

(fiscal year 2016-2017) 

VIDEOS
of CJA's testimony at
Legislature's Jan. 30, 2017 budget hearing
on "local gov't officials/general gov't"
& Jan. 31, 2017 budget hearing on "public protection"

 

CJA's March 29, 2017 verified supplemental complaint --
2nd citizen-taxpayer action

(fiscal year 2017-2018)

--------------------------------------------------

CJA's September 27, 2017 corruption complaint
to US Attorney for the Southern District of New York  --

"for grand larceny of the public fisc & other corrupt acts" 
complaint form-side 1  side 2

 

VIDEO
of CJA's testimony at Legislature's January 30, 2018 budget hearing
 on "public protection" -- & substantiating EVIDENCE


VIDEO
of CJA's testimony at Legislature's February 5, 2018 budget hearing
 on "local government officials/general government -- & substantiating EVIDENCE


CJA's March 6, 2018 corruption complaint
to Albany Co. District Attorney Soares --
Enforcement of "The Public Trust Act" --

Penal Law §496 ('corrupting the government')

 

CJA's May 16, 2018 NOTICE/complaint
to NYS Attorney General Barbara Underwood
& subsequent correspondence

 

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