SUBSTANTIATING EVIDENTIARY WEBPAGE for July ALERT-STORY PROPOSAL Lawyer Salaries -- Buffalo, NY payscale  $63,835 zip recruiter -- $76,525  indeed -- $83,220 salary.com -- $92,293 Erie County Budget -- 2020 SALARIES: District Attorney: $210,900  (at p. 241) County Executive: $118,376 (at p. 12) Comptroller: $80,613 (at p. 21) County Clerk: $79,092 (at p. 368) Sheriff: $79,092 (at p. 251)   Erie County Bar Association -- Criminal Law Committee SUNY/Buffalo Law School New York State Constitution, Article I, §6: "...any public officer who, upon being called before a grand jury to testify concerning the conduct of his or her present office or of any public office held by him or her within five years prior to such grand jury call to testify, or the performance of his or her official duties in any such present or prior offices, refuses to sign a waiver of immunity against subsequent criminal prosecution, or to answer any relevant question concerning such matters before such grand jury, shall by virtue of such refusal, be disqualified from holding any other public office or public employment for a period of five years from the date of such refusal to sign a waiver of immunity against subsequent prosecution, or to answer any relevant question concerning such matters before such grand jury, and shall be removed from his or her present office by the appropriate authority or shall forfeit his or her present office at the suit of the attorney-general. The power of grand juries to inquire into the wilful misconduct in office of public officers, and to find indictments or to direct the filing of informations in connection with such inquiries, shall never be suspended or impaired by law..." New York Criminal Procedure Law, Article 190 -- "Grand Jury & its Proceedings"   AVAILABLE INFO ON PARTY ENDORSEMENTS -- SAM Party endorsements -- Flynn Working Families Party endorsements -- Flynn SAM Party's PLATFORM of "TRANSPARENCY. ACCOUNTABILITY. COMPETITION"  SAM Party's MISSION: "FIX THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION" website -- Erie County DA Flynn   Public Integrity Unit D.A. Flynn's June 19, 2020 press conference D.A. Flynn's June 30, 2020 press conference ------- Reporting on the 2020 Erie Co. district attorney race -- November 27, 2019 "Erie County DA holds re-election kickoff event" WIBV-4 January 13, 2020 "Some facts, observations, and heard-on-the-streets" Buffalo Rising (Ken Kruly) February 7, 2020 "Erie County Democrats Endorse Flynn for District Attorney" Spectrum News February 13, 2020 "GOP backs Democrat Flynn for DA, Szalkowski, Wolfgang for Assembly" Buffalo News (Robert McCarthy) February 27, 2020 "Peter Reese keeps quiet about rumors of a run for Erie County district attorney" Buffalo Chronicle   Illustrative Reporting on June 15, 2020 complaint -- June 18, 2020 "Erie County DA receives complaint against Senator Chris Jacobs for alleged voter, election fraud" WIVB-News 4 (Dave Greber) June 18, 2020 "NY-27: Complaint Alleges Jacobs Committed Voter Fraud" Spectrum (Ryan Whalen) June 18, 2020 "Erie County DA reviewing complaint of alleged voter fraud by Chris Jacobs" WBEN June 18, 2020 "DA reviewing voter fraud complaint against Jacobs" Buffalo News (Jerry Zremski) June 19, 2020 "'I'm not going to get played': Flynn says no voter fraud charges against Jacobs" Buffalo News (Jerry Zremski) June 19, 2020 "Chris Jacobs cleared of voter fraud complaint" WGRZ-TV 2 ON YOUR SIDE June 19, 2020 "District Attorney Flynn: No charges in Jacobs complaint" WGRZ-TV 2 ON YOUR SIDE June 19, 2020 "Flynn won't file charges against Jacobs in fraud case" WBEN June 19, 2020 "No Charges Against Jacobs Following Complaint Alleging Voter Fraud" Spectrum News June 19, 2020 "Erie County DA says he feels his office was 'used' in filing of complaint against Chris Jacobs" Batavian "Erie County DA John Flynn Dismisses Criminal Investigation Into Chris Jacobs" Genesee Sun (Robert Delena) June 22, 2020 "A unique race to play out in New York's 27th Congressional District" WIVB-News 4 (Dave Greber) Illustrative Reporting on Buffalo Police Brutality Case -- June 26, 2020 "Special Prosecutor Appointed to Investigate Actions of BPD During Quentin Scuttles' Arrest" Spectrum June 26, 2020 "DA wants out of police brutality case" Investigative Post (Ali Ingersoll) June 28, 2020 "Investigative Post Exclusive: Erie County District Attorney wants to be recused from arrest investigation" WGRZ-TV 2 ON YOUR SIDE  (Ali Ingersoll) June 30, 2020 "Special prosecutor appointed to investigate Suttles arrest" Buffalo News (Keith McShea) June 30, 2020 "Special prosecutor appointed to investigte the actions of BPD officers in Quentin Suttles case" WGRZ-TV 2 ON YOUR SIDE June 30, 2020 "DA Flynn says special prosecutor will investigate police officers involved in Suttles case" WBFO-NPR (Michael Mroziack) June 30, 2020 "Monroe County prosecutors to investigate BPD case" WBEN-930 am (Tom Puckett) July 3, 2020 "Monroe prosecutor to review forcible arrest in Buffalo" Democrat & Chronicle-AP  July 10, 2020 "Special Prosecutor to Investigate Police During Quentin Suttles Arrest" Buffalo Chronicles * * * Illustrative Buffalo News reporting on "fusion voting" March 4, 2019 "State Democrats call for end to 'fusion voting'" Buffalo News (Robert McCarthy) March 7, 2019 "Editorial: Abolish fusion voting" Buffalo News March 10, 2019 "Fusion voting seems safe -- for now" Buffalo News (Robert McCarthy) March 14, 2019 "Letter: Editorial is wrong to call for an end to fusion voting" Buffalo News (Ellen Kennedy) July 27, 2019 "Feuding over fusion voting..." Buffalo News (Robert McCarthy) August 10, 2019 "Another Voice: Fusion voting ain't broke; NY doesn't need to fix it" Buffalo News (Chris McNickel) August 18, 2019 "State Supreme Court judicial cross-endorsements leave voters in the cold" Buffalo News (Phil Fairbanks) September 14, 2019 "Fusion voting's future is at stake" Buffalo News (Robert McCarthy) October 29, 2019 "Many in favor of public campaign financing in NY -- but disagree on fusion voting" Buffalo News (Sandra Tan) November 30, 2019 "Zellner emerging as top Democratic contender for Schimminger's seat" Buffalo News (Robert McCarthy) November 14, 2019 "Another Voice: New York attacks minor parties by dishonest means" Buffalo News (Richard Winger) November 21, 2019 "State panel closing in on new taxpayer-funded public campaign finance system" Buffalo News (Tom Precious) "'It has been a long time since New York State has reconsidered so many of the by now ancient rules and regulations that play a large role in governing our electoral process,' said Assemblyman Charles Lavine, a Nassau County Democrat and chairman of the Assembly's election law committee." November 25, 2019 "$100M taxpayer-funded public campaign finance system moves one step closer to law" Buffalo News (Tom Precious) December 13, 2019 "Fate of fusion voting at stake as minor parties press court case in Niagara County" Buffalo News (Tom Prohaska) "Attorneys for the Democratic majorities in the Senate and Assembly say there are precedents allowing the Legislature to delegate its decisions to commissions.  A 2007 ruling allowed the Berger Commission to order closure of hospitals and nursing hokmes, and a case last year allowed a commission to set salaries for elected state officials and judges, said Craig R. Bucki, who represents the Assembly.  But those commissions were assigned to relatively narrow jobs, said Hawrylchak, the Assembly's Republican minority lawyer." December 26, 2019 "A campaign finance panel's oaths were signed after the deadline.  Will it matter?" Buffalo News (Tom Prohaska) March 12, 2020 "A judge preserves fusion voting, negates public dollars for campaigns" Buffalo News  (Robert McCarthy) * * * ----------------------------- Past Press UNDATED "Erie County District Attorney Race Offers Choice" WBFO-NPR (Joyce Kryszak)  November 9, 2016 "John Flynn is Your Next Erie County District Attorney" Spectrum News * * * November 2, 2018 "Missing Maziarz Funds Remains a Mystery" Investigative Post (Jim Heaney)   --