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SENATOR BRAD HOYLMAN, ESQ.
RUNNING TO BE MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT

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2013
Hoylman as Ranking Member
of Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations

June 4, 2013 letter --
"DOING YOUR PART TO END PUBLIC CORRUPTION:
PART  III:  Request for Legislative Oversight, Analysis and Investigation
of CJA’s April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney Bharara and, specifically:

              (1) of Chapter 567 of the Laws of 2010, as written and applied 
as to which, to date, there has been no oversight, analysis, and 
investigation; and
         (2) of the Commission on Judicial Conduct & court-controlled attorney disciplinary system –
as to which, in 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee held oversight hearings that were aborted,
with no analysis, investigation, findings, or committee report of the document-supported testimony of witnesses
"

CJA's December 17, 2013 e-mail --

"Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty
to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

December 11, 2013 letter webpage

cc:  CJA's December 18, 2013 e-mail --
"Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty
to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

 

2014
Hoylman as Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Investigations
& Gov't Operations & Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee

CJA's January 8, 2014 e-mail --
"'Following the Money': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets
for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"  
enclosure-Jan 7 letter


CJA's January 14, 2014 letter --
"Vindicating the Public's Rights under Article VII, 1 of the NYS Constitution
& Legislative Law S32-a: (1) request to testify at the Legislature's joint budget hearings
in opposition to the proposed Judiciary & Legislative budgets;
(2) request for information/records as to the process, if any,
by which the Legislature's proposed budget was compiled"

CJA's February 26, 2014 e-mail --
"Tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting -- AGENDA"

CJA's March 4, 2014 letter --
"Your Constitutional Duty:
        (1) to address the evidence of fraud and unconstitutionality
in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets –
and in the materially-divergent Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551,
which, in violation of Senate and Assembly Rules, has no fiscal note
or introducer’s memorandum supporting it; 
(2) to address the $270,000 and other appropriations, embedded in the Executive Budget,
for a demonstrably corrupt Commission to Investigate Public Corruption"


2016
Hoylman as Ranking Member of Senate Committee on Investigations
& Gov't Operations 
& Member of Senate Judiciary Committee

cc: CJA's January 15, 2016 letter --
"IMMEDIATE OVERSIGHT REQUIRED:
              (1) The Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation and
its statute-repudiating, fraudulent, and unconstitutional December 24, 2015 Report
with “force of law” judicial salary recommendations;
            
(2) The Senate Judiciary Committee’s January 20, 2016 public hearing
to confirm the nomination of Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore as New York’s Chief Judge –
and the deceptive public notice concealing that oral testimony
is restricted to the nominee and bar associations"

VIDEO:  January 21, 2016 meeting of Gov't Operations Committee:     
HOYLMAN: "This is really the government accountability committee...  "

 cc: CJA's Jan. 28, 2016 letter --
"To Which Committee(s) Have You Assigned Oversight of the Dec. 24, 2015 Report
of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation...?"

cc: CJA's January 28, 2016 letter --
"The Legislature’s February 4, 2016 “Public Protection” Budget Hearing
:  
"Your scrutiny of the Judiciary’s two-part budget and
of the Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6401/A.9001,
embodying the Judiciary’s discrepant “single budget bill”

 

CJA's February 19, 2016 letter --
"Preventing Yet Another 'Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc':
(1) Did you furnish my e-mails to ALL your committee members, as requested?;
(2) What are your findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to my particularized showing
that the latest round of judicial salary increases & this year’s Judiciary & Legislative budgets
& the Governor’s materially discrepant Budget Bill #S.6401/A.9001 are statutorily-violative,
unconstitutional, and fraudulent?"

cc:  CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail --
"Restoring constitutionality and lawfulness to NY's budgeting process --
& overriding the "force of law" judicial pay raises"  

 

2017
Hoylman as Ranking Member of Senate Committee on Investigations
& Gov't Operations AND Senate Judiciary Committee
 

CJA's January 18, 2017 e-mail to Scheduler for Hoylman
attaching: 
 completed meeting request form of Hoylman 
                    & completed meeting request form of SJC Chair

CJA's January 19, 2017 e-mail to Scheduler for Investig & Govt Ops Chair

VIDEO:
CJA's testimony at the Legislature's Jan. 30, 2017 budget hearing
on "local gov't officials /general gov't"

VIDEO:
CJA's testimony at the Legislature's Jan. 31, 2017 budget hearing
 on "public protection"

cc: CJA's February 6, 2017 letter --
(1) Where are your appointments to the Commission on Government Administration
and to the Commission on State-Local Relations, required by Legislative Law Article 5-A?;
       (2) When will you be responding to my requests for a meeting for purposes of preventing
a repeat of the constitutional, statutory, and legislative rule violations
chronicled by the September 2, 2016 verified complaint in CJA’s citizen-taxpayer action?
"   

cc: CJA's February 7, 2017 e-mail --
"Thank you -- Meeting Request
"

VIDEO: February 14, 2017 meeting of Senate Investig & Gov't Ops Committee

CJA's July 27, 2017 e-mail --
"AGAIN: Meeting request to Senator Hoylman as ranking member
of the Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations AND the Senate Judiciary Committee"

CJA's September 13, 2017 e-mail --
"YET AGAIN:  Meeting request to Senator Hoylman as
ranking member of the Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations
AND the Senate Judiciary Committee"

CJA's December 20, 2017 e-mail --
"AND YET AGAIN: Meeting request to Senator Hoylman as ranking member
of the Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations AND the Senate Judiciary Committee"

cc: CJA's December 22, 2017 e-mail --
"Request for a meeting, as soon as possible, to discuss the Judiciary budget -- & other issues within the Judiciary Committee's jurisdiction"

 

2018
Hoylman as Ranking Member of Senate Committee on Investigations
& Gov't Operations AND Senate Judiciary Committee

VIDEO:
CJA's Testimony
at Legislature's January 30, 2018 "public protection" budget hearing

VIDEO:
CJA's Testimony at the Legislature's February 5, 2018 budget hearing
on "Local Government Officials/General Government"


2019
Hoylman as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee

CJA's February 28, 2019 e-mail --
"RE:  AGENDA: Judiciary budget & budget for the Commission on Judicial Conduct
for Fiscal Year 2019-2020"

CJA's July 15, 2019 letter-NOTICE
"Your Duty to Void the December 10, 2018 Report of the Committee
on Legislative and Executive Compensation that Boosted Your Salaries"

 

2020
Hoylman as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee

CJA's January 30, 2020 e-mail --
"Judicial corruption involving the NYS Attorney General --
& the budget bills for fiscal year 2020-2021 pertaining thereto"

CJA's February 11, 2020 e-mail --
"'Public Protection' Budget Hearing --
Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Marks"


February 12, 2012 e-mail -- 
"Today's..."  & here

click here for:  Questions for Marks & webpage

CJA's February 12, 2020 e-mail
"Legislative & Judiciary Budgets -- & Legislative/Judiciary Budget Bill #7501/9501:
Questions for Stewart-Cousins, Heastie -- & for Marks"

click here for: CJA's Questions for Stewart-Cousins/Heastie & webpage

CJA's February 19, 2020 e-mail to SJC Chair Hoylman --
Request for Committee review & determination of Feb. 18, 2030 letter to Governor --
& Questions for Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heastie
& for Chief Administrative Judge Marks"

cc:  CJA's September 21, 2020 e-mail to NYC press --
"Informing the Voters with EVIDENCE:  Manhattan Elections 2020:
public corruption/grand jury complaint vs Manhattan's 18 state legislators --
ALL running for re-election -- which Manhattan D.A. Vance is 'sitting on'"

CJA's June 9, 2020 grand jury/public corruption complaint
to Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr. vs Hoylman, etc.


2021
CJA's February 8, 2021 "required written testimony"
for the Legislature's February 10, 2021 "public protection" budget hearing

VIDEO --
CJA's oral testimony at February 10, 2021 "public protection" budget hearing

(last witness)

CJA's (written) oral testimony

CJA's March 5, 2021 conflict-of-interest/ethics complaint vs Hoylman to JCOPE & LEC --
(1) Conflict-of-interest/ethics complaint vs Governor Cuomo, Lieutenant Governor Hochul, Attorney General James, Comptroller DiNapoli, and all 213 state legislators...for their Public Officers Law §74 violations in perpetuating statutorily-violative, fraudulent, and unconstitutional pay raises for themselves and other self-serving violations of their offices, as particularized, with EVIDENCE, by 62 grand jury/public corruption complaints filed with New York’s 62 district attorneys – most importantly with Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares; (2) NOTICE OF INTENT to bring mandamus/Article 78 proceeding"


Hoylman's June 2021 rigging of two Senate confirmations of judges to the NY Court of Appeals,
abetted by the Senate Judiciary Committee's members

2022
CJA's January 22, 2022 written testimony in support of oral testimony

CJA's (written) Oral Testimony

VIDEO of hearing

CJA's June 6, 2022 verified petition --
CJA v. JCOPE, et al.
-- (
Albany Co. #904235-22)



2023
CJA's Testimony for the Legislature's
February 7, 2023 "Public Protection" Budget Hearing


CJA's Testimony for Legislature's February 15, 2023 
"Local Government Officials/General Government"

Budget Hearing


April 16-17 2023 Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmations
to the NY Court of Appeals of Rowan Wilson as Chief Judge
& Caitlin Halligan as Associate Judge


Senate Judiciary Committee's
November 1, 2023 Oversight Hearing
of Family Courts

 

2024
CJA's January 18, 2024 Opposition Report to the December 4, 2023 Report on Judicial Compensation
of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation

CJA's Jan 19, 2024 e-mail to Senate Judiciary Committee --
"Judiciary Budget ALERT: $34.6M at pp. 18-19 of Budget Bill #S.8301/A.8801 must be stricken,
as it is the product of statutory violations & fraud by the Commission on Legislative,
Judicial & Executive Compensation"

CJA's Jan 25, 2024 e-mail to Senate Judiciary Committee, etc --
"Today's 'public protection' budget hearing -- & your questioning
of Chief Administrative Judge Zayas &
Commission on Judicial Conduct Administrator Tembeckjian"

CJA's written testimony for January 25, 2024 "public protection" budget hearing

CJA's written testimony for February 6, 2024"local gov't officials/general gov't" budget hearing

CJA's March 18, 2024 verified petition --
CJA v. Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation...Senate, et al.
(Albany Co. #902654-24)

 

2025
CJA's February 3, 2025 Opposition Report
to the November 14, 2024 Report on Legislative and Executive Compensation
of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation

 



 

 

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