INCUMBENTS CHALLENGING INCUMBENTS

Deputy Senate Majority Leader
JOHN DeFRANCISCO

"There are no hidden things to know about John DeFrancisco"
spokesman William O'Reilly, quoted in "Marc Molinaro wins support to lock up GOP nomination for NY governor", Syracuse Post-Standard, March 16, 2018 (Mark Weiner)

Correct! --
Here's what took place, NOT "hidden", but in plain sight --

Chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee --

summed up by paragraphs 38-42
of CJA's March 30, 2012 verified complaint
in declaratory judgment action, suing the Legislature
& the other two government branches --
& its referred-to exhibits  

underlying record proof: 

January 2003 --
Chairman DeFrancisco's corrupting
of the "merit selection" process confirmation of SUSAN READ

January 23, 2003
"DeFrancisco quiets a critic"
Syracuse Post-Standard  (Erik Kriss)

January 27, 2003
"A Flawed Process:
judicial nominees should be subject to more public scrutiny"
Syracuse Post-Standard (Editorial)

CJA's March 5, 2003 memo --
"RE: Meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman John A. DeFrancisco,
Monday, March 17th, at 10:30 a.m."
          transmitting "NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC" --
1989 Report of the New York State Comptroller Edward Regan,
with his press release "COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT NEEDS OVERSIGHT" 

                     SEE: final two motions in Elena Ruth Sassower v. Commission --
copies of which were given to Chair DeFrancisco and Ranking Member Malcolm Smith
at March 17, 2003 meeting

January 2004 --
Chairman DeFrancisco's corrupting
 of the "merit selection" process confirmation of ROBERT SMITH

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"Refusal to Apologize Costs Judicial Watchdog 6 Months",
New York Law Journal, front page, July 8, 2004

"New York state Senator John DeFrancisco, who as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is familiar with Ms. Sassower, said her sentence might be too harsh, but he could understand why a judge might impose it. 'l think it is highly unusual, but I think it is also highly unusual when a judge is leaning toward community service for a person to challenge a judge,' said Mr. DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse. 'lt got to the point when she finally challenged the wrong person.'
When Mr. DeFrancisco was just a member of the committee and not its chairman, he said, Ms. Sassower tried to testify at confirmation hearings but was never allowed to. When he became chairman, he said, he wanted to give her a chance. 'She came with boxes and boxes of material on a dolly,' he said. 'When she refused to stop talking on irrelevant, immaterial issues, I told her we would have to cut her off.'"

PRIOR COURT OF APPEALS CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
WHEN DeFRANCISCO WAS A MEMBER:

December 1998: ALBERT M. ROSENBLATT  

November 2000: VICTORIA A. GRAFFEO

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September 2006 --
Chairman DeFrancisco's corrupting
of the "merit selection" process confirmation of EUGENE PIGGOTT, Jr.


February 2007 --
Chairman DeFrancisco's corrupting
of the "merit selection" process confirmation of THEODORE JONES, Jr.


March 2007 --
Chairman DeFrancisco's corrupting
of the "merit selection" process confirmation
of the reappointment of CHIEF JUDGE JUDITH KAYE

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Present at the Senate Judiciary Committee's
June 8, 2009 hearing on the Commission on Judicial Conduct & Court-Controlled Attorney Disciplinary System:

click here for:  VIDEO & transcript
present until 1 hr-37 mins.

Chairing the Senate Finance Committee --
-- under construction --

CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Senate Finance Committee Chair DeFrancisco --
"RE: February 6, 2013 Joint Legislative Hearing on 'Public Protection': The Legislature’s Mandatory Duty to Override the Judiciary’s Request for “funding for the next phase of the judicial salary increase”, in Discharge of its Checks-and-Balance Constitutional Function"

VIDEO
CJA's testimony before DeFrancisco at Legislature's February 6, 2013 budget hearing -- & EVIDENCE handed-up in substantiation

     see: 
subsequent Feb-April 2013 correspondence to which Chair DeFrancisco was a recipient --
Securing Legislative Oversight & Override...

THE ON-GOING CORRUPTION OF
THE STATE BUDGET
 

CJA's March 23, 2016 verified second supplemental complaint --
1st citizen-taxpayer action
(fiscal year 2016-2017) 

See 13th Cause of Action, Part E: pp. 63-67 (paras. 413-423), reciting Senator DeFrancisco's fraud in connection with the introduction & passage of the bill to create a Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation -- Budget Bill #S.4610-A/2015 -- substantiated by Exhibit 35
&  VIDEO of March 31, 2015 Senate Finance Committee meeting, voting on S.4610-A] 

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