Paper Trail & Video Proof of the
Corruption of the
Commission on Legislative,
Judicial & Executive Compensation
click here for:
Commission website
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BACKGROUND
--
POOF!
Repeal of Chapter 567 of the Laws of 2010
that had created the Commission on Judicial Compensation & in
its place, Part E, Chapter 60 of the Laws of 2015, creating the
Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation
CJA's October 30, 2015 FOIL/Records
Request
to the Governor, Temporary Senate President, Assembly Speaker,
& Chief Judge -- "RE:
Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation" --
click here for: responses
... The Commission springs to action --
"Hearing
Set on Pay Increases for Judges, Lawmakers",
New York Law
Journal, published on its website, October 31, 2015, for its
November 2, 2015 paper edition
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NY Law Journal Board of Editors
Sheila Birnbaum -- Chair, Commission on
Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation Robert B. Fiske, Jr.
-- Member, Commission on Judicial Compensation
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CJA's NOVEMBER 2, 2015 E-MAILS WITH NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL
CJA's November 2, 2015 e-mail to New York Law Journal --
"Subject: FW: SCARY HALLOWEEN ALERT: NYLJ reports -- 'Hearing Set on
Pay Increases for Judges, Lawmakers'"
included
links: (1) February 6, 2013
testimony at
Legislature’s "public protection" budget hearing:
(last speaker: at 7:21:50 hrs);
(2)
September 17, 2013 testimony before
Commission to Investigate Public Corruption;
(3)
October 14, 2015 testimony before
JCOPE/LEC Review Commission (at
0:44:05 mins.)
CJA's November 2, 2015 e-mail to New York Law Journal --
"Subject:
IMMEDIATE CORRECTION REQUIRED: NYLJ reports -- 'Hearing Set on Pay
Increases for Judges, Lawmakers'"
New York Law Journal's November 2, 2015 e-mail to CJA
"Pay
Raise Panel Schedules Organizational Meeting",
New York Law
Journal, published on its website, November 2, 2015
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PAPER TRAIL of CJA's interaction
with the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive
Compensation
-- & VIDEO PROOF sufficient to indict &
convict its seven Commissioners for corruption
CJA's November 2, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair Birnbaum, etc. --
"Will tomorrow's [meeting] be live-streamed and/or videoed?"
included link:
CJA's webpage posting videos of Commission on Judicial Compensation's July
11, 2011 organizational meeting & July 20, 2011 public hearing
Commission Chair Birnbaum's November 2, 2015 e-mail
CJA's November 3, 2015 e-mail to
Commission Chair Birnbaum, etc.
-- "No Pay Raises for NY's Corrupt Public
Officers -- The Money Belongs to Their Victims!"
link to:
CJA's
October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
click here for:
Commission's November 3, 2015
First Organizational Meeting
Executive Summary &
Opposition Report furnished, directly, to Commission
Chair Birnbaum & to Commissioners Lack, Cozier, & Johnson
CJA's November 3, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair Birnbaum, etc. -- "Request
to Testify at the Compensation Commission's November 30, 2015 Public
Hearing in NYC -- its Sole Hearing on Judicial Compensation"
CJA's November 18, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair Birnbaum, etc.
-- "Video of the Commission's November 3rd organizational
meeting, upstate hearings, & CJA's Oct. 27, 2011 Opposition Report"
attached Nov. 28, 2011 e-mail to Judiciary &
judicial pay raise advocates
Commission Chair Birnbaum's November 18, 2014 e-mail
-- "Re: Video of the Commission's November 3rd organizational
meeting, upstate hearings, & CJA's Oct. 27, 2011 Opposition Report"
CJA's November 18, 2014 e-mail to Chair Birnbaum, etc.
-- "thank you -- Re: Video of the Commission's November 3rd organizational
meeting, upstate hearings, & CJA's Oct. 27, 2011 Opposition Report"
CJA's November 18, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair Birnbaum,
etc.
-- "Informing the Public about the Comission's Nov. 30
Public Hearing on Judicial Compensation & its Opportunity to be Heard"
linked article
"Pay hikes eyed for NY judges,
lawmakers", NY Post, November 18, 2015
Commission's November 19, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair
Birmbaum, etc. -- "Commission Hearing"
Commission's November 25, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair
Birnbaum, etc. -- "Re: Request to testify at the
Compensation Commission's November 30, 2015 Public Hearing in NYC -- its
Sole Hearing on Judicial Compensation"
click here for:
Commission's November 30, 2015
Public Hearing -- & CJA's
Evidence-Supported Testimony
CJA's December 2, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair Birnbaum, etc.
-- "Supplemental Submission"
CJA's December 3, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair Birnbaum, etc.
-- "Corrected/Superseding Supplemental Submission"
December 3, 2015 e-mail from Commission Chair Birnbaum
-- "RE: Corrected/Superseding Supplemental Submission"
CJA's December 2, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair Birnbaum, etc.
-- "thank you -- RE: Corrected/Superseding Supplemental
Submission"
click here for:
CJA's
December 2, 2015 Supplemental Statement:
(1) the absence of ANY evidence that
judicial "compensation & non-salary benefits" are inadequate; (2) the
disqualifying interest & actual bias of Commissioners Cozier, Lack &
Birnbaum
click here for:
Commission's December 7, 2015
First Deliberative Meeting
CJA's December 7, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair
Birnbaum, etc. -- "FOIL/Records Request: Your
media advisory to 100 media outlets throughout the state & wire
services"
December 10, 2015 OCA acknowledgment
CJA's February 24, 2016 e-mail to OCA --
"Subject: STATUS: Dec. 7, 2015 FOIL/Records Request:
'media advisory to 100 media outlets throughout the state &
wire services'"
OCA's March 4, 2016 response
CJA's December 9, 2015 e-mail to Commission Chair Birnbaum, etc.
-- "The Commission's Incomplete Posting of Submissions: CJA's
November 30, 2015 bound written testimony"
attached testimony
Commission's December 9, 2015 e-mail
-- "Re: The Commission's Incomplete Posting of Submissions:
CJA's November 30, 2015 bound written testimony"
CJA's December 9, 2015 e-mail -- "Thank
you..."
CJA's December 10, 2015 e-mail --
"Completing the Commission's Posting of CJA's
Submissions"
CJA's Executive Summary to October 27, 2011 Opposition Report;
CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
Litigation #1 - declaratory judgment action: CJA v. Cuomo I:
March 30, 2012 verified complaint
Litigation #2 -- citizen taxpayer action: CJA v. Cuomo II:
March 28, 2014 verified complaint
March 31, 2015 supplemental verified complaint
November 5, 2015 reply affidavit &
reply memo of law
Litigation #3 -- declaratory judgment action - intervention:
Legislature v. Commission to Investigate Public Corruption:
April 23, 2014 proposed verified complaint
CJA's December 10, 2015 e-mail
-- "THANK YOU & CORRECTION -- Completing the Commission's
Posting of CJA's Submissions"
CJA's December 14, 2015 e-mail
-- "THANK YOU: ALMOST PERFECT -- Completing the Commission's
Posting of CJA's Submissions"
CJA's December 14, 2015 e-mail
-- "THANK YOU: PERFECT!"
click here for:
Commission's December
14, 2015
Second Deliberative Meeting - & Votes
click here for:
CJA's
December 21, 2015 letter to the Commission
-- "Assisting
the Commission in discharging its statutory
duty of 'tak[ing] into account all appropriate factors' as to 'adequate
levels of compensation and
non-salary benefits'" click here
for:
Paper Trail of
Corruption in Civil Court/NY County -- Small Claims Court
click here for:
Commission's Statutorily-Violative,
Fraudulent, Unconstitutional December 24, 2015 Report
CJA's January 4, 2016 FOIL request to Commission --
"FOIL records containing the 'numbers' as to 'real dollars' &
'cost'"
Chair Birnbaum's January 4, 2016 e-mail acknowledgment
CJA's January 5, 2016 e-mail -- "Thank you --"
CJA's February 24, 2016 e-mail -- "STATUS: Jan. 4, 2016
FOIL for records containing the 'numbers' as to 'real dollars' & 'cost'"
OCA's March 4, 2016 response
THE
PAPER TRAIL & VIDEO PROOF OF CORRUPTION CONTINUES with:
NO PAY RAISES
FOR NEW YORK's CORRUPT PUBLIC OFFICERS --
The Money Belongs to Their Victims!
AND the Commission's corruption
continues -- now with regard to legislative and executive
compensation --
CJA's September 22, 2016 e-mail to Commission
CJA's September 22, 2016 e-mail to helpcenter@nycourts.gov
Help Center's September 22, 2016 e-mail
CJA's September 22, 2016 e-mail to Help Center & Commission
The Amazing Roxanne Delgado --
for whom CJA was searching --
and her e-mail exchanges with the Commission, requesting to testify --
September 28, 2016 - October 12, 2016
October 5, 2016: "At
minimum, increase lawmaker pay to match inflation",
Capitol Confidential blog (Matthew Hamilton) "the
commission said it is mulling over holding another public hearing Oct.
18, though just one person — a member of the public at that
— has requested to testify"
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CJA
Director's October 6, 2016 e-mail to Commission --
"October 18,
2016 public hearing? Yes, I request to testify, as I have much to say
and EVIDENCE to back it up!"
CJA Director's October 6, 2016 e-mail to Commission -- "Request to
testify at the Commission's October 18, 2016 public hearing!
October 14, 2016 e-mail from Egidio Sementilli & Louis Rocco,
requesting to testify
Roxanne Delgado's October 14, 2016 e-mail to the Commission,
transmitting
her written statement
Commission's October 17, 2016 e-mail to Eguidio Sementilli --
cancellation of hearing
Commission's October 17, 2016 e-mail to Roxanne Delgado --
cancellation of hearing
Commission's October 17, 2016 e-mail to CJA Director --
cancellation of hearing
Commission's homepage cancellation notice
"Sans
hearing, legislative pay hearing cancelled",
Capitol Confidential (Rick Karlin)
"Panel
cancels hearing on proposed raises for NY lawmakers",
Times Herald Record-on-Line (Chris McKenna)
"With
no lawmakers signing up to testify, pay raise hearing is
canceled",
Albany Times Union (Rick Karlin)
"Pay
raises for New York State lawmakers in limbo after no pols
sign up to testify at panel hearing",
Daily News (Ken Lovett)
"You
Paid for It: Legislative pay raise hearing cancelled",
Channel 6 News/WRGB staff
CJA's FOIL REQUESTS TO THE COMMISSION
CJA's October 6, 2016 FOIL request (#1)
-- "The Commission's Public
Hearings"
CJA's October 7, 2016 FOIL request (#2) --
"The Commission's Solictations
to Academia -- & its Responses"
October 7, 2016 acknowledgment of CJA's FOIL requests
CJA's October 13, 2016 FOIL request (#3)
-- "Rochester TV survey"
CJA's October 14, 2016 FOIL request (#4)
-- "Your Invitations to Legislators -- & the
Invitations of Common Cause & Citizens Union, Including to its
Membership"
CJA's October 17, 2016 FOIL request (#5)
-- "The Commission's Follow-Up to its September 22, 2016
Public Meeting: Correspondence with Legislative Leaders -- and
Rank-and-File Legislators, the Attorney General, Comptroller, Budget
Director Mujica -- and Executive Law
§169 Commissioners"
October
17, 2016 acknowledgment of CJA's FOIL requests
CJA's November 1, 2016 FOIL request (#6) -- "The Commission's
'List of Witnesses" for its October 18, 2016 Public Hearing -- & Records
Pertaining to its Decision to Cancel the Hearing"
November 1, 2016 acknowledgment of CJA's FOIL request
CJA's November 11, 2016 FOIL request (#7) -- "Governor
Cuomo's appointment of Robert Megna to the Commission on Legislative,
Judicial & Executive Compensation"
November 14, 2016 acknowledgment of CJA's
FOIL request by Commission/OCA
Governor's November 21, 2016 acknowledgment of
CJA's FOIL request
Governor's December 20, 2016 response &
enclosure
Commission's December 21, 2016 response
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attachment #2
attachment #3
attachment #4
Commission's Final Meeting -- November 15,
2016
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Press
Reporting
November 15, 2015 submission by judges
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