ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paper Trail of Suppression, Protectionism,
Blackballing & Election-Rigging

2011

CJA's June 13, 2011 e-mail to Virtanen, Gormley --
"NY's Commission on Judicial Confirmation: NOT OPERATIONAL OR ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC on day 73 of its maximum 150-day statutorily-limited existence"  
              (enclosing CJA's 6-10-11 FOIL request to OCA -- "RE: Request for Records of Judicial Resignations Based on Insufficient Compensation")          

CJA's June 18, 2011 e-mail to press --
"'New York judges ask for 41-percent raise, retroactive pay' --UPDATE: NY's Judicial Compensation Commission"

CJA's June 24, 2011 e-mail to press --
"NY Judicial Compensation Commission: (1) Subject to Open Meetings Law & Executive Order #3, Requiring Public Access, Etc.; (2) Disqualifying Conflict of Interest of Chairman Thompson, Requiring His Resignation"  
           ATTACHING:  CJA's June 23, 2011 letter to Governor Cuomo's Appointees to the Judicial Compensation Commission -- "(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" -- June 23, 2011 transmittal letter to indicated recipients          

Committee on Open Government -- Open Meetings Law

Executive Order #3 "Promotion of Public Access to Government Decisionmaking" 

CJA's June 28, 2011 e-mail to press --
"Is NY's Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3"

CJA's June 30, 2011 e-mail to press --
"AGAIN -- Is NY's Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3"  

CJA's July 13, 2011 e-mail to the press --
"FOR PRESS FOLLOW-UP: Today's Gannett Article on Judicial Pay Raises"

SENT TO MEDIA:   CJA's August 8, 2011 letter to Commission --
"Threshold Issues Barring Commission Consideration of Pay Raises for Judges: (1) Chairman Thompson’s Disqualification for Interest, as to which there has been No Determination; (2) Systemic Corruption in New York’s Judiciary, Embracing the Commission on Judicial Conduct, as to which there has been No Determination; & (3) The Fraud & Lack of Evidence Put Forward by Advocates of Judicial Pay Raises.
         Enclosures:
            (1)  Transcription of CJA's July 20, 2011 testimony before the Commission
            (2)  "NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC", 1989 Report of NYS Comptroller
                   Regan  -- with his press release,
                             "COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT NEEDS OVERSIGHT" 
            (3) Transcription of CJA's questions at the Dec. 11, 2002 forum on the
                 Commission on Judicial Conduct, co-sponsored by NYS Bar Association
               & Fund for Modern Courts

CJA's November 14, 2011 e-mail to LCA roster, including Gormley -- "
"Invitation: Today's Gotham Gazette: 'Who Judges the Judges?'"

 

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