PRO PUBLICA
"Investigative
Journalism in the Public Interest"
"Journalism That Holds
Power to Account"
CASE STUDY #1: 2014
A.
CJA's July 17, 2014 e-mail to
Justin Elliott
--
"Your today's article on Cuomo's conflicts of
interest, etc."
attaching:
July 11, 2014 letter to Cuomo, etc.
& linking
to
EVIDENTIARY webpage
July 17, 2014
"Who
Advised Cuomo on Mortgage Industry Investigation?
A Mortgage Lobbyist" ProPublica
& also
in Albany Times Union as
"Cuomo
confidant advised AG's probe, mortgage industry"
Justin Elliott
Elliott's July 17, 2014 e-mail
CJA's July 17, 2014
e-mail to Elliot
--
"Thanks for our prompt response to this BIG
SCOOP!..."
--------------------
August 4, 2014
"Cuomo's
Office Denies Using Private E-Mail Accounts. But It Does"
(Justin Elliott)
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B.
CJA's November 28, 2014
e-mail to Elliott, plus 7 other ProPublica e-mail addresses --
"Request for Pro Publica Coverage:
Dec.
3rd Oral Argument of NYS Legislature's Declaratory Judgment
Action
vs Commission to Investigate Public Corruption -- 60
Centre St. Room 222"
attaching
Court's letter of the oral argument
& linking to
lawsuit record
CASE STUDY #2: 2015
A.
CJA's July 15, 2015 e-mail to Cezary Podkul --
"A Goldmine of 'Story Ideas'"
Cezary Podkul
March 13, 2017
"Is
Preet Bharara Trying to Tell Us Something"
Cezary Podkul
March 27, 2017
"How
We Analyzed New York State Subsidies"
Cezary
Podkul
B.
CJA's
October 31, 2015 e-mail to 9 ProPublica e-mail addesses
including Elliott & Podkul
--
"SCARY
HALLOWEEN ALERT: NYLJ reports --
'Hearing Set on Pay
Increases for Judges, Lawmakers'"
included links:
(1) VIDEO:
February
6, 2013 testimony at Legislature’s "public protection"
budget hearing:
(last speaker: at 7:21:50 hrs);
(2)
VIDEO: September 17, 2013 testimony
before Commission to Investigate Public Corruption;
(3)
VIDEO: October 14, 2015 testimony
before JCOPE/LEC Review Commission
(at 0:44:05 mins.)
CASE STUDY #3: 2018
cc to ProPublica's Jesse
Eisinger --
CJA's September 4, 2018 e-mail to William Cohen --
"Correcting your July 10th article 'The Flawed Legend of
Preet Bharara'
by answering its 'loom[ing] large'
question in the context of 'the race to replace
Schneiderman"
cc:
CJA's September 5, 2018 e-mail --
"Tomorrow's Democratic AG Candidates Debate at Cooper Union
--
'A Point of Disclosure' as to Preet Bharara & Questions for
the Candidates"
CASE STUDY #4: 2019
CJA's September 6, 2019
e-mail to 8 ProPublica email addresses,
7 leadership, including Tofel
--
"NEWS TIP -- ALERT -- SPREAD THE WORD:
NYS Public
Campaign Financing & Election Commission is INACCESSIBLE
TO THE PUBLIC"
autoreply
CASE STUDY #5: 2019 - 2020
A.
CJA's November 27, 2019 e-mail,
given-in-hand to Tofel on Dec. 3, 2019 --
"THANKSGIVING THANKS for the Fair Media Council, its Dec. 3,
2019 Conference --
& for opportunities for
evidence-based dialogue, scholarship --
& solutions
essential to our democracy"
CJA's January 21, 2020 e-mail to Tofel
--
"FOLLOW-UP: Dec 3, 2019 Fair Media Council
conference 'Real & Powerful' --
& investigative
journalism consistent with ProPublica's mission 'to expose
abuses of power
and betrayals of the public trust...to
hold power to account"
Local Reporting Network
"We
Are Expanding Our Local Reporting Network.
Submit Your
Best Project Ideas for Investigating State Government"
(August 8, 2018)
B.
Tofel's January 22, 2020 e-mail
C.
CJA's
January 22, 2020 e-mail to Tofel
--
"CLARIFICATION REQUESTED --
"Who are ProPublica's
'editors' who did 'not see' 'a story for us' --
& was
there any discussion of conflicts of interest impacting on
judgment?"
Officers
& Staff
Code of Ethics
D.
Tofel's January 22, 2020 e-mail
E.
CJA's January 23, 2020 e-mail --
"Agreed! 'this exchange' must end, in favor of
'evidenced-based dialogue':
Have you examined the
pleadings & record of the CJA v. Cuomo citizen taxpayer
action?"
F.
CJA's January 30, 2020 e-mail --
"Did you respond to my Jan. 23rd e-mail or forward it to
ProPublica's top editors?"
G.
Tofel's January 30, 2020 e-mail
H.
CJA's January 31, 2020 e-mail to TOP EDITORS:
Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg,
Managing Editor Robin Fields,
Deputy Managing Editors Scott Klein, Charles Ornstein,
Eric
Umansky
--
"URGENT: 'Holding Power to
Account':
Chain of e-mails, the EVIDENCE substantiating
it -- & conflicts of interest"
Case Study #6: September 2020
A.
CJA's September 8, 2020 e-mail to ProPublica
--
ELECTION ISSUE #1:
What salary is to be paid the winners of NYC's 92 state
legislative races?
Is it $110,000 – or $79,500? The
answer upends all the legislative races --
& that's for
starters
B.
CJA's September 21, 2020 e-mail
--
Manhattan Elections 2020 -- Informing the Voters with
EVIDENCE:
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 September 21, 2020 e-mail --
Bronx Elections 2020 -- Informing the Voters with EVIDENCE:
public corruption/grand jury complaint vs Bronx's
16 state legislators --
11 running for re-election --
which Bronx D.A. Clark is "sitting on"
CJA's September 21, 2020 e-mail --
Brooklyn Elections 2020 -- Informing the Voters with
EVIDENCE:
public corruption/grand jury
complaint vs Brooklyn's 27 state legislators --
24
running for re-election -- which Brooklyn D.A. Gonzalez is
"sitting on"
CJA's September 21, 2020 e-mail --
"Queens Elections 2020 -- Informing the Voters with EVIDENCE:
public corruption/grand jury complaint vs Queens'
25 state legislators --
21 running for re-election --
which Queens D.A. Katz is "sitting on"
CJA's September 21, 2020 e-mail --
"Staten Island Elections 2020 -- Informing the Voters with
EVIDENCE:
public corruption/grand jury
complaint vs Staten Island's 6 state legislators --
all
running for re-election or higher officer -- which Staten
Island D.A. McMahon is "sitting on"
Case Study #7: September
2020
cc:
CJA's September 22, 2020 e-mail to Tips,
Engelberg, Tofel, Fields, Klein, Orstein, Umansky --
"Will The New York Times report on evidence supporting President Trump's
claim
that Manhattan D.A. Vance's investigation & grand jury proceedings
concerning him
are 'politically motivated'? How about NYC's other press?"
Case Study #8:
June 2021
A.
CJA's June 15, 2021 e-mail --
"Behind-the-Scenes:
Testing the fitness of the Manhattan D.A. candidates, with
EVIDENCE --
public corruption & the grand jury
responsibilities of the D.A.'s office"
B.
CJA's June 18, 2021 e-mail
--
"The Ethics of Your Journalism -- 'Leading Manhattan
DA Candidate
Has Repeatedly Paid Virtually No Federal
Income Taxes' (ProPublica, 6/15/21)"
C.
CJA's June 19, 2021 e-mail
--
"TO: ProPublica General Counsel
Kutner --
'The Ethics of Your Journalism -- 'Leading Manhattan DA Candidate
Has Repeatedly Paid Virtually No Federal Income Taxes' (ProPublica,
6/15/21)"
Case Study #9: July 2022
CJA's July 4, 2022 e-mail --
"July 4th ALERT
-- TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE -- TRO/Preliminary Injunction:
'ethics commission reform act of 2022' --
CJA, et al. v.
JCOPE, at al. (Albany Co. #904235-22)"
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Case Study #10: June 2023
CJA's June 16, 2023 e-mail
"Complaint
vs ProPublica to INN for Violations of INN Membership
Standards,
the Code of Ethics of the Society of
Professional Journalists,
501(c)(3) Proscriptions on
Partisanship, & for Fraud"
Case Study #11: June-July 2023
CJA's June 29, 2023
story proposal --
"TESTING
ProPublica’s 'non-partisan' motivation for its Supreme
Court journalism
by a NON-PARTISAN STORY PROPOSAL"
--
transmitting e-mail
CJA's July 2, 2023 e-mail --
"MEETING
REQUEST FOR THURS. JULY 6th --
TESTING ProPublica’s
'non-partisan' motivation
for its Supreme Court
journalism by a NON-PARTISAN STORY PROPOSAL"
--
transmitting e-mail
CJA's July 19, 2023 e-mail
--
"Letter to Senators Durbin & Whitehouse
for tomorrow's SJC meeting
& vote on the 'Supreme Court
Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act'"
CJA's July 20, 2023 e-mail --
"Corrected
Letter, Distribution Requested --
Setting the Record
Straight: 'Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency
Act' --
Letter for Distribution & Inclusion on the
Agenda of SJC's July 20th meeting, etc."
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