May 2013 - June 2013 CORRESPONDENCE WITH LEGISLATORS pertaining to CJA's
corruption & ethics complaints
CJA's May 29, 2013 letter to Assemblyman Michael Kearns
-- "RE:
Making Good on Your Pledge to Your Constituents
“To Do The Right Thing” and “Stand Up To Albany Politicians”:
(1) Ousting Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver;
(2) Securing oversight, analysis, and
investigation of CJA’s April 15, 2013 corruption complaint against Speaker
Silver, et al. by the Assembly
Committee on Oversight, Analysis, and Investigation, of which you are a
member;
(3) Building a Bi-Partisan Assembly
Rules Reform Conference to achieve the nonpartisan, good-government
legislative rules reforms proposed by the 2004, 2006, and 2008 reports of
the Brennan Center for Justice and resisted by Speaker Silver
-- click here for
Rules Reform
Resource Page
May 21, 2013: "Bad
Week is Merely Bump for Assembly's Master of Power", New York
Times, Danny Hakim, Thomas Kaplan
"Video:
No friend to Silver, Kearns leaves Assembly Dems",
Albany Times Union/Capitol Confidential, May 20, 2013
click here for
Press coverage of
Silver-Lopez
CJA's May 31, 2013 letter to Assembly
Members Lalor, Nojay, McLaughlin, Fitzpatrick, Butler, Friend, & Tenney
-- "Accomplishing Your Objective of Ousting
Assembly Speaker Silver"
--
CJA's April 5, 2012 notice: with acknowledgent of service for
Speaker Silver & the Assembly by Williams Collins
-- CJA's March 2, 2012
letter to Governor Cuomo, Temporary Senate President Skelos, Assembly Speaker Silver, Chief Judge
Lippman
Ex. A: Executive Summary of CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition
Report
Ex.
B:
CJA's November 29, 2011 complaint to Attorney General Schneiderman's Public
Integrity Bureau & its December 7, 2011 determination that "complaint does
not warrant action by this office at this time"
Ex. C: AG Schneiderman's website info as to partnership with
Comptroller DiNapoli "to investigate public corruption involving taxpayer
funds"; May 23, 2011 NYT article "Accord
with Comptroller Will Help Attorney General Pursue Corruption Cases";
May 30, 2011 Albany Times Union article "AG,
comptroller partnership a no-brainer"
Ex. D: CJA's March 1, 2012 complaint to Comptroller
DiNapoli's
Investigations Unit
click here for:
VIDEO of February 6, 2013 budget hearing on "public protection", as posted by Assembly website -- CJA's testimony is last (at
7:21:50)
VIDEO OF "STOP SILVER'S WAR ON WOMEN" PRESS
CONFERENCE -- May 29, 2013
Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor;
Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney; Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin;
Assemblyman Bill Nojay; Assemblyman Marc Butler; Assemblyman Michael
Fitzpatrick
May 22, 2013
"Silver's
as tainted as Lopez",
Op-Ed column by Assemblywomen Jane Corwin, Nicole
Malliotakis, Annie Rabbitt, Claudia Tenney in Albany Times Union
Assemblyman Lalor's June 5, 2013 letter, signed by 11 other Assembly
members, to U.S. Attorney Hartunian
CJA's
June 13, 2013 letter to Assembly Members who Signed the June 4, 2013 Letter
to U.S. Attorney Hartunian for Investigation of Assembly Speaker Silver &/or
who Called for his Ouster
-- "RE: Easily Ousting Assembly Speaker Silver for his Grand Larceny
of the Public Fisc"
Enclosure:
CJA's March 29, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo's Chief of Staff
-- "RE: The Governor’s Duty to
Disapprove S.2601-A/A.3001-A (Judiciary/Legislative Appropriations Bill),
Pursuant to Article VII, §4 & Article IV, §7 of the New York State
Constitution, Because the Legislature Violated
Express
Constitutional and Statutory Safeguards, as well as its
Own
Rules, in Passing It"
CJA's July 22, 2013 e-mail to Assemblywoman Inez Barron's Community Liaison,
also sent to other Assembly members seeking Speaker Silver's ouster --
"Subject: Corruption Complaints vs Speaker Silver, Filed with US Attorney
Hartunian, Etc."
click here for:
CJA's July 19, 2013 corruption complaint
to Albany County District Attorney Soares
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