WEBPAGE FOR
LEGISLATURE'S FEBRUARY 5, 2018 BUDGET HEARING
ON
"LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS/GENERAL GOVERNMENT"
VIDEO of February 5 2018
Budget Hearing --
& CJA's testimony
(last witness)
Full Transcript
Transcript Excerpt of CJA
testimony
Referred-to "penal law violations"
Penal Law
§496
"corrupting the government"
(PUBLIC TRUST ACT)
Penal
Law §175.35
“offering a false instrument for filing in the first
degree”
Penal Law §155.42
“grand larceny in the first degree”
Penal
Law §190.65
“scheme to defraud in the first degree”
Penal Law §195.20
“defrauding the government”
Penal Law §195
“official misconduct”
Penal
Law §110.00
"attempt to commit a crime"
Penal
Law §105.15
"conspiracy in the second degree"
Penal
Law §20.00
"Criminal liability for conduct of another"
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CJA's WRITTEN STATEMENT
IN SUPPORT OF TESTIMONY
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HANDED UP:
(A
)
NYS Constitution, Article III, Sec. 10, Article VII, Secs. 1-7
(B)
Legislative/Judiciary bill -- full bill, as marked
Section 1: Legislature-appropriations
Section 2: Judiciary appropriations
Section 3: Judiciary reappropriations (marked)
Section 4: Legislative reappropriations (marked)
Section 5: effective date
Table of Contents (marked)
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Legislative/Judiciary Budget Bill #S.7501/A.9501
1.
CJA's FOIL REQUEST FOR
THE LEGISLATURE's BUDGET --
THE HUNT IS ON!
Where are the Legislature's
"itemized estimates" of its
"financial needs",
"certified by the presiding officer
of each house?"
CJA's December
4, 2017 FOIL/records request to Senate & Assembly --
"The Legislature's Certified Itemized
Estimates of its Financial Needs for Fiscal Year 2018-2019, as Required by
Article VII, §1 of the New York State Constitution"
Assembly's December
11, 2017 response
with
ENCLOSED BUDGET
Senate's December 11, 2017 response
compare,
Judiciary's two-part budget, posted on its website:
http://www.nycourts.gov/admin/financialops/Budgets.shtml
see, here:
Judiciary's Certification for its Operating Budget
&
Judiciary's Certification for its General State Charges
2.
EXECUTIVE BUDGET --
VIDEO -- Governor
Cuomo's January 16, 2018 budget address --
at
25 mins/45 secs:
“...The
Senate, the Assembly...came in at 2%."
Legislature's webpage on
Division of Budget website
Governor Cuomo's Legislative/Judiciary Budget
Bill #S.7501/A.9501
3.
THE LEGISLATURE's HEARING SCHEDULE
& COLOR BOOKS
January 16, 2018
announcement of budget hearing schedule
Senate Majority White Book -- January 22, 2018
NO LEGISLATIVE PORTION
Senate Minority Blue Book
NO LEGISLATIVE PORTION
Assembly Majority's Yellow Book NO
LEGISLATIVE PORTION
Assembly Minority's Green Book
LEGISLATIVE PORTION
4.
CJA's FURTHER FOIL
REQUESTS
ABOUT THE LEGISLATURE'S BUDGET
A.
CJA's January 16, 2018 FOIL request to
Governor Cuomo --
"The Governor's 'recommendations' pertaining
to the Legislative & Judiciary budgets for fiscal year
2018-2019"
Governor's January 23, 2018
acknowledgment
Governor's February 21, 2018 extension letter
B.
CJA's January 22, 2018 FOIL
request to the Senate & Assembly, to Governor Cuomo and his
Division of the Budget, & to Comptroller DiNapoli --
"The Legislature's
budget for fiscal year 2018-2019, its 'General State
Charges', and its reappopriations popped into the back of
the Governor's Legislative/Judiciary Budget Bill
#S.7501/A.9501"
FROM THE SENATE
January 29, 2018 response
-- & referred-to link:
http://legislation.nysenate.gov/static/pdf/2017-S7501-A9501.pdf
FROM THE ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2018 acknowledgment
February 2, 2018
response -- &
referred-to links:
http://nyassembly.gov/2018budget/2018executive/A9500.pdf
&
http://nyassembly.gov/2018budget/2018executive/A9501.pdf
&
https://www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy19/exec/agencies/pdf/Legislature.pdf
FROM THE COMPTROLLER
January 29, 2018 acknowledgment
February 27, 2018 response
FROM THE GOVERNOR
January 29, 2018 acknowlegment
February 28, 2018 extension
FROM THE DIVISION OF THE BUDGET
January 29, 2018 acknowledgment
February 27, 2018 response
C.
CJA's January 23, 2018 FOIL request to the Senate, Assembly,
Comptroller DiNapoli, and the Division of the Budget --
"The Legislature’s fiscal year
2018-2019 budget narrative pertaining to the Audit Committee
function of the chairs and ranking members of the Senate
Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee"
FROM THE SENATE
January 30, 2018 response
FROM THE ASSEMBLY
January
30, 2018 response
&
enclosure -- Jan 23, 2017 engagement letter
enclosure -- September 1, 2016 report
FROM THE COMPTROLLER
January 30, 2018 acknowledgment
February 28, 2018 extension letter
FROM THE DIVISION OF THE BUDGET
February 7, 2018 acknowledgment
March 13, 2018 response
5.
The New York State
District Attorneys
Governor Cuomo's Aid to Localities
Budget Bill #S.7503/A.9503
CJA's January 25, 2018 FOIL request to the Division of
Criminal Justice Services & Division of the Budget
--
"The 'plan' for reimbursement to counties for
district attorney salaries – and the dollar reimbursement
for each county:
(1)
Governor Cuomo’s Aid to Localities Budget Bill for fiscal
year 2018-2019: #S.7503/A.9503;
(2)
Governor Cuomo’s Aid
to Localities Budget Bill for fiscal year 2017-2018:
#S.2003-D/A.3003-D.
Division of Criminal Justice Services' February 2, 2018
acknowledgment
Division of the Budget February 7, 2018 acknowledgment
* * *
"State
Precluded From Spending $100 Million on Civil Legal Needs of
Low-Income People"
New York Law Journal, January
29, 2018 (ltr to the editor, Michael P. Friedman, Esq.)
See, also,
2016 written testimony of Michael P. Friedman, Esq. --
cited at p. 8, fn. 5
of
CJA's February 18, 2016 letter to Senate & Assembly Fiscal
Committees
-- webpage
here
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CJA's February 13, 2018 e-mail to NYPIRG Exec Director Blair
Horner --
"NYC meeting,
as discussed. Does Feb15th or 16th still work for you"
CJA's February 14, 2018 e-mail to Horner --
"Reminder...
