2012

CJA's December 26, 2012 OPEN LETTER to..Senate Democratic Conference Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"Ensuring an Informed Senate Vote on Senate Leadership & Senate Rules:
Your Response to CJA's December 7, 2012 Letter to the Independent Democratic Conference on 'ACHIEVING A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, FULLY FUNCTIONAL SENATE"    fax receipts-stewart-cousins

CJA's January 9, 2013 e-mail to Democratic Conference Leader Stewart-Cousins' Counsel --
"Empowering Democrats with Strategy at Today's 10:30 am Democratic Conference Meeting"' 

cc to Stewart-Cousins:  CJA's January 29, 2013 letter to Chief Administrative Judge - 
"(1) Clarifying the Judiciary’s Budget for Fiscal Years 2013-2014 & 2012-2013: (a) The dollar amounts sought by the Judiciary for judicial salary increases; (b) The dollar amounts sought by the Judiciary for “compensation and non-salary benefits for judges and justices of the unified court system”, exclusive of salary; and (2) Production of the Judiciary’s findings of facts and conclusions of law with respect to CJA’s October 27, 2011 Opposition Report and People’s lawsuit based thereon against New York State’s three governmental branches and highest constitutional officers ,CJA, et al. v. Cuomo, et al., to void the three-phase judicial salary increases"

cc to Stewart-Cousins: CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Temporary Senate President Skelos & Assembly Speaker Silver --
"Enabling the Legislative Committees Directly Responsible for Oversight of the Judiciary’s Budget to Discharge their Mandatory Legislative Function"

cc to Stewart-Cousins: CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Senate and Assembly fiscal committee & judiciary committee chairs & ranking members --
"February 6, 2013 Joint Legislative Hearing on 'Public Protection': The Legislature’s Mandatory Duty to Override the Judiciary’s Request for “funding for the next phase of the judicial salary increase”, in Discharge of its Checks-and-Balance Constitutional Function"

cc to Stewart-Cousins: CJA's February 1, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"Discharging Your Constitutional Duty with Respect to the Judiciary Budget Request for Funding of the Judicial Salary Increases Recommended by the August 29, 2011 'Final' Report of the Special Commission on Judicial Compensation"

cc to Stewart-Cousins:  CJA's February 1, 2013 letter to Comptroller DiNapoli & Attorney General Schneiderman --
"Discharging Your Constitutional Duty with Respect to the Judiciary Budget Request for Funding of the Judicial Salary Increases Recommended by the August 29, 2011 'Final' Report of the Special Commission on Judicial Compensation"

cc: to Stewart-Cousins -- CJA's March 5, 2013 e-mail to Senate Finance Commitee Minority --
"Senate Finance Committee Minority: Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & Judicial Pay Raises"

cc: to Stewart-Cousins:  CJA's March 5, 2013 e-mail to Senate Finance Committee Minority --
"Senate Finance Committee Minority Procedures for Enabling Senate Members to Discharge their 'Policy Making Role'"

cc: to Stewart-Cousins:  CJA's March 13, 2013 e-mail to General Budget Conference Committee, etc. --
"The Legislature's Duty to Reject Judicial Appropriations Bill S2601-A3001 & its Unidentified Judicial Salary Increases that are Fraudulent, Statutorily-Violative, & Unconstitutional"

cc: to Stewart-Cousins: CJA's March 13, 2013 e-mails --
"The Uselessness of the Legislature's 'White', 'Blue', 'Yellow' & 'Green' Books as Aids to Legislators in Understanding the Judiciary Budget & District Attorney Salary Reimbursement"

   -- ANALYSIS of the Legislature's "Color Books",
to further demonstrate the Legislature's duty to reject the Judiciary Budget & the Judicial Salary Increases

          Exhibit A:   Senate Majority's "White Book"  link to "White Book"
          Exhibit B:   Senate Minority's "Blue Book"   link to "Blue Book"
          Exhibit C:  Assembly Majority's "Yellow Book" link to "Yellow Book"
          Exhibit D:  Assembly Minority's "Green Book"  not publicly available  

CJA's July 12, 2013 e-mail to Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"Follow-UP: Securing a Functioning Legislature"

CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to...Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM JUDICIAL FRAUD & LARCENY -- Your Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Entirety of the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015, Over & Beyond its Concealed, Unitemized Third Phase of the Judicial Salary Increase that Will Otherwise Take Effect, Automatically, on April 1, 2014"

cc to Stewart-Cousins: CJA's December 30, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM LEGISLATIVE FRAUD & LARCENY..."

2014

CJA's January 7, 2014 letter to...Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"'FOLLOWING THE MONEY': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's January 14, 2014 transmittal letter to...Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins 
"Vindicating the Public's Rights Under Article VII, 1 of the NYS Constitution & Legislative Law 32-a"  CJA's January 14, 2014 letter

CJA's March 5, 2014 letter to Stewart-Cousins
"Your Constitutional Duty: (1) to address the fraud and unconstitutionality in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets..."  -- transmitting CJA's March 4, 2014 letter  

CJA's July 11, 2014 transmitting e-mail to Stewart-Cousins  & here -- CJA's July 11, 2014 letter to Gov, Temporary Senate President, Assembly Speaker -- "Getting to First Base in Achieving 'the Dream of Honest Government'"
         (1) Rectifying your violation of “The Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011” by appointing the review committee to evaluate JCOPE that you were required to appoint “No later than June 1, 2014”;
        (2) Making public your “written response”, if any, to CJA’s June 27, 2013 ethics complaint against you, filed with JCOPE  

cc to Stewart-Cousins:  CJA's July 18, 2014 letter to JCOPE --
"The Record of JCOPE’s Handling of Complaints:       
     (1)  Status of CJA’s June 27, 2013 ethics complaint;
     (2)  Rectifying your violation of Executive Law §94.9(l)(i) ('The Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011') by supplementing your 2012 and 2013 annual reports with the statutorily-required list of assigned numbers for each complaint and referral, including the status of each complaint."

cc:  CJA's December 11, 2014 ethics complaint to JCOPE expressly vs Stewart-Cousins  -- [transmitting e-mail]
"Conflict of Interest Ethics Complaint vs Governor Andrew Cuomo, Legislative Leaders, & JCOPE for Violation of the Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011 Pertaining to the Review Commission Statutorily-Required to be Appointed 'No later than June 1, 2014'”

2016

cc to Stewart-Cousins:  CJA's January 15, 2016 letter to Senate Majority Leader Flanagan & Assembly Speaker Heastie -- CJA's transmitting e-mail --"Immediate Oversight Required: Jan.2O, 2016 Senate Judiciary Confirmation Hearing of Chief Judge Nominee DiFiore AND "Force of Law" Judicial Salary Recommendations of Dec.24,2015 Report of Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation"

CJA's January 28, 2016 letter to Senate Minoritiy Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"To Which Committee(s) Have You Assigned Oversight of the December 24, 2015 Report of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation -- & the Legislature's Duty to Not Only Override its Judicial Salary Increase Recommendations, but to Repeal the Commission Statute, etc."

cc to Sewart-Cousins:  CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail --
"Restoring constitutionality and lawfulness to NY's budgeting process -- & overriding the 'force of law' judicial pay raises"

CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail to...Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins as member of Legislature's General Budget Conference Committee & its "Public Protection" Subcommittee, & the Senate's Defunct Temporary Committee on Rules & Administration Reform

CJA's June 2, 2016 e-mail to Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins' Counsel --
"Senate Oversight??  (1) the statutory lin between judicial and district attorney salaries;
(2) the integrity of the district attorney offices"

CJA's June 7, 2016 e-mail to...Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins
"FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ALL SENATE FINANCE COMMITEE MEMBERS: Today's Committee meeting: S.7408-A --state reimbursemet of district attorney salary increases"

2017

CJA's January 9, 2017 e-mail to Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"Constituent Request for Meeting -- The Legislative, Judiciary & Executive Budgets for Fiscal Year 2017-2018"

CJA's February 6, 2017 letter...to Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"(1)  Where are your appointments to the Commission on Government Administration and to the Commission on State-Local relations, required by Legislative Law Article 5-A?  (2) When will you be responding to my requests for a meeting for purposes of preventing a repeat of the constitutional, statutory and legislative rule violations chronicled by the September 2, 2016 verified complaint in CJA's citizen-taxpayer action?   transmitting e-mail

VIDEO: 
CJA's testimony
at the Legislature's January 30, 2017 budget hearing
on "Local Government Officials/General Government"

VIDEO: 
CJA's testimony
at the Legislature's January 31, 2017 budeget hearing
on "Public Protection"