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(4) CJA's February 11, 2014 letter to Secretary of Senate & Senate Finance Committee Chair & Ranking Member -- "RECORDS REQUEST: Fiscal Notes for the Governor’s Article VII Judiciary and Legislative Budget Bills & his Introducer’s Memoranda: #S.6351/A.8551..."

(5) CJA's February 11, 2014 letter to Assembly Records Access Officer & Assembly Ways & Means Committee Chair & Ranking Member -- "RECORDS REQUEST: The Governor’s Introducer’s Memoranda for his Article VII Judiciary and Legislative Budget Bills: #A.8551/S.6351..."

Prior Correspondence Pertaining to 2014-2015 Budget

CJA's December 11, 2013 letter
dispositive of the fraudulence and unconstitutionality of the Judiciary’s proposed budget

CJA's December 30, 2013
dispositive of the unconstitutionality and fraudulence of the Legislature’s proposed budget;

CJA's January 7, 2014 letter
enclosing letter to the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, requesting that it investigate and report with respect to the “grand larceny of the public fisc”, particularized by December 11, 2013 and December 30, 2013 letters

CJA's January 14, 2014 letter
requesting to testify, pursuant to Legislative Law §32-a, at the Legislature’s joint budget hearings in opposition to the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets and requesting information/records as to the process, if any, by which the Legislature’s proposed budget was compiled

CJA's January 29, 2014 letter
requesting to testify, pursuant to Legislative Law §32-a, against the Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551 containing an out-of-sequence section with tens of millions of dollars in reappropriations for the Legislature, not part of the Legislature’s proposed budget

CJA's February 3, 2014 e-mail
requesting to testify pursuant to Legislative Law §32-a, in opposition to any funding for the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption – and, specifically, the Governor’s proposed $270,000 appropriation

VIDEO of Senate & Assembly's February 5, 2014 joint budget hearing on "Public Protection"
witness list & written statements
subsequently posted written statements

Written statement of Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti

Written statement of Commission on Judicial Conduct's Administrator Robert Tembeckjian

VIDEO of CJA's testimony
at Senate & Assembly's February 6, 2013
Joint Budget Hearing on "Public Protection"
-- as posted on Senate website
last speaker: at 7:21:50
as posted on Assembly website

click here for
CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
to the August 29, 2011 Report of the Commission on Judicial Compensation

VERIFIED COMPLAINT: CJA v. Cuomo, et al.

WHAT IS THE TOTAL DOLLAR COST
OF THE 2014-2015 JUDICIARY BUDGET?

JUDICIARY'S TWO-PART BUDGET:
Judiciary's Budget-- operating needs:
plus Executive Summary & "single budget bill"

Judiciary's General State Charges

The Governor's Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551

Governor Cuomo's Commentary on Judiciary Budget

Senate Majority's "White Book" -- select pages

Senate Minority's "Blue Book" -- select pages

Assembly Majority's "Yellow Book" -- select pages press release

Assembly Minority's "Green Book" -- select page

Division of Budget webpage for Judiciary

AND WHAT IS THE TOTAL COST OF THE JUDICIARY's 2013-2014 BUDGET?

2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Annual Report
Judiciary budget page

2013 Assembly Judiciary Committee Annual Report
Judiciary budget page

CUTS TO COURT EMPLOYEES

illustrative correspondence to Commission on Judicial Compensation, Judiciary & Senate Judiciary Committee
(1) August 18, 2011 e-mail from Daniela Fahey
(2) August 18, 2011 e-mail from Ellen Chorba
(3) August 19, 2011 e-mail from Bruce Carver
(4) August 22, 2011 e-mail from Ellen Chorba
(5) August 23, 2011 e-mail from Ellen Chorba
(6) August 24, 2011 e-mail from Ellen Chorba

New York County Lawyers' Association:

August 11, 2011 report:
"Preliminary Report on the Effects of Judicial Budget Cuts On New York State Courts"

January 18, 2012 report:
"The Effect of the Judicial Budget Cuts on the New York State and Federal Courts"

January 3, 2014 report:
"Courts in Crisis"

New York County Lawyers' Association's February 5, 2014 written testimony

CJA's January 2, 2014 letter to New York County Lawyers' Association, etc -- "RE: ACHIEVING NYS BUDGET REFORM: What is Your Expert Opinion of the Budgets Proposed by New York's Judiciary & Legislative Branches? -- & How Should the Governor & Legislature be Reviewing Them, Consistent with Article VII of the NYS Constitution?"

Also, see: New York State Bar Association's February 5, 2014 written testimony

FAMILY COURT JUDGESHIPS --

"Kids and Families Still Can't Wait:
The Urgent Case for New Family Court Judgeships",
Senate Judiciary Report, October 30, 2009

S.5968 -- establishing 21 new Family Court judgeships
introduced in Senate June 19, 2009,
passed Senate September 10, 2009, died in Assembly

A.8957 -- establishing 21 new Family Court judgeships
introduced in Assembly June 16, 2009

TESTIMONY BY VICTIMS OF JUDICIAL CORRUPTION -- ALL UNINVESTIGATED:

Senate Judiciary Committee's June 8, 2009 and September 24, 2009 public hearings

Commission on Judicial Compensation's July 20, 2011 public hearing

Commission to Investigate Public Corruption's September 17, 2013 public hearing
Commission's 2/7/14 ltr to Elena Sassower
Commission's 2/20/14 ltr to Cie Sharp

CJA's February 28, 2014 e-mail to Chairs & Ranking Members of Senate Finance Committee & Assembly Ways & Means Committee -- "Subject: Request that CJA's February 21, 2014 letter, with enclosures, be posted as 'Miscellaneous Testimony' on the Senate Finance Committee website"

Correspondence Related to February 5, 2014 Hearing

CJA's February 7, 2014 e-mail to Assembly Judiciary Committee member Phil Steck -- "Subject: Thank you for your call -- & for your significant questioning about the Judiciary budget at the Legislature's February 5, 2014 joint budget hearing on 'public protection', from which Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Weinstein was absent"

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