COMMISSION ON ETHICS & LOBBYING IN GOVERNMENT (CELG)


THE APPOINTING OF CELG MEMBERS --
SEYMOUR JAMES, ESQ.

July 21, 2022
"Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins Announces Nominees
to Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government"

Seymour W. James, Jr., Esq.

 

CJA's July 27, 2022 comment vs James --

auto acknowledgment

 

AGGREGATING, WITH ANALYSIS,
THE CONTEMPORANEOUS, PRIMARY-SOURCE EVIDENCE

1.
CJA's April 23, 2014 OSC & Proposed Verified Complaint to Intervene
in Legislature's Declaratory Judgment Action
vs Commission to Investigate Public Corruption

 

2.
CJA's June 6, 2022 verified complaint in Article 78 proceeding/
declaratory judgment action/citizen-taxpayer action v. JCOPE, et al. 

Ex. I (eye) --
CJA's Nov. 2, 2021 complaint to NYS Inspector General
vs Commission to Investigate Public Corruption (at pp.

Ex. B --
CJA's Dec. 17, 2021 complaint to JCOPE --

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 VIDEO clip of CJA Director's Sept. 17, 2013 testimony

transcription of CJA Director's Oct. 14, 2015 testimony

 

I believe that Mr. James’ departure from the JCOPE/LEC Review Commission – as to which there was no public announcement or explanation prior to the October 14, 2015 hearing, at the October 14, 2015 hearing, or thereafter – including in its November 1, 2015 report (which conceals who the members are and who the chair is, including, on its last two appendix pages) – was the result of my June 18, 2015 letter to the JCOPE/LEC Review Commission members.  The letter identified CJA’s then two complaints to JCOPE,

 

CJA's June 18, 2015 letter to JCOPE/LEC Review Commission --
"Ensuring Honest Review by the JCOPE/LEC Review Commission:
(1) Your Methodology for Reviewing and Evaluating the Joint Commission on Public Ethics & Legislative Ethics Commission -- Including Public Hearings; (2) Your Protocol with Respect to Conflicts of Interest"

The annotating footnote 4 -- here hyperlinked:

 “On October 17, 2013, I sent an e-mail directly to the members and special advisors of the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, attaching a letter pertaining to my September 17, 2013 testimony.  Identifying that I had no e-mail address for Commissioner James, among others, the transmitting e-mail requested that they forward it to him ‘so that all may be held accountable to the People whose trust in New York’s government and its public officials the Commission is supposed to restore.’   The e-mail and its transmitted letter are enclosed herewith, as well as posted, with this letter, on CJA’s website, infra, together with my September 17, 2013 written statement and the video of my September 17, 2013 oral testimony.”

CJA's June 27, 2013 complaint to JCOPE

CJA's December 11, 2014 complaint to JCOPE

CJA's October 19, 2015 FOIL/Records Request --
"Is the JCOPE/LEC Review Commission Lawfully Constituted?"
[transmitting e-mail to Review Commission members & here]

Senate's October 26, 2015 response
 
Assembly's October 26, 2015 response

Governor's December 23, 2015 letter  enclosure

 

2015 -- The delayed & sham JCOPE/LEC Review Commission,
whose website, nyethics review.org, is GONE,
along with the VIDEO of its one & only hearing
& its cover-up November 1, 2015 report

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CJA's correspondence with
Selection Members -- Appointing Authorities

CJA's correspondence with
Independent Review Committee
of NY's 15 Law School Deans 

Commission on Ethics & Lobbying in Government (COELIG)