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2014 POST-ELECTION COVER-UP:
PRESS RELEASE -- November-December 2014
On Wednesday, December 3rd, at 3 p.m.,
Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger will be holding oral argument in the
declaratory judgment action brought by New York’s Legislature against the
Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, in her courtroom, Room 222,
Supreme Court, 60 Centre Street, Manhattan. If she is true to the law and
her oath of office, her decision will clean up New York’s corrupt
government, once and for all.
Have you examined the record of the case?
I did – and concluded that the reason Governor
Cuomo shut down the Commission was because – based on the record – he was
going to lose – and especially once the Legislature struck out his funding
appropriation for the Commission in the budget for fiscal year 2014-2015.
Indeed, I concluded that the Legislature was entitled to summary judgment on
the critical constitutional, separation of powers issues, but that a
question existed as to whether the Senate and Assembly were actually parties
and, further, that Temporary Senate Presidents Skelos and Klein and Assembly
Speaker Silver had no standing to assert the separation of powers causes of
action for the Senate and Assembly based on the true facts about the genesis
of the Commission, concealed by their complaint. That is why, on April
23, 2014, I brought an order to show cause to intervene as a plaintiff, on
behalf of the People of the State of New York & the public interest –
including for purposes of challenging that the declaratory action was mooted
by the Governor’s shuttering of the Commission.
Initially, Justice Schlesinger dismissed the declaratory judgment action as
moot, denying intervention for that reason. However, on June 17, 2014,
I made a motion for reargument/renewal and vacatur for fraud.
It is this dynamite
motion that Justice Schlesinger had the courage to schedule for oral
argument. The record of the case is accessible from the hyperlinks below.
Over and beyond reporting on the December 3rd
oral argument, the state of the record in this far-reaching case warrants an
investigative expose. This includes as to the absence of ANY Senate and
Assembly resolutions authorizing the declaratory judgment action and the
absence of any Senate and Assembly contracts with ANY of the law firms for
this or other litigations, and no approvals by the Comptroller – the
consequence of which is that the plaintiffs are not properly plaintiffs and
that the untold hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars paid to the law
firms are illegal, if not unconstitutional, expenditures. These
are the explosive threshold issues, detailed and documented by my September
26, 2014 reply affidavit (at ¶¶2-3, 7-33) and by my September 26, 2014 reply
memorandum of law (at pp. 1-2, 4-8), both in further support of my June 17,
2014 reargument/vacatur for fraud motion, directly accessible here:
June 17, 2014 MOTION FOR
REARGUMENT/RENEWAL, VACATUR & OTHER RELIEF .
Surely, you can easily turn to constitutional
scholars and legal experts to assist with the record analysis. Please share this e-mail with your editors and fellow journalists. This is a MAJOR STORY, whose ramifications reach to U.S. Attorneys Preet Bharara and Loretta Lynch – and, as to the latter, establish her unfitness for the office of U.S. Attorney General, to which I have already alerted the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. The Commission invited both these U.S. Attorneys to be its honored opening witnesses at its September 17, 2013 public hearing in Manhattan – and then and thereafter covered up the documentary and testimonial evidence before it of their collusion in systemic corruption of NYS government, involving the highest public officers of all three government branches. This is particularized by my April 23, 2014 affidavit in support of my order to show cause to intervene (at ¶¶62, 65, 73-75) and by my April 23, 2014 proposed verified complaint (at ¶¶24-25, 29, 59, 66, 71, 93, 99, 123, 124). Here’s the direct link to the webpage for those documents – on which, additionally, is a link to the September 17, 2013 public hearing: April 23, 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE I am available to be interviewed and to answer your questions, anytime – and I am reachable by e-mail (elena@judgewatch.org), phone (914-421-1200); cell & text (646-220-7987). Thank you. Elena Sassower, Director
CJA's November 26, 2014 e-mail --
CJA's December 2, 2014 e-mail --
CJA's December 2, 2014 e-mail --
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"After
Ethics Panel's Shutdown,
"Eyeing
a Raise, Albany Lawmakers
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December 11, 2014
& December 12, 2014
& December 17, 2014
December 19, 2014
December 29, 2014
January 2, 2015
* * * Follow-the-Leader Press: December 8, 2014 "NY Legislators must clean house, not vote themselves a pay raise", Syracuse.com, editorial "NY Lawmakers seek to give themselves first raise in 15 years" Bloomberg News, Freeman Klopott "NY Campaign Cash for Chocolate, Cancun, and Cat Food", Bill Moyers & Co, Michael Winship "Reform group: anticorruption laws needed in Albany", North Country Public Radio, Karen DeWitt December 12, 2014
"Silver
confirms private law clients, but won't name them", Capital New
York, Jimmy Vielkind December 14, 2014 "Lead by example: Cuomo must grasp that ethics is not just someone else's problem", editorial, Watertown Daily Times "Editorial: Cuomo tests ethics of Legislature with promise of pay raises", Poststar.com December 31, 2014 "Cuomo's Albany cleanup stalls as new term begins amid probes",Chicago Tribune, Freeman Klopott/Bloomberg News "Riker's Island: A Reflection on High-Impact Journalism", December 19, 2014, Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz November 11, 2014 Editorial: Don't Tip the Scales", The Daily News November 17, 2014 "Delay sought on GOP leader vote", Albany Times Union, Matthew Hamilton January 1, 2015 "Top 10: George Maziarz steps down amid corruption probe (No. 1", Niagara Gazette, Rick Pfeiffer
click here for: Exposing the Fraud of the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption
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