Chief Judge Kaye's Commission to Promote
Public Confidence
in Judicial Elections
Chair: John Feerick
Co-Chair: Professor
Patricia Salkin
members including Appellate Division
2nd Dept Justice Barry Cozier
CJA's
September 18, 2003 e-mail to Commission Counsel Michael Sweeney
(cc) September
23, 2003 letter to NYS
Ethics Commission
SEE:
Correspondence-NYS: Ethics Commission
Inventory
of transmitted documents provided to Commission's counsel, Michael Sweeney
SEE: Judicial
Selection - NYS: Judicial Election: Castracan v. Colavita
Test Cases - Federal (Mangano)
Test Cases - State (Commission)
Counsel
Michael Sweeney's October 3, 2003 e-mail to CJA
CJA's
November 6, 2003 letter to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes
-- RE: "Investigation of CJA's April 27, 1994 FULLY-DOCUMENTED criminal
complaint against the justices of the Appellate Division, Second Department,
consistent with: (a) your duty as Brooklyn District Attorney; (b) your rhetoric
about investigating the corruption of judicial elections; AND (c) your
membership on the committee formed by Appellate Division, Second Department
Presiding Justice Gail Prudenti to study whether the Second Department is
''acting fairly and equitably' when dealing with an attorney's right to practice
law'"
CJA's November 13, 2003 memo
to Second Dept. Review Committee --
"RE:
Fulfilling the mandate of Presiding Justice Prudenti's Committee examining
whether the Second Department is "'acting fairly and equitably' when dealing
with an attorney's right to practice law' by reviewing the dispositive case file
evidence"
November 24, 2003 letter
signed by Chairman Feerick & Counsel Michael Sweeney
CJA's
November 25, 2003 letter to New York State Bar Association President A. Thomas Levin
-- "RE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: The New York State Bar Association's duty --
reinforced by your September 16, 2003 testimony before Chief Judge Kaye's
Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections -- to confront
case file evidence documentarily establishing the corruption of all
safeguards for ensuring the integrity of judicial elections, including: (1) the
unconstitutionality of New York's attorney disciplinary law, as written and
as applied; and (2) the corruption of the New York State Commission on
Judicial Conduct
Chairman Feerick's generic December 8, 2003 letter
CJA's
February 4, 2004
memo to John Feerick & Patricia Salkin, Commission Co-Chairs -- "RE:
Request for a Meeting to ensure that the reform recommendations of the
Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections are
empirically-based and confront the evidentiary proof of systemic corruption
endangering the public and eviscerating its rights, exposed by the public
interest Election Law lawsuits of
Castracan v. Colavita and
Sady v.
Murphy, suppressed by the judicial, governmental, and bar establishment"
CJA's February 4,
2004 letter to
Commission member Lenore Banks, Judicial Off-Board Specialist/NY League of Women
Voters -- "RE: Request for a Meeting to ensure that the reform
recommendations of the Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial
Elections are empirically-based and confront the evidentiary proof of systemic
corruption endangering the public and eviscerating its rights, exposed by the
public interest Election Law lawsuits Castracan v. Colavita and Sady
v. Murphy, suppressed by the judicial, governmental, and bar establishment"
Chairman Feerick's
February 12, 2004 letter
Final Report of the Commission to Promote Public Confidence in
Judicial Elections -- February 6, 2006
