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2019 Commission on Legislative,
Judicial
& Executive Compensation
ROBERT MEGNA
(NYS
Budget Director Jan. 2009 - Jan. 2015)
As New
York State budget director, he colluded in the corruption &
fraud
perpetrated by the
August 29, 2011 report of the Commission on Judicial Compensation,
giving rise to
CJA's March 30, 2012 declaratory judgment action,
AND in the unconstitutionality, unlawfulness, &
fraud of the NYS Budget, giving rise to
CJA's March 28, 2014
citizen-taxpayer action. In 2016, he became the Governor's
last-minute substitute appointee to the
Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation.
Apparently, his membership on the prior 2016 Commission is NOT
deemed a qualification for his service on the current Commission as
it is MISSING from
his bio on the current Commission's website
1.
Megna's abetting role in
"grand larceny of the public fisc", accomplished by the
statutorily-violative, fraudulent, & unconstitutional August 29,
2011 report of the Commission on Judicial Compensation -- &
unconstitutional and unlawful slush-fund legislative & judiciary
budgets
2011
CJA's
November 1, 2011 letter to Budget Director Megna
(fax
receipt)
enclosed Oct 28, 2011 letter to Commission
enclosed October 28, 2011 letter to Judicial Pay Raise
Advocates
link
to webpage of:
CJA's
OCTOBER 27, 2011 OPPOSITION REPORT
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VIDEO
of Commission on Judicial Compensation's July 20, 2011 hearing
--
Budget Director Megna at 32:34 -- 56:17
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Budget Director Megan's July 20, 2011 written statement
2012
cc:
CJA's March 2, 2012 letter to Governor, Temporary Senate
President, Assembly Speaker, Chief Judge --
"YOUR FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: Protecting the
People of this State & the Public Purse from Judicial Pay Raises
that are Unconstitutional, Unlawful, & Fraudulent"
Ex.
A:
Executive Summary of CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
Ex.
B:
CJA's November 29, 2011 complaint to Attorney General Schneiderman's
Public Integrity Bureau & its December 7, 2011 determination that
"complaint does not warrant action by this office at this time"
Ex. C: AG Schneiderman's website info as to partnership
with Comptroller DiNapoli "to investigate public corruption
involving taxpayer funds"; May 23, 2011
NYT article "Accord
with Comptroller Will Help Attorney General Pursue Corruption Cases";
May 30, 2011
Albany Times Union article "AG,
comptroller partnership a no-brainer"
Ex. D: CJA's March 1, 2012 complaint to Comptroller
DiNapoli's Investigations Unit
CJA's March 30, 2012 declaratory judgment action
-- CJA v. Cuomo, et al.
2013
cc: CJA's February 1, 2013 letter to
Governor --
"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"
&
February 1, 2013 letter to
Comptroller & Attorney General
CJA's February 5, 2013 e-mail to
Division of Budget --
"Waiting to Hear from You: What Review Does the
Division of Budget Do of the Judiciary Budget?"
CJA's February 26, 2013 letter to Budget
Director Megna --
"Furnishing the
Legislature with Essential Information:
(1) What review did the Division of the Budget do of the Judiciary’s
budget for fiscal year 2013-2014?;
(2)
What is the Division of
the Budget’s response to CJA’s testimony at the Legislature’s
February 6, 2013 budget hearing on 'public protection', opposing the
Judiciary’s budget and funding for the judicial salary increase?"
E-MAIL
& Fax Receipts
click here for:
VIDEO of CJA's testimony at Legislature's February 6, 2013 budget
hearing --
& THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTING IT
cc:
CJA's March 19, 2013 letter to Governor --
"Assisting
the Legislature in Discharging its Constitutional Duty:
The People’s Right to Know the
Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget & of the Appropriations Bill for
the Judiciary & to be Protected from 'Grand
Larceny of the Public Fisc' by Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial
Pay Raises, whose Fraudulence, Statutory-Violations, and
Unconstitutionality are
Proven
by Documentary Evidence in Your Possession & the Legislature’s"
E-MAIL & Fax Receipt
cc: CJA's
March 29, 2013 letter to Governor's Chief of Staff
-- "RE: The Governor’s Duty to Disapprove S.2601-A/A.3001-A
(Judiciary/Legislative Appropriations Bill),
Pursuant to Article VII, §4 & Article IV, §7 of the New York State
Constitution, Because the Legislature Violated
Express
Constitutional and Statutory Safeguards, as well as its
Own
Rules, in Passing It"
E-MAIL to Megna
CJA's June 27, 2013 conflict-of-interest ethics complaint
filed with JCOPE against...Budget Director Megna, with
its
accompanying April 15, 2013 criminal complaint filed with U.S. Attorney Bharara
--
"...this complaint is against...complicit counsel and
professional staffs, who are executive and legislative employees
over whom [JCOPE] also [has] jurisdiction. The most important of
these, in the executive branch, is Budget Director Robert Megna."
(at p. 1)
"And what about Governor Cuomo's budget director,
Robert Megna - to whom we independently turned with a November 1,
2011 letter entitled 'Protecting the Public Purse & Public Interest:
Request That You Take Steps to Secure Governor Cuomo's lntroduction
of Legislation to Override the Commission on Judicial Compensation's
Statutorily-Violative and Unconstitutional Judicial Pay Raise
Recommendations'?[fn] The 'proper discharge of his duties
in the public interest' required him to notify the Governor, as the
letter requested, that the judicial pay raises could not stand
because the Commission had only examined judicial salary, not
'compensation and non-salary benefits' as the statute required, and
failed to address other statutorily-mandated 'appropriate factors'.
Did he do that? Or did he hold back because he was subordinate to
the Governor, to whose conflicts of interest he was hostaged? Or did
he have his own additional conflicts? All we know is that the
Governor took no action." (at p. 6)
JCOPE's June 28, 2013 acknowledgment of the complaint
cc:
CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to Governor... --
[transmitting
e-mail-Megna]
"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:
CJA's December 30, 2013 letter to Governor
-- [transmitting
e-mail-Megna,
here &
here]
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM LEGISLATIVE FRAUD & LARCENY:
Your Duty to Exclude the Legislature’s Proposed Budget from the State
Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Because its Absence of Certified Itemized
Estimates Violates Article VII, §1 of the NYS Constitution; Alternatively,
to Recommend that the Legislature Reject it, or Alter it Based on
Certification of Itemized Estimates"
CJA's December 31, 2013 FOIL request Governor & Division of
the Budget
–
“(1) the Legislature’s ‘itemized estimates’ of its ‘financial
needs’ for fiscal year 2014-2015, ‘certified by the presiding
officer of each house’; (2) the Legislature’s ‘General State
Charges’ for fiscal year 2014-2015, also itemized and certified”
[transmitting
e-mail]
Gov's January 8, 2014 response
Budget Director's January 9, 2014 response
2014
cc: CJA's
January 7, 2014 letter to Governor...
-- [transmitting
e-mail-Megna]
"'FOLLOWING THE MONEY': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets
for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"
cc:
CJA's January 14, 2014 letter to Budget Director Megna...
--
[transmitting e-mail-Megna]
"Vindicating
the Public’s Rights under Article VII, §1 of the NYS Constitution &
Legislative Law §32-a:
(1) request to testify at the Legislature’s joint budget hearings in
opposition to the proposed Judiciary & Legislative budgets;
(2) request for information/records as to the process, if any,
by which the Legislature’s proposed budget was compiled."
CJA's January 15, 2014 FOIL request to Governor & Division of the
Budget
– [transmitting
e-mail]
“Have New York Governor’s never furnished the Legislature with
‘Commentary’ or ‘recommendations’ on the Legislature’s proposed
budgets pursuant to Article VII, §1 of the New York State
Constitution?”
Gov's Jan 23, 2014 acknowledgment
Gov's Feb. 10, 2014 response
Div of Budget's Jan. 23, 2014 acknowledgment
Div of Budget's Feb. 24, 2014 response
CJA's
January 15, 2014 e-mail,
January 16, 2014 e-mail, and
January 17, 2014 e-mail to Budget Director Megna with relevant
FOIL requests to Senate & Assembly
CJA's January 15, 2014 FOIL request to
Senate & Assembly --
"The
Governor’s 'Commentary' or 'recommendations' on the Legislature’s
proposed budgets
pursuant to Article VII, §1 of the New York State Constitution"
CJA's January 16, 2014 FOIL request to
Secretary & Assembly --
"The process, if any, by which the Legislature's proposed budget for
fiscal year 2014-2015
was compiled"
CJA's January 17, 2014 FOIL request to Secretary & Assembly --
"The
Legislature’s 'General State Charges' and the certifications thereof
by the Temporary Senate President and Assembly Speaker, as likewise
their certifications
of the Legislature’s proposed operating budgets"
CJA's January 30, 2014 FOIL request to Governor &
Division of the Budget -- "FOIL REQUEST:
The reappropriations for the Legislature appearing in the out-ot-sequence
section at the back of Governor Cuomo's Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551"
Governor's February 6, 2014
acknowledgment
Governor's March 5, 2014 response
Div of Budget's February 10, 2014
acknowledgement
Div
of Budget's May 2, 2014 response
CJA's February 12, 2014 FOIL request to Governor & Division of the
Budget
--
enclosed February 11, 2014 FOIL/records request to Senate
–
“Fiscal Notes for the
Governor’s Article VII Judiciary and Legislative Budget Bills & his
Introducer’s Memoranda:
#S.6351/A.8551
(2014) – third phase of the judicial salary increase; #S.2601/A.3001
(2013) – second phase of judicial salary increase; #S.6251/A.9051
(2012) – first phase of judicial salary increase”
Gov's Feb. 20, 2014 acknowledgment
Gov's March 20, 2014 response
Div of Budget's Feb. 24, 2014
acknowledgment
Div of Budget's March 20, 2014 response
CJA's February 12, 2014 letter to Governor
& Division of Budget
--
"The Governor’s Introducer’s Memoranda
for his Article VII Judiciary and Legislative Budget Bills:
#A.8551/S.6351 (2014) – third phase
of the judicial salary increase; #A.3001/S.2601 (2013) – second phase of
judicial salary increase;
#A.9051/S.6251
(2012)
– first phase of judicial salary increase."
Governor's February 20, 2014 acknowledgment
Div
of Budget's February 24, 2014 acknowledgment
March 28, 2014 --
CJA's 1st citizen-taxpayer action, commenced with verified
complaint annexing, as exhibits, CJA's December 11, 2013, December
30, 2013, January 7, 204, and January 14, 2014 letters & the FOIL
requests
2.
FAST FORWARD -- November
2016
Megna parachutes in, as the Governor's appointee, to
the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation,
following the sudden, unexplained resignation of the Governor's
appointee Gary Johnson
CJA's November 11, 2016 FOIL request --
"Governor
Cuomo's appointment of Robert Megna to the Commission on Legislative,
Judicial & Executive Compensation"
November 14, 2016 acknowledgment of CJA's
FOIL request by Commission/OCA
Governor's November 21, 2016 acknowledgment of
CJA's FOIL request
Governor's December 20, 2016 response &
enclosed Nov. 10, 2016 letter to Robert Megna
Commission's December 21, 2016 response (via the OCA) -- "We
have no responsive records regarding the Governor's appointment of
Robert Megna. You may wish to direct your inquiry to the Governor's
office."
click here
for:
VIDEO
of
Megna, sitting as a member of the Commission
on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation, at its last
meeting on November 15, 2016, following the unexplained resignation
of Commissioner Gary Johnson
[transcript]
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October
22, 2017
"NY
Fix it man Megna",
Albany Times Union (Rick Karlin)
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