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Compensation Committee's December 10, 2018 Report

Legislative Law §5 "Compensation of Members" Legislative Law §5-a "Allowances"

CJA's July 15, 2019 NOTICE
to the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, & Legislators
transmitting e-mail (mailing receipts)

& July 16, 2019 e-mail to Legislators whose stipends were preserved by the Dec. 10, 2018 Report
of the Committee on Legislative & Executive Compensation

Temporary Senate President Andrea Stewart-Cousins                           $41,500
Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, Esq.                          $34,000
Finance Committee Chair Liz Krueger                                                  $34,000

Senate Minority Leader John Flanagan, Esq.                                         $34,500
Senate Deputy Minority Leader Joseph Griffo                                        $20,500
Finance Committee Ranking Member James Seward                             $20,500

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie                                                            $41,500
Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes                                 $34,500
Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Jeffrion Aubry                                     $25,000
Ways and Means Chair Helene Weinstein, Esq.                                      $34,000
Assembly Codes Committee Chair Joseph Lentol, Esq.                           $18,000

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb                                                  $34,500
Assembly Minority Leader Pro Tempore Andy Goodell, Esq.                  $20,500
Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member William Barclay, Esq.     $20,500
Assembly Codes Committee Ranking Member Edward Ra, Esq.             $11,000

CJA'S July 15, 2019 ANALYSIS
OF THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE'S DECEMBER 10, 2018 REPORT

Exhibit A-1: CJA’s July 17, 2018 FOIL/records request to Governor, Senate, Assembly, and Judiciary –
“Part HHH of Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Budget Bill S.7509-C/A.9509.C”

Exhibit A-2a: Judiciary’s July 17, 2018 acknowledgment;

Exhibit A-2b: Judiciary’s August 28, 2018 response

Exhibit A-3: Senate’s July 24, 2018 response

Exhibit A-4: Assembly’s July 24, 2018 response

Exhibit A-5a: Governor’s July 24, 2018 acknowledgment

Exhibit A-5b: Governor’s August 21, 2018 extension letter

Exhibit A-5c: Governor’s September 19, 2018 extension

Exhibit A-5d: Governor’s October 3, 2018 response

Exhibit B-1: CJA’s November 14, 2018 e-mail – “Request to Testify – Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 NYC hearing”

Exhibit B-2: Compensation Committee's November 16, 2018 response

Exhibit B-3: CJA’s November 28, 2018 e-mail – “Confirmation…”

Exhibit B-4: Compensation Committee's November 29, 2018 e-mail

Exhibit C: Sassower’s November 30, 2018 written testimony, with its accompanying constitutional provisions pertaining
to the state budget and the openness mandated for legislative proceedings

Exhibit D:       Transcription of Sassower’s oral testimony at the November 30, 2018 public hearing
                                        ** CJA's webpage for VIDEO of November 30, 2018 testimony

Exhibit E-1:     CJA’s December 3, 2018 e-mail – “The NYS Compensation Committee’s website, its e-mail address –
                         & the records of the prior compensation commissions”

Exhibit E-2: Compensation Committee's December 3, 2018 e-mail

Exhibit E-3: CJA’s December 3, 2018 e-mail – “Excellent”

Exhibit F: CJA’s December 5, 2018 e-mail – “Assembly Speaker Heastie’s fraudulent, deceitful presentation in support
of legislative pay raises – as established by EVIDENCE”

Exhibit G:       CJA’s December 6, 2018 e-mail & letter to Assembly Speaker Heastie, with cc to Compensation Committee –
                        “Demand that You Substantiate Your Nov. 30, 2018 Testimony before the NYS Compensation Committee
                        with EVIDENCE – as You Furnished NONE”      ** CJA's webpage for December 6, 2018 letter

Exhibit H: CJA’s December 7, 2018 e-mail – “When will the Compensation Committee be posting the video of
yesterday’s meeting – as well as all comments/submissions received?”

Exhibit I:         CJA’s December 10, 2018 e-mail – “AGAIN: “When will the Compensation Committee be posting the video
                        of its Dec. 6^th meeting – & will it post pdfs of the EVIDENCE I handed up in substantiation of my Nov. 30^th oral
                        & written testimony?”

Exhibit J: CJA’s December 28, 2018 e-mail to the Committee – “Where Will the Records of the Compensation
Committee be Maintained Upon Expiration & Repeal of the Committee Statute on December 31, 2018?”

Exhibit K-1: CJA’s June 20, 2019 FOIL/records request to Governor, Senate, and Assembly – “Records of the
Compensation Committee Established Pursuant to Part HHH of Chapter 59 of the Laws of 2018”

Exhibit K-2: Senate’s June 27, 2019 response

Exhibit K-3: Assembly’s June 27, 2019 response

Exhibit K-4a: CJA’s July 1, 2019 FOIL/records request to Governor – “AGAIN…“Records of the Compensation Committee
Established Pursuant to Part HHH of Chapter 59 of the Laws of 2018”

Exhibit K-4b: Governor’s July 3, 2019 response

Exhibit L-1:     CJA’s July 9, 2019 e-mail to Compensation Committee pro bono counsel Alan Klinger, Esq. and Dina Kolker,
                        Esq. – “Whereabouts of the Records of the Committee on Legislative & Executive Compensation –
                        & Responsibility for its Website”

Exhibit L-2: July 10, 2019 response from Compensation Committee pro bono counsel Kolker

Exhibit M:       “Committee Approves Pay Raise For New York Lawmakers”, New York Law Journal,
                         December 7, 2018 front-page article (Dan Clark)

Exhibit N-1:    “Assemblymembers Scott Stringer, Sam Hoyt and Fifteen Other Majority Members
                        Introduce Landmark Assembly Rules Change”, press release, September 28, 2004

Exhibit N-2:    “How to Make Albany Behave”, New York Times, Op-Ed by Scott Stringer & Jeremy Creelan,
                        November 7, 2004

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“offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree” (Penal Law §175.35)

“defrauding the government” (Penal Law §195.20)

“scheme to defraud in the first degree” (Penal Law §190.65)

"PUBLIC TRUST ACT":
“Corrupting the government in the first degree” (Penal Law §496.05)
"Public corruption" (Penal Law §496.06)

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Committee on Legislative & Executive Compensation
(Chapter 59, Part HHH, of the Laws of 2018)

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Stroock, Stroock & Lavan LLC -- General Litigation & Government Affairs Division
Alan Klinger, Esq. Nina Kolker, Esq.

CJA's webpage for "Scholar"/Deputy Comptroller for Budget & Policy Analysis Robert Ward

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July 25, 2018
"Major Party NY AG Candidates Would Take Pay Cut if Elected, Filings Show"
NY Law Journal (Dan Clark)

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HERE's the ONLY response:

July 17, 2019 e-mail from Assembly Minority Leader Pro Tempore Goodell

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