ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, ANALYSIS & INVESTIGATION
(7 members -- Assembly Rule IV, §1a)
Stipends: Chair -- $12,500; Ranking Member $9,000 [removed-Jan. 1, 2019]

ANNUAL REPORTS:   2003 2004  2005  2006  2009  2010 
2011   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016  2017  2018   2019

2013
CHAIR: Andrew Hevesi
RANKING MEMBER: Michael Montesano, Esq.
Members: Michael Kearns, William Magnarelli, ESQ.,
Annette Robinson, Fred Thiele, ESQ., Philip Palmesano

CJA's June 4, 2013 letter to Chair Hevesi, Ranking Member Montesano -- & all other members, including William Magnarelli, Esq. and Fred Thiele, Esq. --
"RE: DOING YOUR PART TO END PUBLIC CORRUPTION: PART  III: 
Request for Legislative Oversight, Analysis and Investigation of CJA’s April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney Bharara...

June 12, 2013 response from Ranking Member Montesano --
"Subject: RE: Doing Your Part to End Public Corruption  -- Part III: Request for Legislative Oversight, Analysis & Investigation"

CJA's July 22, 2013 letter to Chairs & Members --
"RE: Securing Investigation & Prosecution of Public Corruption]   [transmitting e-mail]

                          CJA's enclosed July 19, 2017 corruption complaint to D.A. Soares    webpage for complaint

cc:  CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to Governor & Legislators:  
"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" 

CJA's December 16, 2013 e-mail to Ranking Member Montesano --
"Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's December 16, 2013 e-mail to Chair Hevesi --
"Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's December 17, 2013 e-mail (cc: Hevesi, Montesano) -- 
"Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

cc:  CJA's December 30, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo  --
"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"

2014
CHAIR: Andrew Hevesi
RANKING MEMBER: Michael Montesano, Esq.
Members: William Magnerelli, ESQ., Annette Robinson,
Fred Thiele, ESQ., Michael Kearns, Philip Palmesano

CJA's January 14, 2014 letter to Chair Hevesi & Ranking Member Montesano --
"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 14, 2014 transmittal to recipients  

CJA's March 4, 2014 letter to Chair Hevesi & Ranking Member Montesano --
"Your Constitutional Duty:
       "(1) to address the evidence of fraud and unconstitutionality in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets – and in the materially-divergent Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551, which, in violation of Senate and Assembly Rules, is unsupported by a fiscal note and introducer’s memorandum;
        (2) to address the $270,000 and other appropriations, embedded in the Executive Budget, for a demonstrably corrupt Commission to Investigate Public Corruption"

2015

CHAIR: Ellen Jaffee
RANKING MEMBER: Peter Lawrence
Members: William Magnarelli, ESQ., Annette Robinson, Fred Thiele, ESQ.,
Michael Kearns, Michael Montesano, ESQ.

2016

CHAIR: Ellen Jaffee
RANKING MEMBER: Peter Lawrence
Members: William Magnarelli, ESQ., Fred Thiele, ESQ.,
Michael Kearns, Michael Montesano, ESQ.

[see: 2016 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

CJA's January 15, 2016 e-mail to Chair Jaffee & Ranking Member Lawrence --
"Immediate Oversight Required: Jan. 20, 2016 Senate Judiciary Confirmation Hearing of Chief Judge DiFiore AND 'Force of Law' Judicial Salary Recommendations of Dec. 24, 2015 Report of Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation" --
            CJA's January 15, 2016 letter to Senate Majority Leader Flanagan & Assembly Speaker Heastie --
"IMMEDIATE OVERSIGHT REQUIRED: (1) The Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation and its statute-repudiating, fraudulent, and unconstitutional December 24, 2015 Report with “force of law” judicial salary recommendations; (2) The Senate Judiciary Committee’s January 20, 2016 public hearing to confirm the nomination of Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore as New York’s Chief Judge – and the deceptive public notice concealing that oral testimony is restricted to the nominee and bar associations   

CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail to Chair Jaffee & Ranking Member Lawrence --
"Restoring constitutionality and lawfulness to NY's budgeting process -- & overriding the 'force of law' judicial pay raises"   

2017
CHAIR: Assemblyman Matthew Titone
RANKING MEMBER: Assemblyman Joseph Errigo
Members: William Magnarelli, ESQ., Fred Thiele, ESQ., Michael Kearns,
Michael Montesano, ESQ.

CJA's January 9, 2017 e-mail to Chief of Staff to Chair Titone --
"...Legislative, Judiciary & Executive Budgets for Fiscal Year 2017-2018"

CJA's January 18, 2017 e-mail to Legislative Director to Ranking Member Errigo --
 "...Legislative, Judiciary & Executive Budgets for Fiscal Year 2017-2018"

CJA's January 20, 2017 e-mail to Legislative Director to Committee member Michael Kearns

CJA's January 20, 2017 e-mail to Committee member Fred Thiele  

CJA's February 6, 2017 e-mail to Chair Titone & Ranking Member Errigo --
"Letter to Leadership: (1) Legislative Law Article 5-A Commissions on Gov't Administration & State-Local Relations; (2) requested meetings to prevent repeat of constitutional, statutory & legislative rule violations re: fiscal year 2017-18 budget" --
        CJA's February 6, 2017 letter to Temporary Senate President Flanagan, Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heastie, Assembly Minority Leader Kolb  --
"(1) Where are your appointments to the Commission on Government Administration and to the Commission on State-Local Relations, required by Legislative Law Article 5-A?; (2) When will you be responding to my requests for a meeting for purposes of preventing a repeat of the constitutional, statutory, and legislative rule violations chronicled by the September 2, 2016 verified complaint in CJA’s citizen-taxpayer action?"

VIDEO: 
CJA's testimony at the Legislature's Jan. 31, 2017 budget hearing on "public protection"

CJA's February 7, 2017 e-mail to Chair Titone --
"Letter to Leadership: (1) Legislative Law Article 5-A Commissions on Gov't Administration & State-Local Relations; (2) requested meetings to prevent repeat of constitutional, statutory, & Legislative rule violations:  re: fiscal year 2017-18 budget"  

2018
CHAIR:  Shelley Mayer, ESQ.
replaced by: Edward Braunstein, ESQ.
RANKING MEMBER: Joseph Errigo
Members: William Magnarelli, ESQ., Fred Thiele, ESQ., Michael Montesano, ESQ.,

CJA's April 27, 2018 e-mail to Assemblywoman Mayer --
"Unfinished Business -- Your chairmanship of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation"

referred to: webpage with VIDEO of CJA's testimony
before Assemblywoman Mayer at the February 2, 2018 forum on the state budget
sponsored by Westchester Assembly Members -- with INVENTORY of casefile EVIDENCE
 which Assemblyman Buchwald handed back to CJA --
thereafter given, in hand, to Assemblywoman Mayer on March 23, 2018

CJA's May 21, 2018 e-mail to Senator Mayer --
"FW: Unfinished Business -- Your chairmanship of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation"

May 21, 2018 FOIL request -- "Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation, since Assemblyman Edward C. Braunstein became its chair"  Assembly's May 29, 2018 response

CJA's May 21, 2018 e-mail to Assemblyman Braunstein's Legislative Director/Chief of Staff --
"Matters Requiring URGENT, PRIORITY ATTENTION by the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation"

CJA's May 24, 2018 e-mail to Chair Braunstein --
"AGAIN: Matters Requiring URGENT, PRIORITY ATTENTION
by the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation"

CJA's May 24, 2018 e-mail to Chair Braunstein's Legislative Director/Chief of Staff --
"Thank you.  Here's my May21st and April 27th e-mails to predecessor chair of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation Shelley Mayer"

CJA's August 21, 2018 e-mail to Assemblyman Braunstein's Legislative Director/Chief of Staff --
"STATUS -- May 24th e-mail pertaining to legislative oversight of the NY Attorney General by the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation -- or any other legislative committee"

CJA's December 11, 2018 FOIL request to Assembly -- "Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation since Assemblyman Edward C. Braustein became it chair"  -- Assembly's December 18, 2018 response

2019
CHAIR:  Thomas Abinati, ESQ.
RANKING MEMBER: Brian Manktelow
Members:  Nathalia Fernandez, William Magnarelli, ESQ.,
Michael Montesano, ESQ., Phil Steck, ESQ., Fred Thiele, Jr., ESQ.

[see: 2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

click here for:
CJA's 2019 correspondence with Chair Abinanti, Ranking Member Manktelow,
& Rank & File Members 

prior correspondence, in 2018, with Abinanti: 
CJA's May 18, 2018 letter to Interim NY AG Candidate Abinanti --
"Testing the Fitness of Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood -- & Every Other Candidate for Interim Attorney General"

2020

CHAIR: John T. McDonald, III
RANKING MEMBER: Brian Manktelow 
Members:  Nathalia Fernandez, William Magnarelli, ESQ.,
Michael Montesano, ESQ., Phil Steck, ESQ., Fred Thiele, Jr., ESQ.

[see: 2020 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

CJA's January 30, 2020 FOIL request to Assembly --
"Meetings/agendas of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation in the 2020 legislative session -- and for the 2020 legislative session, thus far"

                                           Assembly's February 6, 2020 response 

CJA's February 19, 2020 e-mail to Chair McDonald & Manktelow --
"Request for Committee review & determination of Feb. 18, 2030 letter to Governor -- & Questions for Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heatie & for Chief Administrative Judge Marks"