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   2013 - 2018
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

Chair: John Bonacic

 


2013
CHAIR: John Bonacic, ESQ.
RANKING MEMBER: John Sampson, ESQ.
Eric Adams, Neil Breslin, ESQ., John DeFrancisco, ESQ., Martin Malave Dilan, Adriano Espaillat, John Flanagan, ESQ., Charles Fuschillo, Jr., Michael Gianaris, ESQ., Liz Krueger, Andrew Lanza, ESQ., Kenneth LaValle, ESQ., Elizabeth Little, Michael Nozzolio, Thomas O'Mara, ESQ., Bill Perkins, Michael Ranzenhofer, ESQ., Stephen Saland, ESQ., Jose Serrano, Daniel Squadron, Toby Ann Stavisky, Lee Zeldin

[see:  2012 - 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS]

 

CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Chair Bonacic & Ranking Member John Sampson --
"
February 6, 2013 Joint Legislative Hearing on 'Public Protection':
The Legislature’s Mandatory Duty to Override the Judiciary’s Request for “funding for the next phase of the judicial salary increase”, in Discharge of its Checks-and-Balance Constitutional Function"

 

  click here for: 
VIDEO
CJA's testimony at Legislature's February 6, 2013 budget hearing

 

CJA's February 27, 2013 e-mail to Chair Bonacic & Ranking Member Sampson --
 "Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget
& Judicial Pay Raises"

CJA's March 15, 2013 e-mail ALERT to ALL Senate & Assembly Members --
"Subject: Is the Judiciary Budget a 'Slush Fund'?"

 

CJA's March 18, 2013 letter to ALL Senate and Assembly Members --
"The People's Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget & of the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary"
 
  transmitting e-mail/fax receipts

 

CJA's March 26, 2013 letter to ALL Assembly Members --
"RE: Why You Must Reject A.3001 -- The Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary"

  
     TRANSMITTING E-MAIL TO ALL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS

 

CJA's May 7 and May 22, 2013 letters to ALL the Legislators --
"DOING YOUR PART TO END PUBLIC CORRUPTION"

 

CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo &...Chair Bonacic --
"
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 17, 2013 e-mail to Chair Bonacic --
"The Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015: Safeguarding the Public Purse
from Judicial Fraud & Larceny"

 

2014
CHAIR: Chair Bonacic, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Ruth Hassell-Thompson
Eric Adams, Joseph Addabbo, Neil Breslin, David Carlucci, John DeFrancisco,
Martin Malave Dilan, Adriano Espaillat, John Flanagan, Charles Fuschillo, Kemp Hannon, Brad Hoylman, Andrew Lanza,
Kenneth LaValle, Betty Little, Michael Nozzolio, Thomas O'Mara, Bill Perkins, Michael Ranzenhoffer,
Diane Savino, Toby Ann Stavisky, Lee Zeldin


[
see:  2012 - 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS]

CJA's January 14, 2014 letter to Chair Bonacic & Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson --
"
Vindicating the Public’s Rights under Article VII, §1 of the NYS Constitution & Legislative Law §32-
:
      (1) request to testify at the Legislature’s joint budget hearings in opposition to the proposed Judiciary & Legislative budgets..."

CJA's March 4, 2014 letter to Chair Bonacic & Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson -- "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..."

2015
Chair: John Bonacic, Esq.
Ranking Member: Ruth Hassell-Thompson

George Amedore, Tony Avella, Phil Boyle, Neil Breslin, Leroy Comrie, Thomas Croci, John DeFrancisco,
Ruben DIaz, Martin Malave Dilan, Adriano Espaillat, Kemp Hannon, Brad Hoylman, Andrew Lanza,
Kenneth LaValle, Michael Nozzolio, Thomas O'Mara, Bill Perkins, Michael Ranzenhoffer,
Diane Savino, Susan Serino, Daniel Squadron, Toby Ann Stavisky, Michael Venditto

 

2016
CHAIR: Chair Bonacic, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Ruth Hassell-Thompson
George Amedore, Tony Avella, Phil Boyle, Neil Breslin, Leroy Comrie, Thomas Croci, Ruben DIaz,
Martin Malave Dilan, Kemp Hannon, Brad Hoylman, Andrew Lanza,
Kenneth LaValle, Thomas O'Mara, Bill Perkins, Michael Ranzenhoffer,
Diane Savino, Susan Serino, Toby Ann Stavisky

 
[see:
2016 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

cc: CJA's January 15, 2016 letter to Temporary Senate President 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 January 28, 2016 letter to Chair Bonacic & Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson --
"
The Legislature’s February 4, 2016 “Public Protection” Budget Hearing
:  

Your scrutiny of the Judiciary’s two-part budget and of the Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6401/A.9001, embodying the Judiciary’s discrepant “single budget bill”
 

CJA'S JAN. 29, 2016 e-mail to Chair Bonacic --
"FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ALL SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS in preparation for Feb. 4, 2016 'Public Protection' Budget Hearing -- the Judiciary's 2-part budet & the Governor's Budget Bill #S.6401/A.9001"

CJA'S Jan. 29, 2016 e-mail to Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson --
"FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ALL ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS in preparation for Feb. 4, 2016 'Public Protection' Budget Hearing -- the Judiciary's 2-part budet & the Governor's Budget Bill #S.6401/A.9001"

  CJA's February 4, 2016 e-mail to Chair Bonacic & Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson --
enclosing
"QUESTIONS FOR CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE MARKS" --

CJA's February 19, 2016 letter to Chair Bonacic & Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson --
"Preventing Yet Another “Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc”

cc: CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail --
"Restoring constitutionality and lawfulness to NY's budgeting process --
& overriding the 'force of law' judicial pay raises" --
link to:
CJA's March 23, 2016 verified 2nd supplemental complaint (1st citizen-taxpayer action) 

2017
CHAIR: John Bonacic, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER:  Brad Hoylman, Esq.
George Amedore, Tony Avella, Jamaal Bailey, Phil Boyle, Neil Breslin, Thomas Croci, Ruben DIaz,
Martin Malave Dilan, Jesse Hamilton, Kemp Hannon, Chris Jacobs, Todd Kaminsky, Andrew Lanza,
Kenneth LaValle, Velmanette Montgomery, Thomas O'Mara, Elaine Phillips, Michael Ranzenhoffer,
Diane Savino, Susan Serino, Toby Ann Stavisky

[see: 2017 LEGISLATIVE SESSION] 

CJA's January 11, 2017 e-mail to Executive Assistant to Chair Bonacic
-- completed meeting form request

CJA's January 18, 2017 e-mail to Meeting Scheduler for Ranking Member Hoylman
--completed meeting form request

CJA's January 30, 2017 written statement about Legislative budget & budget bill,
with QUESTIONS to be answered
  

VIDEO:
CJA's testimony at the Legislature's Jan. 30, 2017 budget hearing on
"local gov't officials /general gov't"

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


cc: CJA's February 6, 2017 letter to Temporary President Flanagan, Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins,
Assembly Speaker Heastie, Assembly Minority Leader Kolb
 --
"...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?"     

CJA's February 7, 2017 e-mail to Ranking Member Hoylman


2018
CHAIR: John Bonacic, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Brad Hoylman, Esq.

 
[see:
2018 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

CJA's January 29, 2018 e-mail to Chair Bonacic & Ranking Member Hoylman

CJA's January 29, 2018 e-mail to Senate Judiciary Committee Rank-and-File Members

CJA's WRITTEN STATEMENT, with QUESTIONS,
IN SUPPORT OF TESTIMONY  

webpage with VIDEO of January 30 hearing -- & evidence supporting CJA's testimony & questions


2019
CHAIR: Brad Hoyman, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Thomas O'Mara, Esq.
Jamaal Bailey, ESQ., Phil Boyle, ESQ., Neil Breslin, ESQ., Andrew Gounardes, ESQ.,
Anna Kaplan, ESQ., Andrew Lanza, ESQ., Kenneth Lavalle, ESQ., Zellnor Myrie, ESQ., Michael Ranzenhofer, ESQ.,
Diane Savino, Luis Sepulveda, ESQ. Toby Ann Stavisky,
Kevin Thomas, ESQ.


[see:
2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

CJA's February 28, 2019 e-mail to ALL Senate Judiciary Commitee members --
"AGENDA: Judiciary budget & budget for the Commission on Judicial Conduct
for Fiscal Year 2019-2020"

attached:
CJA's February 19, 2019 written testimony, with QUESTIONS

included link to: webpage

 

2020
CHAIR: Brad Hoylman, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Thomas O'Mara, Esq.
Jamaal Bailey, ESQ., Phil Boyle, ESQ., Neil Breslin, ESQ., Andrew Gounardes, ESQ.,
Anna Kaplan, ESQ., Andrew Lanza, ESQ., Kenneth Lavalle, ESQ., Zellnor Myrie, Michael Ranzenhofer, ESQ.,
Diane Savino, Luis Sepulveda, ESQ. Toby Ann Stavisky, Kevin Thomas, ESQ.


[see: 2020 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
]

CJA's January 30, 2020 e-mail to Chair Hoylman & Ranking Member O'Mara --
"Judicial corruption involving the NYS Attorney General --
& the budget bills for fiscal year 2020-2021 pertaining thereto"

CJA's February 19, 2019 written testimony


CJA's February 19, 2020 e-mail to Chair Hoylman & Ranking Member O'Mara --
"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"

CJA's February 18, 2020 letter to Governor Cuomo
"Your January 21, 2020 address on the Executive Budget -- Part I:
The 'very simple' budget numbers of your Executive Budget,
starting with those on your 'Partners in Government' slide" 

click here for: webpage with substantiating evidence

CJA's Questions for Temporary Senate President Stewart-Cousins
& Assembly Speaker Heastie  
click here for:  webpage with substantiating evidence

CJA's Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Marks
click here for:
webpage with substantiating evidence

2021
CHAIR: Brad Hoylman, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Phil Boyle, Esq.
Members: Jamaal Bailey, ESQ., Alessandra Biaggi, ESQ., Neil Breslin, ESQ.,
Andrew Gounardes, ESQ., Anna Kaplan, ESQ., Andrew Lanza, ESQ.,
Zellnor Myrie, ESQ.,Thomas O'Mara, ESQ., Peter Oberacker, Anthony Palumbo, ESQ.,
James Skoufis,
Toby Ann Stavisky, Kevin Thomas, ESQ.

[see: 2021 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

 

 


 

 

 

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