ACTION
ALERT: 8-28-13
from
Center for Judicial Accountability Director Elena Sassower
SPREAD THE WORD!
Opportunity
to Testify against New York’s Corrupt Judiciary --
& the Worthlessness of Purported Safeguards
On July 2nd,
Governor Cuomo created a commission with extraordinary powers to investigate
public corruption, to recommend changes in the law, and to refer those who corrupt
government for criminal prosecution.
The
Commission’s first round of hearings are in
September. They are an important opportunity for victims of New
York state judicial corruption and other lawlessness of New York state
government to present their evidence. Indeed, by doing so publicly,
at hearings, we make it harder for the Commission to engage in the usual
cover-up.
The first
public hearing is on Tuesday, September 17th in lower
Manhattan. The second public hearing is on Wednesday, September 18th,
in Buffalo. The third public hearing is on Tuesday, September 24th,
outside of Albany. All three hearings start at 6 p.m.
Doors open at 5 p.m.
Here is the
link to the Commission’s website – from which you can read the Commission’s
press release about the hearings: http://www.publiccorruption.moreland.ny.gov/
. Although no advance registration appears to be required, we suggest you
telephone and e-mail the Commission if you desire to testify and that you
request that the Commission confirm that you will be reserved as a
witness.
To ensure
that the Commission – which is called “Commission to Investigate Public
Corruption” -- is true to its name and announced purpose, our nonpartisan,
nonprofit citizens’ organization, Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc.
(CJA), has been working hard. Here’s the link to our webpage
on the issue, http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-compensation/commission-on-public-corruption.htm,
featuring our August 5, 2013 letter to the Commission, to which we have
received no response. This includes to our questions about the September
hearings.
I invite you
to call me so that I can guide you as to how to be most effective in
your presentations to the Commission, whether at the hearings or by written
submissions. Specifically, you should focus on the worthlessness of
purported safeguards, these being, for example, reargument
motions, motions to vacate for fraud, motions to disqualify and for disclosure,
requests for oversight by supervisory judges, Article 78 proceedings, appeals,
federal lawsuits, complaints to the Commission on Judicial Conduct and attorney
disciplinary bodies, complaints to the Chief Judge, Chief Administrative Judge,
and to the Inspector General of the Unified Court System, complaints to the
Attorney General and his “Public Integrity Bureau”, complaints to district attorneys
and to U.S. Attorneys and the FBI, etc., complaints to other public officers –
most importantly, to state legislators and state legislative committees, as,
for instance, the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees – entreaties to the
press, to academia, to bar associations, etc.
To ensure
that there is public record of what members of the public are furnishing the
Commission for investigation, I urge you to provide us with copies of your
written communications to it so that we can post them on our website, for
examination by the press, scholars, and others able to “blow the whistle” on a
Commission cover-up.
Such webpage
will be similar to that which we created, back in 2009, for witnesses who
testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s June 8, 2009 and September 24,
2009 hearings on the Commission on Judicial Conduct and the court-controlled
attorney disciplinary system. Here’s the link to that webpage: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-discipline/nys/nys-sjc-hearing.htm.
We also created a webpage for witnesses testifying on July 20, 2011 before the
Commission on Judicial Compensation. Here’s the link so that you can see
it: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-compensation/7-20-11-commission-hearing.htm.
Finally, in
the event that you have not kept up with CJA’s unrelenting advocacy over these
many years, building on what took place at the 2009 Senate Judiciary Committee
hearings and at the 2011 hearing of the Commission on Judicial Compensation,
you can examine it from the hyperlinks on our “Latest News” webpage, accessible
from our website’s top panel. Here’s the direct link: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/cja/latest-news.htm.
I look
forward to hearing from you soon.
Best,
Elena Sassower, Director
Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA)
914-455-4373