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Outing Corrupt & Collusive Incumbents & 
Ending their Road to
RE-ELECTION & HIGHER OFFICE
in 2017, 2018 -- & BEYOND...

New York Assemblyman DAVID BUCHWALD

So, you want to be re-elected?--

 

(1)

CJA's February 15, 2013 handwritten note to Assemblyman Buchwald

VIDEO:  CJA's testimony
at the Legislature's February 6, 2013 budget hearing on "public protection"

(last speaker: at 7 hours-21 minutes)

click here for:
CJA's February 6, 2013 budget testimony webpage
with substantiating documentary EVIDENCE:
CJA's Oct 27, 2011 Opposition Report &
March 30, 2012 verified complaint in declaratory judgment action

*    *    * 

legislative rules reforms materials brought to Assemblyman Buchwald


(2)

CJA's March 8, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald -- & superseding March 11, 2013 e-mail -- --attaching CJA's March 11, 2013 memo to Subcommittee on "Public Protection"
"Rectifying your Absence at the February 6, 2013 Budget Hearing on 'Public Protection' by Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & its Judicial Salary Increase Request"

(3

CJA's March 12, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Judiciary Budget -- A Slush Fund as the Dollar Figures Would Show"

(4)

CJA's March 13, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"What is the cumulative dollar amount of the appropriations bill for the Judiciary -- A3001?  And of the Judiciary's budget request?"
      March 14, 2013 e-mail; March 18, 2013 e-mail

(5)

CJA's March 22, 2013 e-mail to Senator Latimer & Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Your Power & Duty to Reject the Budget: S2601/A3001 ---Judiciary Appropriations Bill"
& referred-to March 19, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo-- "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"

(6)

CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Senator Latimer & Assemblyman Buchwald (6:38 am) --
"Info to Assist You in Your Presentations Today on the Senate & Assembly Floor"

CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Senator Latimer & Assemblyman Buchwald (8:59 am) --
"Part 2: Info to Assist You in Your History-Making Presentations on the Senate & Assembly Floor.  But Will They be Today or Tomorrow?"

CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Senator Latimer & Assemblyman Buchwald  (10:19 am) --
"Part 3: Info to Assist You in Your History Making Presentations on the Senate & Assembly Floor. But Will They Be Today or Tomorrow?"

          CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail -- "thank you..."

CJA's March 23, 2013 e-mail to Senator Latimer & Assemblyman Buchwald (6:22 pm) --
"Part 4: Info to Assist You on Your History-Making Presentations on the Senate & Assembly Floor"

(7)  

CJA's March 28, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald-- "In further support of SUCCESSFUL procedural, due-process objections on the Assembly floor -- Opposition to A.300, etc.  -- with March 28, 2013 FOIL request


"FW: Standing up for Legislative Law 54 & 'Process'"
attaching:
        transcribed excerpt of March 24, 2013 Senate floor proceeding

        transcribed excerpt of February 26, 2009 hearing of Temporary

           Senate Committee on Rules & Administration Reform


      pertinent pages from 2009 Minority & Majority Reports of
           Temporary Senate Committee on Rules & Administration Reform

        Legislative Law 54  

CJA's April 26, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald -- "Analysis & Hearing Request: A.246-establishing special commission on managerial & confidential state employees"

 

 

(6)  

Correspondence with the Legislature
pertaining to CJA's corruption & ethics complaints

 


CJA's July 12, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald -- "What steps will Assemblyman Buchwald take to seccure oversight, analysis & investigation of Chapter 567 of the Laws of 2010 -- & what was his response to the Governor's 'Public Trust Act'?"



--referred to/linked webpage of
CJA's July 9, 2013 letter to ALL Senators...

and CJA's June 4, 2013 letter to the Senate Committee on Investigations & Governmental Operations...

(7)  

CJA's July 16, 2013 e-mail to Senator Latimer & Assemblyman Buchwald -- "FW: FOIL: Governor Cuomo's 'Public Trust Act'/Program Bill #3"

July 22, 2013 e-mail to Buchwald -- "Securing Government Integrity -- Starting with the 'Public Trust Act'"

      
 
with link to: 
CJA's July 19, 2013 corruption complaint
to Albany County D.A. Soares
&
CJA’s previously-furnished April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney Bharara
       [click here for: CJA's webpage for April 15, 2013 corruption complaint]

(8) 

CJA's August 9, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald -- "My 'Idea' for Legislation --Assemblyman Buchwald's sponsorship of The Public Trust Act"

 

 

CJA's August 13, 2013 letter to Senator Latimer & ASSEMBLYMAN BUCHWALD -- "RE:  Constituent Request that You Introduce the Public Trust Act (Governor’s Program Bill #3), Consistent with the Senate and Assembly Informational Guides:
How a Bill Becomes a Law” and “The Legislative Process and YOU

 
transmitting e-mail

CJA's August 16, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Championing Good Government by the Public Trust Act (Governor's Program Bill #3)..."

CJA's August 20, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald -- "latest draft of letter to Governor -- plus new webpage!"

-- & related August 21, 2013 letter to Gov. Cuomo,
to which Senator Latimer was an indicated recipient
 --
"Achieving BOTH a Properly Functioning Legislature & Your Public Trust Act
(Program Bill #3) -- the Sine Qua Non for 'Government Working' & 'Working for the People"

 (9)  

"Subject: Request for a Meeting: The Judiciary's proposed budget
for fiscal year 2014-2015"

-- webpage for attached CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to Gov. Cuomo & Legislature
 --
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM JUDICIAL FRAUD & LARENCY: 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 Wil Otherwise Take Efffect, Automatically, on April 1, 2014" 

(10)

CJA's February 5, 2014 e-mail to Senator Latimer & ASSEMBLYMAN BUCHWALD --

"Subject: Drafted Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Prudenti at Today's Feb 5, 2014 Budget Hearing on 'Public Protection'"

(11)

CJA's February 6, 2014 e-mail to Senator Latimer & ASSEMBLYMAN BUCHWALD --
"Subject: Request for Meeting with Senator Latimer & Assemblyman Buchwald NEXT WEEK & for Info on the Legislative 'Reappropriations' in Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551"
-- referred-to, linked webpage for January 29, 2014 letter so Senate Finance Committee..


(12)   

CJA's March 31, 2016 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Subject: FOR ASSEMBLYMAN BUCHWALD: Have you read what the NYS Constitution has to say about the NYS budget?"

NYS Constitution, Article VII, §§1-7

referred-to, linked webpage for

CJA's March 23, 2016 Verified 2nd Supplemental Complaint

(13)  

CJA's May 26, 2016 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"Subject: Elections 2016: What is Assemblyman Buchwald's expert opinion of CJA's March 23, 2016 second supplemental complaint challenging the NYS budget & the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation, etc?"

(14) 

 

 

 

"A Guide to Legislative Oversight",
by the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation 

 

Plaintiffs' March 28, 2014 verified complaint

Plaintiffs' March 31, 2015 verified supplemental complaint

Plaintiffs' March 23, 2016 verified supplemental complaint

Judge McDonough's Oct. 9, 2014 decision/order
Judge McDonough's June 24, 2015 decision/order
Judge McDonough's Aug 1, 206 decision/order

Plaintiffs' September 2, 2016 verified complaint

Exhibit I-1:      Plaintiffs’ July 13, 2016 FOIL request: “State Aid to the Counties for District Attorney Salaries for Calendar Years 2010-2016” 

Exhibit I-2:      July 20, 2016 letter from Comptroller’s records access officer 

Exhibit I-3:      July 22, 2016 letter from Comptroller’s records access officer 

Exhibit J-1:      Plaintiffs’ July 11, 2016 FOIL request: “The ‘plan’ to reimburse counties not covered by Judiciary Law 183-a for district attorney salaries: fiscal years 2016-17, 2015-16, and 2014-15” 

Exhibit J-2:      July 15, 2016 e-mail from Division of Criminal Justice Services’ records access officer

Exhibit J-3:      August 12, 2016 e-mail from Division of Criminal Justice Services’ records access officer

 Plaintiffs' March 29, 2017 verified Supplemental Complaint



 


A 4-year evidentiary trail of Assemblyman Buchwald's knowing & deliberate betrayal of the duties of his office & complicity in systemic gov't corruption
& grand larceny of the public fisc

DIRECTLY RESULTING IN CJA's 2 CITIZEN-TAXPAYER ACTIONS:

  I. 
CJA v. Cuomo,...Senate, et al.

March 28, 2014 verified complaint

March 31, 2015 verified supplemental complaint

March 23, 2016 verified second supplemental complaint

II.

CJA v. Cuomo,...Senate, et al.

September 2, 2016 verified complaint

March 29, 2017 verified supplemental complaint

 

where it begins --


CJA's March 12, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Buchwald/Senator Latimer --
"Judiciary Budget -- A Slush Fund as the Dollars Would Show"
--attaching:
CJA's March 11, 2013 memo to Subcommittee on "Public Protection"
"Rectifying your Absence at the February 6, 2013 Budget Hearing on 'Public Protection' by Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & its Judicial Salary Increase Request"

 

March 28, 2013 e-mail to Buchwald   & again here

(2) CJA's August 13, 2013 letter to Assemblyman Buchwald --
"RE:  Constituent Request that You Introduce the Public Trust Act (Governor’s Program Bill #3), Consistent with the Senate and Assembly Informational Guides: “How a Bill Becomes a Law” and “The Legislative Process and YOU

-- & related August 21, 2013 letter to Gov. Cuomo, to which Latimer was an indicated recipient

 (3) CJA's December 19, 2013 e-mail to Senator Latimer --
"Subject: Request for a Meeting: The Judiciary's proposed budget for fiscal year 2014-2015"  -- webpage for December 11, 2013 letter to Gov. Cuomo

 

 (4) CJA's March 31, 2016 e-mail to Senator Latimer --
"Subject: FOR SENATOR LATIMER: Have you read what the NYS Constitution has to say about the NYS budget?"

referred-to webpages:
CJA's March 23, 2016 Verified 2nd Supplemental Complaint

(5)  CJA's June 1, 2016 e-mail to Senator Latimer  --
"Subject: Tabling, if not voting down, S.7408-A -- state reimbursement of district attorney salary increases" --
enclosed June 1, 2016 e-mail to Chair Marchione 

CJA's February 8, 2017 e-mail to Buchwald --
            

VIDEO (via Assembly website):  CJA's testimony
at the Legislature's January 30, 2017 budget hearing
on "Local Government Officials/General Government"

(last speaker: at 8 hours-47 mins.)  
transcript:  pp. 518-535

                  VIDEO (via Senate website)
 

VIDEO (via Assembly website):  CJA's testimony
at the Legislature's January 31, 2017 budget hearing
on "Public Protection"

(last speaker:  at 11 hours-11 mins.)
transcript:  pp. 671 - 679
                    VIDEO (via Senate website)

 

 

Press Releases

November 29, 2016
"Governor Cuomo Signs Assemblyman Buchwald’s Bill to Improve Freedom of Information Law and Increase Transparency in State Government"
“New Yorkers have the right to access information from state and local governments,” said Assemblyman Buchwald. “With this new measure, we have empowered all New Yorkers in the name of government accountability and responsiveness. I am thankful that Governor Cuomo has signed this important legislation to make the workings of state government more transparent.”

June 17, 2016
pension

June 16, 2016
unanimous passage
“New Yorkers of all kinds – scientists, advocates, teachers, and journalists – should be free to access the information they seek from state government without unnecessary and costly delays,” said Assemblyman David Buchwald (D-Westchester). “Our constituents deserve a responsive and efficient state government, and we can further that goal by accelerating the FOIL appeals process. I am pleased that the state legislature has once again unanimously passed this crucial piece of legislation to increase government transparency. Governor Cuomo should sign it into law.”

 

March 23, 2016
Assembly approves

January 3, 2016
1st to sign

 

December 10, 2015

March 8, 2013
"AIM Funding"

January 22, 2013
budget

 

 

 

 

 

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