EVIDENTIARY NARRATIVE WEBPAGE

for CJA's June 14, 2021 e-mail --
"So, you want to be Manhattan D.A.,
here's the info & EVIDENCE in support of your whistle-blowing, NOW --
& your duty, IF elected, to present same to a Manhattan grand jury"

WOULD-BE MANHATTAN D.A. ALVIN BRAGG was chief deputy to both AG Eric Schneiderman and thereafter to AG Barbara Underwood.  For that reason, he was cc'd on a May 16, 2018 e-mail to AG Underwood, transmitting a May 16, 2018 letter/NOTICE of what he reasonably already knew: that in violation of Executive Law §63.1 and other statutory provisions, the AG's office engages in a modus operandi of litigation fraud, corrupting the judicial process to defend lawsuits against the state and public officers where there is NO legitimate defense -- and that AG Schneiderman had done just that in three lawsuits brought by the non-partisan, non-profit citizens’ organization, Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA), suing "on behalf of the People of the State of New York & the Public Interest", NY's three government branches for collusion in an expanding series of crimes:

       (1)   CJA's 2012 declaratory judgment action challenging the statutorily-violative, fraudulent, and unconstitutional "force of law" August 29, 2011 report of the Commission on Judicial Compensation raising judicial salaraies -- and D.A. salaries based thereon;

       (2)  CJA's 2014 citizen-taxpayer action additionally challenging the theft of taxpayer monies by the judiciary and legislative budgets, accomplished by their violations of constitutional, statutory, and legislative rule provisions;

       (3)  CJA's 2016 citizen-taxpayer action additionally challenging the statutorily-violative, fraudulent, and unconstitutional "force of law" December 24, 2015 report of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation raising judicial salaries -- and D.A. salaries based thereon -- and the ENTIRETY of the state budget as "OFF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RAILS", including its culminating "three men in a room", behind-closed-doors budget deal-making, brazenly violating Article VII, §§1-7 of the NYS Constitution, as well as such other dysfunctions and corruptions in the Legislature's operations as its closed-door party conferences, violating Article III, §10 of the NYS Constitution.  

All three lawsuits, to which CJA had an entitlement to summary judgment on ALL their causes of action -- & to their requests for referral of the defendant public officers for criminal investigation and prosecution -- were "thown" by fraudulent judicial decisions of NY's supposed "excellent" "high quality" judiciary.  So, too, CJA's 2014 order to show cause to intervene in the Legislature's declaratory judgment action against the D.A.-stacked Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, which AG Schneiderman -- in addition to having participated with Governor Cuomo in establishing and staffing that sham commission -- also defended by litigation fraud.  

The May 16, 2018 NOTICE called upon AG Underwood to investigate and take remedial steps, most immediately in the only one of the four litigations still live -- the citizen-taxpayer action CJA v. Cuomo...Schneiderman...DiFiore, then the subject of an unperfected notice of appeal to the Appellate Division, Third Department. 

Bragg – lockstep with AG Underwood and the other top supervisory/managerial attorneys of the AG's office to whom CJA's May 16, 2018 NOTICE was also e-mailed – did not respond to it or to CJA's May 30, 2018 letter, e-mailed to him and them on that date, inquiring as to the status of the May 16, 2018 NOTICE and detailing AG Underwood's conflicts of interest in support of appointment of independent/outside counsel or special prosecutor.  In fact, neither Bragg, AG Underwood, or any top supervisory/managerial attorneys responded to any of CJA's many, many e-mails to them throughout the seven-month span from May 16, 2018 to December 17, 2018.  Bragg, thereby, put his imprimatur to the complete trashing of ALL cognizable standards in the unfolding CJA v. Cuomo...Schneiderman...DiFiore citizen-taxpayer action, both as to what had taken place in Albany County Supreme Court, to wit, flagrant litigation fraud by the AG, covered up by fraudulent judicial decisions of an acting Supreme Court justice who had refused to disclose her salary interest in the case, or that she had worked in the AG's office for 30 years, including for both AG Schneiderman and AG Cuomo, the latter, as governor, having appointed her to the bench in 2015; and in the AG's continued flagrant litigation fraud, now at the Appellate Division, Third Department before judges who, likewise, were refusing to disclose their salary interests and personal, professional, and political relationships with the defendants. 

This was how, on December 27, 2018, AG Underwood procured, from the Appellate Division, Third Department, a fraudulent "affirmance" decision, which, in January 2019, new AG Letitia James, with Underwood as her solicitor general, would then use to defend against a separate lawsuit, Delgado v. State of New York, seeking to void the "force of law" December 10, 2018 report of the Committee on Legislative and Executive Compensation raising the salaries of AG James, Comptroller DiNapoli, all NY's 213 state legislators -- and indirectly Governor Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Hochul.  The constitutionality of those pay raises would be upheld, in Delgado, based on the December 27, 2018 decision in CJA v. Cuomo...Schneiderman...DiFiore.  For that reason, the Albany Supreme Court and Appellate Division, Third Department decisions in Delgado are judicial frauds, but there are other reasons as well, arising from the AG's other frauds, adopted by those decisions.

So, too, by litigation fraud, AG James and SG Underwood procured from the NY Court of Appeals, whose six associate judges also had huge salary and other interests and relationships they refused to disclose, fraudulent decisions that denied the appeals of right and by leave to which the December 27, 2018 decision was entitled under the NYS Constitution.  They did the same to prevent a direct appeal, of right, in Delgado – to which there was also a constitutional entitlement. 

The consequences of what NY's self-interested AG and judiciary did in these cases have been CATASTROPHIC for the People of NY, stealing billions of their hard-earned taxpayer dollars -- and perpetuating corruption that has deprived them of functioning governmental services, as, for example, those that are supposed to be provided by the Commission on Judicial Conduct, the eight attorney grievance committees, and the 62 district attorneys.  The injury has been vast and irreparable.  It includes legislation, enacted without legislative due process -- such as produced  sweeping changes to NY's elections -- and the nursing home COVID deaths that the Legislature blames on Governor Cuomo, when it is culpable because of its dysfunction and jettisoning of checks and balance, constitutional governance  -- both of which CJA v. Cuomo... Schneiderman...DiFiore sought to rectify -- and which would have been rectified, dramatically, had Bragg done his ethical duty, upon his receipt of the May 16, 2018 NOTICE and throughout the seven months that followed, when, again, and again, and again, CJA e-mailed him ALL the horrifying particulars of what was going on. 

The train of events that preceded and followed Bragg's wilful violation of his duty to take appropriate, ethically-mandated action -- for which a Manhattan grand jury would rightfully indict him, based on the May 16, 2018 NOTICE and the mountain of e-mails he received thereafter, as, for instance, CJA's December 13, 2018 e-mail entitled "NOTICE:  Your Duty...to ENJOIN the 'force of law' salary & lulu recommendations of the NYS Compensation Committee prior to Jan.1,2019..." – is embodied in 62 grand jury/public corruption complaints that CJA filed with NY's 62 district attorneys of its 62 counties, who, because of their financial and other interests, have been "sitting on" them.  This includes Manhattan D.A. Vance and his four fellow NYC D.A.s – all five of whom are also "sitting on" FOIL requests seeking records pertaining to their handling of public corruption complaints, conflicts of interest, and the Manhattan grand jury. 

The NYC Charter created the position of public advocate to handle situations where city agencies and officers are not doing their jobs and directs that he "promptly" refer complaints involving violations of criminal law and conflicts of interest to the NYC Department of Investigation and NYC Conflicts of Interest Board.  Nonetheless, upon CJA’s filing with NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams a May 3, 2021 complaint against NYC's five D.A.s for their wilful nonfeasance with respect to the grand jury/public corruption complaints and FOIL requests, he simply ignored it.  For this reason, CJA filed a May 17, 2021 complaint against the 5 NYC D.A.s directly with the NYC Department of Investigation and NYC Conflicts of Interest Board – also encompassing a complaint against Public Advocate Williams, whose subversion of what is supposed to be a nonpartisan watchdog office ensuring the integrity of NYC governance is obvious in other respects as well. 

The NYC Department of Investigation handles investigations for the Conflicts of Interest Board.  More than ample time has elapsed for it to have verified the facts -- and the May 17, 2021 complaint identified the need for its doing so expeditiously, in light of the elections, in which, among other things, Public Advocate Williams is running for re-election.  The complaint also furnished an extensive footnote 3 pertaining to the conflicts of interest of the Department of Investigation Commissioner, Margaret Garnett, and Deputy Commissioner, Daniel Cort, both of whom were previously at the AG's office under Schneiderman and then Underwood.  Indeed, Commissioner Garnett had been in a TOP supervisory/managerial position with Bragg – and was cc'd on ALL the e-mails to which he had been cc'd, beginning with CJA's first e-mail transmitting the May 16, 2018 NOTICE.

Maybe it's time to file a formal conflict-of-interest complaint with the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board against the NYC Department of Investigation for its dilatory investigation, if, in fact, it is investigating.  However, the Conflicts of Interest Board has its own conflicts of interest.  This includes as relates to JCOPE (Joint Commission on Public Ethics), which – since 2013 – has been "sitting on" CJA's fully-documented conflict-of-interest complaints pertaining to the corruption chronicled by the above-four litigations.  The most recent of CJA's complaints to JCOPE was March 5, 2021, relating to CJA's 62 grand jury/public corruption complaints.  

Two final notes: 

(1)        The genesis of CJA's odyssey of examination and advocacy pertaining to the pay raises and the state budget is rooted in the corruption of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, whose principal office is in Manhattan, and of the court-controlled attorney disciplinary system, whose eight attorney grievance committees include the Manhattan-based Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department.   Indeed, the First Department Attorney Grievance  Committee is currently "sitting on" a February 11, 2021 attorney misconduct complaint against AG James and SG Underwood pertaining to their litigation fraud in CJA v. Cuomo...Schneiderman...DiFiore, as well as in Delgado and other related cases.  The complaint itself annexes, as Exhibt A, the May 16, 2018 NOTICE and its transmitting e-mail, and, as Exhibit B, the May 30,2018 status/conflict-of-interest letter, and its transmitting e-mail.  The Committee's investigation would properly include questioning both Bragg and Garnett -- and sua sponte initiation of disciplinary charges against them for their facilitating role. 

(2)        Former President Trump is claiming that Manhattan D.A. Vance's convening of a special grand jury to investigate him and his Trump Organization is a politically-motivated, witch-hunt.  He certainly has grounds to make a SOLID case of invidiousness and selectivity – and, on June 4, 2021, CJA sent a message to Mr. Trump as to the "above the law" situation here in New York involving both D.A. Vance and his investigative partner AG James.