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SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE'S
2009 HEARINGS ON THE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT
& COURT-CONTROLLED ATTORNEY
GRIEVANCE COMMITTEES
& ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY SYSTEM
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HEARING #1:
ALBANY -- June 8, 2009
VIDEO:
Part 1
VIDEO: Part 2
Opening Statement by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman John Sampson
video at 0:0:0 - 0:4:54
Senate Judiciary Committee's witness list
Witnesses at June 8, 2009
hearing:
1st Dept. Disciplinary Committee member MARTIN R. GOLD, -- video
at 0:6:29 - 0:31:47
with 1st Dept. Disciplinary
Committee Chief Counsel ALAN FRIEDBERG
CHRISTINE C. ANDERSON, Esq. -- video at 0:31:51 - 0:46:52
KEVIN McKEOWN -- video at 0:46:54 -1:03:11
Commission on Judicial Conduct Chairman THOMAS A. KLONICK, -- video at 1:03:11 -
1:06:00
with Commission
Administrator & Counsel ROBERT H. TEMBECKJIAN -video at 1:06:02 - 1:20:47
JUSTICE DUANE A. HART -- video at 1:20:48 -1:38:32
PAMELA CARVEL -- video at 1:38:40 - 1:50:48
PAUL H. ALTMAN -- video at 1:50:50 - 2:03:07
LUISA C. ESPOSITO -- video at 2:03:10 - 2:11:20
WILLIAM GALISON -- video at 2:11:59 -2:26:20
ELEANOR CAPOGROSSO, Esq. -- video at 2:26:22 - 2:41:29
Former NYS Bar Association President ROBERT OSTERTAG -- video at 2:41:33 -
2:52:20
JOHN A. ARETAKIS, Esq. -- video at 2:52:21 - 3:04:12
MICHAEL KELLY -- video at 0:0 - 0:2:43
KATHRYN
GRACE JORDAN/End Discrimination Now -- video at 0:2:45 - 0:10:02
JAMES A. MONTAGNINO, Esq. -- video at 0:10:07 - 0:22:22
RUTH M. POLLACK, Esq. -- video at 0:23:02 - 0:36:23
KEVIN PATRICK BRADY -- video at 0:36:52 - 0:40:30
CARL LANZISERA/Americans for Legal Reform -- video at 0:40:35 - 0:47:35
Senate Judiciary Committee's witness list
Witnesses at
September 24, 2009 hearing:
RICHARD KUSE, video at 0:3:36 -
0:19:27; 0:47:49 - 0:48:14
with
CATHERINE WILSON, video at 0:19:15 - 0:47:48 AND 1:53:56 - 1:58:17
ANDREA
WILKINSON -- video at 1:03:52 -1:25:08
VICTOR KOVNER, Chairman/Fund for Modern Courts -- video at 1:25:09 -1:33:53
MARIA GKANIOS -- video at 1:34:00 - 1:59:59
REGINA
FELTON, Esq. -- at 2:00:01 - 2:27:09
DOUGLAS HIBGEE -- video at 2:27:10 - 2:35:31
CATHERINE MALARKEY -- video at 2:35:48 - 22:38:58
NORA
DREW RENZULLI, Esq. -- video at 2:39:02 - 2:47:30
STEPHANIE KLEIN -- video at 2:49:20 - 3:06:48
IKE ARUTI, Esq. -- video at 3:06:51 - 3:22:58
TERENCE FINNAN -- video at 3:22:59 -3:27:57
GIZELLA WEISSHAUS -- video at 3:28:50 - 3:37:51
ELIOT BERNSTEIN --
video at 3:38:20 - 4:01:16
SUZANNE
McCORMICK -- video at 4:01:45 - 4:16:17
with PAT HANLEY
PRESS COVERAGE:
September 25, 2009:
"Public Airs Concerns on Disciplinary Procedures"
NYLJ
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARING #3:
CANCELLED & NOT RESCHEDULED:
December 16, 2009 -- Manhattan,
New York
Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing notice
for December 16, 2009 hearing
Senate Judiciary Committee's CANCELLATION NOTE:
"PUBLIC HEARING TO BE RESCHEDULED"
click here for:
CJA's
draft statement
prepared for
aborted 3rd hearing scheduled for December 16, 2009
CJA's substantiating EVIDENTIARY
WEBPAGE
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TO DATE:
NO INVESTIGATION OF
WITNESSES' TESTIMONY & DOCUMENTATION --
NO TASK FORCE OR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
NO FINDINGS, NO COMMITTEE REPORT
Legislative Law Article 4 "Legislative Committee;
Taking of
Testimony in Legislative Committees"
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Eleven days after the
coup-interrupted June 8, 2009 hearing --
June 19, 2009
Bill to
Establish Special Commissionon Judicial Compensation: S-6009-2009:
introduced by Senator Sampson "at the request of the Governor"
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introduction & passage of Chapter 567 of Laws of
2010,
creating the Commission on Judicial Compensation,
in the lame-duck
session of the Legislature:
IN THE SENATE:
Governor Paterson's pro forma November 29, 2010 Message of Necessity
Unanimous November 29, 2010 vote by Senate Rules Committee
Non-Debate on Senate Floor
Unanimous
November 29, 2010 Senate Vote
IN THE ASSEMBLY:
Governor Paterson's pro forma November 29, 2010 Message of Necessity
November 29, 2010 vote in Assembly Ways & Means Committee
November 29, 2010 vote in Assembly Rules Committee
Non-Debate on Assembly Floor
November 29, 2010 Assembly Vote
Legislative Bill Jacket, including "Introducer's Memorandum in Support
submitted in accordance with Senate Rule VI, Sec 1",
identifying "Budget Implications" as follows:
"The cost to the State from the operation of the Commission would be minimal.
To the extent the Commission recommends a salary increase for judges,
such
increase would have a fiscal impact on the State."
Tracking down the origin of that top-down
flawed
& unconstitutional statute:
CJA's June 11, 2013 FOIL request to Office of Court Administration
--
"The Judiciary's 'proposal to establish a mechanism for
regular review of judicial salaries',
referred to in the Executive
Summary of its 2009-2010 Budget Request"
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THE GENESIS OF
CJA's ADVOCACY vs. PAY RAISES FOR NY's JUDGES --
New York's
corrupt Commission on Judicial Conduct,
covering up the
corruption of NY's judiciary,
including its attorney disciplinary system
CJA's May 23, 2011 letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Temporary Senate
President Dean Skelos,
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver & Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman
--
"(1) NYS's Commission on Judicial Compensation -- Inoperative &
Inaccessible to the Public;
(2) Evidence Disentitling NYS's Judiciary to
Increased Compensation, Presented and Proffered by the Public at the NYS
Senate Judiciary Committee's June 8, 2009 and September 24, 2009 Public
Hearings -- as to which There Has Been No Investigation, No
Findings, and No Committee Report"
CJA's
October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
to the August 29, 2011 Report of the
Commission on Judicial Compensation
click
here for:
VIDEO &
PAPER TRAIL CHRONOLOGY of
The Corrupt Commission Scheme
to Raise
Salaries of Corrupt Public Officers
(2011-present)
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