LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION

Paper Trail of Suppression, Protectionism,
Blackballing, & Election-Rigging

2011

CJA's June 13, 2011 e-mails --
"NY's Commission on Judicial Confirmation: NOT OPERATIONAL OR ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC on day 73 of its maximum 150-day statutorily-limited existence"  
         (enclosing CJA's 6-10-11 FOIL request to OCA --
"Request for Records of Judicial Resignations Based on Insufficient Compensation")

        (1) Wall Street Journal:  Jacob Gershman
        (2) Associated Press:  Michael Virtanen, Michael Gormley
        (3) Albany Times Union:  Casey Seiler, Jimmy Vielkind, Jim Odato, Rick Karlin
        (4) New York Post:  Fredric Dicker, Brendan Scott
        (5) Newsday: Yancey Roy
        (6) Capital Tonight - YNN TV:  Elizabeth Benjamin
        (7) Syracuse Post Standard: Teri Weaver
        (8) Buffalo News: Tom Precious
        (9) Daily News: Ken Lovett, Bill Hammond, Glenn Blain
        (10) NYS Public Radio Network: Karen DeWitt
        (11) NYSNYS News/NYSNYS.COM:  Kyle Hughes
        (12) Gannett News Service:  Joe Spector, Cara Matthews, Jonathan Campbell
        (13) Business Review:  Adam Sichko
        (14) Cuyler News Service: Betty Flood, Janet Sanders, Amy Despirito
        (15) Empire State Report: Stephen Acunto, Jr.
        (16) New York Now: Matt Ryan
        (17) The Capitol: Andrew Hawkins
        (18) NY 1 News: Erin Billups
        (19) WGY 810: Chuck Custer
        (20) Syracuse Public Radio/TV:  Susan Arbetter

 

CJA's June 18, 2011 e-mail to press --
"'New York judges ask for 41-percent raise, retroactive pay' --
UPDATE: NY's Judicial Compensation Commission"

 

CJA's June 24, 2011 e-mail to press --
"NY Judicial Compensation Commission: (1) Subject to Open Meetings Law & Executive Order #3, Requiring Public Access, Etc.; (2) Disqualifying Conflict of Interest of Chairman Thompson, Requiring His Resignation" 
 
           ATTACHING:  CJA's June 23, 2011 letter to Governor Cuomo's Appointees to the Judicial Compensation Commission -- "(1) Bringing Public Accessibility, Input, and Accountability to the Judicial Compensation Commission -- Facilitated by the Open Meetings Law & Executive Order #3; and  (2) Chairman Thompson's Disqualifying Conflict of Interest, Requiring his Resignation" -- June 23, 2011 transmittal letter to indicated recipients 

       

CJA's June 28, 2011 e-mail to press  --
"Is NY's Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3"

CJA's July 13, 2011 e-mail to press --
"FOR PRESS FOLLOW-UP: Today's Gannett Article on Judicial Pay Raises"

SENT TO MEDIA:   CJA's August 8, 2011 letter to Commission --
"Threshold Issues Barring Commission Consideration of Pay Raises for Judges: (1) Chairman Thompson’s Disqualification for Interest, as to which there has been No Determination; (2) Systemic Corruption in New York’s Judiciary, Embracing the Commission on Judicial Conduct, as to which there has been No Determination; & (3) The Fraud & Lack of Evidence Put Forward by Advocates of Judicial Pay Raises.

         Enclosures:
            (1)  Transcription of CJA's July 20, 2011 testimony before the Commission
            (2)  "NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC", 1989 Report of NYS Comptroller
                   Regan  -- with his press release,
                             "COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT NEEDS OVERSIGHT" 
            (3) Transcription of CJA's questions at the Dec. 11, 2002 forum on the
                 Commission on Judicial Conduct, co-sponsored by NYS Bar Association
               & Fund for Modern Courts

 

CJA's November 14, 2011 e-mail to LCA --
"Invitation: Today's Gotham Gazette: 'Who Judges the Judges?'"

 

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