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NY's 15th Assembly District 
representing approx. 126,000 residents
encompassing part of Nassau County


ASSEMBLYMAN MICHAEL MONTESANO, ESQ.  (R, C, L, I)
Ranking Member: Assembly Judiciary Committee
Member: Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation

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2013
Ranking Member -- Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation;
Member -- Assembly Judiciary Committee

CJA's June 4, 2013 letter to Assemblyman Montesano,
as ranking member of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation
--

"DOING YOUR PART TO END PUBLIC CORRUPTION: PART  III: 
Request for Legislative Oversight, Analysis and Investigation of CJA’s April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney Bharara...

June 12, 2013 response from Ranking Member Montesano --
"RE: Doing Your Part to End Public Corruption  -- Part III: Request for Legislative Oversight, Analysis & Investigation"

CJA's June 20, 2013 e-mail to Assemblyman Montesano,
as ranking member of Assembly Committee on Overight, Analysis & Investigation
--
"Why the Members of the Senate & Assembly Oversight Committees
Must Vote AGAINST S.2953/A.246 Establishing a Special Commission on Compensation of Managerial & Confidential State Employees
EVIDENTIARY webpage

CJA's July 22, 2013 letter to Assemblyman Montesano, as ranking member of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation --
"Securing Investigation & Prosecution of Public Corruption]  
[transmitting e-mail]

attaching:
CJA's July 19, 2017 corruption complaint to D.A. Soares   
 
EVIDENTIARY webpage for complaint


cc:  CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to Governor & Legislators:  
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM JUDICIAL FRAUD & LARCENY:  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 Will Otherwise Take Effect, Automatically, on April 1, 2014"
 

CJA's December 16, 2013 e-mail --
"Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's December 17, 2013 e-mail (cc: Montesano) -- 
"Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

cc:  CJA's December 30, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo  --
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM LEGISLATIVE FRAUD & LARCENY:
Your Duty to Exclude the Legislature’s Proposed Budget from the State Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Because its Absence of Certified Itemized Estimates Violates Article VII, §1 of the NYS Constitution; Alternatively, to Recommend that the Legislature Reject it, or Alter it Based on Certification of Itemized Estimates"

2014
Ranking Member -- Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation;
AND Assembly Judiciary Committee

CJA's January 14, 2014 letter to Assemblyman Montesano, as ranking member of Judiciary Committee & Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation --
"
Vindicating the Public’s Rights under Article VII, §1 of the NYS Constitution & Legislative Law §32-a
: (1) request to testify at the Legislature’s joint budget hearings in opposition to the proposed Judiciary & Legislative budgets; (2) request for information/records as to the process, if any, by which the Legislature’s proposed budget was compiled."
         -- CJA's January 14, 2014 transmittal to recipients
  


CJA's March 4, 2014 letter to Assemblyman Montesano, as ranking member of Judiciary Committee & Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation --
"Your Constitutional Duty:
       "(1) to address the evidence of fraud and unconstitutionality in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets – and in the materially-divergent Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551, which, in violation of Senate and Assembly Rules, is unsupported by a fiscal note and introducer’s memorandum;
        (2) to address the $270,000 and other appropriations, embedded in the Executive Budget, for a demonstrably corrupt Commission to Investigate Public Corruption"

2016
CJA's January 15, 2016 e-mail to Assembly Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Montesano -- "Immediate Oversight Required: Jan. 20, 2016 Senate Judiciary Confirmation Hearing of Chief Judge DiFiore AND 'Force of Law' Judicial Salary Recommendations of Dec. 24, 2015 Report of Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation" --CJA's January 15, 2016 letter to Temporary Senate President Flanagan & Assembly Speaker Heastie --  "IMMEDIATE OVERSIGHT REQUIRED: (1) The Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation and its statute-repudiating, fraudulent, and unconstitutional December 24, 2015 Report with “force of law” judicial salary recommendations; (2) The Senate Judiciary Committee’s January 20, 2016 public hearing to confirm the nomination of Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore as New York’s Chief Judge – and the deceptive public notice concealing that oral testimony is restricted to the nominee and bar associations"   

CJA's January 28, 2016 letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Montesano --
"The Legislature’s February 4, 2016 “Public Protection” Budget Hearing:  
Your scrutiny of the Judiciary’s two-part budget and of the Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6401/A.9001, embodying the Judiciary’s discrepant “single budget bill”
 

CJA's Jan. 29, 2016 e-mail to Assembly Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Montesano --
"FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ALL ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS in preparation for Feb. 4, 2016 'Public Protection' Budget Hearing -- the Judiciary's 2-part budet & the Governor's Budget Bill #S.6401/A.9001"

CJA's February 4, 2016 e-mail to Assembly Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Montesano --
enclosing "QUESTIONS FOR CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE MARKS"

CJA's February 19, 2016 letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Montesano -- "Preventing Yet Another “Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc”

cc: CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail --
"Restoring constitutionality and lawfulness to NY's budgeting process -- & overriding the 'force of law' judicial pay raises" -- l
ink to: CJA's March 23, 2016 verified 2nd supplemental complaint (1st citizen-taxpayer action) 

2018

CJA's Jan. 29, 2018 e-mail to Assembly Judiciary Committee Member Montesano
& ALL other rank & file members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee
--
"Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Marks at Tomorrow's 'Public Protection' Budget Hearing for the NYS Legislature"  attached:
written statement, with QUESTIONS  
 
webpage with EVIDENCE -- & VIDEO of January 30, 2018 budget hearing

2019

CJA's January 25, 2019 e-mail to Assembly Judiciary Committee Member Montesano & ALL other members of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation --
"Agenda for Oversight for the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation --
& for the Joint Legislative Commission on Government Administration"

click here for:
CJA's December 6, 2018 letter to Assembly Speaker Heastie
"Demand that You Substantiate Your November 30, 2018 Testimony
Before the New York State Compensation Committee with EVIDENCE -- as You Furnished NONE"

click here for:
Shelley Mayer's "Unfinished Business"
as chair of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis, & Investigation --

& Responsibility of successor chair Edward Braunstein

click here for:
VIDEO, etc. of CJA's testimony
before Assembly Member Mayer
at the February 2, 2018 forum on the state budget, sponsored by Westchester's Assembly Delegation

click here for:
 CJA's June 4, 2013 letter to...Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation

 CJA's Feb. 28, 2019 e-mail to Montesano
& ALL other members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee

"AGENDA: Judiciary budget & budget for the Commission on Judicial Conduct
for Fiscal Year 2019-2020" 

included link to:
  webpage of CJA's February 19, 2019 written testimony,
with QUESTIONS & substantiating EVIDENCE

 

CJA's March 5, 2019 e-mail to Assemblyman Montesano & ALL other members of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation --
"Agenda Request for the 1st Meeting of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis
& Investigation -- & for the Joint Legislative Commission on Government Administration"
included link to:  webpage of CJA's February 19, 2019 written testimony,
with QUESTIONS & substantiating EVIDENCE

2020

cc:
CJA's September 22, 2020 e-mail to Newsday --
"Nassau County Elections 2020 -- Informing Voters with EVIDENCE:
public corruption/grand jury complaint vs Nassau County's 16 state legislators --
14 running for re-election -- which Nassau County D.A. Singas has been 'sitting on'"

CJA's June 10, 2020 public corruption/grand jury complaint
vs Montesano, filed with Nassau County D.A. Singas,
with its EVIDENTIARY webpage

2021

CJA's May 19, 2021 e-mail to Assembly Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Montesano --
"Assembly Judiciary Committee: Request for Ranking Member Montesano's participation at a ZOOM meeting with Chair Lavine on May 25th, at noon: CJA's Feb. 10, 2021 testimony at the Legislature's 'public protection' budget hearing" 

 CJA's May 25, 2021 e-mail to Assembly Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Montesano --
"Emergency Action & Oversight Required:
The Assembly's taxpayer-paid counsel, Davis Polk, in breach of its contract & its publicly-made promises to safeguard vs conflicts of interest in investigating whether Gov. Cuomo commited impeachable acts"
 -- linked substantiating webpage

CJA's July 21, 2021 e-mail to the Assemblyman Montesano
as Ranking Member of Assembly Ethics & Guidance Committee
--
"JCOPE's violations of Executive Law 94.9(l)(i) by its July 8, 2021 annual report for 2020 --
and by ALL its prior annual reports -- and DEMAND that it rectify same"

attaching:
CJA's July 20, 2021 letter to JCOPE Executive Director
(cc to LEC Executive Director) --
"JCOPE’s violations of Executive Law §94.9(l)(i) by its July 8, 2021 annual report for 2020 –
and by ALL its prior annual reports – and DEMAND that it rectify same
"

   & linking to:
NYS Comptroller Edward Regan's 1989 Report:
 
"NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC:
Resolving Charges against Judges is Cloaked in Secrecy
"
 
-- with his press release,
"COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT NEEDS OVERSIGHT" 

 


 

 

 

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