VIDEO
& evidentiary webpage of CJA's November 4, 2019 testimony
before the Commission of Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation & its Chair Cardozo
"This forum has been permeated with fraud...There is rigging going on...you are operating under the radar...your reliance on...the 2011 report of the Commission on Judicial Compensation and the 2015 report of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation...are...false instrument[s], violative of a succession of Penal Laws and the Public Trust Act...your duty is to make findings of facts and conclusions of law because what you have here is a grand larceny of the public fisc..." -- and "Exhibit A...the citizen-taxpayer action now at the Court of Appeals, Center for Judicial Accountability against Cuomo, et al, and the last defendant is Chief Judge DiFiore" 

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1995
CARDOZO,
as Vice-Chair of the FUND FOR MODERN COURTS

cc: Fund for Modern Courts Vice-Chair Cardozo
CJA's August 22, 1995 letter to Fund for Modern Courts Chairman John Feerick
         Enclosures: 
                "Comm'n Abandons Investigative Mandate", 8/14/19 letter to editor/NYLJ
                 Justice Herman Cahn's July 13, 1995 decision in DLS v. Commission

                         click here for:  Doris L. Sassower v. Commission on Judicial Conduct 

1996 - 1998
CARDOZO,
as Incoming President & President
of NYC BAR ASSOCIATION
click here for:
CJA's contact with NYC Bar Association

cc: Incoming City Bar President Cardozo
CJA’s April 12, 1996 letter to City Bar President Barbara Robinson --
"The Legal Community's Ethical/Professional Responsibility"

cc: Incoming City Bar President Cardozo
CJA’s March 18, 1996 letter to President Robinson --
"New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct"
    Ex. A:  President Robinson’s March 26, 1996 letter to CJA
    Ex B:  CJA's March 18, 1996 letter President Robinson
     Ex A: "Protect Judges From Politicians", op-ed article by Robinson, NYT, 3/14/96,
              & "Rush to Judgment By Pataki Criticized", ltr to editor by Robinson, NYLJ, 3/6/96
       Ex B:  "Ethics Opinion Allows Criticism of Trial Judge", NYLJ, 2/29/96
       Ex C:  "Comm'n Abandons Investigative Mandate", CJA's ltr to editor, NYLJ, 8/14/95
       Ex D:  CJA's 1/25/96 letter to City Bar's Legal Referral Service
       Ex E: "26 Bar Groups Join To Defend Judiciary", NYLJ, 3/8/96
       Ex F:  CJA's 2/20/96 letter to Mayor Giuliani
       Ex G: CJA's 2/27/96 letter to Mayor Giuliani
   Ex C:  City Bar's guide, "How to Complain About Lawyers and Judges in New York City"
   Ex D:  CJA's August 22, 1995 ltr to John Feerick/Chairman, Fund for Modern Courts

cc: Incoming President Cardozo
CJA’s May 23, 1996 letter to Assembly Judiciary Committee --
"New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct"

cc: City Bar President Cardozo
CJA’s February 10, 1997 letter to Counsel Rothstein
   Ex A: CJA's January 25, 1996 letter to City Bar's Legal Referral Service
   Ex B: "A Call for Concerted Action", CJA's $1,648 ad, NYLJ, November 20, 1996
   Ex C-1: CJA's August 22, 1995 letter to John Feerick, Chairman/Fund for Modern Courts
   Ex C-2: John Feerick's August 28, 1995 letter
   Ex D:  CJA's January 9, 1996 letter to Daniel Kolb, Chairman/Judiciary Committee
   Ex E: "Comm'n Abandons Investigative Mandate", CJA's letter to editor, NYLJ, August 14, 1995


CJA’s March 7, 1997 letter to President Cardozo --
"Supplement to City Bar's February 7, 1997 Report"
   Ex. A-1: "On Choosing Judges, Pataki Creates Problems", CJA's ltr to editor, NYT, November 16, 1996
      Ex. A-2: "A Call for Concerted Action", CJA's $1,648 paid ad, NYLJ, November 20, 1996
      Ex. B: CJA's June 11, 1996 letter to NYS Senators
      Ex. C: CJA's June 12, 1996 letter to Michael Finnegan
      Ex. D: City Bar program, "How to Become a Judge", December 7, 1996
      Ex. E-1: NYLJ item, March 4, 1997
      Ex. E-2: "Pataki Names Panels For Judicial Screening", NYLJ, March 6, 1997
      Ex. F: CJA's February 10, 1997 letter to Alan Rothstein, City Bar Counsel
      Ex. G: CJA's August 22, 1995 letter to John Feerick, Chairman/Fund for Modern Courts
      Ex. H: CJA's May 6, 1996 letter to James McGuire
      Ex. I-1: "Lawyers' Attacks on Judges Risk Censure", by Cardozo, National Law Journal, Aug 26, 1996
      Ex. I-2: City Bar program, "POLITICIANS ON JUDGES: Fair Criticism or Intimidation?", October 7, 1996


CJA’s May 6, 1997 fax to President Cardozo, transmitting CJA's May 5, 1997notice-challenge
"File of Article 78 proceeding, Doris L. Sassower v. Commission on Judicial Conduct,
   N.Y. Co. Clerk #95-109141"
      Ex. A-1: "Commission Abandons Investigative Mandate", CJA's ltr to editor, NYLJ, 8/14/95
      Ex. A-2: "A Call for Concerted Action", CJA's $1,648 ad, NYLJ, 11/20/96
      Ex. B: CJA's 3-page analysis of the fraudulent judicial decision in DLS v. Commission,
                  with annexed law: 22 NYCRR 7000.1 et seq., Judiciary Law 44.1, NYS Constitution, Article VI, Sec. 22

CJA's June 12, 1997 memo for City Bar President Cardozo --
"Ensuring the public's right to basic information about the Governor's judicial appointments process and protecting it from unfit judicial nominees"
   -- transmitting CJA's June 2, 1997 letter to Governor Pataki --
"The public's right to basic information and your unworthy appointment of Justice Nicholas Colabella to the Appellate Division, First Department"
      Ex. A-1: Gov's press release announcing members of state judicial screening committee & 3 jud. appointments
      Ex. A-2: "Colabella to Appellate Division", NYLJ, 5/15/97
      Ex. B: Executive Order #11: Temporary Judicial Screening Committee
      Ex. C: Executive Order #10: Judicial Screening Committees
      Ex. D: "On Choosing Judges, Pataki Creates Problems", CJA's ltr to editor, NYT, 11/16/96
      Ex. E: "Pataki Names Panels for Judicial Screening", NYLJ, 3/6/97
      Ex. F: Gov's classified ads of judicial vacancies
      Ex. G: City Bar's Uniform Judicial Questionnaire
      Ex. H: 3/24/92 front-page correction in NYLJ, with Doris Sassower's letter to the editor
      Ex. I-1: "Where Do You Go When Judges Break the Law?", CJA's $16,770 op-ed ad, NYT, 10/26/94
      Ex. I-2: Doris Sassower's Director's Biography
      Ex J-1: "Appellate Selection Process Stirs Concern", NYLJ, 12/10/96
      Ex. J-2: December 16, 1996 item, NYLJ
      Ex. K: NY Judge Reviews (1997-8 edition)

CJA’s September 15, 1997 letter to Counsel Rothstein --
"Amicus Support: Letter Support: Sassower v. Mangano, et al."
     -- SEE:  Test Cases - Federal (Mangano)

CJA’s November 10, 1997 letter to Counsel Rothstein --
"Amicus Support: Sassower v. Mangano, et al."

cc: City Bar President Cardozo
CJA's January 7, 1998 letter to Chief Judge Judith Kaye  --
"Safeguarding the Public's Rights and Interest in the State Judicial Appointments Process"
      Ex. A: "On Choosing Judges, Pataki Creates Problems", letter to editor, NYT, 11/16/96
      Ex. B-1: CJA's July 25, 1997 letter to James Gill, Chairman/1st Dept Judicial Screening Committee
      Ex. B-2-6: follow-up faxes to 1st Dept. Judicial Screening Committee
      Ex. C-1: "Restraining 'Liars in the Courtroom' and on the Public Payroll", CJA's $3,077 ad, NYLJ, 8/27/97
      Ex. C-2: NYLJ item, 9/22/97
      Ex. D: NYLJ item, 12/26/97
      Ex. E: receipted 1st page of CJA's Dec. 29, 1997 memo to State Judicial Screening Committee members

2011
CARDOZO, as NYC Corporation Counsel
in advocacy for judicial pay raises before
Commission on Judicial Compensation
 

CJA's August 16, 2011 letter to NYC Corporation Counsel Cardozo --
"Ensuring that the Commission on Judicial Compensation's Recommendations and Report are Based on Evidence:  The Absence of Evidence that Judicial Compensation has Deterred Qualified Public Sector or Private Sector Lawyers from Becoming Judges"     

click here for:  VIDEO of Cardozo's testimony at the July 20, 2011 hearing of the Commission on Judicial Compensation (at 1:24 - 1:33)   click here for: Commission's witness list  

CJA's August 17, 2011 letter to Advocates of Judicial Pay Raises --
"Protecting the People of this State from Fraud: The Commission on Judicial Compensation's Duty to Identify the Case Presented by Opponents of ANY Judicial Pay Raises & to Make Findings with Respect Thereto, in Discharge of its Statutory Responsibilities"   E-Mail (8/17/11) 

2019-2020
CARDOZO, as Chair of the Commission on Legislative,
Judicial & Executive Compensation

VIDEO & webpage of CJA's Nov. 4, 2019 testimony before Chair Cardozo
"This forum has been permeated with fraud...There is rigging going on...you are operating under the radar...your reliance on...the 2011 report of the Commission on Judicial Compensation and the 2015 report of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation...are...false instrument[s], violative of a succession of Penal Laws and the Public Trust Act...your duty is to make findings of facts and conclusions of law because what you have here is a grand larceny of the public fisc..." -- and "Exhibit A...the citizen-taxpayer action now at the Court of Appeals, Center for Judicial Accountability against Cuomo, et al, and the last defendant is Chief Judge DiFiore"