3rd Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation

Victor Kovner, Esq.  law firm

Disqualified for interest, as for decades, he has been knowledgeable of and responsible for the corruption infesting New York's judiciary as an original member of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, from 1975 to 1990 and its chair in 1989-1990, thereafter abetting the corruption of both as a board member of the sham Fund for Modern Courts, in which capacity he colluded, in 2010 in creating the statute establishing the Commission on Judicial Compensation, which, inter alia, failed to specify that judicial corruption, on trial, appellate, supervisory and administrative levels, is the threshold "appropriate factor" that would disqualify the judiciary from ANY pay raises -- and who, in 2011, colluded in the corruption of the Commission on Judicial Compensation, including its "false instrument" August 29, 2011 Report.

1975-1990,
original member of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, from its inception in 1975,
& its chair in 1989, during the period culminating in the NYS Comptroller's Nov. 15, 1989 Report "NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC:
Resolving Charges against Judges is Cloaked in Secrecy" 

-- press release: "COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT NEEDS OVERSIGHT" 
(December 7, 1989)

[related, also see devastating May 14, 1997 testimony about the Commission on Judicial Conduct by Former Bronx Surrogate Bertram Gelfand]

(1) October 5, 1989 judicial misconduct complaint filed by Doris L. Sassower, Esq.
during Kovner's chairmanship of the Commission and dumped by the Commission
on November 28, 1989, less than two weeks after the Comptroller's Report

(2) January 16, 1987 judicial misconduct complaint filed by Fund for Modern Court director,
during Kovner's membership on the Commission & dumped by it

(2) Judicial misconduct complaints filed by George Sassower, Esq.,
from 1982-1989 during Kovner's membership on the Commission -- all dumped

& here's what George Sassower had to say, on October 30, 1989,
about Commission member & Chair Kovner

2009

 September 24, 2009 -- Fund for Modern Courts Chair Kovner testifies at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on the Commission on Judicial Conduct --  click here for VIDEO (at 1 hr/25 mins - 1 hr/33 mins) &  transcript of testimony

CJA's September 24, 2009 memo to, inter alia, Fund for Modern Courts, entitled "Building Dialogue & Scholarship: 'Merit Selection' to the New York Court of Appeals", given, in hand, to Kovner, at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing          

2010

Dec. 10, 2010 --
"Governor Paterson Signs Lgislation Creating Commission on Judicial Compensation" 

July 20, 2011  --
Kovner testifies before Commission on Judicial Compensation
on behalf of Fund for Modern Courts:  click here for: video -- at  27:50 - 32:32 mins:

"...Modern Courts did play, as you know, a leading role in the writing and creation
of the legislation that created this Commission and
we are so pleased that the appointing authorities have created such an outstanding Commission..." 
     
[CJA testimony at 03:12:58 - 03:24:23 mins; transcription] --
click here for: 
         (1) referred-to CJA handout "NO PAY RAISES FOR NYS JUDGES WHO CORRUPT JUSTICE --
THE MONEY BELONGS TO THE VICTIMS!" 
         (2) referred-to CJA webpage on judicial compensation

(1)   CJA's August 8, 2011 e-mail to Kovner, Fund for Modern Courts, etc., transmitting CJA’s August 8, 2011 letter to the Commission on Judicial Compensation, to which they were cc’d, entitled “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”;

(2)   CJA’s August 17, 2011 e-mail to Kovner, Fund for Modern Courts, etc, transmitting CJA’s August 17, 2011 letter to them entitled  “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” and, also CJA’s August 11, 2011 letter to the Commission, identically titled;

(3)  CJA's August 23, 2011 e-mail to Kovner, Fund for Modern Courts, etc. --
transmitting CJA’s Aug 23, 2011 letter to Chief Administrative Judge Pfau, to which they were cc’d, entitled “Ensuring that the Commission on Judicial Compensation is Not Led into Constitutional Error: Clarification of the Office of Court Administration's "Memorandum discussing constitutional considerations in establishing judicial pay levels" - and the Substantiating Evidence”;

(4)   CJA's August 26, 2011 e-mail to Kovner, Fund for Modern Courts, etc., transmitting CJA’s August 26, 2011 letter to Chief Administrative Judge Pfau, to which they were cc’d, entitled “Part 2:  Ensuring that the Commission on Judicial Compensation is Not Led into Constitutional Error: Clarification of the Office of Court Administration’s ‘Memorandum discussing constitutional considerations in establishing judicial pay levels’ – and the Substantiating Evidence” ;

 
(5)   CJA's October 28, 2011 e-mail to Kovner, Fund for Modern Courts, etc., transmitting CJA’s October 28, 2011 to judicial pay raise advocates entitled Holding Government Accountable: CJA’s October 27, 2011 Opposition Report in Support of Legislative Override of the Commission on Judicial Compensation’s Judicial Pay Recommendations & Other Relief” and transmitting the opposition report.

              click here for:  CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report

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