ACTION ALERT
from Center for Judicial Accountability Director
Elena Sassower:
SPREAD THE WORD!
Opportunity to Testify against New York’s Corrupt
Judiciary --
& the Worthlessness of Purported Safeguards
On July 2nd, Governor Cuomo
created a commission with extraordinary powers to investigate public
corruption, to refer those who corrupt government for criminal prosecution, and
to recommend changes in the law.
The Commission’s first public hearing is on Tuesday,
September 17th in lower Manhattan. A second public hearing
is on Tuesday, September 24th, outside of Albany. They
begin at 6 p.m.
This is a HUGE opportunity for victims of New York’s
corrupt judiciary and other lawlessness of our state government – and the best
way for you can be convinced of this is to watch the VIDEO of the Governor’s press conference announcing the
Commission. Here’s the direct link: http://www.governor.ny.gov/press/07022013-new-moreland-commission-named.
The Commission’s website is here: http://www.publiccorruption.moreland.ny.gov/
-- and it contains a button entitled “REGISTER TO
SPEAK AT A PUBLIC HEARING”, with an online form for requests to testify at the
September 17th hearing in Manhattan.
To ensure that the Commission – which is called
“Commission to Investigate Public Corruption” -- is true to its name and
announced purpose, our nonpartisan, nonprofit citizens’ organization, Center
for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA), has been working
hard. Here’s the link to our webpage entitled “Keeping the
Commission to Investigate Public Corruption True to its Name & Announced
Purpose”: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/searching-nys/commission-to-investigate-public-corruption/menu-commission-on-public-corruption.htm
, featuring a link to our August 5, 2013
letter to the Commission, raising important issues as to its integrity, to
which we have received no response. It also features a link to a
webpage we’ve created called “The People Have Something to Say -- &
Evidence to Back It Up”, where we will be posting YOUR submissions and
testimony, if you would like us to do so.
I invite you to call me so that I can guide you as to
how to be most effective in your presentations to the Commission, whether
at the hearings or by written submissions. Specifically, you should focus
on the worthlessness of purported safeguards, these being, for
example, reargument motions, motions to vacate
for fraud, motions to disqualify and for disclosure, requests for oversight by
supervisory judges, Article 78 proceedings, appeals, federal lawsuits,
complaints to the Commission on Judicial Conduct and attorney disciplinary
bodies, complaints to the Chief Judge, Chief Administrative Judge, and to the
Inspector General of the Unified Court System, complaints to the Attorney
General and his “Public Integrity Bureau”, complaints to district attorneys and
to U.S. Attorneys and the FBI, etc., complaints to other public officers – most
importantly, to state legislators and state legislative committees, as, for
instance, the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees – entreaties to the
press, to academia, to bar associations, etc.
To ensure that there is public record of what members
of the public are furnishing the Commission for investigation, I urge you to
provide us with copies of your written communications to it so that we can post
them on our website, for examination by the press, scholars, and others able to
“blow the whistle” on a Commission cover-up.
Ultimately, the webpage will be similar to that which we created, back in
2009, for witnesses who testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s June 8,
2009 and September 24, 2009 hearings on the Commission on Judicial Conduct and
the court-controlled attorney disciplinary system. Here’s the link to
that webpage: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-discipline/nys/nys-sjc-hearing.htm.
We also created a webpage for witnesses testifying on July 20, 2011 before the
Commission on Judicial Compensation. Here’s the link so that you can see
it: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-compensation/7-20-11-commission-hearing.htm
.
Finally, in the event that you have not kept up with
CJA’s unrelenting advocacy over these many years, building on what took place
at the 2009 Senate Judiciary Committee hearings and at the 2011 hearing of the
Commission on Judicial Compensation – including by our People’s lawsuit
against the state, whose requested relief includes seeding a superfund
for restitution to victims of judicial corruption, you can examine it from the
hyperlinks on our “Latest News” webpage, accessible from our website’s top
panel. Here’s the direct link: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/cja/latest-news.htm.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best,
Elena Sassower, Director
Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA)
914-455-4373
elena@judgewatch.org