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SENATOR BRAD HOYLMAN, ESQ.
RUNNING TO BE MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT

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CJA's March 16, 2025 e-mail --
"ELECTIONS ARE A TIME OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Your Performance, in Office, as a NYS Senator since 2013
& Your 2025 Electoral Race for Manhattan Borough President"


201
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Hoylman, Ranking Member of Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations
[The below extracted from 2013 Legislative Session]

CJA's January 3, 2013 letter --
"TRANSFORMING THE SENATE ON DAY 1 OF ITS 236th LEGISLATIVE SESSION
BY APPROPRIATE RULES & LEADERSHIP"
e-mail receipt

CJA's January 4, 2013 e-mail --
"Press Inquiries: Your Most Important Votes of the Upcoming 236th Legislative Session" 

EVIDENTIARY WEBPAGE
VIDEO of CJA's Testimony at Feb 6, 2013 budget hearing on "public protection"
 

CJA's March 15, 2013 e-mail ALERT --
"Is the Judiciary Budget a 'Slush Fund'?"

CJA's March 18, 2013 letter --
"The People's Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget
& of the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary" 
transmitting e-mail/fax receipts

CJA's March 24, 2013 letter --
"Why You Must Reject S.2601 -- The Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary" 
 
 

CJA's March 25, 2013 e-mails --
"Standing up for Legislative Law 54 & 'process' with respect to the budget"

CJA's March 26, 2013 e-mail --
"'grand larceny of the public fisc' -- Why You Must Reject S2601 -- Judiciary Appropriations Bill"

CJA's March 26, 2013 e-mail --
"Request that CJA's Opposition Report & verified complaint be brought to the Senate floor
for inspection by the Senators"


CJA's May 7, 2013 letter --
"Doing Your Part to End Public Corruption:
     (1) by Giving Evidence to the U.S. Attorneys;
     (2) by Voting on Non-Partisan, Good-Government Legislative Rules Reform,
such as Recommended by the 2009 Temporary Senate Committee on Rules & Administration Reform"

 
FURNISHING:
CJA's April 15, 2013 public corruption complaint to US Attorney/SDNY Preet Bharara  
     


CJA's May 22, 2013 letter --
"Doing Your Part to End Public Corruption: Part II:
  (1) Request for Legislative Follow-Up to Senator Sanders’ May 10th Forum
'Attack on Black Leaders: Corruption or Conspiracy?”;
      (2) Request for Legislative Follow-Up to Senator Sampson’s 2009 hearings
on the Commission on Judicial Conduct & Court-Controlled Attorney Disciplinary System"
FURNISHING:
CJA's May 13, 2013 public corruption complaint to US Attorney/EDNY Loretta Lynch

CJA's June 4, 2013 letter --
"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 and, specifically:

              (1) of Chapter 567 of the Laws of 2010, as written and applied 
as to which, to date, there has been no oversight, analysis, and 
investigation; and
         (2) of the Commission on Judicial Conduct & court-controlled attorney disciplinary system –
as to which, in 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee held oversight hearings that were aborted,
with no analysis, investigation, findings, or committee report of the document-supported testimony of witnesses
"
EVIDENTIARY WEBPAGE

CJA's June 20, 2013 e-mail --
"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"

CJA's July 9, 2013 letter --
"(1) Status of A.246 (establishing a special commission on compensation of managerial and confidential state employees);   (2) Securing legislative oversight of the statute upon which A.246 was modeled: Chapter 567 of the Laws of 2010 (establishing a special commission on judicial compensation) 
transmitting e-mail

CJA's July 22, 2013 letter --
"Securing Investigation & Prosecution of Public Corruption
 
transmitting e-mail -- With EVIDENTIARY WEBPAGE

CJA's December 17, 2013 e-mail Hoylman's Policy Director --

"Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty
to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

December 11, 2013 letter webpage

cc:  CJA's December 18, 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"

 

2014
Hoylman, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Investigations
& Gov't Operations & Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
[The below extracted from 2014 Legislative Session]

CJA's January 8, 2014 e-mail --
"'Following the Money': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets
for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"  
enclosure-Jan 7 letter


CJA's January 14, 2014 letter --
"Vindicating the Public's Rights under Article VII, 1 of the NYS Constitution
& Legislative Law S32-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 February 26, 2014 e-mail --
"Tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting -- AGENDA"

CJA's March 4, 2014 letter -- "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, has no fiscal note
or introducer’s memorandum supporting it; 
(2) to address the $270,000 and other appropriations, embedded in the Executive Budget,
for a demonstrably corrupt Commission to Investigate Public Corruption"

 


2016
Hoylman, Ranking Member of Senate Committee on Investigations
& Gov't Operations 
& Member of Senate Judiciary Committee
[The below extracted from 2016 Legislative Session]

CJA's January 15, 2016 e-mail --
"Immediate Oversight Required: Jan. 20, 2016 Senate Judiciary Confirmation Hearing of Chief Judge Nominee DiFiore AND 'Force of Law' Judicial Salary Recommendations of Dec. 24, 2015 Report of Commisison on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation"
attaching:
CJA's Jan 15, 2016 letter
"IMMEDIATE OVERSIGHT REQUIRED:
(1) The Commissionon 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 Comittee's January 20, 2016 public hearing to confirm the nominatino of Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore as New York's Chief Judge -- and the deceptive public notice that oral testimony is restricted to the nominee and bar associations"  [EVIDENTIARY WEBPAGE]

VIDEO:  Jan 21, 2016 meeting --Gov't Operations Committee:     
HOYLMAN: "This is really the government accountability committee...  "

 cc: CJA's Jan. 28, 2016 letter --
"To Which Committee(s) Have You Assigned Oversight of the Dec. 24, 2015 Report
of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation...?"

cc: CJA's January 28, 2016 letter --
"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 February 19, 2016 letter --
"Preventing Yet Another 'Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc':
(1) Did you furnish my e-mails to ALL your committee members, as requested?;
(2) What are your findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to my particularized showing
that the latest round of judicial salary increases & this year’s Judiciary & Legislative budgets
& the Governor’s materially discrepant Budget Bill #S.6401/A.9001 are statutorily-violative,
unconstitutional, and fraudulent?"

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"

 

 

2017
Holyman, Ranking Member of Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations
AND Senate Judiciary Committee
[The below extracted from 2017 Legislative Session]


CJA's January 18, 2017 e-mail to Scheduler for Hoylman
attaching: 

completed meeting request form of Hoylman 
    & completed meeting request form of SJC Chair

CJA's January 19, 2017 e-mail to Scheduler for Investig & Govt Ops Chair

VIDEO:
CJA's testimony at Jan. 30, 2017 budget hearing on "local gov't officials /general gov't"

VIDEO:
CJA's testimony at Jan. 31, 2017 budget hearing on "public protection"

cc: CJA's February 6, 2017 letter --
(1) Where are your appointments to the Commission on Government Administration
and to the Commission on State-Local Relations, required by Legislative Law Article 5-A?;
       (2) When will you be responding to my requests for a meeting for purposes of preventing
a repeat of the constitutional, statutory, and legislative rule violations
chronicled by the September 2, 2016 verified complaint in CJA’s citizen-taxpayer action?
"   

cc: CJA's February 7, 2017 e-mail to Senate Investigations & Gov't Op Chair --
"Thank you -- Meeting Request
"

VIDEO: Feb 14, 2017 Meeting of Senate Investigations & Gov't Op

CJA's July 27, 2017 e-mail to Hoylman Scheduler --
"AGAIN: Meeting request to Senator Hoylman as ranking member
of the Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations AND the Senate Judiciary Committee"

CJA's September 13, 2017 e-mail to Hoylman Scheduler --
"YET AGAIN:  Meeting request to Senator Hoylman as ranking member
of the Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations AND the Senate Judiciary Committee"

CJA's December 20, 2017 e-mail to Hoylman Scheduler --
"AND YET AGAIN: Meeting request to Senator Hoylman as ranking member
of the Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations AND the Senate Judiciary Committee"

cc: CJA's December 22, 2017 e-mail to SJC Counsel --
"Request for a meeting, as soon as possible, to discuss the Judiciary budget --
& other issues within the Judiciary Committee's jurisdiction"

 

2018
Hoylman, Ranking Member of Senate Committee on Investigations
& Gov't Operations AND Senate Judiciary Committee
[The below extracted from 2018 Legislative Session]

CJA's January 29, 2018 e-mail to SJC Ranking Member Hoylman --
"Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Marks
at Tomorrow's 'Public Protection' Budget Hearing of the NYS Legislature"


CJA's written testimony in support of testimony
at Jan 30, 2028 "public protection" budget hearing

VIDEO: 
CJA's testimony at Jan 30, 2018 "public protection" budget hearing

VIDEO:
CJA's testimony at Feb 5, 2018 budget hearing on "Local Government Officials/General Government"


2019
Hoylman, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
& Senate Finance Committee member
[The below extracted from 2019 Legislative Session]

CJA's February 28, 2019 e-mail to Chair Hoylman --
"AGENDA: Judiciary budget & budget for the Commission on Judicial Conduct
for Fiscal Year 2019-2020"

attaching:
CJA's February 19, 2019 written testimony, with appended QUESTIONS

submitted for the February 11, 2019 budget hearing
on "local government officials/general government"

 

2020
Hoylman, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
& Senate Finance Committee Member
[The below extracted from 2020 Legislative Session]

CJA's January 30, 2020 e-mail to Chair Hoylman --
"Judicial corruption involving the NYS Attorney General --
& the budget bills for fiscal year 2020-2021 pertaining thereto"

CJA's February 11, 2020 e-mail to Chair Hoylman --
"'Public Protection' Budget Hearing -- Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Marks"

February 12, 2020 e-mail -- "Today's..." & here
attached:  Questions for Chief Administrative Judge Marks

CJA's February 12, 2020 e-mail for Chair Hoylman --
"Legislative & Judiciary Budgets -- & Legislative/Judiciary Budget Bill #7501/9501:
Questions for Stewart-Cousins, Heastie -- & for Marks"

click here for:
CJA's Questions for Stewart-Cousins/Heastie & webpage

CJA's February 19, 2020 e-mail to Chair Hoylman --
Request for Committee review & determination of Feb. 18, 2020 letter to Governor --
& Questions for Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heastie
& for Chief Administrative Judge Marks"

cc:  CJA's September 21, 2020 e-mail to NYC press --
"Informing the Voters with EVIDENCE:  Manhattan Elections 2020:
public corruption/grand jury complaint vs Manhattan's 18 state legislators --
ALL running for re-election -- which Manhattan D.A. Vance is 'sitting on'"
attaching:

CJA's June 9, 2020 grand jury/public corruption complaint
to Manhattan D.A. Vance vs Hoylman, etc.


2021
Hoylman, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
& Senate Finance Committee Member
[The below extracted from 2021Legislative Session]

CJA's (written) oral testimony Feb 10, 2021 "public protection" budget hearing

 CJA's June 1, 2021 e-mail Senate Judiciary Committee procedures for vetting Gov. Cuomo’s nominations of Singas & Cannataro to the NY Court of Appeals -- & request to testify in strong opposition at their confirmation hearings, with EVIDENCE, decisive of their unfitness”

CJA's June 7, 2021 e-mail  Your tomorrows meeting’ on the nominations of Singas & Cannataro to the NY Court of Appeals -- UNCONSTITUTIONAL & FRAUDULENT, as it has not been preceded by vetting of the EVIDENCE decisive of their unfitness, of which you have had NOTICE

 

2022
Hoylman, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
& Senate Finance Committee Member

[The below extracted from 2022 Legislative Session]

CJA's (written) oral testimony for Jan 25, 2022 "public protection" budget hearing

2023
Hoylman as Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
& Senate Finance Committee Member
[The below extracted from 2023 Legislative Session]

CJA's written testimony for Feb 7, 2023 "public protection" budget hearing 

CJA's April 16, 2023 e-mail
Request to testify in opposition to Rowan Wilsons confirmation as chief judge & Caitlin Halligan
s confirmation as associate judge, plus FOIL request"

CJA's April 17, 2023 e-mail
“AGAIN: Request to testify vs Rowan Wilsons confirmation as chief judge  & Caitlin Halligans confirmation as associate judge -- & the duties of the Senate Judiciary Committee”

CJA's written testimony for the Senate Judiciary Committee's
November 1, 2023 Oversight Hearing of Family Courts

 

2024
Hoylman, Chair of Senate Judiciary Committee,
& Senate Finance Committee Members
[The below extracted from 2024 Legislative Session]

CJA's January 18, 2024 Opposition Report
for ALL Legislators c/o Senate & Assembly Leaders

CJA's January 19, 2024 e-mail to Chair Hoylman & SCJ --
"Judiciary Budget ALERT:  $34.6M at pp. 18-19 of Budget Bill #S.8301/A.8801 must be stricken, as it is the product of statutory violations & fraud by the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation"

cc:  CJA's January 24, 2024 e-mail --
"Today's 'public protection' budget hearing --
& your questioning of Chief Administrative Judge Zayas

& Commission on Judicial Conduct Administrator Tembeckjian"


CJA's written testimony for Jan 25, 2024 "public protection" budget hearing

CJA's written testimony for Feb 6, 2024 "local gov't officials/general gov't" budget hearing





2025
Hoylman, Chair of Senate Judiciary Committee,
& Senate Finance Committee Members
[The below extracted from 2025 Legislative Session]

CJA's February 25, 2025 written testimony for the "higher education" budget hearing

CJA's March 11, 2025 e-mail to SCJ Chair Hoylman --
"The Judiciary's FY2025-26 Budget Submission"
also to Legislature's Fiscal & Judiciary
Commmittees
attaching:
CJA's March 11, 2025 FOIL request to Chief Administrative Judge Zayas

 

* * *

Archive of CJA's Testimonies, since 2013,
at & for the Legislature's Budget Hearings

 

Archive of CJA's LAWSUITS, Since 2012,
suing NY's Government Branches for Corrupting State Governance
involving their "false instrument"/"force of law"  Compensation Commisions -- & the Budget



* * *

CJA's ETHICS COMPLAINTS vs HOYLMAN
& HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS, FILED WITH JCOPE & THEN COELIG

CJA's June 27, 2013 conflict-of-interest/ethics complaint to JCOPE
"(1) Conflict of interest ethics complaint against executive & legislative branch constitutional officers & employees whose grand larceny of the public fisc and other corrupt acts are particularized by CJA’s April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney Bharara; (2) Request for advisory opinion as to whether Senate and Assembly rules, vesting domineering powers in the Temporary Senate President and Assembly Speaker, create coercive and retaliatory conditions, substantially interfering with the ability of Senate and Assembly Members to discharge their constitutional duties, where doing so exposes the official misconduct of those leaders"


CJA's March 5, 2021 conflict-of-interest/ethics complaint to JCOPE & LEC --
(1) Conflict-of-interest/ethics complaint vs Governor Cuomo, Lieutenant Governor Hochul, Attorney General James, Comptroller DiNapoli, and all 213 state legislators...for their Public Officers Law §74 violations in perpetuating statutorily-violative, fraudulent, and unconstitutional pay raises for themselves and other self-serving violations of their offices, as particularized, with EVIDENCE, by 62 grand jury/public corruption complaints filed with New York’s 62 district attorneys – most importantly with Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares; (2) NOTICE OF INTENT to bring mandamus/Article 78 proceeding"

CJA's April 13, 2022 conflict-of-interest/ethics complaint to JCOPE --
vs Governor Hochul, Temporary Senate President Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heastie, the 211 other state legislators – and their culpable staff, including Division of the Budget Director Mujica – for their Public Officers Law §74 violations pertaining to the FY2022-23 state budget, and, in particular, pertaining to their repeal and elimination of JCOPE by Part QQ of Education, Labor, Housing, and Family Assistance Budget Bill S.8006-C/A.9006-C and their larceny of taxpayer monies by Legislative/Judiciary Budget Bill S.8001-A/A.9001-A;..."

CJA's July 8, 2022 conflict of interest/ethics complaint to COELIG --
"TESTING the 'ethics commission reform act' Commission on its DAY 1:
Re-filing the seven complaints previously filed with JCOPE, plus a new eighth complaint against Attorney General Letitia James for litigation fraud in CJA, et al. v. JCOPE, et al. (Albany Co. #904235-22) -- arising from he same conflict of interest Public Officers Law §74 violations as were the subject of CJA's March 5, 2021 complaint, unredressed by JCOPE"   

CJA's October 29, 2024 complaint to COELIG --
"Conflict-of-interest/corruption complaint against Gov. Hochul, Lt. Gov. Delgado, Senate Leaders Stewart-Cousins & Ortt, and all 61 other State Senators, Assembly Leaders Heastie & Barclay and all 148 other Assembly Members, AG James, and Comptroller DiNapoli for their Public Officers Law §74 Violations Pertaining to the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation"

CJA's CORRUPTION COMPLAINTS vs HOYLMAN
& HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS, FILED WITH NY's DISTRICT ATTORNEYS

 

 

CJA's CORRUPTION COMPLAINTS vs HOYLMAN
& HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS, FILED WITH THE COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE PUBLIC CORRUPTION

CJA's August 5, 2013 letter/complaint --
"Keeping the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption True to its Name
and Announced Purpose"  
EVIDENTIARY WEBPAGE

CJA's WEBPAGES -- "Keeping the Commission...True..."

CJA's January 7, 2014 letter --
"
'FOLLOWING THE MONEY': 
(1) investigating & reporting on the fraud and larceny in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets for fiscal year 2014-2015 presented by CJA’s December 11 and December 30, 2013 letters; (2) supplement to CJA’s July 19, 2013 corruption complaint & intervention request."
enclosed:
CJA's Dec 30, 2013 letter to Gov Cuomo
-- Proposed LEGISLATIVE Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015

CJA's January 14, 2014 letter --
"
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 CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS vs HOYLMAN & HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS, FILED WITH FEDERAL AUTHORITIES

WEBPAGE --
CJA's April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to US Attorney/SDNY Preet Bharara

WEBPAGE --
CJA's May 13, 2013 corruption complaint to US Attorney/EDNY Loretta Lynch

WEBPAGE --
CJA's June 13, 2013 corruption complaint to US Attorney/NDNY Richard Hartunian

WEBPAGE --
CJA's September 17, 2017 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney/SDNY Joon Kim

WEBPAGE -- 2020-2021 "BRINGING IN THE FEDS"

CJA's February 28, 2024 public corruption complaint to the FBI

CJA's March 1, 2024 e-mail to U.S. Dept of Justice/
Public Integrity Section of its Criminal Division
 
--
"public corruption complaint involving NYS' top public officials
& HUGE conflicts of interest by your 4 US Attorneys for NY, particularized by
an unresponded-to Oct 13, 2021 letter, sent to all 4
"

 

 

LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS --
Comparing NY's Legislature BEFORE & AFTER its Fraudulent Pay Raises

No Change: The Legislators are the SAME Posturing Fraudsters,
Perpetuating a Legislature that Does NOT Function at a Constitutional Level
 

 


 

 

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