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New
York Daily News
Paper
Trail of Suppression, Protectionism, & Blackballing
1991
NJC's
October 26, 1991 letter to Editorial Board,
enclosing Doris Sassower's
October 24, 1991 letter to Governor Cuomo with enclosures
(1)
written 3-year judge-trading deal ;
(2) Doris Sassower's letter to the editor,
"Cross-Endorsement:
Questions of Protection",
NYT, 6/9/91;
(3) Doris Sassower's 10/22/71 column in NYLJ
"Judicial
Selection Panels: An Exercise in Futility"
(4) Doris Sassower's 1989
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory listing
SEE:
Judicial
Elections: Castracan v. Colavita
SEE:
Test Cases - Federal (Mangano)
1992
September 17, 1992 column of Robert W. Laird, Deputy Editorial Page
Editor
NJC's
September 17, 1992 letter to Robert Laird,
Deputy Editorial Page Editor
NJC's
September 25, 1992 fax to Robert Laird
NJC's
October 2, 1992 letter to Robert Laird
NJC's
October 19, 1992 letter to Robert Laird
NJC's
November 6, 1992 fax to Robert Laird
1994
CJA's
October 24, 1994 letter to Zak Margulis
1995
CJA's
March 30, 1995 proposed letter to the editor -- RE: "Time to
Judge the Judge", 3/27/95, editorial
CJA's March 30, 1995 letter to Juan Gonzalez -- RE: Election Law
case, Castracan v. Colavita
1996
CJA's February 28, 1996 fax to Jim Dwyer -- "RE: Judge Duckman",
enclosing CJA's February 27, 1996 letter to Mayor Giuliani
CJA's
February 28, 1996 fax to Virginia Breen, reporter
CJA's
second February 28, 1996 fax to Virginia Breen
CJA's
March 1, 1996 fax to John Rhodes, Deputy Metro Editor
CJA's
March 7, 1996 fax to Kimberly Schaye
CJA's
March 25, 1996 letter to Kimberly Schaye -- RE: Commission on
Judicial Conduct
CJA's
June 7, 1996 memo to Kimberly Schaye -- "RE: NEWS STORY FOR
COVERAGE: HOW THE GOVERNOR APPOINTS AND THE SENATE CONFIRMS OUR STATE
JUDGES"
CJA's
October 2, 1996 letter to Sidney Zion, Esq.-- RE: Commission on
Judicial Conduct
Ex. A: "Why is Lorraine Miller still a judge?", NY Daily News
editorial, 9/28/96
Ex. B: "Panel hunting Duckman targeted", NY Daily News,
3/25/96
Ex. C: "Comm'n Abandons Investigative Mandate",
CJA's letter to editor, NYLJ, 8/14/95
Ex. D: CJA's analysis of fraudulent judicial decision in
Sassower v. Commission, with law
Ex. E: relevant pages from Commission's 1996 annual report.
1997
CJA's
April 17, 1997 memo to Kimberly Schaye -- "RE: New York State Ethics
Commission"
-- enclosing CJA's April 15, 1997 memo to Governor Pataki
CJA's
August 27, 1997 press release to the Albany Bureau and City Desk, "Restraining
'Liars in the Courtroom' and on the Public Payroll", CJA's $3,077
public interest ad, NYLJ, 8/27/97
SEE:
Judicial Discipline - NYS:
Doris L. Sassower v. Commission on
Judicial Conduct of the State of NY
SEE:
Test Cases - Federal (Mangano)
1998
"O'Rourke's Pork", February 5, 1998 editorial
CJA's February 5, 1998 letter to Editorial Board -- "RE: 'O'Rourke's
Pork' (2/5/98)"
CJA's proposed February 5, 1998 letter to the Editor -- "RE: 'O'Rourke's
Pork' (2/5/98)"
CJA's February 6, 1998 letter to Editorial Board -- "RE: 'O'Rourke's
Pork' (2/5/98)"
CJA's February 9, 1998 letter to Editorial Board --"RE: 'O'Rourke's
Pork' (2/5/98)"
CJA's published Letter to the Editor, "O'Rourke's appointment was illegal",
February 13, 1998
December 17, 1998 fax to Tracey Tully -- "Senate Judiciary Committee's
No-Notice, By Invitation Only Fraudulent Confirmation Hearing"
SEE:
Judicial Selection - NYS:
"Merit Selection" to the New York Court of Appeals: Rosenblatt
1999
"Mirror, Mirror", August 29, 1999 editorial
CJA's
August 31, 1999 proposed Letter to the Editor -- "RE: 'Mirror,
Mirror', Editorial, Sunday, Aug. 29th"
CJA's
September 8, 1999 letter to Michael Goodwin, Editorial Page Editor
-- "RE: Correcting 'Mirror, Mirror' (Editorial, Sunday, Aug.
29th)"
CJA's
September 8, 1999 letter to Michael Goodwin -- "RE: The Timeliness
of My Proposed Letter to the Editor regarding 'Mirror, Mirror'
(Editorial, Sunday, Aug. 29th)"
CJA's Letter to the Editor, "Who judges the judges?", September 13,
1999
CJA's
September 13, 1999 letter to Michael Goodwin
2000
CJA's
January 18, 2000 letter to Salvatore Arena -- "RE: STORY PROPOSAL:
An Investigative Expose of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct -- on
the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of its Manhattan office"
CJA's
January 20, 2000 letter to Juan Gonzalez -- "RE: STORY PROPOSALS:
(1) Political manipulation of appointive Court of Claims and other
judgeships; (2) Manipulation of judicial assignments in the
politically-explosive case against the NYS Commission on Judicial
Conduct by Would-Be Appellate Division Judge -- now NY Supreme
Court Administrative Judge -- Stephen Crane"
-- enclosing
CJA's January 14, 2000 letter to OCA
CJA's December 2, 1999 letter to Governor Pataki
CJA's December 2, 1999 letter to Administrative Judge Crane
docket sheets & recusal order
CJA's January 20, 2000 letter to Juan Gonzalez-- "RE: STORY PROPOSALS:
(1) Political manipulation of appointive Court of Claims and other
judgeships; (2) Manipulation of judicial assignments in the
politically-explosive case against the NYS Commission on Judicial
Conduct by Would-Be Appellate Division Judge -- now NY Supreme
Court Administrative Judge -- Stephen Crane"
CJA's
February 14, 2000 letter to Salvatore Arena --"RE: Scaling back to a
SIMPLE STORY PROPOSAL: The 'Steering' of the Commission Case by and to
Politically-Vulnerable and Self-Interested Judges"
Mr.
Arena's
February 22, 2000 hand-written
note to CJA
CJA's
February 28, 2000 letter to Juan Gonzales -- "RE: STORY PROPOSALS:
(1) Political manipulation of appointive Court of Claims and other
judgeships; (2) Subversion of the judicial Process in the
politically-explosive case against the NYS Commission on Judicial
Conduct by Would-Be Appellate Division Judge -- now NY Supreme
Court Administrative Judge -- Stephen Crane -- and by Court of
Claims Holdover, Acting Supreme Court Justice William Wetzel"
CJA's
March 13, 2000 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: A 'WINDOW OF
OPPORTUNITY': The Corruption of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct
-- and a Whole Lot More"
CJA's
March 22, 2000 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses
-- enclosing
"16
prosecutors left misconduct rebukes off judicial bids", Chicago
Tribune, 3/1/00
Inventory of judicial misconduct complaints, etc., given to Larry
Cohler-Esses on April 4, 2000
CJA's
April 12, 2000 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: Investigative
Expose on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the NYS Commission on
Judicial Conduct"
CJA's
April 12, 2000 letter to Juan Gonzalez -- "RE: Proposed Columns for
LAW DAY - May 1st"
CJA's April 12, 2000 fax to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: Corruption
stories"
2001
CJA's
June 19, 2001 letter to Celeste Katz
CJA's
November 30, 2001 letter to Michael Aronson, Editorial Board -- "RE:
'Who Judges the Judges?' -- Finding the Causes of the 'Disorder
in the Courts'"
Ex. A: "Disorder in the courts", Daily News editorial,
11/26/01, & 11/30/01 ltr to the editor of Steven Krane,
President/NYS Bar Association
Ex B: "Mirror, Mirror", Daily News editorial, 8/29/99 & CJA's
correspondence with Daily News,
including published letter to editor "Who judges the judges?", 9/12/99
Ex. C: "O'Rourke's Pork", Daily News editorial, 2/5/98 &
CJA's correspondence with Daily News,
including published letter to editor, "O'Rourke's appointment was
illegal"
Ex. D:
CJA's prior published letters to editor, "Untrustworthy Ratings?",
NYT, 7/17/92; "No Justification for Process's
Secrecy", NYLJ, 1/24/96; "On Choosing Judges, Pataki Creates
Problems", 11/16/96; "An Appeal to
Fairness: Revisit the Court of Appeals", 12/28/98
[transmitting copy of appellate record:
Test Case-State
(Commission)
CJA's
December 5, 2001 proposed Letter to the Editor
CJA's published Letter to the Editor, "Judicial
reforms", Daily News, December 7, 2001
CJA's
December 10, 2001 letter to Michael Aronson -- "RE: Examining
Evidentiary Proof of the Politicization and Corruption of 'Merit
Selection' Judicial Appointments, Etc."
CJA's
December 20, 2001 letter to City Desk
CJA's
December 20, 2001 letter to Michael Aronson -- "RE: Scheduling a
Meeting for the Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA) to make
an Evidence-Based Presentation to the Daily News Editorial Board
on its 'Judging the Judges' Editorial Series"
2002
CJA's
January 22, 2002 letter to Michael Aronson --"RE: CJA's
Unresponded-to December 20, 2001 Letter for a Meeting with the Daily
News Editorial Board on its 'Judging the Judges' Editorial
Series"
with referred-to Daily News editorials, "Justice Denied"
(12/22/01) and "The Verdicts Are In" (1/18/02), Chief Judge
Judith Kaye's column "I Rise in Defense of State's Courts"
(1/17/02), etc.
CJA's
February 25, 2002 letter to Michael Aronson, with Daily News 2/25/02
editorial, "Lax discipline lacks effectiveness" -- "RE:
Scheduling a Meeting for the Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc.
(CJA) to make an Evidence-Based Presentation as to the Corruption
of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct, etc."
CJA's February 25, 2002 fax to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: Daily
News' 'Judging Judges' editorial on the Commission on Judicial
Conduct"
CJA's
March 7, 2002 letter to Michael Aronson -- "RE: Setting a Time and
Date Certain for CJA to make an Evidence-Based Presentation as to
the Corruption of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct"
CJA's
March 7, 2002 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: Arranging a
Meeting with Editors of the Reportorial/Investigative Side of the Daily
News to Review the Readily-Verifiable Evidence of the Corruption
of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct -- so that News Coverage May
Begin"
CJA's March 7, 2002 fax to Michael Aronson -- "RE: Examining the
Evidence of the Corruption of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct"
CJA's
May 7, 2002 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: My Own
Follow-Up with Editors on the Reportorial/Investigative Side of the
Daily News"
CJA's
May 13, 2002 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: Arranging a
Meeting with Russ Hoyle"
CJA's
May 20, 2002 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- RE: Arranging a a
Meeting with Russ Hoyle for News Coverage and Investigative Stories on
Issues of Judicial Accountability, etc."
CJA's
August 14, 2002 letter to Russ Hoyle, Editor -- "RE: An
Investigative Expose of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct -- based
on the readily-verifiable evidence of its corruption presented by
a public interest lawsuit pending before the NYS Court of Appeals"
CJA's August 14, 2002 fax to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: An
Investigative Expose of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct -- based
on the readily-verifiable evidence of its corruption presented by
a public interest lawsuit pending before the NYS Court of Appeals"
CJA's
September 19, 2002 letter to Russ Hoyle, Editor -- "RE: EXPEDITING
AND FACILITATING REVIEW: of the documentary proof that the NYS
Commission on Judicial Conduct is CORRUPT"
CJA's
September 19, 2002 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: EXPEDITING
AND FACILITATING REVIEW: of the documentary proof that the NYS
Commission on Judicial Conduct is CORRUPT"
CJA's
September 24, 2002 letter to Joe Mahoney, Albany Bureau -- "RE:
ELECTION COVERAGE: Exposing the REAL Attorney General Spitzer -- not
the P.R. version"
CJA's
September 24, 2002 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE: The
electorally-explosive ramifications of my public interest lawsuit
against the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct"
CJA's
October 3, 2002 e-mail to Joe Mahoney -- "Subj: Election Coverage:
Spitzer & Pataki in One Fell Swoop"
CJA's
October 8, 2002 memo to Richard Schwartz, Editorial Page Editor --
RE: Editorial Endorsements for Attorney General and Governor"
SEE:
Correspondence - State: Governor
Pataki
Correspondence- State: Attorney
General Spitzer
Test Cases - State (Commission)
Correspondence -
State: NYS Ethics Commission
Correspondence -
State: U.S. Attorneys for the Eastern & Southern Districts of NY
Correspondence -
State: Manhattan District Attorney Morgenthau
Judicial
Selection -- State: NYS
CJA's
December 6, 2002 memo to Richard Schwartz -- "RE: Information
Gathering for your 'Judging the Judges' editorial series"
CJA's
December 10, 2002 memo to Richard Schwartz -- "RE: 'Judging the
Judges' editorial series"
CJA's
December 16, 2002 e-mail to Joe Mahoney and Celeste Katz -- "Subj:
Stopping Tomorrow's Sham Senate Confirmation Proceedings"
-- attaching
CJA's
December 16, 2002 letter to Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, Senate Minority
Leader Martin Connor, &
Senate Minority Leader-Elect David Paterson -- "RE: (1) Postponing Senate
Confirmation Proceedings on the Nomination of Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman James J. Lack to the Court of Claims to no earlier than
January 9, 2003; (2) Constituting a More Neutral Senate Forum for
the Holding of the Confirmation 'Hearing'; and (3) Commencing Review of
CJA's Documentary Evidence of Chairman Lack's Unfitness for Judicial
Office"
CJA's
December 20, 2002 memo to Richard Schwartz -- "RE: 'Judging the
Judges' editorial series"
CJA's
December 30, 2002 memo to Richard Schwartz -- "RE: 'Judging the
Judges' editorial series"
CJA's
December 30, 2002 memo to Russ Hoyle, Editor -- "RE: CJA's Proposal
for a Daily News Investigative Expose of the Readily-Verifiable
Evidence of the Corruption of the New York State Commission on Judicial
Conduct"
2003
CJA's
April 8, 2003 memo to Richard Schwartz and Michael
Aronson -- "RE: Yesterday's Meeting"
-- enclosing
notice & questions for 1987 legislative hearing
Commission's 1990 report to governor, comptroller, legislators, etc.
testimony of former Bronx Surrogate Bertram Gelfand at 1997 City
Bar hearing
Gerald Stern's pertinent testimony at 1981 legislative hearing
Commission's 2002 annual report
CJA's
April 10, 2003 letter to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "RE" Vindicating the
Public's Rights in time for 'LAW DAY', MAY 1, 2003: Follow-up to Daily
News reporting & editorializing: 'Cases vs Diamond Dismissed' (4/3/03;
Michele McPhee) & 'Conduct Unbecoming' (4/4/03, Editorial)
CJA's April 10, 2003 e-mail to Larry Cohler-Esses -- "Subj:
Investigative Expose of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct"
CJA's
April 14, 2003 e-mail from Larry Cohler-Esses -- "Subj: See you
tomorrow"
-- attaching:
(1)
CJA's
March 5, 2003 memo to NYS Senate and Assembly Judiciary Committee leaders
-- "RE: Meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman John A.
DeFrancisco, Monday, March 17th, at 10:30 a.m."CJA's March 5, 2003 letter to NYS Senate & Assembly Judiciary
leadership
(2)
CJA's
October 26, 2001 letter to then NYS Senator David A Paterson -- "RE:
CJA's Request for Legislative Hearing/Investigation of the New York
State Commission on Judicial Conduct"
2005
CJA's
September 2, 2005 memo -- "RE:
Election Coverage: Examining Manhattan D.A. Morgenthau's Record with
Respect to Judicial Corruption and Conflicts of Interest -- and Getting
His Response and that of Would-Be D.A. Snyder"
SEE:
CORRESPONDENCE-NYS
Officials: Manhattan D.A. Morgenthau
SEE:
CORRESPONDENCE-NYS
Officials: Brooklyn D.A. Hynes
--
CJA's
September 2, 2005 memo to D.A. Morgenthau & Would-Be D.A. Snyder
-- "RE: THE VOTERS" RIGHT TO YOUR RESPONSE"
-- CJA's September
8, 2005 memo to Democratic Candidates for Brooklyn D.A.-- "RE:
Informing the Voters -- and the Mainstream and Editorializing Press --
of Brooklyn D.A. Hynes' Cover-Up of Systemic, High-Level Judicial
Corruption, Including with Respect to 'Clubhouse' Control of Nominations
for Elective Judgeships"
--
CJA's September 8, 2005 memo to Brooklyn
D.A. Hynes -- "RE: THE VOTERS" RIGHT TO YOUR RESPONSE"
2006
CJA's August 25,
2006 memo to Arthur Browne (Editorial Page Editor) & Ben Smith (Political
Editor) -- "RE: YOUR UPCOMING EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS AND
ONGOING ELECTION COVERAGE: The Races for New York Governor, U.S. Senator from New
York, and New York Attorney General"
CJA's
August 31, 2006 e-mail to Ben Smith -- "Subject: Fwd: Elections 2006:
Informing the Voters -- Editorial & News Departments"
CJA's October 27, 2006 memo
-- "RE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE HEVESI SCANDAL -- AND THE MORE SIGNIFICANT
YET-TO-BE REPORTED SCANDALS that will throw open the non-competitive
statewide races for Governor and Senator -- & the hardly competitive race
for Attorney General -- for the benefit of all New Yorkers
CJA's October 30, 2006 memo -- "RE: THE HEVESI SCANDAL -- AND THE
PLATFORM OF DECEIT UPON THE PUBLIC IT IS PROVIDING TO ATTORNEY
GENERAL SPITZER & GOVERNOR PATAKI, AMONG OTHERS"
2007
February 9, 2007: "Give okay
to Judge Kaye", editorial
CJA's
February 12, 2007 e-mail to Bill Hammond (copy to Joe Mahoney) --
"Subject: What took Place 'Behind the Scenes' at Today's Senate Judiciary
Committee to Confirm Justice Jones to the NY Court of Appeals"
SEE:
Judicial Selection-NYS-"Merit Selection"-NY Court of
Appeals-Jones
CJA's February 26, 2007 e-mail to Bill Hammond/Editorial-Albany
Bureau -- "Subject -- Citizen Opposition to Senate Confirmation of Chief
Judge Kaye's Reappointment to the NY Court of Appeals -- NO OKAY TO KAYE"
[cc: Joe Mahoney/Albany Bureau]
SEE:
Judicial Selection-NYS-"Merit Selection"-NY Court of
Appeals-Kaye
CJA's March 2, 2007 e-mail to Bill Hammond & Joe Mahoney -- "Subject: CJA's
opposition to Chief Judge Kaye"
CJA's March 6, 2007 e-mail to Bill Hammond & Joe Mahoney - "Subject: PRESS
ALERT: POSTPONEMENT OF CHIEF JUDGE KAYE'S CONFIRMATION"
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