Searching for Champions (Correspondence)
NYS
Governor
Mario Cuomo
November
1, 1989 letter from Eli Vigliano, Esq., Founder
and Chairman, Ninth Judicial Committee ("NJC"), hand-delivered
to the Governor's Executive Chamber, requesting appointment of a Special
Prosecutor to investigate multitudinous Election Law criminal violations
and fraud in the Ninth Judicial District of NY in connection with the
1989 Three-Year Deal between Republican and Democratic party leaders for
judicial cross-endorsements in the Ninth Judicial District of NY and the
judicial nominating conventions implementing it (the "Three-Year
Deal".)
Exhibit 1:
Three-Year Judge Trading Deal
Exhibit 2: "GOP
supports move to make county judiciary non-partisan", Gannett,
8/25/89
Exhibit 3A: "Cross-endorsements
of judicial candidates mute the public's voice",
guest column
by Professor Janet Johnson, Gannett, 6/29/89
Exhibit 3B: "Bipartisan
deal judged to be in trouble", Gannett, 7/21/89
Exhibit 3C: "Party
leaders repackage deal on judges", Gannett, 8/23/89
Exhibit 3D: "District
takes step toward bipartisan judiciary", Gannett, 8/20/89
Exhibit 3E: "Two
Parties Agree to Endorse One Slate of Judicial Candidates", NYT,
10/1/89
Exhibit 3F: "Political
leaders deal out full judicial slate", Gannett, 10/4/89
Exhibit 4: Roll
of Democratic Delegates -certified, 9/14/89
Exhibit 5:
Minutes of Democratic Judicial Convention -- 9th Judicial District,
filed 9/25/89
Exhibit 6:
Certificate of Democratic Nominations, filed 9/25/89
Exhibit 7A:
"Political Advertisement": Emanuelli, 9/4/89
Exhibit 7B:
Fundraiser for Emanuelli, 10/26/89
Exhibit 7C: "'Re-election'
Day at bipartisan event", Gannett, 10/29/89
Exhibit 7D:
"Political Advertisement", Emanuelli, Gannett, 10/29/89
June
18, 1991 letter from Doris L. Sassower, NJC's pro bono
counsel, reiterating NJC's request for appointment of a Special Prosecutor
to investigate judicial corruption in Castracan v. Colavita, et al.,
the Election Law case brought for judicial review of the constitutionality,
legality, and ethical propriety of the 1989 Three-Year Deal and the implementing
judicial nominating conventions.
SEE:
Castracan
v. Colavita - NY Judicial "Elections"
June 19, 1991
transmittal coversheet from Doris L. Sassower for appointment of Special
Prosecutor
July
15, 1991 letter from Governor Cuomo's Executive Chamber, declining
to appoint a Special Prosecutor.
October 24, 1991 letter from Doris L. Sassower to Governor
Cuomo, outlining judicial corruption by NYS courts in fraudulent
judicial
decisions, covering up detailed and documented allegations
of Election law fraud and other misconduct by NYS officials and political
party leaders involved in the 1989 Three-Year Deal, as set forth in NJC's
legal challenges in Castracan v. Colavita, et al. and the related
case of Sady v. Murphy, et al.
-- enclosures:
written 3-year deal
"Cross-Endorsement:
Questions of Protection", Letter to the Editor, Doris L. Sassower,
NYT, 6/9/91
"Judicial
Selection Panels: An Exercise in Futility", column by Doris L.
Sassower, NYLJ, 10/22/71
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory listing, 1989
SEE:
Castracan
v. Colavita - NY Judicial "Elections"
Sady
v. Murphy
- NY Judicial "Elections"
October 31, 1991 letter from NJC Director, Doris L. Sassower, identifying
the systemic problem of "incompetent and corrupt judges who
sit on the bench by virtue of their political ties " as financially
ruinous to NY's economy and requesting an opportunity to make a "testimonial
and documentary contribution to assist [the Governor]. in implementing
“new strategies to better utilize constrained resources more effectively.”
December
18, 1991 letter from Governor Cuomo's Executive Chamber declining
to reconsider prior denial of NJC's request for appointment of a Special
Prosecutor.
December 19, 1991
letter from NJC's Director, Doris L. Sassower, urging
implementation of the Report and Recommendations of the Commission on
Governmental Integrity (chaired by John Feerick, Dean of Fordham Law School),
costing NYS taxpayers $10,000,000 to find out that "the
lack of judicial competence and integrity has exacerbated, if not created,
the financial crisis in our courts."
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