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Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins – 35th Senate District

2012

CJA's March 30, 2012 verified complaint in declaratory judgment action
vs Temporary Senate President Flanagan, Senate, et al.


CJA's EVIDENTIARY WEBPAGE, with exhibits


CJA's December 26, 2012 OPEN LETTER to..Senate Democratic Conference Leader Stewart-Cousins --
"Ensuring an Informed Senate Vote on Senate Leadership & Senate Rules:
Your Response to CJA's December 7, 2012 Letter to the Independent Democratic Conference on 'ACHIEVING A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, FULLY FUNCTIONAL SENATE"

2013

click here for: 2013 e-mails to ALL legislators

CJA's January 9, 2013 e-mail to Stewart-Cousins' Counsel --
"Empowering Democrats with Strategy at Today's 10:30 am Democratic Conference Meeting"' 

cc: CJA's January 29, 2013 letter to Chief Administrative Judge
"(1) Clarifying the Judiciary’s Budget for Fiscal Years 2013-2014 & 2012-2013: (a) The dollar amounts sought by the Judiciary for judicial salary increases; (b) The dollar amounts sought by the Judiciary for “compensation and non-salary benefits for judges and justices of the unified court system”, exclusive of salary; and (2) Production of the Judiciary’s findings of facts and conclusions of law with respect to CJA’s October 27, 2011 Opposition Report and People’s lawsuit based thereon against New York State’s three governmental branches and highest constitutional officers, CJA, et al. v. Cuomo, et al., to void the three-phase judicial salary increases"

cc: CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Temporary Senate President Skelos & Assembly Speaker Silver --
"Enabling the Legislative Committees Directly Responsible for Oversight of the Judiciary’s Budget
to Discharge their Mandatory Legislative Function
 

cc: CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Senate and Assembly fiscal committee & judiciary committee chairs & ranking members -- "February 6, 2013 Joint Legislative Hearing on 'Public Protection': The Legislature’s Mandatory Duty to Override the Judiciary’s Request for “funding for the next phase of the judicial salary increase”, in Discharge of its Checks-and-Balance Constitutional Function"

cc: CJA's February 1, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"Discharging Your Constitutional Duty with Respect to the Judiciary Budget Request
for Funding of the Judicial Salary Increases Recommended by the August 29, 2011 'Final' Report
of the Special Commission on Judicial Compensation
"

cc:  CJA's February 1, 2013 letter to Comptroller DiNapoli & Attorney General Schneiderman --
"Discharging Your Constitutional Duty with Respect to the Judiciary Budget Request
for Funding of the Judicial Salary Increases Recommended by the August 29, 2011 'Final' Report
of the Special Commission on Judicial Compensation
"

EVIDENTIARY webpage, with VIDEO of CJA's testimony
at Legislature's February 6, 2013 budget hearing

cc: CJA's March 5, 2013 e-mail to Senate Finance Commitee Minority --
"Senate Finance Committee Minority: Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony
to the Judiciary Budget & Judicial Pay Raises"

cc:  CJA's March 5, 2013 e-mail to Senate Finance Committee Minority --
"Senate Finance Committee Minority Procedures for Enabling Senate Members to Discharge their 'Policy Making Role'"

cc: CJA's March 13, 2013 e-mail to General Budget Conference Committee, etc. --
"The Legislature's Duty to Reject Judicial Appropriations Bill S2601-A3001 & its Unidentified Judicial Salary Increases
that are Fraudulent, Statutorily-Violative, & Unconstitutional"

cc: CJA's March 13, 2013 e-mails --
"The Uselessness of the Legislature's 'White', 'Blue', 'Yellow' & 'Green' Books
as Aids to Legislators in Understanding the Judiciary Budget & District Attorney Salary Reimbursement"

   -- ANALYSIS of the Legislature's "Color Books",
to further demonstrate the Legislature's duty to reject the Judiciary Budget & the Judicial Salary Increases

          Exhibit A:   Senate Majority's "White Book"  link to "White Book"
          Exhibit B:   Senate Minority's "Blue Book"   link to "Blue Book"
          Exhibit C:  Assembly Majority's "Yellow Book" link to "Yellow Book"
          Exhibit D:  Assembly Minority's "Green Book"  not publicly available  

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CJA's April 15, 2013 corruption complaint vs. Stewart-Cousins, et al. to U.S. Attorney (SDNY) -- 

EVIDENTIARY webpage

CJA's May 13, 2013 letter/complaint vs. Stewart-Cousins, et al. to U.S. Attorney (EDNY) --

EVIDENTIARY webpage

CJA's June 13, 2013 letter/complaint vs Stewart-Cousins, et al. to U.S. Attorney (NDNY) --

EVIDENTIARY webpage


CJA's June 4, 2013 letter/complaint vs Stewart-Cousins, et al.
to Senate & Assembly Investigative/Oversight Committees
--

EVIDENTIARY webpage


CJA's June 27, 2013 complaint vs. Stewart-Cousins, et al. to JCOPE

EVIDENTIARY WEBPAGE   MENU webpage

CJA's July 12, 2013 e-mail to Stewart-Cousins --
"Follow-UP: Securing a Functioning Legislature"

CJA's July 19, 2013 corruption complaint vs Stewart-Cousins, et al. to Albany D.A. 

EVIDENTIARY webpage

CJA's August 5, 2013 letter/complaint vs Stewart-Cousins, et al.
to Commission to Investigate Public Corruption

EVIDENTIARY webpage

CJA's December 11, 2013 letter to...Stewart-Cousins --
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM JUDICIAL FRAUD & LARCENY -- Your Constitutional & Statutory Duty
to Reject the Entirety of the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015, Over & Beyond its Concealed, Unitemized Third Phase of the Judicial Salary Increase that Will Otherwise Take Effect, Automatically, on April 1, 2014"

  cc: CJA's December 30, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM LEGISLATIVE FRAUD & LARCENY..."

 

2014

CJA's January 7, 2014 letter to...Stewart-Cousins --
"'FOLLOWING THE MONEY': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

    CJA's January 14, 2014 transmittal letter to...Stewart-Cousins 
"Vindicating the Public's Rights Under Article VII, 1 of the NYS Constitution & Legislative Law 32-a"
 
CJA's January 14, 2014 letter

CJA's March 5, 2014 letter to Stewart-Cousins
"Your Constitutional Duty: (1) to address the fraud and unconstitutionality
in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets...

-- transmitting CJA's March 4, 2014 letter

CJA's March 28, 2014 verified complaint in citizen-taxpayer action
vs Temporary Senate President Flanagan, Senate,
et al
 

CJA's April 23, 2014 order to show cause to intervene
in the Legislature's declaratory judgment action vs the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption


CJA's May 2, 2014 fraud/corruption complaint vs Stewart-Cousins, et al. to Comptroller DiNapoli 

cc CJA's July 11, 2014 letter to Governor Cuomo --
"Getting to First Base in Achieving 'the Dream of Honest Government'

         (1) Rectifying your violation of 'The Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011” by appointing
the review committee to evaluate JCOPE that you were required to appoint “No later than June 1, 2014';

       
(2) Making public your 'written response', if any, to CJA’s June 27, 2013 ethics complaint against you,
filed with JCOPE
"     transmitting e-mail receipt  & here

cc
CJA's July 18, 2014 letter to JCOPE --
"
The Record of JCOPE’s Handling of Complaints:
       
     (1)
 
Status of CJA’s June 27, 2013 ethics complaint;
     (2)
 
Rectifying your violation of Executive Law §94.9(l)(i) ('The Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011')
by supplementing your 2012 and 2013 annual reports with the statutorily-required list of assigned numbers
for each complaint and referral, including the status of each complaint
."

cc: CJA's December 11, 2014 ethics complaint to JCOPE --
"
Conflict of Interest Ethics Complaint vs Governor Andrew Cuomo, Legislative Leaders, & JCOPE
for Violation of the Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011 Pertaining to the Review Commission Statutorily-Required
to be Appointed 'No later than June 1, 2014'”

 

2015

CJA's June 22, 2015 letter to...Stewart-Cousins --
"Enabling
Honest Review by the JCOPE/LEC Review Commission: 
Rectifying JCOPE’s violations of Executive Law §94.9(l)(i) by furnishing the statutorily-required yearly 'listing
of assigned numbers of each complaint and referral received…including the status of each complaint'”
EVIDENTIARY webpage

2016

cc: CJA's January 15, 2016 e-mail --
"Immediate Oversight Required:  Jan.2O,2016 Senate Judiciary Confirmation Hearing
of Chief Judge Nominee DiFiore AND 'Force of Law' Judicial Salary Recommendations of Dec.24,2015 Report of Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation"

attached:

CJA's January 15, 2016 letter -- IMMEDIATE OVERSIGHT REQUIRED:
              
(1) The Commission on 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 Committee’s January 20, 2016 public hearing to confirm the nomination of Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore as New York’s Chief Judge – and the deceptive public notice concealing that oral testimony is restricted to the nominee and bar associations    
EVIDENTIARY webpage

  CJA's JAN. 28, 2016 letter to Stewart-Cousins --
"To Which Committee(s) Have You Assigned Oversight of the December 24, 2015 Report
of the Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation -- & the Legislature's Duty
to Not Only Override its Judicial Salary Increase Recommendations, but to Repeal the Commission Statute, etc."

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"


CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail to...Stewart-Cousins as member of Legislature's General Budget Conference Committee & its "Public Protection" Subcommittee, & the Senate's Defunct Temporary Committee on Rules & Administration Reform

CJA's June 2, 2016 e-mail to Stewart-Cousins' Counsel --
"Senate Oversight??  (1) the statutory link between judicial and district attorney salaries;
(2) the integrity of the district attorney offices"

CJA's June 7, 2016 e-mail to...Stewart-Cousins
"FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ALL SENATE FINANCE COMMITEE MEMBERS: Today's Committee meeting: S.7408-A --
state reimbursemet of district attorney salary increases"


2017

CJA's January 9, 2017 e-mail to Deputy Chief of Staff to Stewart-Cousins --
"Constituent Request for Meeting -- The Legislative, Judiciary & Executive Budgets for Fiscal Year 2017-2018"

CJA's written statement supplementing testimony
for January 30, 2017 "local gov't officials/general gov't"  budget hearing,
with attached questions about legislative budget


EVIDENTIARY webpage, with VIDEO of Jan 30, 2017 hearing

CJA's documentary submission in support of testimony at January 31, 2017 "public protection" budget hearing

EVIDENTIARY webpage, with VIDEO of Jan 31, 2017 hearing

CJA's February 6, 2017 letter...to Stewart-Cousins --
  
"(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?  
transmitting e-mail

cc: CJA's February 23, 2017 misconduct/fraud complaint --
"FIRST TEST of the Ethics and Internal Governance Committee" 
   transmitting e-mail

cc: CJA's April 5, 2017 e-mail --
AG Schneiderman's duty to advise the Legislature that the behind-closed-doors,
'3-men-in-a-room'-'amended' budget bills of Heastie, Flangagan & Cuomo violate Article VII, §§4, 5, 6 &
Article III, §10 of the NYS Constitution -- & are treason thereof"

CJA's December 4, 2017 letter to Stewart-Cousins & Westchester's Albany Delegation -- "Your Duty to Assist the Westchester County Board of Legislators in Discharging its Duty to Safeguard the Westchester County Budget from Statutorily-Violative and Fraudulent District Attorney Salary Increases"  transmitting e-mail

EVIDENTIARY webpage

2018

CJA's written statement in support of testimony for January 30, 2018 "public protection" budget hearing

EVIDENTIARY webpage, with VIDEO

CJA's written statement inn support of testimony
at February 5, 2018 "local gov't officials/general gov't budget hearing


EVIDENTIARY webpage with VIDEO

 

 

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