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CJA's August 5, 2013 letter
to Commission Executive Director Regina Calcaterra --
"Keeping the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption True
to its Name & Announced Purpose"


Governor Cuomo's July 2, 2013 press release, with VIDEO of press conference --
"Governor Cuomo Appoints Moreland 'Commission to Investigate Public Corruption,' with Attorney General Schneiderman Designating Commission Members as Deputy Attorneys General" 

click here for Website of the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption

 Executive Order #106 establishing Commission to Investigate Public Corruption 
                            Executive Law, Sec. 6
                            Executive Law, Sec. 63 (subdiv 8)

      click here for:
referred-to original Commission webpage,
reflecting what was posted in July 2013

click here for:
video & transcripts
of 2009 Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Commission on Judicial Conduct
& court-controlled attorney disciplinary system

click here for: 
CJA's July 19, 2013 corruption complaint
to Commission Member/Albany D.A. Soares


 click here for:
Building Scholarship
pertaining to Commission Member Columbia Law School Professor Richard Briffault


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SUBSEQUENT CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COMMISSION

CJA's August 27, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
"Status: Our August 5, 2013 Letter --
'Keeping the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption True to its Name & Announced Purpose"

CJA's September 3, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
"Request that the Upcoming Public Hearings of the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption
be Live-Streamed, Videoed & Stenographically-Recorded, Etc."

CJA's September 6, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
"MISSING PRESS RELEASES: 
What's going on with the Commission to Invesigate Public Corruption's Public Hearings?"

CJA's September 13, 2013 request to testify

CJA's September 16, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
"9-16-13-draft-testimony"  draft testimony

CJA's September 18, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
"Sept. 17th Testimony of Elena Sassower, Director/Center for Judicial Accountability"
click here for
oral & written testimony & substantiating evidence

CJA's September 19, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
 
"Request for CD-Video & Transcript of Commission's September 17th Public Hearing"

CJA's September 25, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
"Request for CD-Video & Transcript of Commission's September 24th Public Hearing"

CJA's October 2, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
"What 'law' requires the Commission to report to the Governor & Attorney General "on a weekly basis"?

CJA's October 4, 2013 letter to Commission --
"When Will the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption be Holding Public Hearings at Which the Public Will be Able to Testify as to the Breadth of Public Corruption Within its Knowledge and Experience?, Etc.
"

CJA's October 17, 2013 letter to Commission Members & Special Advisors
-- "Follow-Up to September 17, 2013 Testimony
(1) CJA's Unresponded-to August 5, 2013 Letter and Subsequent Correspondence Pertaining to the Commission's Procedures, Rules, Protocol for Conflicts of Interest, and Public Hearings;

(
2) CJA's Unresponded-to July 19, 2013 corruption complaint and intervention request to Commission Member Albany County District Attorney Soares"


related link to CJA Director's September 17, 2013 oral & written testimony, etc

CJA's October 24, 2013 letter to Commission --
"Public Access to the Record of the Commission's September 17th and September 24th Public Hearings: Written Testimony & Other Supporting Materials"

 cc:  CJA's Oct. 25, 2013 letter to transcription company --
"The Pattern of Errors in the Stenographic Transcription of the Oral Testimony of Elena Sassower
at the September 17, 2013 Public Hearing of the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption --
Material to Her Presentation as to the Commission's Conflicts of Interest

cc:  CJA's November 8, 2013 FOIL request to the NYS Board of Elections  --
"Documentarily-Establishing that the New York State Board of Elections is "Low-Hanging Fruit" for the Conflict-Ridden Commission to Investigate Public Corruption

cc: CJA's November 12, 2013 FOIL request to NYS Division of the Budget --
"New York State Board of Elections Budget Records - Fiscal Years 1989-1990 through 2013-2014"

cc: CJA's November 12, 2013 records request to Secretary of the Senate --
"Oversight & Budget Hearings of the New York State Board of Elections"

cc: CJA's November 12, 2013 records request to Assembly Public Information Officer --
"Oversight & Budget Hearings of the New York State Board of Elections"

cc: CJA's November 13, 2013 letter to District Attorney Soares --
"What are Your Procedures for Handling Public Corruption Complaints? --
& Other Questions that an Unconflicted Commission to Investigate Public Corruption Would Ask"

CJA's November 15, 2013 e-mail to Commission --
"FOIL Request: Request for Transcript of Commission's October 28th Public Hearing
& Other Documents Pertaining to the October 28th Hearing"
         attachments

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click here for:
Commission's December 2, 2013 report

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cc: CJA's December 11, 2013 letter  --
"RE:
 SAFEGUARDING THE PUBLIC PURSE FROM JUDICIAL FRAUD & LARCENY:..."

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."

 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."
             

Commission's February 7, 2014 letter to CJA --
"Your matter falls outside our mandate."

 

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CJA's FIRST citizen-taxpayer action
CJA v. Cuomo, et al. (Albany Co. #1788-2014)

CJA's April 23, 2014 order to show cause to intervene for a declaration
of
unconstitutionality and fraud

(Senate, et al. v. Rice, et al. - Supreme Court/NY County #160941-13)

 

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click here for:
CJA's People's Campaign
to Hold the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption True
to its Name & Announced Purpose

 

 

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The Commission's Disregard of
the NON-FUNCTIONING of the Legislature

The Commission Goes After Low-Hanging Fruit:
NYS Board of Elections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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