Wiliam Galison
299 Riverside Drive
New York NY 10012
State
Senator Eric Schniederman
February
12, 2010.
Regarding
New York State’s Utter Lack of Judicial Oversight
Dear Senator Schneiderman,
I am pleased to say that I will be
moving into your district in the next month.
I am a founding member of an
organization concerned about the widespread and unchecked corruption
in the Judiciary branch of the New York State Government, and the
total lack of oversight of judges and “officers of the court”.
You’re website states: "The
Schneiderman
bill includes stricter campaign finance rules and greater penalties
for violations, increased disclosure of outside income for
legislators, enhancements to the lobby law, strengthened legislative
and executive oversight."
Conspicuously absent is any mention of
the systemic corruption in the Judiciary branch, including illicit
collusion of powerful lawyers and judges to subvert due process. We
wonder if you are unaware of the scale of judicial corruption, or
whether you are simply not eager to address it. We hope that your
affiliations and those of your father with powerful lawfirms will not
influence your assessment of this problem, and that your passion for
integrity in two branches of government will apply to the third
branch as well.
As you may know, New York State rules
and laws regulating behavior of judges and lawyers are enforced by
the divisional "Grievance
Committees" the
"Commission on Judicial
Conduct" respectively.
The corruption in both of these bodies, however, is absolute and
flagrant. Complaints against lawyers with "connections" are
brazenly whitewashed. Lawyers who act against the connected ones are
often sanctioned or disbarred Likewise, the CJC dismisses complaints
against judges without any investigation or explanation. Judges who
dare to challenge the system are punished. To compound the problem,
no attorney will touch cases of alleged corruption against crooked
attorneys or judges. They know this means professional suicide.
The Public Resistance
There is a growing affiliation of
victims of judicial corruption, and consequently of the Grievance
Committees and the CJC. Our
complaints against these agencies are not about unfavorable
decisions, but about the flagrant subversion of due process.
We have at least seven cases now pending in federal court,
specifically against the grievance committees and the CJC with more
being prepared. Members of this affiliation have been fighting this
corruption by compiling evidence proving egregious abuses by judges
and lawyers and the pattern of blatant corruption in the oversight
committees. These include:
- Christine Anderson Esq:
a six year veteran investigating attorney at the First Departmental
Disciplinary Committee,: who was fired by Jonathan Lippman for
whistle-bowing against systemic corruption at the DDC.
- The Honorable Duane Hart:
an exemplary sitting Supreme Court Judge, who has suffered a
campaign of harassment and retaliation by the CJC for standing by his
principals. His Honor has stated on the record that the only lawyer
he has known who is “sleazier” than the Chairman of the CJC is
the Chief Counsel of the DDC.
- Gizella Weishauss:
A survivor of Auschwitz, and the first complainant in the Holocaust
restitution case against the Swiss banks. Removed from the case by
her lawyer after she exposed graft and corruption by her lawyers, she
was deprived of the restitution she sought for all victims. The New
York DDC whitewashed her complaints against her lawyer even as he was
disbarred in its counterpart in New Jersey.
-Louisa Esposito,
a car accident victim who videotaped her lawyer Allen Isaac
demanding oral sex in return for a “favorable outcome” based on
his connections with the judges of the First Appellate Division
Court. No criminal or disciplinary action has been taken against
him.
-Numerous attorneys
who have been disbarred, sanctioned and harassed for obeying their
obligations to their clients and the rules of professional
responsibility.
The June 8th
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
On June 8th
2009, after years of pressure from concerned citizens, the Senate
Judiciary Committee held a hearing in Albany about the alleged abuses
by the oversight committees. Most of the above victims testified at
the hearing, which can be viewed in its entirety on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR8OX8uuAbw
The September 24th
Judiciary Committee Hearing
A second public hearing
was held in Manhattan on September 24th,
2009. Despite it being held in the middle of a work day the hearing
attracted over 200 people, far beyond the capacity of the hearing
room. At this hearing Senator Eric Adams and Senator Bill Perkins
called for a “Task Force” to be immediately convened to
investigate and address the problem of insufficient oversight.
http://www.youtube.com/nysenateuncut#p/u/0/knQLll5hmjs
The illegal confirmation of Chief
Judge Jonathan Lippman.
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman is one of
the worst perpetrators of judicial corruption in New York, and his
ascension to the highest judgeship in New York State is a disaster
for justice. There are at least seven federal corruption cases
pending against Lippman in the Southern District and dozens more
before the SJC and CJC.
On January 29th,
2009 Hearings were held to discuss the process for the section of
nominees for Chief Judge. These hearings were a sham, and illegal in
several respects.
The Senate Judiciary Committee (and
every Senate Committee) has three duties:
- To announce and hold public hearings
- To investigate the testimony given at those hearings, and;
- To present the result of that investigation to the full Senate, so that they may vote with knowledge of the facts,
The Senate Judiciary Committee rode
roughshod over all three mandates.
1) The Committee NEVER announced
the hearings to the public. As
a result, only three independent citizens attended the hearing after
learning of it through a leak. In contrast, over one hundred friends
and family of Lippman were personally
invited to celebrate his
confirmation and speak on his behalf. These guests included Robert
Tembeckjian, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT! This is
wildly inappropriate, as Tembeckjian’s job is to watch the judge
like a hawk, not to celebrate his ascension.
2) They Committee NEVER
investigated the claims against Judge Lippman.
These claims included election fraud through illicit favors to a
member of the Nominating Committee, gross official misconduct and
other complaint officially pending before Tembeckjian’s Commission
on Judicial Commission. Tembeckjian should have stood up and stopped
the proceeding until the complaints were resolved.
In fact there was not even time
allotted for the investigation of the claims brought against Lippman.
Had someone provided proof that Lippman had robbed a bank, there
would have been no time scheduled to investigate, The vote was rushed
directly from the Committee chamber to the full Senate with no
consideration of the claims.
3) The Committee NEVER presented
the allegations of criminal conduct and the pending, unresolved CJC
complaints against Lippman
to the full Senate, who voted while ignorant of these complaints.
Finally, there was neither a quorum
of Senators present in the Judiciary Committee nor the full Senate
sufficient to legally confirm Lippman. By New York State Law,
Jonathan Lippman is not the Chief Judge of New York State, because he
was not confirmed under State law. He is a usurper.
In recent weeks, evidence has
emerged against Judge Lippman in regard to a $40 million dollar
estate scam:
For more information on New York State
Judicial Corruption, please see:
In light of the above,
some of my colleagues and I are eager to have a meeting with you
regarding this urgent matter.
Thank you,
Will Galison
917 5177344
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