The New York Post - EDITORIAL - August 24, 2010
Leave it to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his tort-lawyer buddies to grab for a cash bonanza in 9/11-related lawsuits -- at the expense of Ground Zero workers. Talk about gaming the system. As The Post's Joseph Goldstein and Susan Edelman reported Sunday, Silver and his partners -- tort-law kings Perry Weitz and Arthur Luxenberg -- are involved with an outfit that lent millions to the law firm representing 9,800 Ground Zero workers with toxic-illness claims against the city. Weitz and Luxenberg are the top directors of Counsel Financial Services, a lending business that provides up to $10 million -- at 18 percent annual interest -- to law firms that need up-front cash for cases expected to pay off big. Silver has made two loans to Counsel totaling at least $50,000 -- possibly much more -- though neither his office nor the firm will say how much, insisting "he doesn't know where the money goes." That's not surprising -- Silver has long refused to reveal details about his outside job serving "of counsel" at Weitz & Luxenberg, including those regarding his clients and salary. But the real kicker here is that the law firm that pressed the lawsuit -- and that now stands to reap nearly $200 million out of the proposed $712 million settlement -- expects the Ground Zero workers to pick up the tab for that 18 percent interest it's been paying. That could cost individual plaintiffs thousands of dollars each. Which is why Manhattan Federal Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who's been presiding over the case, has set a hearing for next week to determine whether the lawyers are overcharging. Now, Silver may have had no role in the law firm's move -- but why do such actions always seem to involve him, even indirectly? It makes his refusal to discuss his outside income all the more outrageous. As the New York Public Interest Research Group, with which we rarely agree, rightly declares: "There's an ethics black hole when it comes to these issues" involving Silver. Which only underscores why cleaning up the Albany ethical cesspool has to begin with the speaker of the Assembly.
Leave it to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and his tort-lawyer buddies to grab for a cash bonanza in 9/11-related lawsuits -- at the expense of Ground Zero workers. Talk about gaming the system. As The Post's Joseph Goldstein and Susan Edelman reported Sunday, Silver and his partners -- tort-law kings Perry Weitz and Arthur Luxenberg -- are involved with an outfit that lent millions to the law firm representing 9,800 Ground Zero workers with toxic-illness claims against the city. Weitz and Luxenberg are the top directors of Counsel Financial Services, a lending business that provides up to $10 million -- at 18 percent annual interest -- to law firms that need up-front cash for cases expected to pay off big. Silver has made two loans to Counsel totaling at least $50,000 -- possibly much more -- though neither his office nor the firm will say how much, insisting "he doesn't know where the money goes." That's not surprising -- Silver has long refused to reveal details about his outside job serving "of counsel" at Weitz & Luxenberg, including those regarding his clients and salary. But the real kicker here is that the law firm that pressed the lawsuit -- and that now stands to reap nearly $200 million out of the proposed $712 million settlement -- expects the Ground Zero workers to pick up the tab for that 18 percent interest it's been paying. That could cost individual plaintiffs thousands of dollars each. Which is why Manhattan Federal Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who's been presiding over the case, has set a hearing for next week to determine whether the lawyers are overcharging. Now, Silver may have had no role in the law firm's move -- but why do such actions always seem to involve him, even indirectly? It makes his refusal to discuss his outside income all the more outrageous. As the New York Public Interest Research Group, with which we rarely agree, rightly declares: "There's an ethics black hole when it comes to these issues" involving Silver. Which only underscores why cleaning up the Albany ethical cesspool has to begin with the speaker of the Assembly.
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Shelly, Shelly, Shelly...
How'd this mutt remain standing?!?
He be the King Krook!
Good Editorial NY Post! Tells it like it is! Shelly, shame on you! Your father and mother would box your ears for this one, you should be ashamed of yourself!
Felony Charges should apply to those who violate the public trust to fill their swine filled faces and pockets. Treble sentencing and siezure of all assets!!! This will set precedence for our next generation of politicians that crime does not pay and gaming the system does not pay thrice.
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Shelly needn't worry; his old Schul crony, Lippman, is Chief Judge. Shelly is collecting this extra "out-side the NY legislature tax" on the 9/11 victims. In NY, it's pay to play and the devil's agent, Silver, always gets his due. Where, oh where is Cuomo's Public integrity Unit? Take heart and shut up; Shelly's offered the 9/11 victims a sop; Shelly's come out to move the mosque.
Shelly is simply doing the devil's work. Leave him alone! Shelly and Jonathan "Boss Tweed" Lippman have everything covered. And the lapdog Andrew is wagging his tail, waiting and begging for long-awaited and ill-gotten scraps.
that one was funny, that is what I was thinking he could always get a loan from Lippman & Ramos........
yeah, Public Integrity Unit, they over bothering the Governor for tickets to a game.......
if this stuff is not insane,
they all need a padded room and some of them need a permanent padded room!
look at the money they fill their pockets with to fight with each other, to keep some and this State & Gov't in Bankruptcy............
look at the State workers who go along to keep their little jobs, so that one day they may receive their small pensions........
hahaha, they will cancel their pensions too.......
keep lying for the low lifes and you will have no pension, if you live that long!
Hey, wait a minute!!!!...the lawyers collecting on the 9/11 lawsuit, are the same lawyers who were involved in the Fen-phen case...Napoli,Burns, Alan Ripka...Hum, I wonder if Allen Isaac is involved with these guys? I wouldn't doubt it...He's GOD, and Mr. Untouchable..who gets away with EVERYTHING and ANYTHING...isn't that right Judge Lippman!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply to Where is CuomoTarp???
From my Television Interview at www.wethepeople.tv
First off, Mario Cuomo appoints, again I mean anoints, Judith Kaye to Chief Judge, following the resignation of Solomon Wachtler who was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1993 but he achieved his notoriety for intimidating a former lover and threatening to kidnap her daughter, for which he served an 11-month prison term. Kaye comes in continuing the culture of corruption and Kaye is married to one of the top Proskauer partners Stephen Kaye, not to confused with Steven Krane, and Kaye’s prodigy and former Clerk is none other than Proskauer Partner Steven Krane and together they laid the seeds for a takeover of the New York Justice System. Dick, while on the bench, stated that Proskauer was the “in firm for young lawyers” endorsing them using her authority…
Well Dick, according to inside Whistleblower Anderson of the New York Supreme Court the New York Supreme Court’s unethical behavior extends into the Department of Justice through the Department of Justice US Attorney offices, into the District Attorney Offices and into the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s offices. Anderson then really provides the most frightening claim, a total catch all, when she claims that the Cleaner is cleaning not only for certain Public Officials but also complaints, for “Favored Lawyers and Law Firms...”
The US Attorneys are party to the crimes, the District Attorneys are party to the crimes, the ADA’s are party to the crimes, the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s offices party to the crimes, the New York State Attorney Regulatory Bodies also in on the crimes and the New York Supreme Court Jokers in on the crimes. So where does one turn with information regarding the corruption when those who are at the highest prosecutorial and judicial roles in both the state and federal government are the criminals?
Dick one of the cases that sought legal relation to Anderson as I mentioned was that of Gizella Weisshaus who filed the first U.S. class action lawsuit against Swiss banks to recover monies looted in WWII. Gizella’s suit led to a massive settlement for Nazi camp survivors to recover some of the money looted by the Nazis put in Swiss Bank accounts for safekeeping by the Nazis. One day, Gizella, having just been denied due process at the US District Court by the criminals in charge of the court denied her perfectly filed pleading with no reason or rational, leaving Gizella wholly deflated in spirit. I asked her if her attempt to get justice in the New York Courts was not identical to asking for fair and impartial due process in Auschwitz. I asked her, if she had gone to the Gestapo in the concentration camp, to tell them the camp guards were abusing and perhaps killing the prisoners how far would she have got pleading for their mercy and help. Would she not have gotten the same response from the Gestapo as she got from the New York Courts, dismissed and everything looks kosher to us and she replied, “identical”, taking my breath away.
Sure, I said, the Gestapo took the complaint and first pacified you, coddling you that justice was on the way and then they laughed at you behind your back and then when you thought something might get done, they abused you worse or killed you for asking. She laughed and I could tell for a moment it eased her pain, the pain of feeling stripped of her property rights, right here in America. Personal property again stolen from her and her family and again with no legal or political recourse, exactly as they did to her family in Nazi Germany right here in Fascist USA. Now for a survivor of Nazi Germany to parallel the New York courts and our justice system to the Nazis sounds impossible but it is true.
Reply to Where is CuomoTarp???
From my Television Interview at www.wethepeople.tv
First off, Mario Cuomo appoints, again I mean anoints, Judith Kaye to Chief Judge, following the resignation of Solomon Wachtler who was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1993 but he achieved his notoriety for intimidating a former lover and threatening to kidnap her daughter, for which he served an 11-month prison term. Kaye comes in continuing the culture of corruption and Kaye is married to one of the top Proskauer partners Stephen Kaye, not to confused with Steven Krane, and Kaye’s prodigy and former Clerk is none other than Proskauer Partner Steven Krane and together they laid the seeds for a takeover of the New York Justice System. Dick, while on the bench, stated that Proskauer was the “in firm for young lawyers” endorsing them using her authority…
Well Dick, according to inside Whistleblower Anderson of the New York Supreme Court the New York Supreme Court’s unethical behavior extends into the Department of Justice through the Department of Justice US Attorney offices, into the District Attorney Offices and into the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s offices. Anderson then really provides the most frightening claim, a total catch all, when she claims that the Cleaner is cleaning not only for certain Public Officials but also complaints, for “Favored Lawyers and Law Firms...”
The US Attorneys are party to the crimes, the District Attorneys are party to the crimes, the ADA’s are party to the crimes, the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s offices party to the crimes, the New York State Attorney Regulatory Bodies also in on the crimes and the New York Supreme Court Jokers in on the crimes. So where does one turn with information regarding the corruption when those who are at the highest prosecutorial and judicial roles in both the state and federal government are the criminals?
Dick one of the cases that sought legal relation to Anderson as I mentioned was that of Gizella Weisshaus who filed the first U.S. class action lawsuit against Swiss banks to recover monies looted in WWII. Gizella’s suit led to a massive settlement for Nazi camp survivors to recover some of the money looted by the Nazis put in Swiss Bank accounts for safekeeping by the Nazis. One day, Gizella, having just been denied due process at the US District Court by the criminals in charge of the court denied her perfectly filed pleading with no reason or rational, leaving Gizella wholly deflated in spirit. I asked her if her attempt to get justice in the New York Courts was not identical to asking for fair and impartial due process in Auschwitz. I asked her, if she had gone to the Gestapo in the concentration camp, to tell them the camp guards were abusing and perhaps killing the prisoners how far would she have got pleading for their mercy and help. Would she not have gotten the same response from the Gestapo as she got from the New York Courts, dismissed and everything looks kosher to us and she replied, “identical”, taking my breath away.
Sure, I said, the Gestapo took the complaint and first pacified you, coddling you that justice was on the way and then they laughed at you behind your back and then when you thought something might get done, they abused you worse or killed you for asking. She laughed and I could tell for a moment it eased her pain, the pain of feeling stripped of her property rights, right here in America. Personal property again stolen from her and her family and again with no legal or political recourse, exactly as they did to her family in Nazi Germany right here in Fascist USA. Now for a survivor of Nazi Germany to parallel the New York courts and our justice system to the Nazis sounds impossible but it is true.
Reply to Where is CuomoTarp???
From my Television Interview at www.wethepeople.tv
First off, Mario Cuomo appoints, again I mean anoints, Judith Kaye to Chief Judge, following the resignation of Solomon Wachtler who was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1993 but he achieved his notoriety for intimidating a former lover and threatening to kidnap her daughter, for which he served an 11-month prison term. Kaye comes in continuing the culture of corruption and Kaye is married to one of the top Proskauer partners Stephen Kaye, not to confused with Steven Krane, and Kaye’s prodigy and former Clerk is none other than Proskauer Partner Steven Krane and together they laid the seeds for a takeover of the New York Justice System. Dick, while on the bench, stated that Proskauer was the “in firm for young lawyers” endorsing them using her authority…
Well Dick, according to inside Whistleblower Anderson of the New York Supreme Court the New York Supreme Court’s unethical behavior extends into the Department of Justice through the Department of Justice US Attorney offices, into the District Attorney Offices and into the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s offices. Anderson then really provides the most frightening claim, a total catch all, when she claims that the Cleaner is cleaning not only for certain Public Officials but also complaints, for “Favored Lawyers and Law Firms...”
The US Attorneys are party to the crimes, the District Attorneys are party to the crimes, the ADA’s are party to the crimes, the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s offices party to the crimes, the New York State Attorney Regulatory Bodies also in on the crimes and the New York Supreme Court Jokers in on the crimes. So where does one turn with information regarding the corruption when those who are at the highest prosecutorial and judicial roles in both the state and federal government are the criminals?
Dick one of the cases that sought legal relation to Anderson as I mentioned was that of Gizella Weisshaus who filed the first U.S. class action lawsuit against Swiss banks to recover monies looted in WWII. Gizella’s suit led to a massive settlement for Nazi camp survivors to recover some of the money looted by the Nazis put in Swiss Bank accounts for safekeeping by the Nazis. One day, Gizella, having just been denied due process at the US District Court by the criminals in charge of the court denied her perfectly filed pleading with no reason or rational, leaving Gizella wholly deflated in spirit. I asked her if her attempt to get justice in the New York Courts was not identical to asking for fair and impartial due process in Auschwitz. I asked her, if she had gone to the Gestapo in the concentration camp, to tell them the camp guards were abusing and perhaps killing the prisoners how far would she have got pleading for their mercy and help. Would she not have gotten the same response from the Gestapo as she got from the New York Courts, dismissed and everything looks kosher to us and she replied, “identical”, taking my breath away.
Sure, I said, the Gestapo took the complaint and first pacified you, coddling you that justice was on the way and then they laughed at you behind your back and then when you thought something might get done, they abused you worse or killed you for asking. She laughed and I could tell for a moment it eased her pain, the pain of feeling stripped of her property rights, right here in America. Personal property again stolen from her and her family and again with no legal or political recourse, exactly as they did to her family in Nazi Germany right here in Fascist USA. Now for a survivor of Nazi Germany to parallel the New York courts and our justice system to the Nazis sounds impossible but it is true.
Part 2 Where is CuomoTarp???
Ok back to Anderson and how the Coup scares off Whistleblowers, leaving them nowhere to turn and not just Anderson but throughout government as we are now learning whistleblowers are targeted for attack universally throughout our government. That whistleblowers’ are actually being threatened and even assaulted and it should be noted here Dick that Sherri Cohen, a Senior Officer of the Court attacked and assaulted Anderson who is a 60 plus year old female, just like a NATZI camp guard, not an ethics department head.
Dick, let me now read to you and viewers, a riveting letter from Anderson sent on September 13, 2009 that is part of her claims against the Criminal Enterprise Operating our Country, she wrote to,
The Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
The Hon. Preet Bharara
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Hon. William M. Welch II
Chief, Public Integrity Unit
United States Department of Justice
The Hon. John L. Sampson, Chairman
New York State Senate Judiciary Committee
Let me Quote Anderson from her letter regarding a
RE: Request for Federal Investigation Into Allegations of Corruption and Witness Intimidation and Appointment of Federal Monitor
Gentlemen:
My name is Christine C. Anderson. For six and one-half years, I was a Principal Attorney of the New York State [Supreme Court] Appellate Division, First Department’s Departmental Disciplinary Committee (the “DDC”). The DDC is responsible for investigating and disciplining attorneys found guilty of misconduct in representing the public in the Bronx and Manhattan. After discovering and reporting of acts of misconduct and corruption at the DDC, which acts constituted an abuse of power and a fraud upon the public, my employment was summarily terminated in June, 2007.
Prior to my employment with the DDC, I was in private practice for over twenty years. Before that, I worked for the Human Resources Administration of New York City. In other words, I am a thoroughly seasoned attorney, with a broad based knowledge of general practice.
As a result of my wrongful termination in retaliation for my reporting misconduct in violation of my First Amendment rights, I instituted a lawsuit captioned Anderson v. State of New York, et al., 07 Civ. 9599 (S.D.N.Y. 2007). (A copy of my complaint in this action is attached hereto as Exhibit A.) Specifically, I discovered and reported that employees of the DDC had engaged in, inter alia, the “whitewashing” [of] complaints of misconduct leveled against certain “select” attorneys and law firms. This “whitewashing” sometimes involved burying cases or destroying evidence, so that certain complaints were inevitably, unavoidably, dismissed. I witnessed this destruction of evidence myself. Other reported misconduct involves victimizing attorneys lacking privileged positions or connections.
Part 3 oh where oh where can my CuomoTarp be oh where...
Although the then Chief Counsel of the DDC, Thomas Cahill, stepped down in 2007, evidence clearly establishes that under the leadership of Alan Friedberg, the current Chief Counsel, the same practice of corruption and whitewashing of complaints continues. Such practice robs the public of any hope at justice; it also works to the detriment of the very public the DDC is duty-bound to serve.
During the course of my litigation against the DDC, a former colleague of mine, who still works as a Principal Attorney at the DDC, agreed to testify on my behalf at a deposition. This former colleague, Nicole Corrado, has been employed by the DDC for approximately eight years, prior to which she worked as a prosecutor for New York State. On the morning of her deposition, however, while en route to her deposition, Ms. Corrado was approached on the street by a supervisor at the DDC, who threatened and intimidated her with respect to her upcoming deposition testimony. Although terribly shaken, Ms. Corrado nonetheless sat for her deposition and testified truthfully. Following her deposition, however, Ms. Corrado has been subjected to further harassment and intimidation at the hands of the DDC. She has been forced to take a leave of absence as a result.
On June 8, 2009, I testified at a hearing convened by John L. Sampson, New York State Senator and Chairman of the New York State Standing Committee On The Judiciary. (A copy of my affidavit submitted to the Committee is attached hereto as Exhibit B.) At that hearing, several witnesses testified as to their shocking experiences with the grievance and judiciary committees in New York State. Shockingly, within days of my testimony, in my lawsuit, my sealed medical and psychiatric records were filed and posted publicly on the court’s Internet filing system by counsel for the defendants – i.e., the New York State Attorney General’s Office. I regard those actions as horrifically unethical and malicious, and taken in deliberate retaliation for my testifying at the Senate hearing.
The detailed testimony presented by innumerable witnesses at the June 8th Senate hearing reveals the manifold reports of corruption and abuse by the State’s Disciplinary Committees. (A copy of the transcript of this hearing is attached hereto as Exhibit C.) Charges included concealment of evidence, obstruction of justice, extortionate sexual threats by attorneys, pilfering of estates by attorneys, abuse of power, fraud, conspiracy and repeated violations of state and federal constitutional rights.
In light of the foregoing, it is plain that the enduring practice of allowing attorneys in this state to police themselves is fundamentally flawed. With the numerous reports of abuse by both attorneys and state officials, the corruption in the court system has reached a critical stage. Accordingly, I respectfully request that you authorize the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate the epidemic of honest services fraud in the New York state court system, and the appointment of a Federal Monitor, to oversee the lawful operation of the same.
Thank you for your time and attention. I look forward to your response.
Very truly yours,
Christine C. Anderson
cc w/o enc:
The Hon. David A. Paterson
New York State Governor
The Hon. Boyd M. Johnson III
Deputy United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
Public Corruption Unit
United States Department of Justice
The Hon. Loretta A. Preska
Chief U.S. District Judge
United States Courthouse
Southern District of New York
The Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo
New York State Attorney General
Office of the Attorney General of New York State
The Hon. Luis A. Gonzalez
Presiding Justice, New York State Appellate Division,1st Department
The Hon. Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
Assistant Director in Charge, New York Division
Part 2 Oh where oh where can my CuomoTarp be, oh where...
Ok back to Anderson and how the Coup scares off Whistleblowers, leaving them nowhere to turn and not just Anderson but throughout government as we are now learning whistleblowers are targeted for attack universally throughout our government. That whistleblowers’ are actually being threatened and even assaulted and it should be noted here Dick that Sherri Cohen, a Senior Officer of the Court attacked and assaulted Anderson who is a 60 plus year old female, just like a NATZI camp guard, not an ethics department head.
Dick, let me now read to you and viewers, a riveting letter from Anderson sent on September 13, 2009 that is part of her claims against the Criminal Enterprise Operating our Country, she wrote to,
The Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
The Hon. Preet Bharara
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Hon. William M. Welch II
Chief, Public Integrity Unit
United States Department of Justice
The Hon. John L. Sampson, Chairman
New York State Senate Judiciary Committee
Let me Quote Anderson from her letter regarding a
RE: Request for Federal Investigation Into Allegations of Corruption and Witness Intimidation and Appointment of Federal Monitor
Gentlemen:
My name is Christine C. Anderson. For six and one-half years, I was a Principal Attorney of the New York State [Supreme Court] Appellate Division, First Department’s Departmental Disciplinary Committee (the “DDC”). The DDC is responsible for investigating and disciplining attorneys found guilty of misconduct in representing the public in the Bronx and Manhattan. After discovering and reporting of acts of misconduct and corruption at the DDC, which acts constituted an abuse of power and a fraud upon the public, my employment was summarily terminated in June, 2007.
Prior to my employment with the DDC, I was in private practice for over twenty years. Before that, I worked for the Human Resources Administration of New York City. In other words, I am a thoroughly seasoned attorney, with a broad based knowledge of general practice.
As a result of my wrongful termination in retaliation for my reporting misconduct in violation of my First Amendment rights, I instituted a lawsuit captioned Anderson v. State of New York, et al., 07 Civ. 9599 (S.D.N.Y. 2007). (A copy of my complaint in this action is attached hereto as Exhibit A.) Specifically, I discovered and reported that employees of the DDC had engaged in, inter alia, the “whitewashing” [of] complaints of misconduct leveled against certain “select” attorneys and law firms. This “whitewashing” sometimes involved burying cases or destroying evidence, so that certain complaints were inevitably, unavoidably, dismissed. I witnessed this destruction of evidence myself. Other reported misconduct involves victimizing attorneys lacking privileged positions or connections.
Although the then Chief Counsel of the DDC, Thomas Cahill, stepped down in 2007, evidence clearly establishes that under the leadership of Alan Friedberg, the current Chief Counsel, the same practice of corruption and whitewashing of complaints continues. Such practice robs the public of any hope at justice; it also works to the detriment of the very public the DDC is duty-bound to serve.
oh where oh where can he be...Part 3
During the course of my litigation against the DDC, a former colleague of mine, who still works as a Principal Attorney at the DDC, agreed to testify on my behalf at a deposition. This former colleague, Nicole Corrado, has been employed by the DDC for approximately eight years, prior to which she worked as a prosecutor for New York State. On the morning of her deposition, however, while en route to her deposition, Ms. Corrado was approached on the street by a supervisor at the DDC, who threatened and intimidated her with respect to her upcoming deposition testimony. Although terribly shaken, Ms. Corrado nonetheless sat for her deposition and testified truthfully. Following her deposition, however, Ms. Corrado has been subjected to further harassment and intimidation at the hands of the DDC. She has been forced to take a leave of absence as a result.
On June 8, 2009, I testified at a hearing convened by John L. Sampson, New York State Senator and Chairman of the New York State Standing Committee On The Judiciary. (A copy of my affidavit submitted to the Committee is attached hereto as Exhibit B.) At that hearing, several witnesses testified as to their shocking experiences with the grievance and judiciary committees in New York State. Shockingly, within days of my testimony, in my lawsuit, my sealed medical and psychiatric records were filed and posted publicly on the court’s Internet filing system by counsel for the defendants – i.e., the New York State Attorney General’s Office. I regard those actions as horrifically unethical and malicious, and taken in deliberate retaliation for my testifying at the Senate hearing.
The detailed testimony presented by innumerable witnesses at the June 8th Senate hearing reveals the manifold reports of corruption and abuse by the State’s Disciplinary Committees. (A copy of the transcript of this hearing is attached hereto as Exhibit C.) Charges included concealment of evidence, obstruction of justice, extortionate sexual threats by attorneys, pilfering of estates by attorneys, abuse of power, fraud, conspiracy and repeated violations of state and federal constitutional rights.
In light of the foregoing, it is plain that the enduring practice of allowing attorneys in this state to police themselves is fundamentally flawed. With the numerous reports of abuse by both attorneys and state officials, the corruption in the court system has reached a critical stage. Accordingly, I respectfully request that you authorize the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate the epidemic of honest services fraud in the New York state court system, and the appointment of a Federal Monitor, to oversee the lawful operation of the same.
Thank you for your time and attention. I look forward to your response.
Very truly yours,
Christine C. Anderson
cc w/o enc:
The Hon. David A. Paterson
New York State Governor
The Hon. Boyd M. Johnson III
Deputy United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
Public Corruption Unit
United States Department of Justice
The Hon. Loretta A. Preska
Chief U.S. District Judge
United States Courthouse
Southern District of New York
The Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo
New York State Attorney General
Office of the Attorney General of New York State
The Hon. Luis A. Gonzalez
Presiding Justice, New York State Appellate Division,1st Department
The Hon. Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
Assistant Director in Charge, New York Division
oh where oh where can he be...Part 3
During the course of my litigation against the DDC, a former colleague of mine, who still works as a Principal Attorney at the DDC, agreed to testify on my behalf at a deposition. This former colleague, Nicole Corrado, has been employed by the DDC for approximately eight years, prior to which she worked as a prosecutor for New York State. On the morning of her deposition, however, while en route to her deposition, Ms. Corrado was approached on the street by a supervisor at the DDC, who threatened and intimidated her with respect to her upcoming deposition testimony. Although terribly shaken, Ms. Corrado nonetheless sat for her deposition and testified truthfully. Following her deposition, however, Ms. Corrado has been subjected to further harassment and intimidation at the hands of the DDC. She has been forced to take a leave of absence as a result.
On June 8, 2009, I testified at a hearing convened by John L. Sampson, New York State Senator and Chairman of the New York State Standing Committee On The Judiciary. (A copy of my affidavit submitted to the Committee is attached hereto as Exhibit B.) At that hearing, several witnesses testified as to their shocking experiences with the grievance and judiciary committees in New York State. Shockingly, within days of my testimony, in my lawsuit, my sealed medical and psychiatric records were filed and posted publicly on the court’s Internet filing system by counsel for the defendants – i.e., the New York State Attorney General’s Office. I regard those actions as horrifically unethical and malicious, and taken in deliberate retaliation for my testifying at the Senate hearing.
The detailed testimony presented by innumerable witnesses at the June 8th Senate hearing reveals the manifold reports of corruption and abuse by the State’s Disciplinary Committees. (A copy of the transcript of this hearing is attached hereto as Exhibit C.) Charges included concealment of evidence, obstruction of justice, extortionate sexual threats by attorneys, pilfering of estates by attorneys, abuse of power, fraud, conspiracy and repeated violations of state and federal constitutional rights.
In light of the foregoing, it is plain that the enduring practice of allowing attorneys in this state to police themselves is fundamentally flawed. With the numerous reports of abuse by both attorneys and state officials, the corruption in the court system has reached a critical stage. Accordingly, I respectfully request that you authorize the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate the epidemic of honest services fraud in the New York state court system, and the appointment of a Federal Monitor, to oversee the lawful operation of the same.
Thank you for your time and attention. I look forward to your response.
Very truly yours,
Christine C. Anderson
cc w/o enc:
The Hon. David A. Paterson
New York State Governor
The Hon. Boyd M. Johnson III
Deputy United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
Public Corruption Unit
United States Department of Justice
The Hon. Loretta A. Preska
Chief U.S. District Judge
United States Courthouse
Southern District of New York
The Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo
New York State Attorney General
Office of the Attorney General of New York State
The Hon. Luis A. Gonzalez
Presiding Justice, New York State Appellate Division,1st Department
The Hon. Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
Assistant Director in Charge, New York Division
oh where oh where can he be...Part 3
During the course of my litigation against the DDC, a former colleague of mine, who still works as a Principal Attorney at the DDC, agreed to testify on my behalf at a deposition. This former colleague, Nicole Corrado, has been employed by the DDC for approximately eight years, prior to which she worked as a prosecutor for New York State. On the morning of her deposition, however, while en route to her deposition, Ms. Corrado was approached on the street by a supervisor at the DDC, who threatened and intimidated her with respect to her upcoming deposition testimony. Although terribly shaken, Ms. Corrado nonetheless sat for her deposition and testified truthfully. Following her deposition, however, Ms. Corrado has been subjected to further harassment and intimidation at the hands of the DDC. She has been forced to take a leave of absence as a result.
On June 8, 2009, I testified at a hearing convened by John L. Sampson, New York State Senator and Chairman of the New York State Standing Committee On The Judiciary. (A copy of my affidavit submitted to the Committee is attached hereto as Exhibit B.) At that hearing, several witnesses testified as to their shocking experiences with the grievance and judiciary committees in New York State. Shockingly, within days of my testimony, in my lawsuit, my sealed medical and psychiatric records were filed and posted publicly on the court’s Internet filing system by counsel for the defendants – i.e., the New York State Attorney General’s Office. I regard those actions as horrifically unethical and malicious, and taken in deliberate retaliation for my testifying at the Senate hearing.
The detailed testimony presented by innumerable witnesses at the June 8th Senate hearing reveals the manifold reports of corruption and abuse by the State’s Disciplinary Committees. (A copy of the transcript of this hearing is attached hereto as Exhibit C.) Charges included concealment of evidence, obstruction of justice, extortionate sexual threats by attorneys, pilfering of estates by attorneys, abuse of power, fraud, conspiracy and repeated violations of state and federal constitutional rights.
In light of the foregoing, it is plain that the enduring practice of allowing attorneys in this state to police themselves is fundamentally flawed. With the numerous reports of abuse by both attorneys and state officials, the corruption in the court system has reached a critical stage. Accordingly, I respectfully request that you authorize the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate the epidemic of honest services fraud in the New York state court system, and the appointment of a Federal Monitor, to oversee the lawful operation of the same.
Thank you for your time and attention. I look forward to your response.
Very truly yours,
Christine C. Anderson
cc w/o enc:
The Hon. David A. Paterson
New York State Governor
The Hon. Boyd M. Johnson III
Deputy United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
Public Corruption Unit
United States Department of Justice
The Hon. Loretta A. Preska
Chief U.S. District Judge
United States Courthouse
Southern District of New York
The Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo
New York State Attorney General
Office of the Attorney General of New York State
The Hon. Luis A. Gonzalez
Presiding Justice, New York State Appellate Division,1st Department
The Hon. Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
Assistant Director in Charge, New York Division
I guess Cumo is hanging with the Criminals, defending them with Public Dollars, a key to the NY cesspool.
The Coupsters exposed have had criminal complaints filed against them by me and others and since Anderson has revealed all of this to the highest authorities in the nation I am certain they are investigating or as I mentioned, such failure would now make them criminal accomplices through further Obstruction. I wonder Dick if Cuomo has notified his base of supporters for his gubernatorial candidacy of his offices involvement in the Anderson affairs at this point in his run for Governor. Anderson’s claims have tentacles you can hardly imagine Dick and may prove to be the tip of one of the most insipid crimes ever committed in our nation’s history, involving many Public Officials in the highest offices of Justice and government and in New York may be the largest government corruption case in history…
Other Defendants in my lawsuit include former pimp Elliot Spitzer, Andrew Cuomo, the New York Attorney General’s offices, The Florida Bar, now sitting Florida Supreme Court Judge Jorge Labarga ( who was promoted to the Florida Court after his service to the criminal enterprise in the Bush v. Gore election and his efforts in derailing the Iviewit matters ), the Virginia Supreme Court, the Virginia Bar, thousands of lawyers and companies involved in the theft and infringement of my intellectual properties. Hopefully, all of these State and Federal Defendants have been properly reporting these massive liabilities to state and federal auditors for proper reporting of the liabilities. Reporting the liabilities of the lawsuit and patent infringement claims encumbered to their insurance carriers, bondholders and others with liability for their actions. To date all of them have hidden the liabilities from the states and the public…
The Skull and Bones already had planted deep in government over the years as we have seen and was already well versed in subverting public offices and from this point evil grew like a weed. Proskauer’s contribution to the initiation of the Coup was bringing in their friends from Skulls and a host of dirty Democratic Politicians and Lawyers flooded the government. Keep in mind that Proskauer already Chief Judge of New York Judith Kaye in pocket, Spitzer’s office and Spitzer were represented by Proskauer in HookerGate and ChopperGate and about half of Spitzer’s office went to Proskauer when Spitzer was toppled shamelessly. In fact, the first order of Business for Andrew Cuomo, keep in mind his father put Judith Kaye in power, was to pay on the taxpayers dollar, Pork Sour Smelly Rose’s bill for Spitzer’s defense in those matters. Beyond belief…
To answer your question of where this is going well Dick that is a fascinating question, as with Anderson’s whistleblower revelations, it is apparent that the Courts and the Courts Self Regulating Bar Associations in New York are now suspect in the CRIMINAL allegations of Anderson. From the US Attorney, to the District Attorney, to the New York Attorney General Cuomo, to high ranking New York Supreme Court Officials whom both Anderson and I allege have all been central to the derailing of justice by failing to investigate the corrupt public officials, as they are one in the same the corruption now exposed.
The Conspiracy Theory now peppered with FACTUAL EVIDENCE making it a LEGAL CONSPIRACY, prosecutable under hundreds of laws violated. In fact, in Cuomo’s case his offices instead of investigating the accused public officials, as duty bound to do on behalf of the People, Cuomo instead is representing the Public Officials Anderson blew the Whistle on and thereby conflicting his offices from investigation. In my cases he represents himself as a defendant using his public office public corruption unit on taxpayers dollars, against me the victim, same with Anderson and every other victim related legally to Anderson. Dead Center handling and defending the accused public officials that Cuomo’s public integrity unit is supposed to investigate to protect the People, I mean even in New York this is beyond believable. Not only did Cuomo’s office fail to represent the People and instead represents the accused, conflicting his offices from investigation but Cuomo also failed his public office duty, when conflicted under Public Officer Rule 172B of the New York Code, to call in a non-conflicted third party investigator to replace his offices duties to investigate. This conflict of interest and the failure to bring in a non conflicted investigator creates an intentional Obstruction of Justice, leaving no one investigating these officials. Whereby the public officials have not been investigated at all up until this point and their defenses against a Whistleblower both professionally and personally being paid for entirely on taxpayer dollars. The taxpayers fleeced of public office monies to protect them, in fact preying upon them.
Mind you Dick that Cuomo’s Office is representing 39 state defendants both personally and privately in my lawsuit. Again, conflicting his office from their duty to investigate accused Public Officials through the New York AG Public Integrity Unit, all of this on NEW YORK TAX PAYERS DIME. Failure to investigate even after being notified that Five Judges of the Court unanimously ruled to investigate the same individuals, that Federal authorities and international authorities have ongoing investigations, yet Cuomo stands with the accused. His Poker face all too obvious, he is caught red handed and Christine Anderson has appealed the court to rehear her entire case due to Andrew Cuomo and the New York Attorney General’s glaring violations of public office representing against her and blocking investigations. and again Cuomo has failed to call in a non-conflicted third party investigator to replace his offices. I guess Cuomo is to busy representing the guilty instead of the People of New York. This is not only a conflict of interest Dick, this is FEDERAL OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, and as such criminal complaints have been filed with Federal agencies by both Anderson and myself, against Cuomo and the New York AG office, demanding investigation.
It should be noted here Dick that in my Lawsuit the conflicts are so thick you can cut them with a knife and virtually every lawyer involved in representing the defendants has massive conflicts which make the whole representation illegal under New York and Federal Laws and Rules of the Courts. For example, Proskauer Rose is representing Proskauer Rose, against a former client Iviewit and myself, while a material witness to the matters, while a defendant in the lawsuit and Dick well that is so many conflicts, violations of Attorney Conduct Codes, Judicial Cannons as to make the Lawsuit full of Felony Obstruction and other Felonious cover up crimes that one must presume that not only are the attorneys in the lawsuit suspect but the judges who have allowed these conflicts and aided and abetted in the cover up are also willing and complicit accomplice making it a Circus Court instead.
Eliot I. Bernstein
Inventor
To the ABOVE COMMENTS, BY ELLIOT BERNSTEIN...Did you ever here the expression..."LESS IS MORE"...DO YOU GET THE HINT!!!!!!!!
CORRECTION:
To the ABOVE COMMENTS, BY ELLIOT BERNSTEIN...Did you ever hear the expression..."LESS IS MORE"...DO YOU GET THE HINT!!!!!!!!
Hey Elliot..it says, "leave a comment".....not a book!!!!
To those of limited intelligence who cannot read but sound small bytes, more is often better. How about take your hint and learn to skip past that which is too much for limited brain capacity. I do not comment on your limited brain capacity do not comment on my more broad based. So, a hint, if you want to read less, there is a scroll bar on the side. bme
hey here is the problem if Eliot didn't speak out
they will do it again and again and again
wait for God, huh, they just keep doing this stuff
so the Earth will get thicker with Evil, Greed and Corruption and our once great nation becomes poverty stricken!
In God We Trust
Turn the cheats in, show the Christian people there is hope and together we can change our Gov't for the better!
In God We Trust, written on every dollar bill
and it seems Evil is trying to destroy every bill!!!!!
Eliot you must have not seen the news, the Public Ingrety Unit is busy trying to prosecute the Governor, for tickets to a game!!!
that is way more important than the Greed Corruption Felonies in our Courts!
Rightgeous one above,
Thanks, as I try to take the time to inform readers of the jiggy. Since it is one of the most complex crimes and coup on our government it takes time to break it down, time I do not have but certainly one who cannot digest the whole and break it for themselves misses the whole for a byte.
"I got blisters on my fingers" from typing it and then to have to break it down because the blog master has limited blog enterioes to size of brain capacity of chimp, 4,096 characters. So further infuriating is this blog that one almost wishes not to participate in small sentences when the matters are of life and death and honor duty and country. So thanks for the prayers to g-d in every form taken on my behalf in explaining to those with only 4,096 characters of thought at once why it is important to get it all out there and here ~ rb@u my prayers -- eliot
Bernstein's message can be made in 1 simple paragraph, but it takes him eons to get his message across and by this time he leaves you wondering what his message was all along.
"Bernstein's message can be made in 1 simple paragraph, but it takes him eons to get his message across and by this time he leaves you wondering what his message was all along."
Obviously my critic above cannot leave a constructive comment about the corruption, perhaps one of those moles who works to break apart the efforts of others trying to kill corruption in NY, how big is the briefcase? In one paragraph I can describe the chicken critic, Anonymous, afraid to confront the blog or those that have worked hard to get the blog where its at, a stone thrower of limited brain capacity.
TO ELIOT: just keep it simple...we get the point!! less is MORE..too much writing, BORES THE PEOPLE...1 OR 2 PARAGRAPHS IS MORE THAN ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH, BTW, THAT'S SMALL PARAGRAPHS, NOT 5,000 WORD PARAGRAPHS.......
i am in the hudson valley region and thinking that there is way way more important issues at hand then crying over how many words someone puts in their comments.
i agree, if you don't like reading long statements or comments or whatever you may call them, just use the scroll bar. sort of liking using the channel changer when something comes on tv that you don't like or the radio.
Bernstein's Problem: He is incapable of writing 1 or 2 coherent paragraphs, hence the garbage witnessed above that is a serious detriment to this blog. Administrator, block this embarrassment already.
I SUPPORT ELLIOTS FACT PACT ENTRIES AND MORAL DECLARATIONS
THEY ARE NOT FOR THE WEAK
Sure, above commenter. Maybe you and Bernstein ought to find a moral declaration blogspot while the rest of us expose corrupt courts, public officers, and lawyers.
TO SUGGEST THAT E.B. HAS NOT EXPOSED....CORRUPT COURTS..PUBLIC OFFICERS..AND LAWYERS IS QUITE ABSURD
HE HAS EARNED HIS EDITORIALIZING AND THEN SOME
ITS THE INTERNETS DAMMIT
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