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CJA's September 8, 2018 E-Mail to FAQ-NYC Political Center for Judicial Accountability, lnc. (CJA) From: Center for Judicial Accou ntability, lnc. (CJA) < [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2018 8:24 AM To: [email protected]';'[email protected]';'[email protected]' Cc: '[email protected]' ;'[email protected]';'[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]';'info@tishjames201 8.com'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; '[email protected]'; 'sussmanl @frontiernet.net'; '[email protected]' Subject The unreported backstory to the AG race -- & its explosive consequences to the races for governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller & all NY Senate & Assembly seats Attachments: 5-4- 1 8-message-jumaane-williams.pdf; 8- 1 7- 1 8-to-persico-maloney.pdf 5- 1 8- 1 8-ltr-to- interim-ag-candidates.pdf TO: FAQ-I|YC political podcasters Harrv Siesel, Christina Greer - and Azi Pavbarah RE: Your August 3Ch FAQ-NYC politicol podcost on the AG Hopefuls: https://faq.nvc/2018/08/i0/episode-S-aq- hopefuls-tolk-re-ond-dit/ - & your upcoming September 73n participotion in the WNYC Brion Lehrer show wherein you will "discuss the upcoming New York elections, offer political onalysis, and heor from listeners' obout their choices for the November ballot": http: ,.vw.theareenespoce.orq wnts \eoreenespoce '1L8/sep ?/brian-lehrer-showlive/. together with "Qfr_Iopj_c/O_n_?_sljgcs co-hosts: NY1 political reporter Grace Rauh, NY1 statehouse reporter Zack Fink, and NY1 Noticias host Juan Manuel Benitez I am the director and co-founder of the non-partisan, non-profit citlzens' organization, Center for Judicial Accountability, lnc. (OA), and have 30 years of ground-breaking primary-source, documentary EVIDENCE to assist yourfournalism and scholarship about government and the political scene - NONE of it lnvestigated or reported by New York's 'non-fake" news media, NOR examined and commented upon by the academics upon which it relies. Offs website, from which you can verify this, is www.iudsewatch.org The below September 5s e-mail to Brian Lehrer - also sent to all four Democratic AG candidates - details, WITH EVIDENCE, how disserved and deceived the People of New York are by all four posturing, lying AG candidates - and its consequences not only on the AG race, but on the races for governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller, & all NY Senate & Assembly seats - and on achieving non-partisan, accountable, and constitutional governance. I gave a hard copy, in-hond, to both Mr. Lehrer and Mr. Bharara in the great hall of the Cooper Union, following the conclusion of the September 6th debate. Shortly thereafter, I ran into Mark Green, a guest on your August 30d'AG podcast, outside the Cooper Union and, after briefly chatting with him about the dangerous politicization of the AG's core constitutional function, gave him, in-hond, the above-attached May 18, 2018 letter and its accompanying May 16, 2018 NOT|CE/complaint to AG Barbara Undenrvood. By the way, Republican AG Candidate Keith Wofford, who was at the September 6s debate, and Green Party AG Candidate Michael Sussman also have the May 18, 2018 letter and its enclosed May 16, 2018 N0TICE/complaint - as well as the perfected appeal in the monumental citizen-taxpayer action challenging the constitutionality and lawfulness of the state budget and the commission-based judicial (and district attorney) pay raises: http://www. iudsewatch.orglweb-pages/sea rchins-nvs/budset/citizen-taxpaver-action/2 nd/appeal/7-4-18-appella nts- brief.htm - the significance of which, in assessing the fitness of the AG candidates, in establishing the AG's abandonment of his core constitutional function, and in upending the races for governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller, attorney general, and all legislative seats, is detailed by the below e-mail chain. To all above, I am furnishing this e-mail - excepting Mr. Bharara, whose e-mail I don't have. Kindly foruard to him. I am additionally cc'ing the "OffTopic/On Politics" Spectrum News-NYl reporters who will also be participating in the September 13th WNYC Brian Lehrer show - and who I first made knowledgeable of the pertinent facts by my below August 26th e-mail, entitled "Challenging the Brazen Lies & the Distortion of the AG's Constitutional Function by the 4 Demoratic AG Candidates" precisely because - as therein identified - they had appeared on the August 15rt Brian Lehrer show, discussing the AG race. Also, cc'd herein, their Spectrum News colleagues who co-hosted the August 28s Democratic AG candidates debate - Errol Louis, Esq. and Liz Benjamin - as well as the moderator of the August 22nd Democratic AG candidates debate, Gotham Gazette Executive Editor Ben Max. It is my hope that you - and the indicated recipients - will LEAD in initiating honest civic debate, transcending political party - tethered to verifiable fads and controlling law. Without it, good-government has not a chance. Thank you. Elena Sassower, Director Center for Judicial Accountability, lnc. (CJA) www.iudgewatch.orE 9L4-421-L200 From: Center for Judicial Accountability, lnc. (CJA) <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 5,2OL8 3:16 PM To:'[email protected]' <bleh rer@ wnyc.ors>;'[email protected]' <blshow@ wnvc.ors> Cc:'[email protected]'<[email protected]>;'[email protected]'<[email protected]>; '[email protected]' <[email protected]>; 'zteachout@law,fordham.edu' <[email protected]>; '[email protected]' <dtorres[dzephvrfornv.com>; '[email protected]' <[email protected]>;'[email protected]'<[email protected]>; '[email protected]' <[email protected]>; '[email protected]' <[email protected]>; '[email protected]'<[email protected]>;'[email protected]'<[email protected]>; '[email protected] <liz.benia mi n @charter.com> Subject: Tomorrow's Democratic AG Candidates Debate at Cooper Union - "A Point of Disclosure" as to Preet tharara & Questions for the Candidates TO: Brian Lehrer/WNYC Radio Host & Co-Moderator of the September 6. 2018 Debate betureen Democratic Attornev General Candidates at Cooper Union Thank you for your intelligent conversations on important issues of public concern on WNYC Radio - and your inclusion of the public in those conversations. On August 28h e-mail, I sent you an e-mail entitled "Behind-the-scenes of tonight's Democratic AG candidates debate - Challenging the brazen lies & distortion of the AG's constitutional function -- WITH EVIDENCE". lt is even more relevant to tomorrow's debate between the Democratic AG candidates that you are co-moderating with former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara - as not only dld the four candidates continue their lies and distortlons at the August 28th debate - without the slightest challenge from Soectrum News moderators Error Louis and Liz Benjamin - but no less flagrantly in their subsequent appearances, including on your own WNYC radio show, on August 29ft, featuring Candidate James, and on August 311 featuring Candidate Teachout. ln the event you did not previously read my August 28th e-mail to you, it is below - beneath the e-mail I sent yesterday to two journalists who have raised serious questions, based on EVIDENCE, about Mr. Bharara's record as a fearless prosecutor of Wall Street corruption. My e-mail to them requests that they verify and report on Mr. Bharara's record of dishonesty and cover-up as a prosecutor of Albany corruption - and furnishes the summarizing particulars and EVIDENCE, over and beyond what was presented by the included August 28s e-mail. I note that eight years ago, when you last hosted a debate between Democratic candidates for attorney general, you admirably began, as follows: "A point of disclosure. Mr. Schneiderman's father, lnvin Schneiderman, who has been a significant donor to his son's campaign, is a long-time member of the WNYC board of trustees and has been a generous donor to the station over the years. We thought it right to disclose." Will there be anv disclosure at tomorrow's debate of what. bv these e-mails. vou and the four Democratic AG candidates all know about former U.S. Attornev Bharara. but the oublic does not, to wit, his pivotal role in oeroetuatins Albant's corruption and in coverine uo for the rieeed and fraudulent Commission to lnvestisate Public Corruotion? Suffice to say, and germane to tomorrou/s debate, there is NOTHING difficult about ending Albany's corruption. lt includes ensuring that New York's 62 disffict attorneys and the New York state attorney general- and, as a back-up, New YorKs U.S. attorneys - are appropriately investigating and prosecuting the public corruption complaints they receive - rather than, as they do, and as the Commission to lnvestigate Public Corruption concealed, dumping or "sitting on" them. Kindly fonrard this e-mail to Mr. Bharara, so that you and he can discuss the below recited particulars and EVIDENCE, which, as relates to him, begins with the fullv-documented April 15, 2013 corruption complaint I filed with him and which he "sat on" http://www.iudsewatch.orslweb-pages/iudicial-compensation/corruption-complaint-to-us-attornev- bharara2.htm - as did all other investigative, criminal, and ethics authorities to whom I furnished it in support of complaints to them - excepting the Commission to lnvestigate Public Corruption, which dumped my complaint as "outside [its] mandate". This gave rise to the two citizen-taxpayer actions and the motion to intervene in the declaratory judgment action against the Commission to lnvestigate Public Corruption - recited by my May 16, 2018 NOTICE/complaint to now Attorney General Undenrood: http://www.iudsewatch.orglweb-pages/searchins- nvs/budget/citizen-taxpaver-action/complaints-notice/5-16-18-notice-to-underwood.htm - whose massive substantiating EVIDENCE and devastating causes of action underscore the magnitude of what Mr.
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