It appears that New York and Illinois share corrupt Attorney Disciplinary Systems.

Subject: SPREAD THE WORD! Opportunity to Testify about NY's Corrupt Attorney Disciplinary System
To: lanzisera@msn.com

  There is a direct link on the  web page created on CJA’s website, www.judgewatch.org, for the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline.  The webpage is accessible via the top panel “Latest News”.  or use this directly  http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/searching-nys/judiciary/statewide-committee-attorney-discipline.htm.   The webpage has a link listing people, like yourself, who have requested to testify and/or who will be making a written presentation.

Our goal is to INUNDATE THE COMMISSION with EVIDENCE – and do so, publicly. 

Action Alert for Victims 
from Center for Judicial Accountability Director Elena Sassower

 

SPREAD THE WORD!   
Opportunity to Testify about New York's Corrupt Attorney Disciplinary System

Have you ever filed a complaint about a lawyer to New York’s grievance committees – only to have it tossed out on a pretense that it did not allege misconduct or some other excuse?   Are you a lawyer who has been the subject of invidious, selective prosecution by the court-controlled grievance committees and the court, denying you any semblance of due process?

If so, you have an opportunity to come forward and furnish your evidence to the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline, set up by New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, for the announced purpose of undertaking “a top-to-bottom review” of New York’s attorney discipline system.  Indeed, you have the opportunity to testify at public hearings that the Commission will be holding:  on July 28(in Albany); on August 4 (in Buffalo); and on August 11 (in Manhattan) – and, by so doing, make it harder for the Commission to engage in the usual cover-up.  

I have created a webpage for the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline on the Center for Judicial Accountability’s website, www.judgewatch.org, from which you can read my own June 29^th e-mail to the Commission, requesting to testify – and furnishing pertinent background to the Commission’s hearings and website.  It is accessible via the top panel “Latest News”.  Here it is, directly: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/searching-nys/judiciary/statewide-committee-attorney-discipline.htm.

I invite you to call me so that I can guide you as to how to be most effective in your presentations to the Commission, whether at the hearings or by written submissions.  It is most important to furnish documentary evidence.  If you filed  complaints with the grievance committees, do you have copies – and the responding correspondence?  If you are a prosecuted attorney, can you furnish the record of the proceedings?   Did you bring any lawsuits challenging what was done – or not done – by the grievance committees and/or the courts?  Can you supply a copy of the record?

To help keep the Commission honest,  I urge you to provide the Center for Judicial Accountability with copies of your written communications to the Commission so that we can post them on our website, for examination by the press, scholars, and others able to “blow the whistle” on a Commission cover-up.   Such webpage will be similar to what we created, back in 2009, for witnesses who testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s June 8, 2009 and September 24, 2009 hearings on the Commission on Judicial Conduct and attorney disciplinary system.  Here’s the link to that webpage:http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-discipline/nys/nys-sjc-hearing.htm.  We also created webpages for witnesses testifying on July 20, 2011 before the Commission on Judicial Compensation: http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/judicial-compensation/7-20-11-commission-hearing.htm  and for witnesses testifying in 2013 before the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption:http://www.judgewatch.org/web-pages/searching-nys/commission-to-investigate-public-corruption/people-evidence/menu-people-evidence.htm. 

In the event you are unfamiliar with CJA’s unrelenting advocacy over these many years, building on what took place at the 2009 Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, at the 2011 hearing of the Commission on Judicial Compensation, and at the 2013 hearings of the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, it has culminated in three powerful lawsuits.  These are accessible from our homepage, www.judgewatch.org, via the prominent  hyperlink “What's Taking You So Long, Preet?: CJA's Three Litigations whose Records are Perfect ‘Paper Trails’ for Indicting New York's Highest Public Officers for Corruption”. 

As always, SPREAD THE WORD – and forward this E-Mail Alert to other victims and activists.

I look forward to hearing from you soon. 

Best,

Elena Sassower, Director
Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. (CJA)

914-421-1200

elena@judgewatch.org