Esther Yang, is an Indonesian immigrant of Chinese descent college educated in New York (B.S., SUNY, 1989). She is a community activist and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination to represent New York’s 74 Assembly District in 2006.
Esther lost custody of her daughter as the result of a 2002 divorce. She has also lost her life savings and two real properties in decisions rendered by Judge Joan Lobis, Supreme Court, District 1.
According to a Jan. 16, 2006 article in The World Journal, an ethnic language newspaper serving the Chinese community.
“…she did not drink, did not use drugs, had no prior record and had lawful income, but the judge awarded the custody of her six year old daughter to her unemployed white ex-husband and divided their properties equally. Only for three weekends a month could she see her daughter for three days and had to pay child support in the amount of more than $700.
“Esther must prove that she is living within a 30 minute car ride of her daughter’s school. In contrast, the judge allowed her ex-husband to move anywhere within a 100 miles of New York City.
“Esther, as the president of the PTA of her daughter’s school, said she had been living in Manhattan even before the birth of her daughter and now her ex-husband had moved to Staten Island. To meet the requirement of the 30-minute car ride, she has to spend $75 dollars in taxi fare.
“…her ex had applied to the federal government for welfare subsidies on account of his capacity as a veteran with psychiatric problems and put her and her daughter as dependants. These facts were not admitted by her ex-husband in the divorce lawsuit. Even though she informed the judge of this evidence, the judge would not take them seriously.”
Esther was awarded custody briefly after her ex-husband, in violation of court orders, absconded with their daughter to Ulster County. In a subsequent motion, custody was reverted back to the father while the court “noted its extreme displeasure with the father’s recent unauthorized move”.
Esther’s daughter, now 7 years old, tested in the top 8 percentile in ERB testing. Judge Lobis has granted Esther’s ex-husband the right to make all education decisions. Currently their daughter is attending a Title 1 failing school.
Esther has submitted evidence that her daughter is domiciled in a residence that does not have a certificate of occupancy. Judge Lobis is not concerned.
Last year Esther requested she be allowed to celebrate the Chinese New Year with her daughter. Her request was denied. In a fax to Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis, the presiding judge in all these decisions, attorney Adam Edelstein wrote that the proposed schedule “does not include Chinese New Year because my client has informed me that the mother is not Chinese”. Why are her ex-husband and his attorney allowed to dictate what ethnicity she is? Esther has offered DNA testing as proof. The court continues to ignore her.
Esther has been forced into bankruptcy. She can no longer afford legal representation. She will however, never give up the fight.
Judge Lobis has threatened to incarcerate Esther Yang for nonpayment of child support. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 9, 2007 at 9:30 A.M. The hearing will be in Part 20, Courtroom 345, NYS Supreme Court, 60 Centre St., New York. Anyone who would like to bear witness and/or lend moral support is urged to attend.
This is not the first time Judge Lobis has raised a few eyebrows.
In a May 30, 2004 New York Post article regarding the Casale vs. St Clement child custody battle, Brad Hamilton reported,
“In March, an appeals court ruled that the new judge in the case, Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis, reconsider the custody question. But Lobis refused to take up the custody issue, denied the evaluation request and rejected the recommendation for a child guardian, spurring a motion in which the mother slammed Lobis for "abdicating her role as judge."
In a subsequent article (New York Post, Oct. 2, 2005) on the subject of judicial misconduct, Mr. Hamilton writes,
“…the Commission on Judicial Misconduct which says it's so overworked that it can't investigate many of its cases dismissed 73 percent of its 1,546 complaints. Dozens of complaints were dropped against a handful of Manhattan Supreme Court justices now under investigation by the FBI.
“Complaints in 2004 were dismissed against Gerald Garson, the Brooklyn judge charged with fixing divorces, and against Manhattan Supreme Court justices Marylin Diamond, Shirley Kornreich, Judith Gische, Joan Lobis and John Stackhouse. That group is being probed by the FBI for allegedly favoring companies to which they have financial ties.”
Adam Edelstein represents Esther’s ex-husband, on child custody matters. Adam Edelstein is a member of The Edelsteins, Faegenburg, & Brown law firm. They maintain offices in both Brooklyn and Manhattan. In a subsequent posting we will examine political campaign contributions made by the firm and the firm’s individual members.
OUR REASON FOR BEING
2007 could be a significant year in the history of New York State jurisprudence. A Federal District Court has ruled that the process of selecting New York State Supreme Court judges is unconstitutional. However, if history is any guide the New York State Legislature, whose job it will be to propose a constitutional amendment, will kick it around, come to no agreement, wait for a Federal mandate, litigate it to death, and spend the next several election cycles pointing fingers at each other. This is how things don’t get done in New York State.
The selection/election(?) of Supreme Court judges in New York State is laughable. The Daily Gotham hit the nail on the head when an 11/7/06 NYS Supreme Court candidates list submitted by Liza Sabater was prefaced with the comment,
“Here's the last list: The infamous list of "who the hell are these people" running for Supreme Court Justice. Yah. We're supposed to entrust our rights and freedoms to people we have no idea if they've even passed the bar.”
Voters are expected to vote for these candidates on the blind in virtually uncontested races.
Over the last several years the process of selecting judges has been microscoped from within. Panels have been appointed, commissions convened and here we are business as usual. The primary qualification of a good portion of our bad judges is party loyalty.
There are unfortunately many, many New Yorkers whose lives have been utterly destroyed by the “stench on the bench”. Kings County has afforded us a peek inside a cesspool of bribes, kickbacks, fraud, extortion, cronyism, incompetence, civil rights violations, racial discrimination, etc. Does any one think this only happens in Brooklyn?
The only recourse is to go right back to the same judicial system to seek redress which is akin to beating one’s head against a wall.
According to Citizens for Judicial Accountability,
“The ineffective self regulation of the Bench and Bar is self evident from the dismissal of, 97% of the complaints against lawyers, 99% of the complaints against state court judges, 100% of the complaints against federal court judges, that less than 2% of the cases are tried and the practice of rubber stamping without explanation over 65% of the appeals.”
The purpose of this site is to be a clearing-house of information. If you believe you are a victim of the courts anywhere in New York State, tell your story. Be as specific as possible. Name the judge(s) involved, as well as the attorneys and even the law clerk. Here’s your chance. It is impossible for the mainstream media to cover every story about junk justice. But here someone is listening. Here we can all compare notes.
Let’s see if a pattern emerges, how often the same names pop up, are there dots to connect, campaign contributions to scrutinize?
Every New York State legislator will be notified of the existence of this site. Hopefully it will save the taxpayers the expense of another convened commission or appointed panel. Yes, a certain portion of posts can be dismissed as rants from disgruntled litigants, but a good portion will be verifiable.
What happened to all the victims of legal abuse in Brooklyn? Were they granted new trials?
Let’s also hear about the fair, wise, and impartial judges. These are the ones we need to keep on the bench.
From time to time this site will feature stories like the two below. Both involve sitting Supreme Court Judges. The first exposes a bully abusing his power to toss a 93-year-old neighbor out of his home. The second features extremely peculiar judicial decisions based of the evidence (or at the very least that which was allowed into evidence) in a child custody case.
The selection/election(?) of Supreme Court judges in New York State is laughable. The Daily Gotham hit the nail on the head when an 11/7/06 NYS Supreme Court candidates list submitted by Liza Sabater was prefaced with the comment,
Voters are expected to vote for these candidates on the blind in virtually uncontested races.
Over the last several years the process of selecting judges has been microscoped from within. Panels have been appointed, commissions convened and here we are business as usual. The primary qualification of a good portion of our bad judges is party loyalty.
There are unfortunately many, many New Yorkers whose lives have been utterly destroyed by the “stench on the bench”. Kings County has afforded us a peek inside a cesspool of bribes, kickbacks, fraud, extortion, cronyism, incompetence, civil rights violations, racial discrimination, etc. Does any one think this only happens in Brooklyn?
The only recourse is to go right back to the same judicial system to seek redress which is akin to beating one’s head against a wall.
According to Citizens for Judicial Accountability,
The purpose of this site is to be a clearing-house of information. If you believe you are a victim of the courts anywhere in New York State, tell your story. Be as specific as possible. Name the judge(s) involved, as well as the attorneys and even the law clerk. Here’s your chance. It is impossible for the mainstream media to cover every story about junk justice. But here someone is listening. Here we can all compare notes.
Let’s see if a pattern emerges, how often the same names pop up, are there dots to connect, campaign contributions to scrutinize?
Every New York State legislator will be notified of the existence of this site. Hopefully it will save the taxpayers the expense of another convened commission or appointed panel. Yes, a certain portion of posts can be dismissed as rants from disgruntled litigants, but a good portion will be verifiable.
What happened to all the victims of legal abuse in Brooklyn? Were they granted new trials?
Let’s also hear about the fair, wise, and impartial judges. These are the ones we need to keep on the bench.
From time to time this site will feature stories like the two below. Both involve sitting Supreme Court Judges. The first exposes a bully abusing his power to toss a 93-year-old neighbor out of his home. The second features extremely peculiar judicial decisions based of the evidence (or at the very least that which was allowed into evidence) in a child custody case.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
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By Jason Boog
Posted 03-20-2007
The trial for former Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gerald P. Garson opened yesterday, and LexPress had a front-row seat as metaphors, accusations, and denials swirled.
BLOCK THAT METAPHOR!
The Garson trial began with acting Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey G. Berry demonstrating an independent authority in the corruption case — Berry is a famously roving justice who is often called upon for the toughest state assignments — allowing newspapers to photograph the defense attorneys and prosecutors during opening arguments. When the defense moved to stop him, Berry deftly reminded the court of his handling of an infamous ax-murder conviction last year. “In that case," he said with a quiet force, "all my [photography] rulings were not challenged and were not reversed."
Armed with a slate of videotape and wiretap evidence from the judge's office, the prosecution relied more on visual proof than elaborate arguments to suggest that Garson is guilty of third degree bribery and six counts of receiving reward for official misconduct. “What you will see in that robing room will shock you,” said Joseph P. Alexis, the Assistant District Attorney who delivered opening remarks. “[Siminovsky] dropped ten $100 bills on his desk. You can watch him as he handles the money. You would expect when Mr. Siminovsky gives him the cash, when he gives him the cigars, you would expect Mr. Garson to say, ‘No! This is illicit!’ ”
In his passionate opening argument, Michael S. Washor bashed the prosecution’s case as an “unequivocal, absolute lie.” He then juggled a flurry of metaphors, comparing the case against Garson to a baited fishhook, a movie script, a trap, and a television show. He spent time attacking the credibility ofSiminovsky, the lawyer who had spent $10,000 on meals and drinks for the judge but then helped prosecutors build a case against Garson. “I tell you with no uncertainty whatsoever, after they made a deal with the snakes of our society . . . [the DA] went and made a movie,” he said, insisting that the case was rigged from the first moment Siminovsky went into Garson’s office with a wire.
The courtroom was packed with protestors from National Organization for Women of New York state, a group of activists dedicated to keeping judges from abusing their power, especially in family courts and matrimonial parts such as Garson’s former post. “Indicted Judge Gerald Garson got caught, but what about the rest of the judges in New York State?” said Nancy Marin, one of the activists, in her statement.
Teach me to do Your will,
For You are my God;
Your Spirit is good.
Lead me in the land of uprightness.
Psalm 143 : 10
Thank you very much for posting the information about FBI for Westchester County. Do you know if these 2 people (O'Connor and Hadad) are handling the cases for Orange, Dutchess, Putnam Counties as well? Do you know if they had done any real "busting"? Could it be that they are "part of this game"? Just asking, since the information I am going to present to them might be used to hurt me, if they are "connected" to the "old boy network". Thank you!
I found that information in a website posted by a litigant who has been a victim. I do not know about Orange County. I know for a fact that the Orange County Court is involve in the scheme. CPS and even the School District is involved in helping legally kidnapped children. Is hard to know who is who as not every one is bad but it seems that organized crime is ruling the courtrooms.
I was giving this number for the FBI in Orange County Goshen, NY
845-615-1700 and I was told to request help for Corruption matter. I have not call as I am trying to find out more about.
Thanks again. The crime that I need to report also involves Putnam and Dutchess Counties, what about FBI for these?
I would prefer to skip Orange County one, as I see from the post.
I'll try to find out about those other two counties. Yes, Orange County is bad but there are a couple of people from Orange County that if they get together they can really make a big deal and fight together more than one can make a difference. As soon as I find it I'll posted.
White Plains Resident Agency
222 Bloomingdale Road, 3rd Floor
White Plains, New York 10605
845-989-6000 Putnam and Suffolk County
Hudson Valley Resident Agency
27 Matthews Street
Goshen, NY 10924
845-615-1700
Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan and Rockland
I hope this helps
I need the contact # of Tessa Abrams Mason. The ex-wife of another disgraced judge Mason in Brooklyn.
Anyone has it? She's planning to do a rally on May 9th. Anyone in Brooklyn should contact her and help connect the dots for DA Hynes.
DA Hynes is taking all leads.
I had received a letter from Attorney General Cuomo's office. They had recommended that I "hire a private attorney" on my complaint. I had submitted fraudulent billing records for one of New York Upstate Attorneys. The Judge had signed all these bills. The Attorney got the money (he claimed he was working "pro bono", while he billed the County, also billed for his own case, where he was representing himself!!!). Is this a "private matter" to prosecute a crime? Any ideas?
Can you tell us who is this attorney? various people here have cases in upstate New York, you never know we may know him or her.
In order to go after an attorney you would think Cuomo will care, but you will need a malpractice attorney to deal with a case like this. We don't want our officials actually using tax payer's money to their jobs when they can use it for something else such as the selling our children to pedophiles, child abuser and batterers.
Attorney's name is Philip Kenny. He was not my attorney, what the "malpractice claim" would it be? He stole tax payers money with Judge's help, is not that a crime?
Honest people that respect the Law like us know is a crime. I would think the DA in the county, the Bar Association, and The State Attorney would look into this matter. Contact the FBI maybe they would pay attention. I think is time to begin posting the evidence we all have here in the blog.
If you want to know what is going on in the Garson trial, the New York Post reporter, Alex Ginsberg, is there everyday and writes a column each day. He understands the seriousness of what is being addressed, unlike the Court Administration and the disciplinary committees who have continually failed to do what they are supposed to.
There are also reporters from other papers and media who are attending, but not every day. The trial is usually Monday through Thursday. It would be great if anybody can go and sit in on any of the days the trial is in session. There are court-watchers from various groups, but the more people there, the better.
By attending, you may have the opportunity of telling your story to one of the reporters.
Most of the people going to court are from Westchester and Long Island, some from Brooklyn. The Garson side has been trying to bring in more supporters for his side, so it is important for those who want justice for this corrupt official to show up.
The press is not doing more because they don't think there is really any interest by the public. If you really care and want to make any changes, please try to attend as many court dates as you can. There should be another week or so of trial.
Please come.
Something to laugh about
WHO DOES WHAT
A man and his wife were having an argument about who
should brew the coffee each morning.
The wife said, "You should do it because you get up first,
and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.
The husband said, "You are in charge of cooking around here and
you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffe e."
Wife replies, "No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee."
Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me."
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says........ .."HEBREWS"
It is unbelievable,
The militant feminists, who hijacked the family and matrimonial courts in NYS, claim they were victims.
(see the comment of Ms. Barbara Morrissey, President National Organization for Women)
"DOMESTIC VIOLENCE" nowadays is the word used to kick father out of their homes, take them out of the lives of their children, confiscate their money, and finally if they fail to pay alimony, child support and attorney fees, put them in jail.
False accusations in domestic violence has become the major weapon in most divorce and custody fights in the great state of NY.
When reading the story of Ms. Yang, I realize it is like I read my story. Just need to change the names and the skin color comments.
The fact is that Judiciary nowadays is looting the working (in money) spouses. The reason is child support collection.
The more artificial custody decision is, the more money DSS, CPS, Law Guardian and lawyers collect.
This means that in more than 90% of the cases, the victims are men.
Ms. Yang story is typical, but it is typical for the men in this state.
On November 29, 2005 I filed for divorce.
One year later on November 2006 during a court appearance before Judge Robert Neary, acting BYS Spreme Court judge I withdrew my petition for divorce.
During the same appearance my wife's attorney Ms. Neveen Nesheiwat asked Hon. Neary to continue the divorce proceedings based on a "verified Answer and Counterclaim" that Ms. Nesheiwat claimed that she had served to me several months ago.
I have never been served with this "Verified Answer and Counterclaim", until two days before the divorce trial on December 19, when a copy of this document was faxed to my attorney.
Hon. Neary was told multiple times by me and my attorney that I haven't been served with this document; On the day of the trial my attorney confirmed with the County Clerk that an Affidavit of Service has never been filled with the Clerk and notified Judge Neary about this fact.
However Hon. Neary decided to go ahead with my divorce and granted my wife divorce against me based on cruel and unhuman treatement.
My lawyers were totally unprepared and unable to respond the "Counterclaim" since they had less than 2 days to respond and to prepare, even if the CPLR requires 30 days.
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I believe that I was a victim of corruption since my matrimonial and criminal cases were assigned to Judge R. Neary and Judge Rory Bellantony respectively, who topped the contribution list of my wife's attorney Ms. nesheiwat with contribution to their election campaigns of respectively $5000 and $750.
Hon. Bellantony recused himself from my criminal matter (a ridiculous stalking allegation brought by my wife). On Feb 13, 2007 I was complitely acquited of this charge by a jury.
Hon. Neary rejected my motion to recuse. Instead the first rulling that he did on my case was to order me to pay $7500 in attorney fees to s. Nesheiwat.
I believe that Judge Neary will confiscate the remaining portion of my assets (about $100K in liquid pension assets, cash and higly liquid securities) in favor of my wife's attorney and my wife, due only to the facts that he is related to my wife's attorney.
Parts of my story appeared in Jan 11 and Feb 15 issues of "The Westchester Guardian"
I'm still denied acces to my 6 year old son (except $260 visit supervised visitation), even if I was acquited by a jury on all domestic violence charges against me.
In the same time my son is neglected, and left in sole custody of his abusive and neglective mother (she has been arrested for assaulting aniother child on April 16, 2005; she neglected my son on numerous occasions).
My wife keeps comitting monstrous perjury, but the Westchester County DA refuses to investigate the complaint that I filed with the DA office. (among the most outrageous perjuries, committed by my wife in sworn affidavits are that I transferred $180000 offshore to evade taxation, that I dont disclose $477,000 in stock that I own, that I hide a one million dollar financial portfolio, that I raped my wife multiple times, that I tried to kill my wife multiple times, etc.)
I know that due to widespread corruption, I cannot rely on the Westchester judiciary to address the issues my son and are victims of.
Peter
www.badwalker.com
My grand-grandfather, a survivor from the WWI used to tell me "What do you know, have you ever wiped your ass with a stone."
Now after 2 years in Westchester Courts before the demented judge Sam Walker and his corrupt fellows Judge R. Neary and Colangello I know what is to wipe with a stone.
Can you file and win a contested divorce in just 5 days?
The answer is Yes, if your lawyer pays $750 to Hon. Robert Neary.
Peter Petrov
7 4th St 2K
Stamford, CT 06905
Phone 914-309-7463
e-mail: peter@letq.com
Letter to FBI
www.ubiec.com
Dear Mr. O’Connor,
I recently heard that an FBI investigation on the case fixing in the Westchester Matrimonial Courts is underway.
I believe I witnessed and been victim of such practices and am willing to cooperate in the investigation. I would gladly provide you with documents (court orders, transcript, different court documents), proving that the Westchester Matrimonial Courts and the Westchester DA are corrupt.
Here are the most rampant faces of corruption that I experienced (the short description of a specific instance is in italic)
Judicial assignments
Assigning cases to Judges whose judicial election campaigns were generously supported by attorneys from selected law firms with the purpose of extorting money from the adversary litigant.
On July 2006 my case was assigned to the two judges who topped the list of my wife’s attorney’s judicial election campaign contributions with respectively $5000 and $750. At this time, the two judges were not actively handling at the time respectively criminal and matrimonial cases.
Backdating (or probable forgery) of court orders
As it can be seen from the court transcripts, in a couple of court appearances hat took place in March 2006, my matrimonial judge was discussing with the parties whether a forensic evaluation should be conducted by a Westchester County Community Service Agency or by an independent evaluator. All of the sudden the evaluator, connected to the Westchester County served me an order backdated on January 27, 2006, ordering forensic evaluation at their facility
Granting attorney fees w/o any basis
It is a usual practice one of the litigants to be ordered to pay his adversary’s attorney fees, without any fault from his part or any proof that the fees actually incured. The only reason for this is that the attorney belongs to a well-connected law firm.
On two occasions, matrimonial judges ordered me to pay my adversary parties’ attorney fees without requiring or seeing, any proof that the actual fees incurred and without any misconduct from my part.
Toleration of the perjury by Westchester matrimonial judges and the County DA
The Westchester DA virtually refuses to prosecute even the most rampant cases of perjury in matrimonial actions. The matrimonial judges in Westchester automatically dismiss motions to address perjuries.
In sworn and notarized affidavits submitted to the matrimonial court my wife claimed that I transferred $180,000 offshore in order to evade taxation, that I fail to declare a $1,000,000 financial portfolio, that I hide $477,000 in AMD stock, that I raped her and tried to kill her at least tree times.
When I filed a complaint with the Westchester DA, I was initially directed to file a report with my local police department. When I did so, the DA again refused to investigate, stating that they needed referral from my matrimonial judge. Following this advice, I filed a motion addressing the perjuries with my matrimonial judge (a former assistant DA). The judge initially granted the order to show-cause and after that outright dismissed the motion stating that, “the matter was already brought to the attention of the DA”. However, the DA office again refused to investigate; this time stating that the phone conversation they had with my matrimonial judge did not involve any referral of the matter to them.
I wonder how a tax evader, rapist and killer like me is not at least investigated. Note that in the same time the same DA brought a Christmas shopping charge against me (see bellow Denying the right of speedy trial)
Bogus claims in domestic violence fabricated with the help of well-connected lawyers tolerated by well-greased matrimonial judges
The divorces in Westchester County and probably nationwide are often accompanied by bogus claims in domestic violence, made with the sole purpose to gain advantage in the divorce litigation, especially in determining the child custody and the party in default. (There is no no-fault divorce in the state of New York).
Usually the party who is determined faulty in the divorce is ordered to pay the often-exorbitant fees of the adversary party attorney.
Selective prosecution by Westchester DA
See above Toleration of the perjury…, see bellow Denying the right of speedy trial
Denying the right of speedy trial
Offer divorce litigants, whose divorce is accompanied by criminal allegations, face rampant violations of the NY Criminal Procedure, rule defined in article 30.20.2 stating that the trial of a criminal action must be given preference over civil cases
I believe this is done with the sole purpose the pending criminal case to negatively influence the outcome of the civil procedure. The cited violation benefits the attorneys from influential law firm – the adversary party is found in fault and as such ordered to pay attorney fees to the well connected attorney.
Eight days after I filed for divorce, my wife complained to the White Plains Police that I violated an order of protection by stalking her (at the time we had mutual protective orders). She spotted me on two occasions (two consecutive Sundays, respectively 3 and 2 weeks before Christmas of 2005) in the White Plains City Center and Galleria Mall.
I was arrested and a criminal procedure started against me. Both matrimonial and criminal matters were consolidated before the same judge in an IDV Court. I requested a jury trial on the criminal matter at the beginning of February - approximately 2 month before it became clear that there will be a trial in the divorce proceedings too. In the meantime, a well-connected “pro-bono” matrimonial attorney was assigned to my allegedly poor wife. (At the time, I disposed with an attractive amount of cash and liquid assets; the domestic violence community whose services my wife was using and the presiding and administrative judges, were well aware of this fact).
Even if my criminal matter was much less complicated and the trial could have been set within days, the presiding judge kept adjourning it, while on July 2006 he issued a trial readiness order for the divorce matter. My multiple requests the criminal matter to be tried before the divorce were completely ignored. My matrimonial trial started on December 18, 2006 and still there is no scheduled date for the criminal trial.
I believe this was done with the sole purpose I to be set as the default party in the divorce and I to be ordered to pay my wife’s hefty attorney fees.
Shelling taxpayer’s and litigant’s money to different programs
Directing innocent divorce litigants accused in bogus criminal and family court offences to attend different costly programs at significant taxpayer’s and their own expense with the main purpose of financially benefiting the staff of those programs and increasing the power of county executives.
Without ever admitting any guilt on January 2006, I was ordered to attend a program called “Domestic Violence for Men”. The non-appealble referral document was crafted as a condition for my $5000 bail (later raised to $10000). My multiple requests to cancel this referral were denied. The lecturers in this program claim they teach feminist agenda; besides the ridiculous statements that all men are batterers, they undermine the laws of the United States by teaching that the US Constitution (as a document created by rich white men) was a tool to maintain the oppression on women and minorities …(see the paragraph bellow)
When I stopped attending this program on my own, I was initially jailed and after my relative of mine posted an increased bail I was told that I won’t get trial until after I comply. Putting conditions on a constitutional right to trial is a violation of the Sixth Amendment.
Here is a list of persons and agencies that I had contacts with and are involved in the above corruption schemes in Westchester County
• DA office: Edward Livingston, ADA, Ken Citarella, ADA
• Judiciary: Hon Francis Nicolai, administrative Judge, Hon. Sam Walker (presiding over my divorce and stalking case between January and July 2006), Hon. Robert Neary (presiding over my divorce case since August 2006), Hon. Colangello (presiding over my criminal case since August 2006)
• Lawyers and agencies: Neveen Nesheiwat lawyer for my wife since March 2006; My Sister’s Place – a local agency running a couple of “battered” woman shelters in Westchester, providing legal services for the alleged victims and coaching matrimonial and family court judges in Westchester to its feminist agenda
• Westchester Jewish Community Services/Forensic Evaluation Program – a preferred provider of forensic evaluations for Westchester Courts (a litigant, refusing to go there for an evaluation could suffer an ex-parte diagnosis containing qualifications as “paranoid”, “mentally disturbed”, etc.)
• White Plains YWCA/Supervised Visitations Program – this program is headed by a former director of a “battered’ women shelter with close ties to My Sister’s Place (which provides lawyers to the allegedly “battered” women). The reports issued by this agency are carefully crafted and facts from the visit carefully selected to impeach the parenting abilities of the usually male “visitor”.
• Westchester County “Domestic Violence Program for Men” – often males who have not admitted any guilt and w/o any due process are sent to this program as a “condition of bail” on their own and taxpayer’s expense. The program teaches Feminist and Marxist agenda – that all men are sexists and batterers, that the US Constitution just serves the sexist and batterer society since it was created by men, that the presumption of innocence and the right of due process and trial are not applicable to the domestic relations courts, that the current educational system in the US was unfair and should be replaced by a socialist one, etc.
Here is my story
I'm US and Bulgarian citizen.
I live in Westchester County, NY and I and my 5-year old son are victims of the NY state judicial system and particularly of practices such as extortion and "judicial sanctioned child kidnaps".
For more than one year, I am denied regular parenting time with my 5-year old son and directed to pay alimony and child support ($2000 a month) to my son's abusive mother (she was arrested before my divorce started for pinching a 7-year old child). My son was stopped by his mother from the two schools he attended before I filed for divorce.
I am denied due process; No evidential hearing ever took place during this one year.
The only reason my son being taken away from me is the false and scandalous allegations in domestic violence, rape, tax evasion, etc. brought by my wife.
I currently work for Morgan Stanley, I have Masters Degree in Engineering and I am a former Managing Director of a Franco-Bulgarian joint venture (30 person strong).
Some of the allegations brought by my wife are easily proven to be false, for example that I own one million dollar financial portfolio, that I transferred $180 000 to my native Bulgaria in order to evade taxes, etc.
The accusations in assassination attempt brought by my wife after I filed for divorce are just ridiculous. For example: I was arrested in October 2005 because my wife called the police and reported that I hit her and told her “I want you to die”, 45 days later she ratcheted up my alleged words in a White Plains, NY police report to “I’ll kill you”, and finally in a sworn affidavit written 5 month later and submitted to the Court she claimed referring to the same incident that I actually tried to kill her by throwing her out of our fast moving car while driving on I-95.
I did not get regular visitations with my son after the criminal charge against me was dropped due to insufficient evidences,
I took a polygraph test on the matter, but unfortunately, Ho. Neary, one of the top two judges, sponsored by my wife’s attorney refuses to admit the results of the test as evidence.
There is another still pending ridiculous criminal charge against me in stalking my wife. In fact she had just spotted me in shopping malls 2 and 3 weeks before Christmas (I didn't even realize she was there). During this time we had mutual orders of protection.
Am I prohibited from shopping just because my wife went to the Family Court and was granted a protection order?
Everyone knows that these orders are dolled like candies (some times ex-parte) by Family Court judges.
During the last year, my life turned into nightmare:
-I was allowed to see my son for 1:30 hours per week (but not every week) in a prison like settings, only after I was thoroughly searched and in the presence of a supervisor.
-The Westchester County District Attorney refuses to address the perjuries committed by my wife, therefore tolerating her false allegations and applying the practice of selective prosecution (I was arrested for shopping, but the DA refused to prosecute her proven perjuries, committed in sworn affidavits, submitted to the court; when I have shown to the police proofs that my wife keeps giving me hang-up calls, I was simply advised to change my number)
-The two judges who topped the contribution list of my wife’s attorney were assigned to my case. I recently managed to remove a criminal judge (Hon. Bellantoni) from my case because he received almost $5,000 for his 2006 election campaign from my wife's attorney. I believe Hon. Belantony’s voluntary recusal happened only because he was in the midst of his judicial election campaign. The other judge (Hon. Neary), who received $750 refused to recuse and instead the first order he issued after taking over my matrimonial case was to award my wife’s attorney $7500 as attorney fees.
I believe I am persecuted in such a way partially because I had a decent amount of liquid assets - about $140,000 in cash and liquid securities and no debt against it.
Therefore, I am a desirable prey for the divorce industry in Westchester County.
Currently I am prohibited from using my money to fund my defense, while I am ordered to pay significant amounts of money to my wife's attorney as attorney fees.
In addition to her paid attorney, my wife enjoys two free attorneys - one family court and Immigration one (all paid by the taxpayer).
I am greatly concerned about the custody of my wonderful son.
-For 9 months he was stopped from the two schools he used to attend, only recently he started going to the obligatory pre-school
-The sole custody of my son was awarded to his abusive mother who
-was arrested 2 years ago for pinching a 7-year old boy;
-two years ago when I came back from work I found my son, who was in the care of my wife, with one inch open wound on his head; my wife didn't seek medical attention for 5 hours;
-refuses to work, fearing that if she starts work they will stop my $900 a month spousal support.
My wife has an obvious motivation for her false allegation – I filed for divorce and she needs to represent herself as a battered spouse to obtain a US Green card. Another obvious motive of her actions is money (in the form of litigation assets, child and spousal support (she actually receives $2000 a month)).
During my ordeal, I met with many men who are victims of the incredibly biased judicial and domestic violence machine in Westchester County. I believe my case is just one of the worst examples of persecution against men in the State of New York.
I am desperate.
I requested a jury trial on the ridiculous “shopping” charge. Some of the attorneys that I consulted told me that the Westchester judiciary and the DA would not allow a jury trial to take place.
This advise is consistent with my experience – the DA keeps giving me better and better offers in order to avoid trial (initially they offered me to replace the Misdemeanor A charge with Misdemeanor B, on December 6, 2006 they offered me to drop the prosecution altogether with any requirements to attend any “batterer” program). Since I keep refusing, the corrupt presiding judges who clearly side with the prosecution keep adjourning the jury trial. This is going on for one year.
I believe that even if I go to trial and get acquitted I’ll continue to be denied access to my son simply because I am man and keeping him hostage will be a source of income and employment for many government and county’s agencies. It would be a great source of income for my wife during the next 15 years if she gets full custody.
Best Regards,
Peter Petrov,
December 28, 2006
White Plains, NY
This is not about gender this is about abuse. The only victims here are the children. Justice in New York State has a price. If you pay the price you may as well write your own custody order because it will be valid and nobody will question the order you paid for it. It is time to fight back and make those responsible pay for thier crimes. Only working together we can win. All the organization working together for the same goal OUR CHILDREN'S SAFETY, OUR RIGHT TO PARENT OUER CHILDREN. There good mothers and there are good fathers. The bad parents are the ones that take the children away from one parent without a reason hurting only the children. At the end God is watching and he takes care of the vengance and will give us Justice.
Yes, the system is gender biased.
In 93% of divorces in NY the [full physical] custody goes to mothers.
In about 50% of the cases when the father loses the custody fight, he is allowed to see his children only supervised (the fee ranges from 50 to $500 per 3 hour weekly visit).
This is a big industry since an army of social workers, law guardians, litigation lawyers, forensic psychologysts/psychiatrists and child support collection oficers are involved.
Imagine - the federal Child Support Collection Agency has 60 thousand officers nationwide and an annual budget of $5 bln (data is from 1999).
Sometimes the father absorbs the cost, but mostly this is the taxpayer burden.
I agree that the system is gender biased mostly not because of hate, but because of money.
In most of the cases the judges and lawyers take the kids away from one parent in order to loot him. This is the same as the judge accepts an indirect bribe - the money go for lawyers, evaluators, social workers, which in turns help the judge to get reelected or re-appointed.
Generally the fathers are victims of this scheme since usually they have more money.
Less often the judges directly take bribes (then the mothers are the vicims since they generally make less money than their husbands).
Since the women advocates and feminist groups are very vocal, and the industry is hurt less by the scrutiny on this relatively small portion of judicially sponsored child kidnaps, these cases very often attract the public attention.
I will have to comment the majority of the cases where children go to the father, are children who have been sexually molested by the father, father is a batterer who does not want to pay child support and wants to punish the mother for leaving him,
How dare she leaves me, the words of a batterer.
A drug addict can have custody of a child but a good mother can't.
The Father's Right Group have a lot to do with the abuse in the courtroom with pay off's, this is the testimony of former members looking for support and became digusted with the "real agenda" of this group.
The junk science of PAS who is not even recognized as a medical term nor a syndrome was created by a man who commited suicide Richard Garner who believed in pedophilia, incest and child abuse.
This is the real problem in our courtrooms Federal Funding money been used to buy children for pedophiles, child abusers and batterers.
At the end our children are been use and abuse. So let continue pointing the finger and our children will grow up to be the next generation of abusers and victims on drug, medication and crazy as a monkey on a tree.
Home > News > Article Social services stretched thin, reports shows
By Chris McKenna
Times Herald-Record
April 10, 2007
Goshen — Orange County will request a dozen more social service workers in response to a report charging that too few people statewide are handling matters as urgent as child abuse and neglect investigations.
The report looked at child welfare workloads in New York City and 10 upstate counties — including Orange — and concluded that staffers and volunteers are stretched too thin, allowing only 35 to 90 minutes of face-to-face contact per month with each child or family they're assigned.
Since the findings were distributed, New York's counties have been left to calculate how many additional workers they need to meet recommended staffing levels in three areas: child protective services, foster care and preventive care.
In Orange County, Social Services Commissioner David Jolly told county lawmakers last month that he will soon formally request 12 more workers. The county fielded more than 2,800 abuse and neglect reports in 2005 and has 38 workers in that division.
Ulster County, meanwhile, would have to double its 20-member child protective services staff — the unit that handles abuse and neglect cases — to comply with the recommendations. But because of financial constraints, its social services department might request only two more investigators in the 2008 budget.
"We have to address it slowly," said Barbara Sorkin, Ulster's deputy commissioner of social services.
Sullivan County, meanwhile, would need four more child protective workers for its 1,000 cases. It has already asked for another senior case worker and will seek three more case workers next year, officials said.
State lawmakers commissioned the workload study last spring after 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown of New York City and several other children died in abusive households while supposedly under government supervision.
Among the conclusions they got back: Caseworkers investigating suspected child abuse or neglect should have no more than 12 active cases per month, but had 20 in New York City and 27 in the upstate counties.
Workers and volunteers assigned to foster care or preventive care — intended to head off additional foster placements — were said to be overburdened by similar amounts.
The 168-page report found that workers spend almost 31 percent of their time entering case information into a computer — nearly twice as much time as they devote to critical personal meetings with the clients themselves.
"The importance of face-to-face contact with children and their families cannot be overstated," the authors wrote.
Jolly attributes the inordinate amount of time spent on record-keeping to an unwieldy state computer database that replaced paper records a decade ago.
Greg Feicht, commissioner of family services in Sullivan County, adds: "The staff worries about falling behind on reports and documentation. There's additional stress on workers to get the reports done on time, and there's the concern about not having enough time to be out in the field."
Rapid turnover among child welfare workers was another problem highlighted in the report. The agencies studied were said to have as much as 28 percent of their positions either vacant or filled by trainees with reduced caseloads.
Staff members Paul Brooks and Barry Lewis contributed to this report.
my commnets
The same office CPS in Goshen, New York that did not follow proper procedures and made a false report against me and placed two children with an abuser. They are not in need of more social workers they need to get out those not doing their job
How to make judges accountable?
See comment published in the online edition of the New York Sun
below.
Effort Is Afoot To Resume N.Y. Death Penalty
BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 4, 2007
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/51756
The Queens district attorney, Richard Brown, is single-handedly reviving the prospects of the death penalty in New York.
In a brief recently filed with the state's highest court, Mr. Brown's office urges the Court of Appeals to allow prosecutors across the state to resume seeking death sentences.
The brief calls on the court, which sits in Albany, to limit the scope of a landmark 2004 decision that struck down the state's death penalty on a technical basis. That decision helped to empty out the state's death row of all but one convict, John Taylor, whose execution Mr. Brown still seeks. For death penalty advocates, Taylor's appeal is emerging as a last opportunity to convince the courts to reinstate capital punishment in New York.
The Taylor case highlights the uncertain position capital punishment occupies in New York politics. With the Legislature showing no serious willingness to fix the current death penalty statute in response to the court's earlier decision, and with no state capital cases on the horizon, the death penalty could disappear entirely as a political issue in New York if the court overturns Taylor's death sentence.
Or, as some death penalty advocates suggest, the death penalty dispute is as politically potent as ever, and is simply on hold as advocates and opponents wait to see how the court will rule on Taylor's appeal.
Either way, the case is emerging as a watershed event in the history of the death penalty in this state. For their part, the Queens prosecutors are demanding that the court use the case to issue a broad edict on the death sentence.
"This is not an issue that can be addressed in a future case, or an error that can be corrected another time," the brief reads. "This issue can never again present itself: Taylor is the last existing capital case."
In the 2004 case, the Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of Stephen LaValle, reasoning that the jury instructions required by law were coercive. Those instructions inform a jury that if it deadlocks on the question of death or life in prison, the judge will impose a sentence. The court ruled that the possibility a judge's sentence would allow for the possibility of parole could improperly coerce a juror to vote for death in order to prevent a deadlock.
The makeup of the court has dramatically changed since it issued the decision in 2004, and some court observers say it is possible the court will overturn its precedent.
"New York's death penalty statute is constitutional, both on its face, and as applied to defendant in this case," Mr. Brown argues in the brief.
But the brief's main argument, one that Mr. Brown has signaled he will make, says the court could uphold the execution of Taylor without reversing the 2004 decision.
That possibility, the brief argues, derives out of a grim fact: the number of murders for which Taylor is responsible.
Taylor orchestrated the murder of five employees at a Wendy's restaurant in Flushing. Because of the multitude of victims, the judge in that case, Steven Fisher, told the jury that he would "almost certainly" sentence Taylor to consecutive terms totaling 175 years if the jury deadlocked.
Instructions such as these, the brief argues, leave no room for a juror to believe that a convict could ever be paroled. Mr. Brown is urging the court to limit the LaValle decision to apply only to single murders or instances in which a judge is unable to state with certainty that parole is an impossibility.
The effect of such a decision would be, in effect, to reactivate the death penalty in New York.
In cases involving multiple victims, Queens prosecutors say, all a judge would need to do to avoid the pitfalls of the current death sentence law would be to inform the jury that he would sentence the defendant to consecutive life sentences in the event of a deadlock.
Those instructions "would completely remedy the constitutional concern of a coerced death verdict expressed by the LaValle majority," the brief said.
For his demand that Taylor be executed, Mr. Brown is facing criticism from death penalty opponents who say he should stick with prosecuting cases, not deciding the appropriate punishments, a task better belonging to the Legislature.
"The DA is saying, I don't need courts or the Legislature to authorize capital punishment — as long as I have a theory in my head, I can pursue it," an opponent of the death penalty, Bryan Stevenson, a professor at New York University's School of Law, said. "I think it's a problem for a prosecutor to unilaterally make a determination of the law, when the courts have made a definitive judgment that the statute is unconstitutional and the Legislature has also made a deliberative determination not to reenact a functioning death penalty."
Mr. Brown has an entirely different interpretation on the significance of the Legislature's silence on the subject of the death penalty following the 2004 decision.
"If the populace or the Legislature is as opposed to capital punishment as defendant contends, than the burden falls upon them to rescind the statute," his brief says.
The case is not yet set for argument.
April 4, 2007 Edition > Section: New York > Printer-Friendly Version
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Reader comment on: Effort Is Afoot To Resume N.Y. Death Penalty
Submitted by Nora Renzulli, Apr 4, 2007 10:21
Congressman Charles Rangel suggested equalizing sacrifice in wartime by instituting a universal draft. One underlying reason was ostensibly to up the ante and raise the level of responsible debate about who risks life and death in service to our country. It would obviously heighten the stakes for everyone before war could be declared. It would no longer be just somebody else's risk of life and limb. Along analogous lines, I suggest reevaluating who is eligible for the death penalty. When we inflict society's greatest condemnation, the death penalty, shouldn't we equalize these most lethal consequence for crime, not just to multiple homicide convicts, but also to corrupt judges. There are murderers of bodies and murderers of souls--judges who traffic in human children and take them away from a fit and loving parent in exchange for a bribe from the other parent fits my bill of a murderer of soul. Which crime is more heinous? Do neither or both deserve the death penalty? If Queens DA Brown wishes that we focus on the ultimate retribution for serious crime, my modest proposal is to let the Legislature ratchet up the punishment for offenses like the ones for which Judge Gerald Garson is charged -- the domestic relations equivalent to human trafficking in the souls of children. Let our lawmakers in Albany emulate the ancient Romans who assigned the death penalty for judges found guilty of accepting a bribe. News reports say that the custody of the children of Abraham and Sigal Levy is still not settled. How can that be four years after Garson's arrest? Why is timely justice and healing for the innocent victims of this monstrosity given such short shrift by the court system? Why is the majority of media attention weighted toward the sensationalism of the crime and the non captial punishment that our society may ultimately serve up for this corrupt attempted parentectomy and the utter judicial and attorney contempt for the rights of the innocent victims of our system of justice? Haven't the children and their mother in the Levy case suffered enough? Going by the media rule, if it bleeds, it leads, I think your readers are capable of seeeing how the souls of these children and their mother are bleeding. Can't the administrative leadership of the court system see it too and step up to the plate to mitigate the emotional, psychological and financial harm and damage to the victims who have endured now years and years of open wounds at the hands of a court system that allowed a Simonovsky and Garson to flount the appearance of impropriety and the ethical code with years of fine dining for an appointer with the tab picked up by the appointee. Did no one in authority in the court system notice the showy staging of the Garson-crafted public perception of power? Surely the Inspector General does not need to wait until the jury returns to catch up on mitigating the damage of the enormity of the cumulative ethical misconduct--forget whether the Judge ends up with a 31 year prison term for the time being if convicted. The details of deliberate and intended theft of relationship under color of law cry out for full court press attention by the Office of Court Administration to mitigate the damage to the children and their mother. What ownership has the court system taken for assigning Judge Garson to the matrimonial part to begin with? Did they think he would do less harm there? What ownership has the court system taken for approving Paul Simonovsky for law guardian assignments? Are they doing anything to promote healing of the court-inflicted wounds to the victims in the most humane and effective way possible. I hope the Governor and the Legislature are reading this because the Office of Court Administration needs a Superfund to assess and offset the risk and damage to the children's emotional futures and their prospects for healthy parent/child relationships or a modicum of emotional health as adults given this endless and corrupt litigation. The continuing harm from the toxic Brooklyn-style Love Canal malfeasance and misconduct courtesy of identifiable members of the matrimonial bench and bar needs to be named, claimed and dealt with by responsible parties within the Unified Court System immediately or they should explain why not.
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To the anonimous poster (April 10, 2007 4:35 PM)
Please do not polute the board with hysterical screams.
At least give your name and contact info.
PAS is fact and it is fact that 65% of allegations in Domestic Violence are fake.
Unfortunately the District Attorneys in NYS do not prosecute perjury and this is the root for most of the problem.
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Children go to drug addict or abusive parents (mostly to mothers), because the system is clogged by false allegations and nobody pays attention to them.
More at www.ubiec.com
In fact the federal government funds the child abuse with its $800 mln a year VAWA fundings.
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These $800 mln. go to women advocacy groups, "battered" women shelters, supervised visitations programs, forensic evaluators, support collection services and social workers, an industry who mushroomed during the last few years and threatens to completeley destroy the traditional family.
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Children are the main victim of this industry.
Peter 914-309-7463
Example - corrupt or demented NYS supreme court judge Sam D. Walker serves as a dispatcher of taxpayer money to the divorce industry in Westchester.
The guy disregards the US Consttitution in a horrendous way.
In return, the industry helps him to get ellected and most probably bribes him directly, but this can be proved only indirectly. (judge Garson who get caught is an exception)
To Anonymous
Nobody is screaming, polluting the blog or been hysterical. The facts are what they are. The Father's Rughts group are using federal funding to buy children. Liz Richards have done extensive work about this matter. Ultimately good parents been good moms and good dads are getting screw big time by the Systematic Abuse and corruption not only in New York State but through out the Nation.
The patterns are all the same this is nothing but Organized Crime. Do not distored words and become defensive. We are all getting srew while our children are placed with abusers been a bad biological mother or a bad biological father.
Agree - this is an organized crime scheme.
The gender issue is that women are used as a tool by the child kidnap industry to villainize men.
At the end, both sexes and mostly the children are the victims.
And the goal is all the same – the parent’s pockets.
Today I was watching Law and Order on TNT and the subject was custody and divorce case rigging. Which they investigated how the pay off's where done by whom and who decided who got in to the Judges calendar.
The attorneys will talk to the Clerk to get in to the Judges calendar.
The attorney pay the Clerk, the clerk kept his part and gave the majority of the money to the Judge.
Attorney will then increase the fee for his client by over charging to make it look like legal fees for litigation and not for pay off's and not to create any smoke.
The cases then are seal and only the litigant, the Judge or the attorney can re open the case. Nobody else can look at this records and think that something was innapropiate.
The Judge sells its better judment of what is the best interest of the child.
But by using the clerk to take the pay off's and then pay the judge it would make it easy as the Judge is getting the money from a second party not directly.
The Attorneys "over charge" his/her client for attorneys fee's and nobody will suspect how the money is been moved or where is coming from.
I love Law and Order they give you good tips on how to catch a criminal and investigate
The divorce industry makes too many incompetent people very rich. It is not in the interest of lawyers to make things easy and it is too easy for things to get out of control. I'm sure many of you have witnessed the nonsense that goes on in court and all it takes is one person who wants to be unreasonable for things to get nasty.
There is a huge lack of professionalism in the courts. There is no accountability for anyone associated with the courts. The responsibility for managing the courts and auditing what goes on there is Judge Kaye. It is her responsibility to see that laws and rules are complied with, which she does not. The Office of Court Administration is a mess. They don't even follow their own rules, let alone the laws which they function under.
The OCA ignores complaints and even evidence of crimes which are given to them.
Now Judge Kaye is suggesting that the Judges go on strike for more pay. Judge Kaye wants judges and lawyers to petition the legislature for pay raises. Judge Kaye should spend her time doing the job she was appointed to, running the courts and not spending taxpayer money on "commissions" which are her vehicle to change laws in NY to suit the judges and appearing on talk shows and giving speeches for her agenda.
Instead of making this a mother against father, where the only ones who end up getting hurt are the children, work to make the judiciary and lawyers accountable and insist that they adhere to all those laws, rules, ethics and opinions they say they uphold, and stop victimizing families.
It is all about the money The Honorable Chief Judge of the State of New York Judith Kaye knows what is going on, she just plays dumb. Many people had written to her and have gotten the same of similar letters. They have them ready for copy and paste. She is the first one who should be investigated for the rigging of custody and divorce cases in New York State
Orange County seems to be having some problems between CPS and Town Justice that is without the corrupted Judges and Law Guardians from Goshn New York Court house
Monroe police say town justices are courting late-night trouble
Times Herald-Record
April 13, 2007
Village of Monroe — To snooze or to serve?
Every municipal justice faces that question at one time or another, when late-night arraignments are sometimes the price they pay for getting elected.
But Monroe village police claim that Monroe Town Justices Morton Marshak and Jack Rosenthal are sleeping too much and coming out too little.
When they do respond at night, the justices sometimes wait as long as an hour to call back.They also fail to return messages on their answering machines, police said.
Marshak would not comment, and Rosenthal did not return calls to his home and office. Each is paid $32,101 a year.
The controversy has put village police behind a proposal to revive a village court system independent of the town's.
The measure is necessary, police said, because suspects not arraigned end up in their holding cell, requiring officers to keep watch. That, in turn, sometimes means bringing in off-duty officers on overtime, which then leads to fewer officers on the street at night in a department already strapped for resources, police say.
"We're all gonna have times when we don't show up," said Monroe police Chief Dominic Giudice. "But when you don't make it on an almost routine basis, or your response is sporadic at best, then you're going to have to look at ways to correct the situation."
Case law requires that arraignments occur within 24 hours of arrest. However, there is no legal requirement for justices to come out immediately when called at night.
Unlike state supreme or county court judges, local justices are part-time officials with full-time day jobs. "It's going to depend on the particular justice and what circumstances present themselves at the time," said Jude Martini, president of the Orange County Magistrates Association and a town justice in Newburgh.
Police, however, argue that prompt arraignments are critical, especially if the suspects are violent or pose a flight risk.
New York State Criminal Procedure Law requires all police officers to find a justice for D-class felony charges and above, as well as some E-class felonies. If one justice fails to come out at night, the officers are required to call justices from other municipalities.
Monroe police claim that Marshak and Rosenthal failed to respond to nearly half of the 23 calls they received at night or on the weekends from Jan. 1 through April 7. Of those times, police were forced to let the suspects off with an appearance ticket four times and call justices from neighboring municipalities seven times.
"We've worn out our welcome (with neighboring justices)," Giudice said.
The night arraignment issue is just one of several reasons the village needs to revive its own court system, which was abolished in 1984, said Monroe Mayor John Karl.
"It just goes round and round and round, and we don't seem to get anywhere," he said.
Town Supervisor Sandy Leonard acknowledged the village's complaints but disagreed with Karl that an independent court was the solution. "I know the police have an issue here, but I'd like to see if there isn't any other way we can make this work, because starting up a new justice court will be expensive."
The divorce industry is a huge money making industry with no accountability for its results. A marriage is a contract you enter into and only find out the terms when you need to get out of it. States have responsibilities to their citizens and an interest in families. The legislature has overhauled the laws completely on more than one occasion, yet the same problems continue. The legislature continues to listen too much to lawyers to solve the problems and not to the consumers who are forced to use the system. Judge Kaye's recommendations, including no-fault, will not solve anything. It will not address the issues which are most contested, money and children. Those will continue to be addressed long after the divorce, which is what happens now, only it is usually before the judgment is entered.
Judge Kaye should spend more time running the courts, identifying problems, modernizing procedures, putting in systems that will not allow employees to tamper with documents, and not allow the backroom deals that go on in most cases.
All Kaye cares about is the money. She does not care about the victims of her incompetent court system. If the judges acted like professionals, then they should be paid like professionals.
Judge Kaye wants to give more money to judges so they can be rewarded for their crimes. They are suppose to work for the people, not for us to work for them.
If an animal is hurt or kill you will go to jail. But if another human being is hurt or kill you as the victim and survivor will be punish.
The media goes crazy blasting the faces and information of a person that has committed a cruel act against an animal, but the same happens to a human being victim of Domestic Violence, a child been molestes, a woman been raped. A lot of the media is no where to be found.
Our voices most be heard loud and clear. We must take begin protesting infront of every single court house and blast their names and pictures. For the cruel treatment given to us and our children. They should get the maximum punishment and be barred from ever getting a position where they can be near a court or goveement agency.
I admire some of the things Esther Yang does and loath others. Esther is apparently willing to say anything to get what she wants.
She will do what it takes she says. I say she is willing to lie...
1. She says she lost 2 properties in her divorce, but she still lives in one of them.
2. She made me promises during her failed campaign and broke her word.
3. She was on welfare last year and working for cash.
4. Esther hasnt filed taxes in 4 years, why not? What is she hiding?
Dear everyone:
Does anyone knows who ever has Judge Amodeo and also Judge Rosenblatt or who's Appellate decision was decided by Judge Rosenblatt.
Also do you know any other attorneys, law guardian, forensic experts that Judge Amodeo and Judge Rosenblatt favor.
Below is what my voters have discovered - anyone else?
Thank you
Registered Voters
From Courts Website:
Albert M. Rosenblatt, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, was born in New York City in 1936, the son of Fannie (Dachs) Rosenblatt and Isaac Rosenblatt. B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1957; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1960. Admitted to the New York State Bar, 1961. District Attorney, Dutchess County, 1969-1975. Dutchess County Judge, 1976-1981; Supreme Court Justice, 1982-1987. New York State's Chief Administrative Judge, 1987-1989. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, 1989-1998.
After Governor Pataki nominated him to serve on the Court of Appeals, he was confirmed by the Senate on December 17, 1998. Moot Court Judge, Harvard Law School, 1992, 1996; Teaching Team Member, Trial Advocacy Workshop, Harvard Law School 1998, 1999; Visiting Lecturer with wife, Julia, Victorian Studies Department, Vassar College, 1992-1994. Author of articles in law journals and professional publications on various topics. Certified professional (associate) ski instructor, and a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, as well as a former editor of the Baker Street Journal. Nationally ranked squash player; member of the United States (Master's) Maccabiah Team (1997). Married to Dr. Julia (Carlson) Rosenblatt, a writer and former Vassar College professor. They live in LaGrange, New York and have one daughter.
Panels will screen candidates for state judgeships
Goal is to curb role of politics in selection process
By Larry Hertz
Poughkeepsie Journal
As a general practice attorney, William Tendy spends a substantial amount of his time in front of judges in courtrooms throughout the mid-Hudson region.
So when the president of the Dutchess County Bar Association asked him to serve on a panel composed of lawyers and other citizens that would investigate the qualifications of candidates for judicial office, Tendy quickly agreed.
"Over the past 10 or 12 years, the judiciary, I think, has become much more influenced by politics," the Town of Poughkeepsie attorney said.
"Too many people are being chosen based on who party leaders believe should be running, taking the choices away from the public," Tendy said. "Anything we can do to ensure the candidates we have are qualified should be done."
Tendy is one of 15 people named to the Judicial Qualifications Commission for the Ninth Judicial District, comprising Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties. Similar panels have been named to screen candidates for judgeships in the rest of the state.
The commissions, formed by the state Office of Court Administration, are strictly advisory; candidates deemed by the panels as unqualified will not be eliminated from the ballot. But many in the legal community say the establishment of the panels - and other reform initiatives under way in the state Legislature and in the courts - signal a growing awareness that public confidence in the judicial branch of government is eroding.
"The influence of campaign contributions and special interest groups have taken a great toll on the perception of the judiciary," said Jonathan Lippman, the state's chief administrative judge.
Report suggested forming commissions
The independent screening panels were first suggested in a report issued in 2004 by the Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections - commonly called the Feerick Commission - chaired by former Fordham Law School Dean John D. Feerick, Lippman said.
The Feerick Commission recommended the state Legislature adopt a law making the decisions of the panels binding - meaning candidates found to be unqualified would not be permitted to run. That recommendation and others made by the Feerick Commission, including public financing of judicial campaigns, have yet to be enacted.
A member of the Feerick Commission, state appellate Judge George D. Marlow, said he suspected meaningful changes to the state's judicial selection process would be slow in coming.
"The system we have is two or three generations old, but it's not surprising to me it's taken this long for the recommendations of the commission to even begin to be addressed," said Marlow, a Town of Poughkeepsie resident who has served for the past six years as a justice on the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court.
"My 65 years on this planet have taught me society doesn't rush into too many things - often appropriately so," the judge said.
Marlow said some members of the Feerick Commission believed no system of electing judges could be sufficiently separated from politics. Those panel members wanted to make all judgeships appointive positions, following a rigorous screening process.
He said he did not share those views.
"I believe a combination of appropriate screening, followed by an election process in which there is an abundance of information about the candidates available to the public, is the right path to follow," he said.
State lawmakers say they don't see any progress overhauling the judicial election process until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a Brooklyn case involving the selection of candidates for state Supreme Court.
Under the law, candidates for Supreme Court are chosen by delegates to a judicial convention, most of whom are picked by party leaders. The winners chosen at those party conventions then run in the November general election.
Questions raised
Three years ago, an unsuccessful candidate for Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Margarita Lopez Torres, sued in federal court, claiming this method of picking judges was unconstitutional because party bosses - especially in judicial districts where one party has a substantial majority - often have the power to decide who becomes a judge.
A circuit court last year agreed with Lopez Torres's argument the system is unconstitutional, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed last month to decide the case.
A spokesman for Helene Weinstein, D-Brooklyn, chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, said the assemblywoman had decided to wait until the Supreme Court rules on the Lopez Torres case before introducing any legislation to change the way judges are selected.
"Issues like this rarely go all the way to the Supreme Court, so we need to see what the court does," Weinstein's legislative counsel, Kenneth Munnelly, said last week.
"Assemblywoman Weinstein's position is that we certainly need to at least fine-tune the convention system, and the Feerick Commission has made many other excellent recommendations," Munnelly said. "We should explore all of these issues after the Supreme Court answers the threshold question: 'Is the current system constitutional?' "
In the meantime, those selected to the local Judicial Qualifications Commission said they are looking forward to doing what they can to keep the public apprised of the qualifications of those running for judicial offices this year.
Panel will meet
"I'm pleased to take on this responsibility at the request of the chief judge," retired Court of Appeals Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt said.
Rosenblatt, who lives in LaGrange, will lead the panel in the Ninth Judicial District, where two Supreme Court judgeships are being contested. He said he expects to convene the panel this month to discuss its work. Screening of candidates will begin in late spring or early summer, he said.
"The object of this effort is to bring together a cross-section of the community - lawyers and lay people from all walks of life - to interview judicial candidates in a manner that is devoid of any partisanship," Rosenblatt said.
Another member of the panel, Marist College President Dennis Murray, said he was looking forward to the work.
"I had some reservations about serving on the commission because of the time demands," Murray said. "But we are a nation of laws, and we need good people in the judiciary.
"It's a branch of government that's been under some stress recently, and when you're dealing with human beings, no system is perfect," he said. "But if there's anything we can do to help the public in the selection process, we should do it."
Tendy agreed.
"You're never going to take all politics out of this process, no matter what system you have, and there's nothing wrong with politics," he said. "You just want to make sure that candidates with the right qualifications for the job are factored into the process."
Judge Rosenblatt? who is this judge - got news?
linda said...
INDICTED DISGRACED JUDGE GERALD GARSON'S TRIAL
Mon - Thurs 9:30 - 5 PM
320 Jay Street - The new Supreme Court/next to the Family court
2nd floor - Ceremonial Court Room
Presiding Judge Berry (from Goshen - Orange County)
4, 5 , 2, or 3 train to Borough Hall - Brooklyn
Everyone should write to all the reporters who are covering this trial and letters to their editors and publishers. The more readers write - the more the press will cover these kinds of stories
I though I read some where that Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt was the Law Clerk of Dutchess County Family Court Judge Damian Amodeo.
Judge Damian Amodeo was the one who sent Genia Schockhome a pregnant mother to jail. Now Judge Damian Amodeo is trying to get the attorney for Genia Schockhome, Barry L. Goldstein in trouble.
To Anonymous April 14, 2007 2:33 PM
Are you part of of Esther Yang's case like her ex or his attorney. It is very sad that the only thing you have to contribute to helping children are negative lies that reflect what you are really made off and your reality.
But if you feel comfortable venting your frustation and the reality that soon the wall of corruption in New York State will fall down. We'll be here standing tall and will continue posting the truth.
This is like the second posting and it appears to be the same person.
To no more ms. nice mom:
Isn't that call retaliation, are judges in New York State beside breaking the law are also allowed to retaliated.
Judge Kaye should really look at the events happening before her and take action.
I know actually that Judge Amodeo was a Law Clerk to Judge Albert Rosenblatt for many years. Then Rosenblatt had moved up, and provided "protection" for Judge Amodeo. Many children's and their parent's lives are destroyed by Judge Amodeo now - with "protection" from Judge Rosenblatt. Check this page out:
http://www.judgewatch.org/judicial-selection-ny-rosenblatt.htm
Anyone has more information on this judge?
Dear Mr. Liptak & NYT Editors,
Arkansas Judge Wendel L. Griffen is making statements on issues of public importance which revolve around truth telling and lies (Sidebar, April 17, 2007). Should he be thrown off the bench for expressing them? I think not. It is cognitive dissonance to suggest that the Judge "damaged public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary." Which public? The public that believes that dogged devotion to the appearance of impartiality and the perception of impartiality is what preserves the judiciary's independence. The courts do not have independence to operate from a demagnetized moral compass on truthtelling. As a voter, I would like to know where judicial candidates stand on the goal of justice and the process of ferreting out truth and lies.
Does judicial selection given the tight muzzle on public speech by judges approximating the depth of debate expected in student council elections inspire public confidence in the integrity and imparitality of the judiciary? Justice is blind but that doesn't mean voters should have to vote blind> It puts voters in additional jeopardy given our undemocratic failure to even provide a popularity contest in viable opposition candidates. Most minority party candidates don't have a ghost of a chance in the predominantly uniparty districts of New York State as SDNY Judge John Gleeson has pointed out so persuasively.
Can someone please post as an inline text re: Judge Rosenblatt and also Judge Amodeo?
Please post in its entirety everything about Judge Rosenblatt and also Judge Amodeo.
Can someone please go to www.elections.state.ny.us and list the campaign contributions for rosenblatt and amodeo
and also please let us know if amodeo and rosenblatt give any money to anyone - if so who?
any other litigants?
Why would Judge Amodeo give Genia's attorney - Barry Goldstein a hard time? I heard through the grapevine that Barry is a very good soul.
Fear? Insecurities? what's up with judge Amodeo?
Anyone else has judge Amodeo? Players - Law Guardians? Forensic Experts?
Disbarred Paul Simonovsky was the indicted disgraced Justice Gerald Garson's pet. look at both of them now - one is disbarred and the other one is indicted.
I wonder how long would Judge Rosenblatt protect Judge Amodeo?
Follow the money (campaign contribution, appointment, etc).... the Brooklyn DA did.
Got news or tips? call the FBI 212 384 1000 newyork@fbi.gov
US Attorney's Office 212 637 2200
1st Andrew's Plaza
NY NY 10007
i can't believe what I am reading,
Can someone please follow the money from misguided attorneys to judges?
one crooked attorney at a time to one crooked judge at a time.
Dear Mr. Ex President Clinton:
I recently saw a bumper sticker that said, "Thank me, I voted
for Clinton-Gore. " So, I sat down and reflected on that, and I am
sending my "Thank you" for what you have done, specifically:
1. Thank you for introducing us to Jennifer Flowers, Paula
Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Dolly Kyle Browning, Kathleen Willey, and
Juanita Broderick. Did I leave anyone out?
2. Thank you for teaching my 8 year old about oral sex. I had
really planned to wait until he was a little older to discuss it with
him, but now he knows more about it than I did as a senior in college.
3. Thank you for showing us that sexual harassment in the work
place (especially the White House) and on the job is OK, and all you
have to know is what the meaning of "it" is. It really is great to know
that certain sexual acts are not sex, and one person may have sex while
the other one does NOT have sex.
4. Thank you for reintroducing the concept of impeachment to a
new generation and demonstrating that the ridiculous plot of the movie
"Wag the Dog" could be plausible after all.
5. Thanks for making Jimmy Carter look competent, Gerald Ford
look graceful, Richard Nixon look honest, Lyndon Johnson look truthful,
and John Kennedy look moral.
6. Thank you for the 73 House and Senate witnesses who have
pled the 5th Amendment and 17 witnesses who have fled the country to
avoid testifying about Democratic campaign fund raising.
7. Thank you, for the 19 charges, 8 convictions, and 4
imprisonment' s from the Whitewater "mess" and the 55 criminal charges
and 32 criminal convictions (so far) in the other "Clinton" scandals.
8. Thanks also for reducing our military by half, "gutting"
much of our foreign policy, and flying all over the world on "vacations"
carefully disguised as necessary trips.
9 Thank you, also, for "finding" millions of dollars (I really
didn't need it in the first place, and I can't think of a more deserving
group of recipients for my hard-earned tax dollars)
for all of your globe-trotting. I understand you, the family
and your cronies have logged in more time aboard Air Force One than any
other administration.
10. Now that you've left the White House, thanks for the 140
pardons of convicted felons and indicted felons-in-exile. We will love
to have them rejoin society. (Not to mention the scores you pardoned
while Governor of Arkansas)
11. Thanks also for removing the White House silverware. I'm
sure that Laura Bush didn't like the pattern anyway. Also, enjoy the
housewarming gifts you've received from your "friends."
12. Thanks to you and your staff in the West Wing of the White
House for vandalizing and destroying government property on the way out.
I also appreciate removing all of that excess weight (China, silverware,
linen, towels, ash trays, soap, pens, magnetic compass, flight manuals,
etc.) out of Air Force 1. The weight savings means burning less fuel,
thus less tax dollars spent on jet fuel. Thank you!
13. And finally, please ensure that Hillary enjoys the $8
million dollar advance for her "tell-all" book and you, Bill, the $10
million advance for your memoirs. Who says crime doesn't pay!
14. The last and most important point - thank you for forcing
Israel to let Mohammed Atta go free. Terrorist pilot Mohammed Atta blew
up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned
him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel
had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners". However, the
Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands. The American
President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren
Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released. Thus Mohammed
Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into
Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the
American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first
identified. It was censored in the US from all later reports. Why
shouldn't Americans know the real truth?
What a guy!!
If you agree that the American public must be made aware of
these facts, pass this on. God bless America and THANK YOU (once again)
for spending my taxes so wisely and frugally.
SINCERELY,
A US Citizen
PS.
Please pass along a special thank you to Al Gore for
"inventing" the Internet, without which I would not be able to send this
wonderful, factual e-mail.
AND THE REST OF THE STORY Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a New York
State Senator, now comes under the "Congressional Retirement and
Staffing Plan," which means that even if she never gets reelected, she
STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies. (Would it not be
nice if all Americans were pension eligible after only 4 years?)
If Bill outlives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE
dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If
Hillary outlives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies. Guess
who pays for that?
WE DO!
It's common knowledge that in order for her to establish NY
residency, they purchased a million dollar-plus house in upscale
Chappaqua, New York. Makes sense. They are entitled to Secret Service
protection for life. Still makes sense.
Here is where it becomes interesting. Their mortgage payments
hover at around $10,000 per month. BUT, an extra residence HAD to be
built within the acreage to house the Secret Service agents.
The Clintons charge the Federal government $10,000 monthly rent
for the use of that extra residence, which is just about equal to their
mortgage payment. This means that we, the taxpayers, are paying the
Clinton's salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and security, as well
as the salaries for their 12 man staff -- and, this is all perfectly
legal!
When she runs for President, will you vote for her?
RE:JUDGE AMODEO APPOINTS CRIMINALS
Monitor apparently asleep
By BRUCE GOLDING
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: December 16, 2004)
WHITE PLAINS — A court-appointed monitor is no longer being assigned cases after she was caught apparently sleeping during a visit between two children and their estranged mother, a high-ranking judge said yesterday.
Judges initially were told to stop referrals to Viola Stroud and her Little Angels Supervised Visitation Inc. in late September after The Journal News reported Stroud had written tens of thousands of dollars of checks to herself, "cash" and her agency after being named legal guardian of three aging and incapacitated women in Putnam County during the 1990s.
"Obviously, at that particular time, she was not doing her job," said Nicolai, who oversees the courts in the five counties north of New York City. "I'm confident that she has not gotten an assignment since this came out."
Neither Stroud nor her attorney returned telephone messages yesterday. Last week, Stroud, 61, of Mahopac said she hadn't seen the videotape but denied that she was asleep when it was made.
Stroud worked as a court-appointed mediator in Putnam before running Little Angels, which provided monitoring services for visits between children and noncustodial parents accused of problems including domestic violence and substance abuse. She also was the court-appointed guardian for at least three women
In October, a state judge ordered Stroud to repay more than $30,000 she improperly spent while controlling the finances of a woman who suffered blindness and brain damage after a car crash. The Putnam district attorney later confirmed an ongoing criminal investigation of Stroud.
The video of Stroud was played last week in Dutchess County Family Court in connection with a 4-year-old divorce case involving the woman who shot the tape, Yevgenia Shockome, 32.
Shockome said Family Court Judge Damian J. Amodeo, who presided over the court session, assigned Stroud to her case after Shockome lost custody of her children. Shockome said her visitation rights were canceled after she made the tape.
A call to Amodeo's chambers yesterday was referred to a spokesman for the state court system, who said Amodeo could not comment because judges were prohibited from discussing cases pending before them.
RE: JUDGE AMODEO APPOINTED CRIMINAL VIOLA STROUD TO SUPERVISE GENIA SHOCKOME.
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Children's supervisor shown sleeping on job
Gannett News Service
A videotape played in Dutchess County court Friday showed a court-appointed supervisor apparently sleeping while she was supposed to be overseeing a visit in Poughkeepsie between two children and their estranged mother.
The tape, made by the children's mother, showed Viola Stroud of Mahopac sitting motionless on a couch, her eyes closed and her face tilted forward, as the children played a noisy game of air hockey several feet away.
Later, Stroud is seen telling the mother to ''shut that off'' and hiding her face behind a handful of papers. She also demanded that the woman, Yevgenia Shockome, turn over the camera and the tape, and threatened to ''call the authorities.''
''You're breaking the rules. Please don't take my picture,'' Stroud said.
Stroud runs an organization called Little Angels Supervised Visitation, which provides court-ordered oversight of children and non-custodial parents accused of domestic violence, drug abuse or other problems. The private agency has received appointments in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties.
Checks written to self
Stroud has also served as a court-appointed guardian for mentally incapacitated adults and, in September, published reports said she wrote tens of thousands of dollars in checks to herself, to ''cash'' and to Little Angels after she was given control over the finances of three Putnam women.
Last month, the Putnam district attorney confirmed a criminal investigation of Stroud after a state judge ordered her to repay more than $30,000 to a Mahopac woman who suffered blindness and brain damage after a car crash.
Stroud, 61, was not present in the courtroom Friday and did not return a telephone message left at her home. Her lawyer, Ronald Levine of Poughkeepsie, was not in his office late yesterday afternoon and did not return a message left with a receptionist.
Shockome, who is involved in a bitter, four-year divorce case, said she made the tape at her Poughkeepsie condominium on Aug. 28. Shockome, 32, said her visitation rights were canceled afterward.
Shockome said Stroud routinely slept during more than 20 previous supervised visits between Shockome and her children, whose father has sole custody.
''I liked it, because when she was sleeping I had more private time with my kids,'' Shockome said.
At an Aug. 31 court hearing, Stroud denied sleeping during any of the visits, Shockome said.
Dutchess County Family Court Judge Damian J. Amodeo, who appointed Stroud to Shockome's case and presided over Friday's hearing, did not comment on the content of the hourlong tape.
NY Judge in Bribe Case Sees Six Felony Counts Against Him Revived
JOHN CAHER
March 31, 2006
ALBANY — The Court of Appeals yesterday reinstated six felony counts against former Supreme Court Justice Gerald P. Garson with a precedential ruling that judges can face criminal prosecution for acts that started with a violation of the Rules of Judicial Conduct.
Yesterday's 6-1 opinion means the former judge accused of accepting bribes and kickbacks from a divorce lawyer is once again confronted with the full panoply of felony charges lodged against him following a sting operation initiated by Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes' office.
Mr. Garson now faces trial on a total of seven felonies — one count of receiving a bribe and six of receiving reward for official misconduct. All of the charges stem from an illicit attorney-judge relationship involving Mr. Garson and attorney Paul Siminovsky.
Mr. Garson's attorney, Diarmuid White of Manhattan, had argued — successfully in the lower courts — that the Rules of Judicial Conduct could not be used to criminally prosecute a judge. The preamble to the rules makes plain that they are not designed or intended to support a criminal prosecution, and the Court of Appeals accepted that proposition in People v. La Carrubba, 46 NY2d 658 (1979).
But yesterday, the Court clarified La Carrubba, holding that while a violation of the rules alone cannot sustain a criminal prosecution, judges are not immune from indictment when an ethics violation escalates into criminality.
In the Garson case, the Court said, the judge not only violated the ethics code by partaking in ex parte communications and by improperly lending the prestige of his office, but went a step further and took payment for his misconduct. That step, six of the seven judges agreed, transported Mr. Garson's case from the sole jurisdiction of a disciplinary agency to the criminal purview of Mr. Hynes' office.
"Had the judge as a public servant violated ethical duties alone — without accepting a benefit for the violation — and had the action not otherwise been prohibited by the Penal Law, the public servant would be subject to discipline in a proceeding brought by the Commission on Judicial Conduct," Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick wrote for the majority.
The key legal holding yesterday — that the prosecution may rely on the Rules of Judicial Conduct to establish an element of a crime — was punctuated by a finding that La Carrubba is not controlling in People v. Garson, 28 [PDF].
The Garson case is rooted in a three-year relationship between a judge assigned to a matrimonial [court] in Brooklyn and a matrimonial lawyer.
The prosecution alleges that Mr. Siminovsky gave Judge Garson money and gifts in exchange for ex parte advice on pending cases, client referrals and favorable treatment. It also is alleged that the judge demanded a referral fee for his wife, now Civil Court Judge Robin Garson, who had apparently sent a client to Mr. Siminovsky. Mr. Siminovsky, according to proof before the grand jury, contributed to then-candidate Robin Garson's campaign, and also gave her husband $1,000.
Many of the charges stem from a divorce case involving Avraham Levi, who allegedly was steered to Judge Garson by Mr. Siminovsky. While the Levi case was pending before Judge Garson, the Brooklyn district attorney began a video and audio surveillance of the judge's robing room.
Judge Garson was heard telling Mr. Siminovsky that Mr. Levi would prevail, even though he did not deserve to, and instructing the lawyer on how to proceed.
Mr. Siminovsky was arrested shortly thereafter and agreed to assist the prosecution. The lawyer, wearing a recording device but unaware the video surveillance was continuing, brought Judge Garson a box of expensive cigars on March 4, 2003, and the two men further discussed the Levi case, according to court records.
On La Carrubba grounds, Justice Steven W. Fisher, now of the Appellate Division, Second Department, dismissed six felony counts of receiving reward for official conduct and two misdemeanor counts of official misconduct. That left only one felony of third-degree bribe-receiving and misdemeanors of official misconduct and receiving unlawful gratuities. The Second Department affirmed, also on La Carrubba.
Yesterday, the Court of Appeals, after Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye granted leave to the prosecution, reinstated the six felonies.
Perverse Result
At oral argument on Feb. 7, Brooklyn Assistant District Attorneys Leonard Joblove and Seth M. Lieberman stressed what they said was an illogical consequence that would result from an affirmance. They noted that, under Justice Fisher's decision and the Second Department opinion, a judge who takes a bribe while properly attending to his duties — for instance, while conducting a proper conference with all parties present — would face criminal sanctions. But a judge who took a bribe while violating the Rules of Judicial Conduct — for instance, while conducting an improper, ex parte conference — would be immune. That argument seemingly struck a chord with the Court.
"We see no justification for such a perverse result — not in the plain language of the statute, not in the legislative history, and not in our precedents," Judge Ciparick wrote. "Thus we conclude that the People may rely on the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct to prove the element of a judge's 'duty as a public servant' within the meaning" of the Penal Law.
Judge Ciparick said that since the rules are designed to ensure "the integrity of the judiciary and the resultant confidence and impartiality," then "any other construction runs afoul of these goals." She continued: "To hold otherwise, as urged by the dissent, would lead to the incongruous result of insulating judges from criminal liability . . . because they have a formal body of rules governing their conduct while subjecting other public servants . . . to criminal liability for similar conduct."
Was Defendant on Notice?
In lone dissent, Judge George Bundy Smith argued that neither the state Constitution nor the Rules of Judicial Conduct nor the Penal Law "authorize a prosecutor to charge a judge with crimes by alleging violations of the Rules of Judicial Conduct." Judge Bundy Smith said he could find no cases and no statutes giving any authority to hold a judge criminally liable for failing to abide by the ethics rules.
"There is no question that the prosecutor has amassed a great deal of damning evidence against the defendant," he wrote. "However, what is at issue is whether or not Rules of Judicial Conduct can be used as a predicate for a criminal prosecution . . . There is not a single case that supports the majority's assertion that defendant was on notice that the Rules of Judicial Conduct would serve as the basis for a criminal prosecution."
Judge Bundy Smith suggested the majority decision raises more questions than it answers. For instance, he pondered whether a judge who advises a friend or relative to retain a particular lawyer or recommends a particular law school runs the risk of criminal sanction. But the majority said that fear is unfounded.
"We do not imply that a judge, acting in a purely private, unofficial capacity, may not refer a friend or acquaintance to a lawyer when the judge expects no benefit for doing so," Judge Ciparick wrote in response to the dissent. "But the grand jury could have concluded that that is not what happened here."
Credibility Still at Issue
District Attorney Hynes told a press conference yesterday that the ruling "makes it crystal clear that this kind of conduct is not going to be acceptable," according to his spokesman.
"The law binds everyone equally, the judges no less than those who are judged," Mr. Hynes said.
Mr. White, Mr. Garson's lawyer, said that while yesterday's decision adds a slew of felony charges for his client to defend, the factual assertions underlying those felonies would have been admissible anyway when the trial begins June 15.
"In the big picture, it doesn't change things much," Mr. White said. "The credibility of the witnesses will be the issue."
The defense attorney also questioned the wisdom of the Court's ruling and the impact it may have on judicial-prosecutorial relations, particularly in the smaller communities.
"Judges could feel under some pressure that they are being scrutinized by the district attorney, and I don't think that is a good idea," Mr. White said. "That is why I think an independent judicial commission should be the body investigating judges, not the district attorneys."
Mr. Siminovsky, who was disbarred, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of giving unlawful gratuities to a judge and awaits sentencing.
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From: New York Lawyer, a publication of the New York Journal, March 31, 2006, http://www.nylawyer.com/display.php/file=/news/06/03/033106d, accessed 08/19/06 (registration is required). Reprinted in accordance with the "fair use" provision of Title 17 U.S.C. § 107 for a non-profit educational purpose.
little Angel Supervision and Efrain Rodriguez? got news? got tips?
who owned Little angel supervision _ viola has to go somewhere else?
where? who are the puppets?
Former Judge is convicted of bribery in Divorce Court
By MICHAEL BRICK
Published: April 20, 2007
A former State Supreme Court judge was convicted yesterday of accepting bribes to manipulate the outcome of divorce proceedings in a case that led to a broad political and judicial corruption inquiry in Brooklyn.
The judge Gerald P. Garson, 74, could face as many as 15 years in prison if he is sentenced consecutively on the three guilty verdicts, on bribery ain Divorce Court and two lesser charges. The jury acquitted him on four other counts after a four-week trial in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
In his roughly five years on the bench in Brooklyn, Mr. Garson handled nearly 1,100 matrimony cases, making decisions on child custody and financial matters. In finding him guilty, the jury endorsed the prosecution theory that he had an agreement with a divorce lawyer to take cash, dinners and cigars in exchange for courtroom assignments and favored treatment.
The verdict was a significant victory for the Brooklyn district attorney Charles J. Hynes, and for his chief of investigations, Michael F. Vecchione, a high-ranking assistant district attorney who prosecuted Mr. Garson as part of their larger corruption inquiry.
Outside the courtroom, Mr. Vecchione said the case had put public officials in the borough on notice. “I’m not sure there was any further message that needed to be sent, other than people need to do what’s right,” Mr. Vecchione said.
He told reporters that the jury was probably swayed by surveillance recordings that showed Justice Garson doing “the things he did behind closed doors, and now it’s out in the open.” Mr. Garson, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, showed no reaction to the verdict and left the courthouse without comment. His lawyer, Michael S. Washor, said he would appeal.
“We’re disappointed with the verdict,” Mr. Washor said, adding, “It’s very painful, both emotionally and physically.”
Mr. Garson was first charged in 2003, along with the divorce lawyer, Paul Siminovsky, as well as one of his clients, a court officer, a former clerk and a man described as a fixer. All six were charged with felonies.
The case immediately reverberated throughout Brooklyn, from playpens and dinner tables to the upper echelons of politics. Divorce cases were reopened. Judges feared that their offices were wired for surveillance. The system of nominating judges was ruled unconstitutional.
The longtime Democratic Party leader, Clarence Norman Jr., who helped place Mr. Garson on the bench, was convicted on corruption charges and now faces jail time. Acting on statements Mr. Garson made when confronted with the evidence against him, Mr. Hynes vowed to expose a system in which judgeships were for sale, a charge he has yet to show.
As the minor participants in the case pleaded guilty or were convicted, some agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors, Mr. Garson was suspended from the bench and eventually resigned. Last year, he rejected an offer to plead guilty to two minor felonies in exchange for a 16-month sentence in a local jail, where he might have received treatment from his own doctors.
After years of delay while a pretrial ruling was appealed and Mr. Garson sought medical treatment, the trial began last month in an outsized ceremonial courtroom in Downtown Brooklyn. The spectacle of a judge on trial — a matrimonial judge, no less — drew a sizable audience of lawyers, judicial officials and aggrieved divorcées.
Prosecutors used financial records and video surveillance recordings to buttress testimony from the divorce lawyer, Mr. Siminovsky, who had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in exchange for his cooperation.
In the recordings, Mr. Siminovsky was seen relaxing in the judge’s robing room and handing over an envelope full of cash. In court, he recounted entertaining the judge with drinks and meals in exchange for favorable treatment.
In his closing statement for the prosecution, Mr. Vecchione said on Tuesday, “Supreme Court Judge Gerald Garson became corrupt Supreme Court Judge Gerald Garson, disgraceful Supreme Court Judge Gerald Garson, disgraced Supreme Court Judge Gerald Garson.”
The defense lawyer, Mr. Washor, portrayed Mr. Siminovsky as the architect of a scheme to manipulate the judge, turning on Mr. Garson and setting him up after his arrest.
“He deliberately lied to you,” Mr. Washor told the jury in his closing statement. Turning to the prosecutors, he added, “And he did so to curry favor with these gentlemen here.”
Jurors deliberated for a day and a half. At mid-day yesterday, they sent out a note asking for clarification of the requirement for unanimity. They were considering one count of bribery in the third degree, a class D felony, and six counts of receiving a reward for official misconduct in the second degree, a class E felony. The lesser counts related to specific acts, while the bribery charge encompassed a pattern of behavior.
Around 5:30 p.m., the jury foreman, a young man in a T-shirt and gold chain, stood and announced the verdict.
Mr. Vecchione, who was assisted on the case by three assistant district attorneys, Bryan Wallace, Joseph Alexis, and Seth Lieberman, turned to the gallery and gave a thumbs-up sign.
Mr. Washor, who during the trial repeatedly insulted and baited Mr. Vecchione, turned to the prosecutors and said, “Congratulations, gentlemen.”
Mr. Vecchione asked the judge overseeing the case, Jeffrey C. Berry, to order Mr. Garson held without bail.
Mr. Washor argued that Mr. Garson had attended his court dates faithfully and was due in a doctor’s office today. Assured that Mr. Garson had turned over his passport to prosecutors, Justice Berry allowed him to remain free on $15,000 bond and ordered him to report weekly to probation officers. Then he turned to the defendant.
“Gerald Garson, kindly stand, sir,” Justice Berry said.
Taking his lawyer’s arm, Mr. Garson rose slowly but steadily to his feet. Justice Berry warned him to abide by his bail conditions and to report for sentencing on June 5.
Outside the courtroom, Mr. Garson was hurried away by family members and supporters.
“Finally, we have justice,” said Frieda Hanimov, whose divorce case was handled by Mr. Garson and who wore a surveillance device to collect evidence against him. Adding that she and other victims were planning civil lawsuits, she said, “Now hopefully they’re going to learn and realize we have corruption everywhere.”
LexPress: FLASH! Garson Convicted
By Jason Boog
Posted 04-20-07
A cheap fixer is convicted of leaving cigar stains on his bench, a 27-year battle over housing segregation ends in the Bronx, and subpoenas and vendettas fly in Albany as the Dennis Vacco inquiry continues.
One of Brooklyn’s most notorious judges went from posh dinners to the promise of prison Thursday as a jury convicted former Supreme Court Justice Gerald P. Garson of three felonies.
After nearly two full days of deliberation, the jury decided that Garson was guilty of a third-degree count of taking a bribe and two second-degree counts of receiving reward for official misconduct. The conviction carries a maximum sentence of 15-years in prison.
Those three charges stemmed directly or indirectly from videotaped evidence filmed during a 2003 wire-tapping operation in Garson’s chambers. The jury watched as Garson accepted $1,000 and a box of cigars from Paul Siminovsky, a divorce lawyer who regularly fraternized in Garson’s chambers, bought the judge $10,000 worth of dinners and drinks in exchange for ex parte advice, and ultimately wore a wire as part of a plea deal with the Brooklyn DA’s office.
While the disgraced judge fled the courthouse without speaking to the press, Garson’s defense attorney Michael S. Washor bitterly denounced Siminovsky while vowing to appeal. “I don’t apologize to Paul Siminovsky,” he said, “just like I wouldn’t apologize to Hitler or Saddam Hussein.”
The lead prosecutor, Michael F. Vecchione, grinned when he spoke of the filmed evidence that won his conviction. He called the tape “academy award winning”— a jab at Washor’s opening statements that compared the hidden-camera evidence to “a bad B-movie.”
Vecchione said that the DA’s probe of judicial misconduct was ongoing. “Any message that was sent was sent with the indictment,” he explained. “People have to do what’s right, whether you’re a judge or an ordinary citizen.”
The entire investigation began when a pregnant mother named Frieda Hanimov went to the Brooklyn DA, alleging that Garson’s crooked activities were marring her divorce proceedings.
In a telephone interview minutes after the verdict was released, she literally shouted with joy.
“I’m so happy that finally we got justice,” she said. “More judges need to be investigated because the court system is corrupt.”
Hanimov is part of an informal coalition of mothers who have or have had divorces pending in the matrimonial courts. She claimed that Garson was just the tip of the iceberg. “I’m getting tons of calls and emails every day about corruption in the court system,” she said.
The bribery trial had lasted more than one month, as the jury watched a series of videotapes and listened to transcripts from the judicial corruption probe. Every step of the way, Washor accused the DA’s office of entrapping Garson in an unfair case.
During the two-day deliberations, the jury requested to hear a number of read-backs and watched the video of Garson accepting a box of cigars from Siminovsky. While the two sides squabbled over how best to present the information, state Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Berry told everybody to slow down.
“This is like flying into JFK,” he quipped about the demanding lawyers. “I’ve got on my screen five potential airliners that want to land in this courtroom, and I’m taking them one at a time.”
At one point Wednesday, the tired jury passed a note asking if the verdict needed to be unanimous. Justice Berry explained that they needed to unanimously vote for both “guilty” and “not guilty” verdicts. This note led some court watchers to speculate that the trial could end in a hung jury mistrial.
“Congratulations, gentlemen. Congratulations,” Washor muttered to the prosecution immediately after the verdict was read. Garson stared blankly at the defense table, sagging in his seat.
Washor then demanded that the jury read a roll call of their verdict, making each juror personally affirm the verdict, searching their faces for clues to the conviction.
Sentencing was scheduled for June 5th. Berry allowed the former judge to return home until that date, without raising the bail. He ordered Garson to report to a probation officer once a week until sentencing.
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A quote from Gandhi (Thank you Mo),
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall––think of it--always."
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"... 'Garson is the tip of the iceberg,' said one of the women, Esther Yang, calling the former judge a 'thug.'..."
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NY Judge Charged in Hidden-Camera Sting
By TOM HAYS
AP
NEW YORK (AP) - Inside the chambers of Justice Gerald Garson, the cigars were handmade and the language unrefined.
In hidden-camera recordings, Garson freely dropped the F-word, used terms such as "ditz" to describe women and doled out advice to a shady divorce lawyer on how to overbill a client: "Squeeze the guy."
The short judge with an impish grin also received a $250 box of cigars from the attorney - a scene that's come to symbolize the four-year investigation of courthouse corruption in New York's most populous borough.
"What you'll see and what you'll hear went on in that robing room will shock you," prosecutor Joseph Alexis told jurors last month before playing the video at Garson's ongoing trial.
The cigars were courtesy of the Brooklyn district attorney, who orchestrated the sting by wiring Garson's chambers with a tiny camera and persuading the divorce lawyer, Paul Siminovsky, to betray his friend in exchange for leniency in his own bribery case.
Garson, 74, faces up to 31 years in prison if convicted on charges of accepting a bribe and receiving rewards for official misconduct.
The judge's defense attorney, Michael Washor, has argued that his now-retired client was guilty only of stupidity. "There was conspicuously absent any criminal intent or motivation of gain," Washor said.
Prosecutors first alleged in 2003 that Siminovsky bribed Garson so the judge would award him lucrative guardianships in child-custody cases and give him advice on winning divorce cases. Authorities initially suspected civil judgeships were being bought and sold for up to $50,000.
Hard evidence of such brokering never materialized, but the scandal did bring down the longtime head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party and resulted in convictions of courthouse staff and other lesser figures.
Last month, a jury convicted former party boss Clarence Norman Jr., a former state assemblyman, of grand larceny in what prosecutors called a scheme to shake down a judicial candidate. He is awaiting sentencing.
"The days of back-room politics, the smoke-filled room deals, are limited," Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said after Norman's conviction.
The Garson case has also provided ammunition for critics of the state's system for nominating judges. They insist the nominating conventions are unconstitutional and rife with cronyism, and the U.S. Supreme Court announced last month it would review their complaints.
In Brooklyn, several women accused Garson and other judges of conspiring to decide property and child custody matters in favor of their ex-husbands.
"Garson is the tip of the iceberg," said one of the women, Esther Yang, calling the former judge a "thug."
Court officials responded to the outcry by assigning another judge to hear any complaints about Garson's decisions. But few people came forward, and those who did ended up settling out of court, the officials said.
Before his arrest, Garson was a little-known jurist with a backlog of divorce cases and a cozy relationship with Siminovsky, who represented some of the divorcing spouses.
Over the years, investigators say, the judge violated his neutrality by letting the lawyer buy him thousands of dollars worth of meals and drinks.
Their liaisons were exposed in 2002, when a woman reported that a courthouse crony told her that her husband, a client of Siminovsky, had arranged to bribe Garson, who was overseeing the couple's divorce.
Investigators arrested the lawyer, who agreed that day to wear a wire while having lunch with the judge.
Jurors heard an audiotape of Garson allegedly sharing strategy with Siminovsky over matzo ball soup. On his client's testimony, the judge advises, "Just have him deny a few things."
Later in his chambers, Garson questions why Siminovsky slipped the box of 25 Dominican cigars into the judge's desk. The lawyer responds, "Because you have my head together. You know, you gave me little pointers."
During another taped meeting, Garson allegedly accepts $1,000 cash.
"Make sure it's not going to fall out of your pocket," the lawyer cautions.
"Yeah," the judge responds. "It's not going to fall out."
The judge later wavers, asking whether the lawyer should take the money back and instead contribute to the judicial campaign of his wife, also a civil judge.
"Don't worry about it," the lawyer says.
Investigators say they found the stack of bills stuffed in Garson's pocket when he was arrested.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.
For anyone who is interested in appointments of law guardians, the NYS court has a website for Guardian and Fudiciry Services. It has lots of information including rules, reports and cases. Most interesting, there is a link for Public Access to Part 36 Database, where you can search for appointments by guardian, judge, eligibility, compensation. It goes back years. You can find some very interesting things there.
Can you please post the link to that database? I am very interested!
http://www.nycourts.gov/ip/gfs/index.shtml
Found it myself.
Can someone clarify for me - if I don't find any info on Law Guardians which were assigned and paid in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 - what does it mean - violation of the rules, "secret compensation", or what? I know for a fact that those Law Guardians were paid. Thanks.
Pregnant Ma Lands in Jail for Fighting to Get Kids
By Brad Hamilton
New York Post
May 15, 2005
A "mother of the year" is in jail because she peppered a divorce judge with harsh questions and objections in court.
Seven-months pregnant Genia Shockome's out-of-work and allegedly abusive husband Timothy then moved to Texas, taking the couple's son Alexander, 10, and daughter Victoria, 8.
The ruling on May 5 by Poughkeepsie Family Court judge Damian Amodeo sent Russian-born Shockome, a 33-year-old IBM software engineer, to prison over Mother's Day.
"I was objecting," Shockome said in a teary jailhouse interview with The Post after she and Amodeo went toe-to-toe in a wild clash straight from Al Pacino's "And Justice For All."
"He was saying, this is what the mother did, this is what was said. It wasn't true. So I said, 'That's a lie.' "
Shockome at first asked to know what the proceeding was about and for time to get a court-
appointed lawyer, which the judge denied, saying she had not filled out the right form.
But she set off fireworks when she accused him of misrepresenting the record.
"If you open your mouth once more, you are going to jail," the judge warned.
"Already heard that before," she snapped back.
He warned her several more times, she continued to object, and he sent her to prison for 30 days without bail.
His decision outraged women's-rights groups.
"The judge always sided with the father's lawyer," said Jennifer Shagan, who heads the Dutchess County chapter of NOW, the National Organization for Women, and has followed the case for three years.
"Why would he take this woman's children away and give them to a man who is abusive and has no money? It makes no sense."
Shockome is well liked in Poughkeepsie, where she was named mother of the year by two victim-advocacy groups in 2003 after battling in court with her husband, a native Texan she met in Moscow and married there in 1996.
Genia Shockome, an IBM employee earning $65,000 a year, also won three gold medals in the pentathlon at last year's Empire State Games and is expecting a child with her current boyfriend, a track coach.
During the interview, Shockome said the judge had threatened to jail her dozens of times in the past and said the case turned against her after she fired Michael Kranis, a politically connected lawyer and friend of the judge.
She said she grew fed up with Kranis after paying him $17,000 and watching her divorce case drag on for years without resolution. She's now suing Kranis and the judge in federal court.
Neither Kranis nor Amodeo returned calls seeking comment.
Amodeo at first gave her the kids, but awarded full custody to the father in 2003, limiting her to strictly supervised visits.
His ruling was based on his belief that she lied about her husband's abuse although another judge issued an order of protection against Timothy Shockome for harassing her and the husband spent two days in jail for violating the order in 2001.
Amodeo also said she repeatedly bad-mouthed the father to the kids, an act that allows judges to take away custody under the state's "parental alienation" provision.
But he also said she "provided them with good, wholesome and beneficial care," and noted contradictions in the father's statements and an outburst of anger in which he pounded on her door and shouted expletives.
Court spokesman David Bookstaver said Amodeo acted properly, was "extremely patient," and used jail "only as a last resort."
"She threw herself into jail," he said. "If you make a mockery of the system, the system falls apart."
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Re: Law Guardians who don't appear on the website. It doesn't seem that there is any one way for information to be put on this website. I found it when looking up info on a GAL for a friend. In that case, the GAL was not one approved, but the judge got around it (which they can do by submitting a form for an exception.) It took quite a while for the information to be posted (like a year or so), so the site is only somewhat useful. There is an office for law guardians, the phone number is on the website. You might try calling and asking some of your questions. I'll say this though, I met a judge who was in charge of the office, and while he was a very nice person, he was totally ineffective in running the office. Like much of the court system, it seems to be incompetent and ineffective. There probably is some misconduct thrown in there too.
Judge Amodeo - a member of the matrimonial commission, - who has this misguided black robe?
Paul Simonovsky was the convicted judge Garson's favorite law guardian.
who is Judge Amodeo's favorite law guardian? and why? what is the connnection?
How about forensic experts? who is Judge Amodeo's favorite forensic experts?
Someone out there must know someone who knows someone who knows someone?
to anonymous re: law guardian
1. contact OCA re: who paid what? under freedom of information act or FOIL
2. I think, they cannot get more than 65k per year re: appointment - joanne douglas made more, she was part of soft split - the 34 experts who owned a business together. Does anyone has the list on who's who?
no answer - contact the DA's office or the feds - report the corruption.
N.Y. DA Says Former Judge, Assemblyman Hold Keys to Probe of Buying and Selling Judgeships
Daniel Wise
New York Law Journal
April 23, 2007
With the bribery conviction of former Justice Gerald P. Garson in hand, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes said Friday that "the end game" of his office's four-year probe into the buying and selling of judgeships is about to begin.
Hynes said Garson and former Assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic county Chairman Clarence Norman hold the "keys" to proving allegations that candidates have had to pay $50,000 or more to obtain judgeships, stories that "have been around longer than you or me."
"Clarence Norman and Gerald Garson have information about the system that they are concealing" and their failure to reveal it has cast "a pall of scandal over the honorable and decent men and women who sit as judges in Kings County," Hynes said.
Lawyers for both men have insisted that they have nothing to disclose about alleged corruption.
Garson, 74, who has bladder cancer, faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on June 5 by Acting Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Berry. Hynes said he would request the maximum term.
Garson should "reflect upon what he is facing -- jail for the rest of his life," Hynes said. "He should understand, we are serious."
Garson's attorney, Michael S. Washor, blasted Hynes' comments.
"It is unreal, unbelievable that a prosecutor like Hynes, with his reputation, would say 'I am going to squeeze a defendant,'" said Washor.
"A sentence is supposed to be individualized; it's supposed to fit the crime," he added, "not a sword to extract information."
If Berry imposes consecutive terms when Garson is sentenced on June 5, the ex-judge could face a maximum sentence of 5 to 15 years in prison. The most lenient sentence the judge could impose would be an unconditional discharge.
The district attorney's office can recommend a sentence, but the final decision will rest with Justice Berry, who also will receive a presentence report from the Probation Department.
Washor said that "there is no basis for the belief -- not a scintilla of evidence -- that Jerry Garson knew anything whatsoever of any corruption."
Garson was widely reported to have spent a month following his arrest in March 2003 wearing a wire in an unsuccessful bid to collect information about Democratic Party nominations for judgeships being sold in Brooklyn.
Garson's bid to win leniency by gathering information about selling judgeships was halted after prosecutors learned that the New York Post was about to report that he had been wearing a wire.
OPPOSITION TO PAROLE
Norman already has been sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison following convictions in three separate felony prosecutions. He is free on bail pending his appeals.
Hynes said that his office would "vigorously oppose" any parole applications if Norman's convictions are upheld on appeal. Because he will be in prison "for at least six years," Hynes said, Norman ought to "re-think his refusal to cooperate."
Neither of Norman's trial lawyers, Anthony L. Ricco or Edward D. Wilford, returned a request for comment.
However, Edward M. Rapport, who represented Norman on his first two convictions, said at the January 2006 sentencing on the charges that "Norman has no intention of either making things up or lying to satisfy the district attorney."
Rappaport was responding to a request from the Brooklyn rackets chief, Michael Vecchione, that Norman be given a stiffer sentence because he had "persist[ed] in withholding information" that lies "at the very heart" of the investigation.
Late Thursday afternoon, Garson was convicted of third-degree bribery and two counts of receiving rewards for misconduct.
On the over-arching bribery count, Garson, who presided over divorce cases in Brooklyn Supreme Court for five years, was convicted of accepting thousands of dollars in free meals and drinks, and, in one case, a box of expensive cigars from a lawyer who appeared frequently in front of him.
In exchange, the jury found, Garson had given the lawyer, Paul Siminovsky, who was a key prosecution witness, ex parte advice on how to handle a case he had before the judge; court appointments as a law guardian, and unusual privileges such as unfettered access to his robing room.
Norman received three consecutive sentences of 1 to 3 years following his conviction on felony charges at three trials. Acting Justice Martin Marcus imposed the latest sentence, bringing his cumulative sentence to 3 to 9 years last Monday.
Norman's three convictions were for soliciting campaign contributions in excess of legal limits; stealing a $5,000 check made out to the former assemblyman's campaign committee; and coercing a Civil Court candidate to spend $10,000 on Election Day operations she did not want.
It appears that since Bernadette Lupinetti, Esq. and Gary Greenwald, Esq. from Orange County New York helped my ex Carl A. Scheuering get custody of my beloved children and terminated my parental rights while committing fraud to the court with the help of the court. Bernadette Lupinetti's case load as a law guadian looks a little bigger. Looks like a thank you to me.
I am not afraid of the devil, his helpers and his destructive agenda as GOD is and will be with me for all the days of my life. If God is with me, who can come against me. That is the promise that GOD made to all of us.
These bad guys want you to beleive in God, and "trust that he would help you"... They want you to be passive, praying, doing nothing else. Religion is great, but don't count on God, do it yourself. Fight it, get their records, expose, file with DA, send letters with their wrong doings to people at power (Kaye, Spatz, Administrative Judge, FBI).
Family Court Feud
By Jason Boog
Posted 04-26-2007
As the bribery trial for former state Supreme Court Justice Gerald P. Garson unfolded over the last month, a curious group of activists used the proceedings to declare war on the matrimonial bench.
This loose coalition of women’s rights activists, divorcees, and judicial reformers filled the gallery at the trial. They picketed outside the courthouse and held an informal celebration when Garson was convicted on April 19.
They had the support of a number of activist organizations, including the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Alliance for Family Court Justice, and the Protective Mothers Alliance for Justice.
On the eve of Garson’s conviction, 57 of activists filed a formal complaint with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct alleging that his wife, Brooklyn Civil Court Judge Robin Garson, was “exploiting her official status” by photographing activists at the trial, breaking courtroom boundaries, and using the courthouse staff entrance.
More than anything, they used the letter as a wedge to explain their platform calling for reform of judicial treatment of women, generally, and mothers, particularly, in divorce cases.
THE AGENDA
While these varied groups have a wide spectrum of issues included under the rubric of “judicial reform,” they have a few common demands: more accountability for matrimonial judges, heightened transparency in divorce proceedings, and reform of the lucrative law guardianship system. Robin Garson seemed to be more of a touchstone than the only object of their ire.
“I know she was there to support her husband,” said Tessa Abrams Mason, one of the more well-known members of the unofficial group. Abrams Mason is the ex-wife of another disgraced jurist, disrobed state Supreme Court Justice Reynold Mason. “She [Robin Garson] should have been treated just like we were. Judges abuse their authority.”
Abrams Mason joined this informal crew in 2003 during a messy divorce with her ex-husband, who was removed from the bench for misappropriating funds in his escrow account as an attorney and as a judge. Currently, she has a warrant out for Mason’s arrest, as the former judge, now selling real estate in Georgia, allegedly owes more than $200,000 in child support.
But is this small, dedicated clutch of activists presenting a coherent front? Or are they merely annoying the jurists they criticize?
The group has succeeded in generating some publicity from Garson’s conviction on three felony counts of bribery and official misconduct in manipulating divorce matters — a conviction that could yield up to 15-years in prison. Among other things, Abrams Mason has organized a “March Against Deadbeat Parents” on May 9 — a protest calling for judicial reform and new regulations for child support.
USING THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL
“The Brooklyn bench is corrupt, seats have been bought in Brooklyn. This has been going on for so long, and it will continue to go on,” Abrams Mason said in an interview.
While the activists interviewed for this article couldn’t offer specific statistics or quantifiable proof of the extent of courthouse abuses, they all agreed that complaints against matrimonial judges and court-appointed guardians have increased over the last few years.
“Do I have a count? No. You just know instinctively after taking these calls year after year,” said Marcia A. Pappas, the president of National Organization for Women-NYS, when asked about the increase in complaints.
Pappas helped draft the letter against Judge Robin Garson. “Much of the complaints have to do with the abusive behavior of judges and the attitudes of law guardians,” she said.
Although not involved in the Gason matters, matrimonial attorney David Aronson thought the recent spate of protests didn’t illustrate a systemic flaw. “There are people who wanted to use the Garson trial as an illustration of everything that’s bad with the system. That case was really an exception,” he concluded.
The Sheresky Aronson & Mayefsky partner also sits on the Committee on Matrimonial Practice, an advisory body chaired by Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Matrimonial Matters, Jacqueline W. Silbermann.
Aronson only remembered two occasions in his 30-year career in which activists sat in a courtroom when he was trying a case, and they did not interact with him in any way. “I have read about it or heard about it a couple of times, but it’s certainly not a routine or common occurrence,” he said.
“In terms of an individual case, their influence is nonexistent. [However,] I think that social activists over time have an influence on the law, in many cases, a good influence.”
Judge Silbermann did not return calls for comments. (But former Supreme Court Justice and Matrimonial Commission chair Sondra M. Miller will join Judicial Reports on Friday April 26 for an exclusive interview.)
The groups hope to channel this growing, if unmeasured, disenchantment into political action. The complaint against Judge Robin Garson was sent to Governor Eliot Spitzer, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye, and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in hopes that a little violation will generate more intense scrutiny.
While the activists admit that Judge Robin Garson’s alleged unethical behaviors are “minor,” they first and foremost are pushing for a strict standard of accountability for judges.
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR MISCONDUCT
“Demonstrating a ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy towards minor, unethical Judicial Code of Conduct violations will benefit our society as a whole. The nipping in the bud of the professional misconduct of judges shall send a loud and clear message to the entire judiciary and citizenry of New York State,” the letter explains.
Oscar G. Chase, a law professor at New York University School of Law who specializes in judicial administration, doesn’t think that this kind of advocacy is the best use of activist energy.
“With an elective judiciary, to the extent that groups attract attention to Judge X or Judge Y, presumably that will reflect itself in the election,” he said, urging activists to focus on election politics, rather than dragging politics into the courtroom.
“If you are unhappy with all the judges, then you should approach the administrative judge. Administrative judges must be careful to protect judicial independence, but they should be responsive,” he concluded.
One high profile reformer disagreed, calling for tougher monitoring standards for both judges and law guardians.
“There isn’t any governmental group that would remain healthy without someone monitoring,” said Patricia Duff, founder of Families for Justice, another group actively engaged in the push for judicial reform. “If you look at the rules and regulations for how law guardians bill clients, there are no standards. There’s no review of what they do.”
Duff became an activist after her highly publicized divorce from cosmetics magnate Ronald Perelman. Duff testified about her experiences with law guardians in front of the court system’s Matrimonial Commission. This court-appointed body is distinct from the Committee on Matrimonial Practice.
In 2006, that commission (led by former Supreme Court Justice Sondra M. Miller, and dubbed the “Miller Commission” by some experts) released a laundry list of matrimonial reforms that left Duff cold.
Duff felt that her fellow activists did help initiate the commission, but criticized the result:
“I think we helped get the matrimonial reform commission going. We hoped they would include litigant groups on the panel — the results unfortunately show that omission. The commission was unresponsive to the litigants, [and they] didn’t make it more consumer-friendly, rather than lawyer-friendly,” she said in an interview.
Currently, Families for Justice is lobbying the legislature for law guardianship reform, frustrated by the court system’s response.
One prominent matrimonial lawyer begged to differ about law guardians. “I’ve found them to be very instrumental for settling cases in matrimonial court,” said Kathleen Donelli, a partner at the White Plains firm, McCarthy Fingar.
After twenty years of matrimonial work, the attorney emphasized the peacemaking role of law guardians. “Since the Miller Commission there has been an emphasis on the law guardian’s duty to interview the child and communicate the child’s situation to the court."
Former Supreme Court Justice Miller now works as Chief Counsel at Donelli’s firm.
The New York chapter of NOW says it receives on average two or three phone calls a day from women seeking help. According to the group’s president, Marcia Pappas, 90 percent of those calls revolve around problems with matrimonial and family courts.
“We’ve noticed a rise in the interest in court watches over the last three or four years,” she said, explaining how her members monitor judges’ and lawyers’ courtroom behavior in select divorce and custody cases.
“It’s been a dirty little secret what goes on in courts. Women weren’t talking about it. Suddenly there’s been this burst of interest.”
She sends her chapter members into court with a six-page “Court Watch Evaluation for Family Advocates” questionnaire that documents every inch of the case with pointed questions such as, “Did the Judge appear to show favoritism toward any of the parties?” and “Was the Judge respectful to the litigants?”
Pappas couldn’t say how many court watches her organization has carried out over the last few years, but said she had attended nearly a half-dozen over the last six months.
“When the judge knows we’re there, they treat the women very differently,” she added. Pappas claimed that in the trials she has observed, judges treat litigants with more respect and understanding afterwards.
One member of the Committee on Matrimonial Practice thought that the results of these amateur evaluations hadn’t ranked high on the menu of problems discussed by his group.
“I’ve never seen that issue come up. My impression was that it wasn’t an issue,” said Richard B. Alderman, a partner at Alderman and Alderman, a matrimonial firm in Syracuse.
The attorney added that he hadn’t seen this kind of action in Syracuse during the last few years, and didn’t think it could affect an individual case. “I think judges were mainly viewing these people as disgruntled individuals or a vocal fringe group. I don’t think it would have any impact on the judge’s decision,” he said.
YANG VERSUS LOBIS
Earlier this week, a few activists joined a divorcee in an especially tricky custody proceeding in the Manhattan matrimonial part. The proceeding was a microcosm of both the bigger issues that the Garson conviction raised and the day-to-day tactical support that these matrimonial activists can provide during a hearing.
Eight court watchers attended a custody hearing with divorcee Esther Yang as she faced down her ex-husband in these divorce proceedings that have dragged on for five years in Manhattan.
Yang's supporters filled the middle section of the gallery, a crew that included a few divorced mothers, a community activist, and Yang’s own parents. They copied down virtually every word state Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis uttered in the courtroom, scribbling notes in legal pads and shaking their heads when the justice cut Yang’s speeches short.
The hearing was a legal showdown for Yang, who has argued without an attorney that she is unable to pay child support for her daughter that she shares custody of with her husband. Over the course of the convoluted trial, Yang has made headlines by mounting an insurgent Democratic campaign for state Assembly and (as reported by the Daily News) filing federal papers papers requesting that the openly gay Justice Lobis should recuse herself because she couldn’t understand Yang “as a heterosexual woman.”
Justice Lobis had ordered Yang to provide proof that she has sought employment. Yang produced stacks of printed web applications and automated internet responses from employers, but the justice was unmoved.
After a few exchanges between Yang and Lobis escalated to shouting matches, Lobis ruled that the activist would be jailed for five days if she doesn’t pay $5,000 by early next month. “This is very serious. I have a duty to enforce child support. I am very saddened by this event, but I have no alternative,” she said gravely, massaging her temples as she delivered the sentence.
Outside the courtroom, Yang’s supporters hugged her and offered encouragement about finding the money. By not being dragged off to Riker’s Island that morning, Yang counted the day a minor victory. She was quick to assign blame, alleging that the entire New York City bench contains corrupt justices.
“I think Manhattan should have the same scrutiny as Brooklyn. The Brooklyn prosecution should be a template,” she said.
re: Oscar G. Chase, a law professor at New York University School of Law"
“If you are unhappy with all the judges, then you should approach the administrative judge. Administrative judges must be careful to protect judicial independence, but they should be responsive,” he concluded.
What? Mr. Chase should step out of his ivory tower for a couple of minutes. Not only has Judge Kaye been notified of specific complaints about specific individuals, but has been given documentation as to the various charges. And, not only has Judge Kaye been contacted, so has every other administrative Judge in the court system, from Judge Lippman down through local Administrative Judges, and every related agency in the Judiciary. A complaint sent to any of these people usually result in either being outright ignored, being referred to some other individual or department, or in the extremely rare case of an investigation, some "administrative action" is taken which means they move the person for a while until everything blows over.
Mr. Chase should take a critical look into what the administration of the court is supposed to do and what it actually does. There are specific requirements, which if they were complied with, would go a long way to preventing many of these problems. Nobody wants to attack the Judiciary. It is a fundamental belief of most litigants, who have had very little experience with the courts or attorneys, that the Judge is going to be the one person who will listen to their side and apply the law fairly and equitably. It is only a last resort that anybody would go public with such personal issues.
There is obviously a big problem with the system the way it is. This is not the first time that changes have been needed. It is really up to the legislature, and not the courts, to fix the problem. The legislature has created the laws, which the courts are to enforce, and obviously the courts and the litigants are not happy. It is the job of the legislature to look at the issues and design a better system. Politics and money have too much influence and the results are hurting children and families.
Those who feel they have been victimized by the system should not keep silent. This problem has been going on for many years, and it needs to be changed. Making public the most egregious cases is done to bring attention to a problem that is being ignored and needs to be addressed by those individuals who are elected to take case of these problems.
YOUR OPINION Staten Island Advance
Sunday, April 29, 2007
In your April 20 article "Brooklyn judge guilty of receiving bribes," the prosecutor declared that Judge Gerald Garson [who handled divorce cases] "was no better than the health inspector who turns the other way for 20 bucks when the rats have infested the restaurant."
The defense attorney, on the other hand, admitted his client "had probably violated ethical rules, but that his client had never agreed to give out courtroom benefits for the largess he received," as reported in The New York Times. The defense's strategy and resort to a custom and practice of the trade appeared to say the only real rule broken was by the cooperating witness. That rule was never rat out a judge. A pitiful defense.
Now, finally, shall we take the focus from our revulsion and fascination with the rats and turn it to the price of justice, the welfare of the mother and children, and learn from the press where this legal rodents' nest has left them and what the courts have done, if anything, to heal and restore them?
Too bad Jason Boog missed the connection that Tessa Abrams Mason and Esther Yang share the same judge, Joan Lobis. That's right, while the disgraced and disbarred Judge Mason who is a quarter of a million dollars in arrears on child support sells real estate in Georgia, Esther Yang will be incarcerated on Friday for failing to deliver $5,000. It is common knowledge that Judge Lobis is punitive towards women. If anyone is paying attention here's more evidence.
re: Oscar G. Chase's comments urging "activists to focus on election politics". Leave it to a law professor to not "get it". I don't know if he votes but if he does he may make it a point to notice next time that there very often is no contest in judicial elections. All the candidate needs is for his/her mother to show up and vote and they're in.
Should anyone be surprised by the tepid results of the "Miller Commission". Did she even have time to wrap it up before jumping into her cushy private practice. I know there have been a lot of Westchester complaints on this blog. What does anybody know about McCarthy Fingar?
Garson's wife may face rap on ethics
________________________________________
BY NANCIE L. KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, April 30th 2007, 4:00 AM
The wife of disgraced Brooklyn judge Gerald Garson, who was convicted this month of accepting bribes for fixing divorce cases, could be soon facing her own legal problems, the Daily News has learned.
The state Commission on Judicial Conduct may begin investigating possible judicial ethical lapses by Robin Garson, a Civil Court judge, involving campaign funds and failing to report criminal behavior, a legal source said.
Her husband, 75, a former Supreme Court justice, was convicted on April 19 and faces up to 15 years behind bars at his sentencing on June 5.
"They decided to let the trial get over with, to let out what would be aired," said a well-informed source.
At Robin Garson's husband's trial, corrupt lawyer Paul Siminovsky testified that Gerald Garson asked him to solicit campaign contributions and provide free legal help for her 2002 judicial campaign.
In 2004, Robin Garson testified at a grand jury investigation of her husband's cousin, retired Supreme Court Justice Michael Garson, who was suspected of stealing thousands of dollars from his elderly aunt.
She said Michael Garson confessed to improperly taking $100,000 from his aunt Sarah Gershenoff. She also testified that a power of attorney the nephews used to pilfer Gershenoff's nearly $1 million fortune was forged, according to sources.
Robin Garson was Gershenoff's guardian at the time.
Ethical rules require judges to report criminal acts.
The commission is also reviewing a letter sent by the National Organization for Women about Robin Garson's behavior on the day of her husband's conviction.
The letter accused her of "exploiting her official status to obtain special privileges" at the trial, passing notes to defense attorneys and entering the courtroom through special doors reserved for officials.
Garson's lawyer, Richard Godovsky, dismissed the charges in the NOW letter.
"There is nothing against her," he said. "That's going to be clear."
The administrator of the judicial commission, Robert Tembeckjian, declined to comment, but confirmed the panel had received the NOW letter.
"We will deal with it as we deal with all complaints," he said.
nkatz@nydailynews.com
what does robert tembeckjian mean, the NOW letter will end up in the circular file?
circular file = the garbage
Yes, he means he would put NOW letter in the garbage, as they "deal with other complaints"
CitiZens,
Esther Yang made claims that Judge Lobis is biased, due to being lesbian, and that her ex abused her and made her file bankruptcy, but several other courts found her claims were false and fabricated.
I told her to let him go, but her ex clearly has a hold over her, but also apparently has some magical power, as he gets credit for destroying Yang’s life and causing her ruin; her first bankruptcy was successful, her second, withdrawn and now this one that has dragged on for a few years.
It appears that Boog is trying PR for Yang, as he misrepresented that the hearing 4/24/07 was a custody hearing, but it was in fact was an adjournment date to enforce the decision finding Yang in Contempt in August 2006, and the subsequent decision in December to commit her to jail.
The misguided attempt to tie Yang’s case to Garson’s is lame as one involves corruption and the other involves sour grapes.
It wasn’t an “especially tricky custody proceeding” as Boog reported, but was a follow up of the Court’s order compelling Yang to follow previous court orders, including to pay child support, unpaid for some 5 years.
Yang lost custody three years ago. And while the Judge may have “cut Yang’s speeches short” Supreme Court isnt the place to make speeches.
While it is true Judge Lobis ordered Yang pay $5000 by 4 may or go to jail for 5 days, this only after enforcement was delayed 6 (more) months, and after Yang has refused to follow other court orders.
If anything, it looks like Lobis, who reduced the sentence from 30 days to 5, is trying to work with Yang, who owes some $50,000, and simply refuses to do anything to comply.
Yang claimed Tuesday to be on public assistance. I wish I looked that good when I was getting food stamps, but that woman has it together, huh? Finally Lobis explained that free rent and free blackberry are income in kind. Hopefully Ester heard that, as she wouldn’t listen to me.
Finally, Boog also reported that Yang represented herself, but failed to report that she had representation (every woman should have lawyers like that) during the trial, during the contempt proceeding and in other courts where she has filed reams of paper, and motion after motion.
It is ironic that NOW has done so much good, and fought many good fights to secure rights for women and equal treatment in the courts, and want men who refuse to pay court-ordered child support in jail, but when a women is ordered to pay, THEN it is abuse.
NOW’s support of this ridiculous case could set women’s rights back to the 14th Century.
This wasting time in court has come to an end. I for one, wont be back. But I support Esther Yang and I support that women are treated equally in courts.
And I support NOW, although this case doesn’t seem to be the place for me to put my energy any longer.
To anonymous:
It is sad that you think your energy can not go in to a case filled with injustice and criminal activity at the expense of a child. If you can't support one victim, you are not capable of supporting anybody and yes it would be a waste of your time and Esther Yang for you to bring your negative energy around her.
Anonymous has such a handle on the details of the Yang case that he/she sounds suspiciously like an attorney or an ex husband. And if that is true I'm sure everyone is glad you won't be back and no one will miss you.
PS Or could it be the judge herself? Speaking of Judge Lobis she appears to have had only one campaign contribution 2/1/06 for $11,000 (obviously from a realative) Why does someone who is running unopposed need to run a campaign?
To Anonymous 5/1 11:26 A.M.
Let’s be fair and look at the other side. You say there is no connection between the Yang case and the Garson trial because the first involves sour grapes and the latter is about corruption. That is merely your perception. They are both about corruption.
First let’s consider how many complaints were made to the various judicial oversight committees about Gerald Garson and summarily dismissed as sour grapes. The entire concept of the judiciary policing itself would be laughable if the consequences weren’t so dire. It’s akin to giving the inmates the keys and asking them to watch over the prison. Garson was ONLY exposed when one courageous woman stood up for herself and demanded justice.
There is something so putrid about the Yang case you can smell it outside 60 Centre St. There are numerous people who reviewed her ex husband’s psychiatric record from the V.A. before Judge Lobis put a gag on Ms. Yang. At the last hearing Judge Lobis blurted out for all to hear that Ms. Yang misunderstood or misconstrued those records. Those who have seen the record claim it is all there in black and white and that anyone with at least a college degree could not possibly misconstrue the contents. So how does a court grant primary custody of a 4-year-old child to a psychotic parent? How can anyone explain it?
Let’s explore the possibilities. Could there have been remuneration (financial or even a favor) between certain parties – judge, lawyers, law clerks, forensic experts, etc.?
Or there could be corruption in the moral sense? Unfortunately, it is not in the nature of most judges to question their own decisions, but it would behoove this judge to review those psychiatric records again and get to the bottom of this. Too often the bench breeds arrogance instead of mercy.
The judge, as well as many court watchers, has observed the cool smugness of a psychotic on his meds and a borderline hysterical Ms. Yang at the endless string of court appearances. Well I suspect that most mothers’ would react the same way. It’s the law of nature and Judge Lobis seems to want to punish her for doing what comes naturally.
Which brings up the next question. Why doesn’t Judge Lobis understand this very basic human instinct? Is there a corruption of her ability to reason and judge? This is not the first instance in which she has demonstrated a bias against mothers. One merely has to “google” her name and read about other decisions she has made that have made it into the press. Does this judge have her own “mommy” issues? What if Ms. Yang had it right after all? What if, because Judge Lobis is a lesbian, she is biased against heterosexual women and doesn’t understand the maternal instinct? It is easier and more politically correct to attack Ms. Yang for suggesting it than it is to explore the possibility. After all we are presently living in a culture where there is a phobia of appearing homophobic. The brains of homosexuals and heterosexuals are obviously wired differently. What are the other differences besides sexual preference?
There is also the possibility of a corruption of Judge Lobis’s abilities, that she is simply inept and doesn’t exercise due diligence and/or just rubber stamps a law clerk who also may have her own agenda.
If Ms. Yang sounds like a desperate woman it is because she IS a desperate woman.
Forensic experts sit in judgment about the fitness of custodial parents. Who are the experts who evaluate whether judicial candidates are mentally and emotionally fit before we assign them custody of our judiciary? The political party bosses?
Sour grapes? You bet! Corruption? You bet!
Although there are many NOW positions I do not support, I applaud them for taking on Ms. Yang’s cause. They are willing to be the voice where an emblematic and enigmatic judicial oversight is not.
AMEN
JUSTICE IS BLIND AND JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT IS DEAF!
End Corruption in the Courts!
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Opinion:
Esther Yang is being treated like a man is usually treated in court --- if that is offensive to you it should be!
Esther Yang beleives in child custody battles --- http://www.thevillager.com/villager_175/friedmankavanagrace.html --- she opposes Shared Parenting for fit parents and therefore she believes in the status quo "winner take all" custody presumption of law. The loser of the sole custody battle loses all rights to the kid, medical records, school records, etc. It is not fair but Esther got the full impact of the system SHE has lobbied for. It is also the PUBLISHED preference of NOW NYS.
Sole Custody is a pathetic and warior like presumption. It is also the LAW in NYS Domestic Relations Law for custody awards.
When in the law do we remove property or rights by presumption of law? Answer: FAMILY COURT (every day)! In criminal and other civil matters you get fuller "due process" rights.
Do you remember other times in history when children were removed from fit parents? Were any of those GOOD TIMES? No, NEVER! (Those were the times of KINGS, or slave owners, or NAZIS.) Our Family Court now mimicks the most disgusting and opressive regimes in history.
How did Garson become a criminal? Because the vastness of a judge's discretion in a custody battle gave him the OPPORTUNITY. Discretion is the opportunity for corruption. Can you imagine a trafic court in a society without speed limit signs? (That would cause a lot of discretion and invite a lot of corruption).
Sole Custody really causes Health and Safety problems for all of society. Is there any statistic that gets BETTER under sole custody versus shared parenting for fit parents? NO.
But, for example, 90% of runaways come from Sole Custody households. 90%! DOJ & HHS statistics --- don't blame me.
Drug problems, sexual abuse, murder, dropouts, alcohol abuse, when does it all increase? Sole custody, sole custody, sole custody.
Post-divorce domestic violence goes DOWN when? Suprisingly in states and stipulations where there is shared parenting for fit parents ---- then post-divorce domestic violence goes down.
If AMERICA is about equality, if NOW is about EQUALITY, then we must presume fit parents will have equal access, rights, and responsibility, to the children after a divorce.
The Sole Custody philosophy creates actual harm and danger to children. We must CURE that philosophy!
We understand that sole custody is sometimes unavoidable but it should not be presumed or FORCED! A custody battle should not be FORCED as it is now.
The "CUSTODY BATTLE" is a disease that enriches attorneys, law guardians, and forensic evaluators but it empoverishes the litigants.
This is a wakeup call ! WAKE UP!
New York needs the law to be changed to presume that fit ("good") parents will both have access to their kid. The proposed law for NYS is actually very liberal --- one allegation of unfitness by anyone and the judges and the attorneys, and the forensic evaluators get the opportunity to be corrupt, drag cases out, and even SELL CUSTODY (like Garson did). Sometimes it is unavoidable but lets please protect parents and kids when we can.
For the children,
Greg Fischer. "the children's lobbyist"
P.O. Box 285
Calverton, NY 11933-0285
To Greg:
Yes, both parents should have access to their children. But when one parent been the biological mother or the biological father is abusive, on drugs, mentally ill diagnosed by a professional not involved with the court, sexually abusived a child which cases have been seen with the father as the molester, this biological parent should get supervise visitations or no visitation at all specially in cases of child abuse and sex crimes.
Now you have the biological fathers and this is a fact and I know of a case in New York, who has resource to trickery, manipulation, perjury, fraud upon the court using fraudulent court orders to obtain custody and terminated the mom's rights to parent her children, which he did and now is trying to put the mom in jail.
The court participates in these crimes and denied the mom the right to an attorney. While the "Law Guardian" who is supposed to "protect" the children is playing the best friend for the biological father and she is not doing this out of the goodness of her heart. Not to tell that this does not happen to good dads.
But it seems that Domestic Violence Survivors and physically, emotional and sexually abuse children are been punish by the court with the help of unethical "Court Officials"
A criminal is not born is made by choice a Court Official should not under any circumstance do favors for money or for any other reason. We are all architects of our own lives. This means that when the building collapse the architect should fall with its master piece.
The end result is that we are all getting rear ended big time, and is time to take our courtrooms back and protect our children. When you begin making noise and threaten them with exposing their criminal behavior they will step back and begin changing their behavior.
So we can sit and write and criticize every one but at the end of the day many of us will go to bed at night without the right to call our children to say good night, and when we get up in the morning we will do the same thing again and feel completely impotent.
The only thing "WE" have to do is begin calling the criminals by their first and last name and warning other parents as they enter the court rooms to beware that Justice is for sale. This is nothing but organized crime and as long as fear becomes part of our lives “THEY WON”
In response to Greg Fischer the good (?) lobbyist
We find your posting of May 11th peculiar. You avow to be a champion of all things in the best interests of children, so either you haven’t been paying attention or you have another agenda. There have been various postings on this site from individuals who claim that some time ago they viewed documents alleging that Esther Yang’s ex-husband was being treated for schizophrenia. This was even reported in the World Journal. At some point it appears that Judge Lobis mandated that Ms. Yang destroy those documents. Regardless, those documents would still exist at the V.A. facility where he is allegedly treated. Ms. Yang claims that the court appointed forensic experts admitted that they did not read the documents.
Now it makes one wonder if Judge Lobis had ulterior motives for ordering destruction of those documents. She just as easily could have reviewed them, or perhaps she was trying to cover her tracks
You make much ado about the rights of “fit” parents. We ponder how, in your world, you reconcile the awarding primary custody of a 4-year-old girl to an allegedly psychotic father. If you really are, what you claim to be, we think you would be banging your drum for an investigation to get to the truth in this case.
If you believe that the decisions to enroll his child in a Title 1 failing school, move his child upstate without notifying his child’s mother, have his child’s mother arrested when she traveled up there to see her daughter, and his initiating multiple actions in multiple courts simultaneously in multiple counties is sane and sound reasoning, then we find it hard to believe that anyone could possibly take you, Mr. Fischer seriously as some children’s rights guru. Custody should be dictated by common sense. And what does this say about a judge that keeps giving him a pass? Maybe you need to start paying attention to some of the bizarre decisions meted out by Judge Lobis.
It’s a good idea for all of our blog readers to visit the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct website www.scjc.state.ny.us frequently and familiarize yourselves with the very important business these trusted public servants are preoccupied with. It’s no wonder they don’t have time to investigate criminals like Gerald Garson. At least they are consistent. Remember ten plus years ago when the Commission (different cast, same ineffectiveness) didn’t have time to investigate the numerous complaints (many from prosecuting attorneys) against Brooklyn Judge Lorin Duckman? It was only after Duckman’s recklessness resulted in the murder of an innocent woman and when pressured by the press and then Gov. Pitaki, that the Commission took notice.
Note: Not all bad things happen in Brooklyn. It just seems that way because Charles Hynes is one of the very few D.A.s with the will to clean up his town.
Doctors have been made to be liable for their errors in judgment. Perhaps the time has come to open discussion about making judges liable in much the same way. Maybe if judges knew they would be hit hard in their pocketbooks when their social experiments failed we would get a very different set of decisions coming off the bench. (Better make judicial malpractice jury trials!) Why stop there? We could also go after the political bosses whom indiscriminately, or for a price, assign them their power.
To be fair, Chief Justice Judith Kaye does take a nice photo. How did she get so good at posing?
Yes, not all bad things happen in Brooklyn. You have Albany County, Monroe County, Westchester County, Sullivan County, Orange County and all over New York State. Please help me add more counties.
These crooks are every where abusing litigants and destroying children lives. I guess Jesus was not the only one sold for money.
So, Greg WAKE UP we already did and not even the smell of coffee in the morning can take away the smell of human waste that New York State Courtrooms have every day.
Yes, Judge Judith Kaye takes very nice pictures. I wonder how can she sleep at night and be so fresh looking in the morning. I know make up can do wonders, but it would take a bundle of concealer, eye shadow, and foundation to cover up sleepless nights due to guilty thoughts.
But I can be mistaken after all I have heard that money can't buy love and happiness, but it can make up forget alot of things and buy a year or more supply of valiums.
To Greg,
Hey Greg when I appear in court again I am going to contact you ahead of time, I want to see your words in action and advocate for my kids been placed with an abuser. Since You are Greg Fischer "the children's lobbyist"
Anonymous said...
About Gregg Fisher -
Anyone knows Mr. Fisher's ex-wife? What else is Mr. Fisher hiding?
Know any social services that get federal funding to take mothers away from their children? Open one and when the feds get to them, they close it fast and re-open with a new name.
Mr. Gregg Fisher, would love to hear your ex-wife's truth. Would you be so kind to post your court documents and let's see if you are truly "children" lobbyist.
To:
Greg Fischer.
"the children's lobbyist"
P.O. Box 285
Calverton, NY 11933-0285
From: Cash Cow Mother
Dear Greg Fischer, the "children's Lobbyist", please post your children mother's contact information, I would like to confront her.
I want to tell her that she must be stupid to leave you, such a "devoted" father, that spends his free time "lobbying for the children".
I want to tell her that once you had started to "lobby for the children", you had demonstrated her and us as well, that you must finally get what you deserve - your children, so you don't have to "lobby" anymore.
I want to tell her that being separated from you, the "children's lobbyist", and receive child support , which you certainly "lobby against" is much better than paying exhorbitant child support to you while you abuse your children, having them at your home (at your spare from "lobbying for children" time).
I want to tell her that it is much more satisfying to have custody and be able to monitor "child lobbyist" behavior with your children, than to have no contact while "child lobbyist" uses your children as sex toys for himself.
I can't wait to talk with her about this, can I please have her number?
Also, Greg Fischer, please don't "child lobby" against Esther Yang. Her child is none of your business, the court process should be. If you have some mental abilities, please use them and try to appraise the court process injustices in Esther Yang's case. May be you would switch to "Anti- Lobis Lobbyist" instead? It would be much more productive for the society, and better for your own children in the future.
What do you say, Greg Fischer, care about your own children at least a bit?
To Greg:
Dear Greg I need your help and your experience to fight CPS for making FALSE INDICATED REPORTS AGAINST mothers who turn evidence of child abuse against a father.
So you should not have any problem gathering "your members" and helping as "the children's lobbyist" with this injustice as I believe I read somewhere in your site that this is not about mothers or fathers.
Since you are "the children's lobbyist" we should demonstrate infront of the CPS Office in Goshen New York and call the News to cover the protest. After we are done there let's go over the court house that is just a couple of minutes away from there and protest a little more and of course ask the news to follow.
You should have no problem as you are "the children's lobby" and are against corruption in the courtrooms. Can I count with you on this one? I'll bring my people and you bring yours.
Please let me know when you are available so we can plan the time and date. Lets make this one for the kids and teach the system that we are working together.
When we are done lets go to New York City and protest a little more and maybe go up to Albany and make a strong point. Are you with me? Please let me know, I can't wait for your answer.
I also I want to have a couple of words with your exwife. Please post her info we should hear her side of the story and maybe set her straight. Also post your index number so I can search your case online and get all the facts.
This will be an awesome way to show how much you care about children including yours.
Public Information
Gregg Fischer Plaintiff
v.
Linda Fischer Defendant
Amanda:
Ester Yang Is a con artist and a perjurer.
Lies to forward her own sick political agenda, what that is other than to never pay child support and to get on the public trough remains to be seen.
Lost custody because she is a psychotic mess who cant keep her own story straight for more than 45 minites.
Bet she goes to jail for either taxfraud or welfare fraud this summer!
Funny how anyone who say anything against her gets flamed to the Nth circle of hell.
Gregg Fisher at least had to courage to use his name. What have you done you can be proud of?
Hey Amanda
Where is Pedro!!
Oh!! I know he is hanging out with Gregg who's hanging out with Waldo.
Amanda are your sure, you are not Amando instead.
It seems to me you are a men pretending to be a woman to defend your kind. Or maybe which it appears more logical Esther Yang's ex husband or his attorney or maybe the Judge.
As per your blah blah blah words, which is nothing but you speaking but not saying anything at all, will be classified as blah blah blah words of wisdom for abusers and criminals.
As per going to jail for scams this summer, I can guarantee you it won't be Esther Yang in the newspapers this summer. Working to protect children including your own child is not a scam. Maybe you are afraid that your scams will be made public.
According to Amanda or Amando and I quoted:
"Gregg Fisher at least had to courage to use his name. What have you done you can be proud of?"
Gregg when are we going to see your "courage" and when are you going to make us "Proud" with you actions, please answer there is some much work to do and such little time when considering children.
Hey Gregg Fischer
You smell like a follower of the Richard Gardner school of thought (see below article). Thank you for exposing yourself in this blog. Now when unsuspecting and desperate mothers google your name they will get the other side of the story.
Sick Joke or Sick Reality?
Below the Belt: A Biweekly Column by NOW President Kim Gandy
May 17, 2007
I know you think I'm talking about "Opie and Anthony,"
recently suspended from their radio talk gig for "joking"
with a guest, "Homeless Charlie" who said he wanted to rape
Condoleezza Rice and Laura Bush. The hosts encouraged these horrifying
remarks -- in fact they laughed and imagined "the horror" on
Rice's face as she is held down and punched in the face.
No, I'm talking about another sick reality. Let me ask you first:
Would you trust a guy who wrote that rape victims "gain pleasure
from being beaten, bound, and otherwise made to suffer" as
"the price they are willing to pay for gaining the gratification
of receiving the sperm?" A guy who published his belief that
"the child who has suffered bona fide abuse may very well have
enjoyed the experience..."? A guy who claimed that incest is not
harmful, (citing Shakespeare) only "thinking makes it so"?
And I know I don't even have to ask this -- but would you trust this
guy with your kids?
I thought not. Which leads me to ponder how on earth the
"theory" this guy thought up has found its way into court
rooms across the country, and is currently influencing child custody
decisions, especially those involving child abuse. That's right, this
guy, a psychiatrist named Richard Gardner -- who, by the way, also
asserted that adult-child sex is normal AND beneficial for both parties
as well as for the survival of the human race -- is being given
credence in cases involving the fate of children and families.
And believe it or not, it seems that nine state governors have jumped
on Gardner's pro-pedophilia bandwagon. In Florida, Indiana,
Connecticut, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa, Maine, and Nevada, there is now
reportedly a whole day officially dedicated to raising
"awareness" about Gardner's theory called Parental Alienation
Syndrome, in which the very reports of abuse by a child against a
father are themselves evidence that the child is being brainwashed by
the mother (and if the child is angry at the father, or doesn't want to
visit, that's even more evidence) and the only "cure" for
this syndrome is to force the child to live with the abuser and deny
ANY contact with the protective mother, who has no history of abuse.
C'mon, you're thinking, what judge would buy this crock? Doesn't it
matter if the abuse really happened? Apparently not.
Although it may sound like it, this is no sick joke. It's a sad, sick
reality. And anyone who cares even a little about children's human
rights and the epidemic of family violence should take note and take
action.
Let's start with the lowdown on "parental alienation
syndrome" (PAS), which is also being called "parental
alienation." Like I said, Richard Gardner thought it up. The late
Dr. Gardner was a child psychiatrist who liked to tell people he was a
full professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Actually, he was an unpaid volunteer. But hey -- professor,
volunteer; child sexual abuse, fun adult-child sex -- hey, what's the
difference? If you're Richard Gardner, not much.
But I digress. While Gardner was volunteering at Columbia in the
1980s, he formed some opinions and made some personal observations
that, together, he decided to call "parental alienation
syndrome." He defined PAS as a condition arising from one parent's
(mostly mothers, he said) "programming" of the child to wage
an unreasonable "campaign of denigration against" the other
parent (most of the time, the father, according to Gardner). PAS, he
said, arises most often during child custody disputes, usually involves
false allegations of child sexual abuse as part of the programmer
parent's attempt to turn the child against the other parent, and causes
"enormous grief" in the alienated parent.
Gardner's diagnostic criteria included finding out from the child the
parent's "frequency of programming thoughts" and the parent's
"success in manipulating the legal system to enhance the
programming." The ridiculousness of these criteria goes without
saying. Gardner was insistent that the "programming parent"
is the mother, and that the alienated parent is the father. He opined
that treatment involve forcing the mother to stop expressing negative
views about the father and granting custody of the child to him and
denying any visitation to her. No part of the PAS diagnostic process
involves examining the father's psychiatric history or conduct, or even
inquiring whether he had actually engaged in abuse.
According to an article by Dr. Paul J. Fink, past president of the
American Psychiatric Association, and Hon. Sol Gothard, retired judge
and former faculty member for the National Council of Juvenile and
Family Court Judges:
"Parental Alienation Syndrome has been used nationwide by
batterers as a courtroom tactic to silence abused children by
attempting to discredit their disclosures of abuse. This theory is not
recognized as valid by the American Psychological Association, the
American Psychiatric Association, or the American Medical Association.
Parental Alienation Syndrome is not accepted as a psychiatric
diagnosis, and has been rejected by the mainstream psychological
community. Parental Alienation Syndrome is junk science; there is no
valid research or empirical data to support this unproven theory."
To date, none of the studies necessary to judge the validity of
Gardner's so-called syndrome have been conducted. In 2006, the
Children's Legal Rights Journal (a multi-disciplinary journal published
in conjunction with the American Bar Association Center on Children and
the Law, the National Association of Counsel for Children, and the
Loyola University School of Law) and the National Council of Juvenile
and Family Court Judges each published analyses finding no scientific
or legal basis for the use of PAS.
And yet, PAS keeps making appearances in courts across the country,
subverting and perverting the pursuit of justice one family at a time.
According to the Children's Legal Rights Journal, a North Carolina
court incarcerated a teenage girl who refused to visit her father, and
a New Jersey court suspended a mother's contact with her two children,
granting sole custody to the father despite "'foreseeable
emotional upset and possible trauma'" to the children (Hoult, 1).
In Pennsylvania, a court ordered a teenager into "PAS
treatment," and he subsequently hung himself.
Young people who have suffered due to inhumane court rulings
involving PAS are speaking out. They are not the only ones. This month,
the NOW Foundation joined other leading organizations working on family
law and family violence in a complaint filed against the United States
with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The complaint
charges that U.S. courts are failing to protect the life, liberties,
security, and other human rights of abused mothers and children by
frequently awarding child custody to abusers and child molesters. PAS
is one predominant strategy being used by lawyers to place children in
such danger. A recent Newsweek article noted the finding of a Harvard
study that in custody cases involving documented spousal abuse, 54%
granted custody to the batterer, and parental alienation was used as an
argument in nearly every single one.
This is not a trend that will fade away. It's junk science that's
gaining momentum, amassing victims, fooling powerful government
officials, and even attracting an unfortunately famous ally or two like
Alec Baldwin. PAS advocates play down the theory's unquestionably
absurd roots in Gardner's pseudo-science, pathologize and punish
mothers fighting to protect themselves and their children, and stand
faithfully by fathers' so-called right to unfettered access to their
children despite any history of assault or abuse. And the judges and
the media are buying it hook, line and sinker.
Do something about it. Contact the governors who've proclaimed
"Parental Alienation Awareness" days and raise their
awareness about what's in the best interest of our families. Contact
the media outlets who are giving PAS advocates like Alec Baldwin a
platform to lie to the public. Pressure your judges to educate
themselves and get our justice system back on track.
Gloria Steinem said, "The truth will set you free, but first it
will piss you off." I'm definitely pissed off about PAS and hope
you are too. It's just what we need to set our families free from junk
science, junk justice, and sick realities.
For more detailed information and sources on PAS: Hoult, Jennifer,
(Spring 2006). The Evidentiary Admissibility of Parental Alienation
Syndrome: Science, Law, and Policy, Children's Legal Rights Journal,
26(1) pp. 1-61.
More unbelievable quotes from Richard Gardner
Recent Below the Belt columns |
I Goggle Gregg Fischer's name and I got some sites.
Hey Gregg are you sure you are For the children,Greg Fischer. "the children's lobbyist"?
Or are you a dating services looking for vulnerable mothers to meet batterers?
OOPs I need to correct the spelling of Greg Fischer so that when anyone googles it they will find it in the same sentence with Richard Gardner. Then hopefully distraught mothers will research Richard Gardner and wise up.
Greg:
Are you paying child support? Since you are children's lobbyist?
or are you getting pay off the books and getting disability payment like Esther's ex - double and may be triple diping?
some children's lobbyist - would love to see your financial networth that you filed with the court.
to Gregg:
What was your ground for divorce, since you are the Plaintiff?
Gregg Fischer Plaintiff
v.
Linda Fischer Defendant
Did you tell the judge about your hidden income?
Linda Fischer - please post your court records. Who is your judge, your law guardian. forensic experts and your Ex's attorney?
If not Linda - Gregg, since you are for the children and for the truth - please post your court records and tell us who are the players in your court case.
Someone google Times Union.
Gregg - do you know Efrain Rodriguez? Little Angels?
The truth Gregg????
To Gregg - Hey do you the below players??? Times Union
First published: Monday, June 26, 2006
One of the Capitol's best-known father's rights advocates found himself under investigation after he circulated a news story about the shooting of a judge.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's office said it couldn't discuss matters under investigation. State Police could not immediately provide details this weekend.
Randy Dickinson, vice president of the Coalition of Fathers and Families New York, said he sent an e-mail out to legislators earlier this month. It contained an Associated Press story about the June 12 shooting by a sniper of a Nevada family court judge.
According to published reports, Darren Mack, 45, allegedly stabbed and killed his estranged wife and shot Washoe County Family Court Judge Chuck Weller, who had been handling their divorce case. Mack surrendered to authorities Thursday in Mexico.
Dickinson also attached a quote from John F. Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
According to Dickinson, someone apparently took the missive as a threat and Silver's counsel, Dan Conviser, contacted State Police.
Police showed up at Dickinson's house at 11:20 p.m. on June 16, "ringing the bell, pounding on the door, and calling my number via cellphone from outside the house." He didn't answer, he said, since he didn't know who was there.
Another officer showed up at 10 a.m. the next day and interviewed him. The officer, Dickinson said, found no crime had been committed, and told him "it was a little absurd for him to have even been instructed to look into the matter." Dickinson said he believes the case was closed.
Dickinson's group has been pushing for what it claims would be more equitable divorce and custody laws in New York. One of its priorities this year was a shared-parenting bill opposed by the National Organization for Women's New York chapter. It died in committee.
Dickinson said he was just trying to make a point the group has communicated in the past to legislative leaders, that "they cannot continue to ignore our issues and refuse to provide any relief or accommodation, without encouraging violence from those more inclined to express their frustration and anger in that manner."
The quote, he said, "was meant to emphasize that one of their own heroes and an icon of the Democratic Party warned them that the lid cannot be kept on people's passions forever, without expecting trouble."
"You'd think they might appreciate being made aware of public sentiment and the consequences of ignoring it," Dickinson said. "Maybe not."
Anyone know this Efrain Rodriguez?
People v Rodriguez
2004 NYSlipOp 05760
Decided on July 1, 2004
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
Decided on July 1, 2004
Saxe, J.P., Ellerin, Williams, Lerner, Sweeny, JJ.
4053
[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent, —
v
Efrain Rodriguez, Defendant-Appellant.
Ind. 1031/01Laura R. Johnson, The Legal Aid Society, New
York (Laura Boyd of counsel), for appellant.
Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Beth
Fisch Cohen of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena Uviller, J.),
rendered on or about February 11, 2002, unanimously affirmed. No opinion. Order filed.
Esther:
I know someone that also has Adam Edelsteins.
You might want to google Edelsteins, Faegenburg and Brown. Did you know that the firm gave money to Judge Panepinto and also Judge Rachel Adams?
Did you know that Judge Rachel Adams was the convicted disgraced Judge Gerald Garson's law clerk?
So how many more judges that Edelsteins, Faegenburg and Brown gave money to???
The public wants to know....
The judges and Edelsteins, Faegenburg and Brown - $$$ contributions
including to the convicted disgraced Judge Gerald Garson's former law clerk - Judge Rachel Adams -
I cpunted 7 Judges - YIKES !!!!
EDELSTEIN & FAEGENBURG
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 1,000.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE
>
> TO ELECT JUDGE MARTIN SCHNEIER JUSTICE OF THE
> SUPREME COURT:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us
> 27 Post General A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN & FAEGENBURG
> 26 COURT STREET, SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 300.00 23-MAR-99 1999 THE
> BROOKLYN DEMOCRATS:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
> July Periodic A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> The Brooklyn Democratic was Clarence Norman's pac -
> Garson controled it or his brother did before he
> became judge
>
>
> EDELSTEIN, PAUL J
> 26 COURT STREET SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 75.00 04-AUG-99 2000 LAWPAC
> OF NEW YORK:
/www.elections.state.ny.us/
> Jan Periodic A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, PAUL J
> 26 COURT STREET SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 75.00 15-JUL-03 2004 LAWPAC
> OF NEW YORK:
www.elections.state.ny.us/> Jan Periodic A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, PAUL JEDELSTEIN FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 75.00 02-NOV-01 2002 LAWPAC
> OF NEW YORK:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us
> EDELSTEIN, PAUL JEDELSTEIN FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 75.00 22-JUL-04 2005 LAWPAC
> OF NEW YORK:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
> Jan Periodic A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, PAUL JEDELSTEIN FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 75.00 02-NOV-01 2001 LAWPAC
> OF NEW YORK:
>www.elections.state.ny.us> Jan Periodic A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, PAUL JEDELSTEIN FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 170.00 10-FEB-04 2004 LAWPAC
> OF NEW YORK:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us
> EDELSTEIN, PAUL JEDELSTEIN FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 75.00 26-AUG-02 2002 LAWPAC
> OF NEW YORK:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/> 11 Pre Primary A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, PAUL JEDELSTEIN FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 75.00 07-JUL-05 2005 LAWPAC
> OF NEW YORK:
>
www.elections.state.ny.uslerid_in=A00880>
> July Periodic A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> Lawpac gives to every incumbent
>
>
> EDELSTEIN, RUTH/DAVE
> 206 BERKLEY DR.
> SYRACUSE, NY 13210 150.00 18-OCT-05 2005 GREEN
> CAMPAIGN FUND:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us> 11 Pre General A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT ST- STE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-MAY-05 2005 COMMITTEE
> TO ELECT JUDGE ANGELA G. IANNACCI:
www.elections.state.ny.us
> July Periodic A Sup. Court Justice 10 N/A N/A
> EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT ST, SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 200.00 25-JUL-04 2004 COMMITTEE
> TO RE-ELECT JUDGE BARRY SALMAN JUSTICE OF THE
> SUPREME COURT:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
> 32 Pre General A Sup. Court Justice 12 N/A N/A
> EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT ST
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 125.00 29-SEP-03 2003 DIAMOND
> 2003 COMMITTEE:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/> 11 Pre General A Sup. Court Justice 10 N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, S.LEONARD
> 2382 EAST 13TH STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11229 100.00 03-DEC-01 2002 ORTHO-PAC
> OF NY:
>www.elections.state.ny.us> Jan Periodic A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, SAHL
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-OCT-03 2004 COMMITTEE
> FOR FRANK R. SEDDIO:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
> Jan Periodic A Member of Assembly 59 N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, SAUL
>
> , 1,000.00 13-JUN-02 2002 BROOKLYN
> INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
> July Periodic A N/A N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, SAUL
> 26 COURT STREET
> NEW YORK, NY 11242 100.00 02-JUL-02 2002 RACHEL
> ADAMS FOR SUPREME COURT:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
> July Periodic A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, SAUL
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 100.00 31-JUL-02 2003 RACHEL
> ADAMS FOR SUPREME COURT:
/www.elections.state.ny.us/> Jan Periodic A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A
>
>
> SAUL EDELSTEIN, P.C.
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 1,000.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE
>
> TO ELECT JUDGE MARTIN SCHNEIER JUSTICE OF THE
> SUPREME COURT:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
> 27 Post General B Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
> THE EDELSTEIN FAGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 350.00 06-AUG-04 2004 FRIENDS
> FOR THE ELECTION OF JOSH KETOVER:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
> 32 Pre Primary A State Senator 9 N/A N/A
> THE EDELSTEIN FAGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 350.00 24-SEP-04 2004 FRIENDS
> FOR THE ELECTION OF JOSH KETOVER:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/> 32 Pre General A State Senator 9 N/A N/A
> THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 23-NOV-05 2006 COMMITTEE
> TO RE-ELECT JUDGE PANEPINTO:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us
> Jan Periodic A Civil Court Judge N/A Richmond
> Richmond
> THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT ST SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 125.00 25-AUG-03 2003 FRATERNAL
> ORDER OF POLICE EMPIRE STATE LODGE INC.:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/> 11 Pre Primary B N/A N/A N/A N/A
> THE EDELSTEINS, FAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 05-OCT-04 2004 COMMITTEE
> TO REELECT JUSTICE HOWARD MILLER TO SUPREME
> COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL
> DIST:
>
/www.elections.state.ny.us> 11 Pre General A Sup. Court Justice 9 N/A N/A
> THE EDELSTEINS, FRAEGENBURG & BROWN
> 26 COURT STREET, SUITE 1503
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 04-OCT-00 2000 COMM.
> TO ELECT JUDGE IRA B. HARKAVY AS JUSTICE OF
> THE SUPREME
> COURT:
>
STATEWIDE GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE
C. Michael Budlong, Complainant vs. Andrew J. Spinnell, Respondent
Grievance Complaint #96-0226
PROPOSED DECISION
Pursuant to Practice Book '27J, the undersigned, duly appointed reviewing committee of the Statewide Grievance Committee conducted a hearing at the Superior Court, 95 Washington Street, Hartford, Connecticut, on July 3, 1997. The hearing addressed the record of the complaint filed on September 11, 1996 and the probable cause determination rendered by a reviewing committee of the Statewide Grievance Committee on February 21, 1997, finding that there existed probable cause that the Respondent violated Rule 4.2 of the Rules of Professional Conduct. The probable cause determination rendered by the reviewing committee was contrary to the determination of no probable cause filed by the Stamford/Norwalk Judicial District Grievance Panel on December 16, 1996.
Notice of the hearing on July 3, 1997 was mailed to the Complainant and to the Respondent on May 19, 1997. Both the Complainant and the Respondent appeared at the hearing on July 3, 1997 and were heard by this reviewing committee.
This reviewing Committee finds the following:
The Complainant, an attorney, alleged in his complaint that the Respondent wrote directly to the Complainant's client on August 13, 1996 without obtaining the authorization of the Complainant. On April 11, 1997 the Respondent filed a request for reconsideration of the finding of probable cause. On May 15, 1997 a reviewing committee of the Statewide Grievance Committee denied the Respondent's request for reconsideration.
At the hearing before this reviewing committee the Respondent's memorandum, which was filed late, was admitted into the record without objection from the Complainant. The Complainant testified that he represented Anne B. Lowe in post-dissolution of marriage matters. The Respondent testified that he represented Norman Lowe in post-dissolution of marriage matters. The Respondent admitted writing a letter to Anne Lowe dated August 13, 1996 regarding post-dissolution of marriage matters. The Respondent admitted that he did not send the Complainant a copy of his letter to Anne Lowe. The Respondent admitted that he knew Anne Lowe was represented by the Complainant.
In his brief the Respondent stated that in the future he would not write directly to an opposing party without sending a copy to the opposing party's counsel. The Respondent apologized to the Complainant at the hearing before this reviewing committee. The Respondent admitted that he did not have the Complainant's consent to write to Anne Lowe regarding post-dissolution of marriage matters.
This reviewing committee finds the following facts by clear and convincing evidence:
The Complainant represented Anne Lowe in post-dissolution of marriage matters. The Respondent represented Norman Lowe in post-dissolution of marriage matters. The Respondent knew that the Complainant represented Anne Lowe in post-dissolution of marriage matters. Nevertheless, the Respondent wrote a letter dated August 13, 1996 to Anne Lowe regarding post- dissolution of marriage matters. The Respondent did not have the Complainant's consent to write to Anne Lowe regarding post-dissolution of marriage matters.
This reviewing committee finds the following violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct by clear and convincing evidence:
In representing Norman Lowe in post-dissolution of marriage matters, the Respondent communicated about the subject of the representation with Anne Lowe. The Respondent knew that Anne Lowe was represented by the Complainant in post-dissolution of marriage matters. The Respondent did not have the consent of the Complainant to communicate with Anne Lowe about the subject of the representation. Accordingly, this reviewing committee finds by clear and convincing evidence that the Respondent violated Rule 4.2 of the Rules of Professional Conduct. Even if the Respondent had sent a copy of his letter to the Complainant, the Respondent would still have violated Rule 4.2 of the Rules of Professional Conduct. Accordingly, this reviewing committee recommends that the Statewide Grievance Committee reprimand the Respondent.
Attorney Anne R. Hoyt
Attorney Robert J. Kor
Who is Andrew Spinnell?
I think Andrew Spinnell is Esther Yang's ex's attorney before the Edelsteins father and sons - Esther, is that true?
Hooray for Conn. to publicly post violations
Judicial/Attorney Misconduct*
in Connecticut
*Following are some of the attorneys or judges who have been reported to have been disciplined by the State of Connecticut for unethical conduct, who may be a resident of the State of Connecticut but was disciplined in another jurisdiction, sued for malpractice, incarcerated, indicted, whom we understand have been charged with unethical conduct, who have brought disrepute to the courts or the legal business, etc.
ALTHAM JR, JAMES F.
ANDROSKI, EDWARD J.
ANSTEY, ROGER J.
ASKINAS, DAVID M.
AVITABILE, LOUIS
AZIA, DAVID ALAN
BECK, ALAN L.
BIRO, STEVEN G. M.
BLAKE III, HERBERT
BORKOWSKI, JOSEPH S.
BOTTINICK, ANDREW
BRAUNSTEIN, SAMUEL L.
BROWN, RIDGELY W.
BUCKLEY, F. MAC
BURTON, NANCY
CALABRESE, EDAN F.
CANNATELLI, FRANK P.
CASHMAN, GC 98-0559 (Conn. March 31, 2000)
CHEVERIE, ROBERT M.
CHMIELECKI, MAUREEN ANNE
CITRANO, EUGENE
CLAYDON, JOHN M.
CLEIN, HAIMAN LONG
COHEN, RUDOLPH A.
CRAWFORD, RENE
DEE, DAVID
DEFAZIO JR, LUCIEN P.
DELCASTILLO-SALAMANCA, JOSE L.
DELUCIA, JOSEPH J.
DIGLIO, SALVATORE
DINAN, ALTHEA S. II
DIXON JR, SAMUEL E.
DOS SANTOS, JUDITH A.
DOUGLAS-BAILEY AND ALPHONSE, LLC
DOUGLAS-BAILEY, HYACINTH V.
DUFFY, STEPHEN J.
EATON, GARY M.
EGBARIN, NITOR V.
EVANS, DAVID CYRIL
FAMIGLIETTI, ANTHONY O.
FARRELL, JAMES J.
FARRINGTON, SUSAN LIM
FEIT, ANTHONY E.
FICARRA, FRANCIS JOSEPH
FINK, DAVID
FORREST, JOHNSON V.
FRIEDMAN, STEVE J.
GIFFORD, GC 99-0239 (Conn. March 31, 2000)
GOLDBERG, ROBERT P.
GRAHAM, CHARLES
GRANT, H. CHESTER
GUERRINI, GC 98-0379 (Conn. March 31, 2000)
GULIANI, RICHARD J. (Judge)
HARE JR, I. EDMUND
HARLOW III, JOHN A.
HARRIS JR, JOHN
HAYNES, ANDREW M.
HEMPSTEAD
HERNANDEZ, ANTHONY
IZZO, ROBERT A.
JELLY, JEFFERSON D.
KELLY, JOHN M.
KEMP, GAIL M.
KNIGHT, CHARLES ROBERT
KURANKO, LAWRENCE
LAW, GEORGE
LEE, MARK F.
LEVIN, 00PDJ041 (Colo. May 24, 2000)
LIEMAN, LEONARD
MANCINI III, PHILIP R.
MARSHALL, JAMES WARNER
MARTI, MARTHA RAFFERTY
MARTIN, SARA R.
MATZ, JAY B.
MCCLELLAND, ROGER
MCCOY, ROBERT C.
MEROLA, JOHN B.
MIRSKY, JOSEPH
MORAN, ANTHONY V.
MORELL, DORANTES V.
MORIN, E. ARTHUR
MORROCCO JR, ALFRED F.
MOZZILLO, MARIO L.
MURI, LAURENCE T.
NESI, GC 98-0895 (Conn. May 5, 2000)
NEWTON, JOHN
NGOBENI, PAUL MPANDE
NOBLE, CHRISTOPHER
O'CONNOR, MERCEDES
O'DELL, FREDERICK W.
OESTREICHER, JOHN B.
PAIGE, SHERI B.
PERKELL, MARK R.
PHILLIPS, ANNE P.
RECIO , ROBERT
RICHARDSON, THOMAS
RIVERA, SHELLEY ANN
RODRIGUEZ, MIGUEL A.
ROTHENBERG, STUART G.
SAFFIR, TOBY YASSMIN
SARGENT, HALE [GC 97-1033B (Conn., Dec. 10, 1999)]
SCHWARTZ, SCOTT M.
SERPICO, RALPH
SHEA, BARBARA S.
SHOLOVITZ, ARNOLD C.
SHORT JR, JOHN T.
SKYERS, EROLL V.
SMIGELSKI, JACEK I.
SOLOMON, ALAN M.
SOMERS, DAVID MICHAEL
SPINNELL, ANDREW J.
STILLMAN, MARTIN
SWERDLOFF, MARK HARRIS
TIMBERS, JOHN
WEINSTEIN, BURTON
WEINSTEIN, GC 98-0706 (Conn., March 31, 2000)
WARREN, MARK S.
WECHSLER, WILLIAM A.
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I think I smell a dirty rat!!
I did!! I did!! I did!!
I SMELLED A DIRTY RAT!!!
Smells Like A Rat To Me.
"The Cat's Lobbyist"
Hey, Gregg the cat got your tongue.
kitty, kitty, kitty the rat is afraid to come out and play.
New words in the Dictionary:
Joint Custody = Abusive fathers way
to get off the hook, continue the abusive and don't pay child support.
PAS = parental abusive strategies.
The children's lobbyist = a way to stay close to the children and hoping the unsuspected mom will let the children sleep over.
The Cat's lobbyist = I got my eye on the Rat and on my watch my kitties won't sleep over.
Smells Like A Rat To Me.
"The Cat's Lobbyist"
Re; Anonymous about not going to Esther's court appearance ???
Every Court watchers were on Esther Yang's side. Must have been Esther's ex's attorney (Adam Edelstein from Edelstein. Faigenburg and Brown) who contributed to 7 Judges including Judge Rachel Adams (the former law clerk of the convicted disgraced Judge Gerald Garson) trying to misrepresent himself.
below is another article re: Brooklyn Sewer from teh late Kack Newfield...
‘Regime Change’ Should Be Goal of Judge Probe
JACK NEWFIELD
Although the Brooklyn judicial and political scandal is still unraveling, this is a good time to look at what’s happened — and take a peek at where it’s likely to go next.
It’s a story about a system and a culture, not particular personalities. The goal of the series of articles I have been writing with Colin Miner is to provide sufficient information to reform how judges are selected, and to cause regime change in the clubhouse institution.
This is not about counting indictments; it is about making justice honest and impartial in Brooklyn, separating the clubhouse and the courthouse.
After reporting this story for a month, it seems that the Democratic Party of Brooklyn may be a racketeering enterprise under the definition of the state’s version of the RICO Statute. This is the analysis that Brooklyn Assemblyman Jim Brennan gave me five years ago; it is more valid today than ever.
Under party boss Clarence Norman, candidates for judgeships and public office have been pressured to hire specific vendors, consultants, and Election Day operatives to keep the party’s endorsement, and get on the organization’s palm cards. This is a shakedown. It might be extortion. It is the party using its power to compel candidates to pay a series of tollbooths.
Three judges have told prosecutors they felt coerced to hire Ernie Lendler’s printing company, William Boone III, or make "rent" payments or "contributions" to Mr. Norman’s clubhouse, if they hoped to get elected.
Several candidates for high public office — including Ruth Messinger — have told similar stories to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. Conversely, the recent candidates who did not pay — Fernando Ferrer, Catherine Abate, Oliver Koppell, and Ms. Messinger — did not get the support of the Brooklyn organization.
Candidates who paid the right people — like Alan Hevesi for mayor in the primary, Mark Green for mayor in the run-off, William Thompson for controller, and Eliot Spitzer for attorney general — got endorsed. After Mr. Spitzer won, he hired one of Norman’s designated consultants, Carl Andrews, for his staff. After Mr. Thompson won, he hired another of Mr. Norman’s designated consultants, Jackie Ward, for his staff, at $80,000 a year.
This is the racket that needs repair and reform. It creates the appearance of auctioning endorsements.
When I asked Mr. Ferrer if he was asked for any payments during the 2001 mayoral run-off, he quipped, "It never got to that. Green made a preemptive bid."
The same mercenary system operates for judgeships. Even judicial candidates in uncontested elections have to raise $50,000 and hire clubhouse consultants who are Mr. Norman’s cronies. Rachel Adams and Robin Garson are recent examples of this.
Judges who emerge from this culture tend to be political insiders lacking in character and impartiality. That’s why the arrest rate among Brooklyn judges the last year has been higher than the arrest rate among the borough’s general population.The Garson family of three judges — Gerald, Robin, and Michael — may end up looking like the Snopes clan of Court Street. Gerald is under indictment and his cousin, Michael, is being investigated for siphoning about $800,000 out of his elderly aunt’s bank account.
The political system did not start with Jackie Ward getting $92,000 for five weeks of work, out of the $245,000 the Green campaign paid to Mr. Norman’s clubhouse the same week he received Mr. Norman’s endorsement for mayor. This has been a way of life during Mr. Norman’s 13-year reign as party boss.
Between 1993 and 1998, campaign consultant Carl Andrews received $101,000 from candidates Mr. Norman endorsed. He got $38,000 from Mike Feinberg’s 1996 campaign for Brooklyn surrogate. He got $8,000 from Eliot Spitzer’s 1998 campaign for attorney general — and a staff job after Mr. Spitzer won.
William Boone collected $39,000 during these five years from candidates and committees backed by Mr. Norman. He also got $4,500 out of Mr. Green’s $245,000.
A former judge, Karen Yellen, has told prosecutors she was coerced to pay Mr. Boone $9,000 during her losing campaign last year — and that he did no work.
Two other judicial candidates have subsequently come forward to corroborate Ms. Yellen’s story of feeling extorted in their campaigns.
Between 1993 and 1998 winning judicial candidates — Victor Barron, Mike Feinberg, Karen Rothenberg, and Bruce Balter — all reported paying "rent" to Mr. Norman’s club during their elections to become judges.
The $245,000 the Green campaign disclosed it paid to Mr. Norman’s clubhouse fits this historical pattern. It is up to the grand jury to determine if it was a bribe for the endorsement.
I don’t know the answer.
The more answerable question is: How was this money spent? Was it laundered through political clubs to pay for racist fliers and anonymous phone calls used to damage Mr. Ferrer’s run-off campaign? Remember, Mr. Ferrer won the first primary by 5%.
None of Mr. Green’s campaign filings have explained who paid for these fliers and calls. It may take putting all the key players under oath in the grand jury to get to the truth.
If they were paid for in cash, with washed money, that is the crime of money laundering. The Campaign Finance Board is still requesting receipts and cancelled checks from the Green campaign to account for this $245,000.
The great irony here is that when the New York Times endorsed Mr. Green over Mr. Ferrer in the run-off, its rationale was that Mr. Green was free of clubhouse influence.
The Times editorial appeared on October 10, 2001, after the Green campaign paid the $245,000. It read:
"The differences between the two men, which were noticeable before, have stretched to formidable over the last few weeks.
"Mr. Ferrer is a product of the Bronx Democratic machine, and his career has hewed closely to the party organization’s political rulebook. Mr. Green has always been a political outsider, who had to fight for what he wanted, an idea man who specialized in problem solving."
We are still in the early stages of an investigation that District Attorney Charles Hynes says will last another year.
We need to keep our eyes on the prize — reforming the way judges are chosen, and separating the clubhouse from the courthouse.
The New York Times editorial page needs to catch up and make amends about how to reach this prize and who its real friends are.
The Daily News editorial page also needs to make some atonement, as it tries to win a Pulitzer Prize with uncalibrated braying about the Brooklyn judiciary, and a year of bashing Mr. Hynes when he was the only one prosecuting venal judges in New York City.
Margarita Lopez Torres has emerged as the symbol of an independent Brooklyn judiciary.
Last year, Clarence Norman tried to dump her off the bench because she had the guts to refuse to hire an unqualified law secretary that judgemaker and patronage baron Vito Lopez asked her to hire. Mr. Norman denied her re-nomination as a reprisal for this act of integrity.
Ms. Lopez Torres beat Mr. Norman’s machine in the September primary. Yet, the Daily News’ editorial page failed to endorse her in that election, when her career, and the principle of a merit-based judiciary, were on the line.
Re: Adam Edelsteins from Edelstein Faegenburg and Brown giving money to Judge Rachel Adams (Former law clerk of the convicted disgraced Judge Gerald Grason)...
The Sun reported yesterday the committee had made an unsecured $125,000 loan to the judicial campaign of Rachel Adams, clearing the field of any competition.
:New York Sun; :Jun 26, 2003; :Front page; :1
D.A. To Question Rothenberg
Civil Court Judge Not a Target of Probe
By JACK NEWFIELD and COLIN MINER Staff Reporters of the Sun
Prosecutors investigating the selling of judgeships are focusing on how the supervising judge in Brooklyn civil court was first elected to the bench, sources told The New York Sun.
Investigators from the office of District Attorney Charles Hynes plan to question Karen Rothenberg about the circumstances surrounding her campaign in 1997, when she was first elected to civil court, the sources said. She is not a target of the investigation at this time.
Sources told the Sun that the top judicial target of the judgeship buying aspect of the probe is Howard Ruditzky, who was handed a slot on state Supreme Court a week after finishing last in his campaign to get re-elected to civil court.
In that campaign — in which sources said Judge Rothenberg was picked to fill a "Jewish slot" — about $53,000 of the almost $75,000 she spent on the campaign went to consultants tied to Brooklyn Democratic boss Clarence Norman and his political club.
Mr. Hynes has convened a grand jury that has heard evidence of judicial candidates being told to hire specific vendors and political consultants or risk being abandoned by the Democratic Party’s get-out-the-vote machinery on Election Day.
The probe became public after the arrest of Judge Gerald Garson earlier this year on corruption charges.
Prosecutors subpoenaed Judge Rothenberg’s campaign records as part of that probe, along with the records of more than two dozen other judicial campaigns, according to sources.
Investigators have focused on a small group of people tied to Mr. Norman who tend to benefit at campaign time. These people include state Senator Carl Andrews, who used to be a political consultant, Ernie Lendler’s Branford Communications — a political printing and consulting company — and the Thurgood Marshall Democrats, Mr. Norman’s political club.
According to public campaign finance filings, Judge Rothenberg’s 1997 campaign paid $3,100 to the Thurgood Marshall Club, $8,300 to Mr. Andrews, and about $41,900 to Branford Communications.
Sources point out that while there is nothing apparently illegal about the payments, investigators — as they are in the cases of several other campaigns — are trying to determine if the payments were used for legitimate campaign expenses or were pocketed or diverted to others.
"I have done nothing wrong," Judge Rothenberg told the Sun yesterday. "I had no agreement with anybody in regards to money and my campaign for civil court."
Judge Rothenberg, who used to be "of counsel" to Judge Gerald Garson’s law firm before he became a judge,said she was never pressured to hire specific people and simply "hired the best people out there."
During that campaign, Judge Garson walked her through the process, frequently accompanying her to political clubs and out on the campaign trail, according to veteran Brooklyn politicos.
Judge Rothenberg was the largest contributor to her own campaign — she loaned or gave herself about $50,000. The next largest contribution was $10,000 — in two installments from the Committee for a Golden Future, controlled by Howard Golden, then the borough president.
The Sun reported yesterday the committee had made an unsecured $125,000 loan to the judicial campaign of Rachel Adams, clearing the field of any competition.
The judicial screening panel of the Brooklyn Democratic Party recently "approved" Judge Rothenberg as a suitable candidate for state Supreme Court this year.
Judge Rothenberg, who became the supervising judge for civil court in 2001, told the Sun she has not been contacted by anyone from the district attorney’s office to set up an interview.
Meanwhile, Marcia Sikowitz — a housing court judge — has met with investigators from Mr. Hynes’ office.
Judge Sikowitz,who ran an unsuccessful campaign for civil court last year,told prosecutors she was directed by Mr. Norman and the executive director of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, Jeff Feldman, to hire Branford Communications and a consultant named William Boone after they had endorsed her.
Also in that meeting was Judge Karen Yellen, who met with investigators last week, telling them how she felt she was forced to hire Branford as well as Mr. Boone. She paid $9,000 to Mr. Boone for get-out-the-vote operations in a neighborhood where she knew she would lose.
Judge Sikowitz told investigators she hired Mr. Lendler’s consulting company — and was happy with the results — but refused to hire Mr. Boone.
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Gregg Fischer Plaintiff
v.
Linda Fischer Defendant
To Gregg -
Does anyone know where Good Gregg filed his papers? Which county? I want to tell his wife that he is truly a children lobbyist and that's why he is the Plaintiff in the action. Also that Gregg is Richard Gardner's devotee. This is why Linda should never have anymore contact with her kid/s because PAS only works for fathers.
Mothers stay away. Children Lobbyist like Gregg believes children should be with the fathers' girlfriends or fathers' new wives but never their biological mothers.
Gregg, since you are for the truth and for the children, want to tell us who your judge is and your attorney? How about the Law guardians and which forensic experts - Soft Split?. May be the Federal funding that Fathers always use like Little angels?
Shuck, they closed because the state and Feds law enforcement start asking and asking and asking.
You know, the company that take children away from their mothers so your girlfriend or do you have a new wife yet, can take care of your kid/s with Linda.
You don't mind if we interview Linda, correct? or her attorney?
How many kids do you have with Linda? How much child support are you paying her monthly? Got any other kids with other women?
Is that your real income? Do you use PAS in your filing? Have you interfere with linda's time?
oops I forgot you would never do that - you are such a great dad, that's why Linda is the Defendant.
Anyone else has any other article about Gregg Fisher? If you see Linda, please tell her to post her court documents especially your financial net worth. We want to to be like just you - A true children Lobbyist, a good husband and a great dad.
Check out Greg Fischer???
Who is this man's mother? may be he is the way he is because he has no mother. Hey Greg, are you doing this to meet woman? Where is Linda?...
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For the children,
Greg Fischer ("the Lobbyist")
631-384-9559
perfect100@hotmail.com
Whose Children greg? yours? or your girlfriend/s? The new wife?
Are you paying child support for all of them or are you a children's lobbyist because you don't want to pay child support so you are using junk science PAS Richard Gardner?
Another RAT
Linda - you must tell us about Greg. or is he violence?
Please join.
http://fathersrights....
for Moms AND Dads
Greg Fischer, as Activist
Mothers for Shared Parenting, and
Americans for Legal Reform, and other groups
631-384-9559
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Gregg Fischer Plaintiff
v.
Linda Fischer Defendant
Greg, if you are for moms and dads - why are you the Plaintiff?
what grounds for divorce, did you use? the truth or perjury?
If you are for moms and dad, you don't mind if we meet up and read your court filings?
Gregg Fischer Plaintiff
v.
Linda Fischer Defendant
Gregg - Is linda invited to meet up? Or just you the organizer so you can keep on telling people that you are for the children - that's why you are not paying child support - if you are - how much are you paying per month?
Are you friends with Efrain Rodriguez?
Are you still after custody? Did you use PAS? the junk science of Richard Gardner? Is it the child best interest or did you tell the judge that you don't want to pay child support so you are after custody.
How many kid/s, do you have with Linda? We want to be Children's lobbyist just like you.
New York (Long Island) Family Rights (Moms/Fathers) Meetup
Meet other parents (fathers and mothers) to discuss fairness in family law and the equal treatment of fathers and mothers in family court. We turn you into an effective team member and LAW REFORMER! At issue right now are NYS bill #s: A330 & S291
Come on and join!
Greg, your organizer.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. - Donald A. Adams
Location: New York, NY 40.75-73.99 10001US
New York (Long Island) Family Rights (Moms/Fathers) Meetup
Meet other parents (fathers and mothers) to discuss fairness in family law and the equal treatment of fathers and mothers in family court. We turn you into an effective team member and LAW REFORMER! At issue right now are NYS bill #s: A330 & S291
Come on and join!
Greg, your organizer.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. - Donald A. Adams
Location: New York, NY 40.75-73.99 10001US
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Gregg Fischer Plaintiff
v.
Linda Fischer Defendant
New York (Long Island) Family Rights (Moms/Fathers) Meetup
Please JOIN NOW!
Greg - Don't forget to invite Linda.
Let us know when your courtdate is - we want to support you and we want to tell Linda that she is stupid because you are such a children's lobbyist that you forgot to pay child support.
Stay involved so you won't have to pay child support.
Use PAS like the junk science from richard gardner, so your children's mom are away for good and so that you can meet other women to have more kids and use PAS so you don't have to pay child support
For Moms and Dads but NOT LINDA because she will tell the truth.
SHH- don't tell the judge either because then I have to work on my anger.
VOTE FOR LINDA - SUPPORT LINDA to get child support from Greg the children's lobbyist and for moms and dads but NOT my kids - let them be on food stamps and NOT my ex wife LINDA, my girlfriend is taking care of the kids from Linda.
More girlfriends mean FREE BABY SITTERS and we can be a freeloader and call ourselves CHILDREN's LOBBYIST. I LOVE THIS COUNTRY !!!!
http://fathersrights....
For MOMS & DADS!
We have a NYC Meeting on Saturday.
Stay involved!
Greg Fischer
631-384-9559
Hey Esther - FYI - Edelsteins contributions to Judges - See below. You want to see more connections. Isn't he your ex's attorney?
Contributor Amt Contr. Date Filing Year Recipient Filing Sched Office Dist County Municipality
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 03-AUG-06 2006 COMMITTEE TO ELECT ANDREW M. ENGEL 32 Pre Primary A District Court Judge N/A Nassau Hempstead
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 23-NOV-05 2006 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT JUDGE PANEPINTO Jan Periodic A Civil Court Judge N/A Richmond Richmond
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 14-JUN-06 2006 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT JUSTICE LUIS A. GONZALEZ July Periodic C Sup. Court Justice 12 N/A N/A
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT ST SUITE 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 125.00 25-AUG-03 2003 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE EMPIRE STATE LODGE INC. 11 Pre Primary B N/A N/A N/A N/A
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-APR-06 2006 JUDGE ELLEN SPODEK FOR SUPREME COURT July Periodic A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
THE EDELSTEINS FAGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET STE. 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 20-APR-06 2006 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT JUDGE PANEPINTO July Periodic A Civil Court Judge N/A Richmond Richmond
THE EDELSTEINS FAGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET STE. 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-MAY-06 2006 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT JUDGE PANEPINTO July Periodic A Civil Court Judge N/A Richmond Richmond
THE EDELSTEINS, FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 05-OCT-04 2004 COMMITTEE TO REELECT JUSTICE HOWARD MILLER TO SUPREME COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL DIST 11 Pre General A Sup. Court Justice 9 N/A N/A
THE EDELSTEINS, FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 11-APR-06 2006 JUDGE KAREN ROTHENBERG FOR SUPREME COURT July Periodic A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
THE EDELSTEINS, FRAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET, SUITE 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 04-OCT-00 2000 COMM. TO ELECT JUDGE IRA B. HARKAVY AS JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT 11 Pre General A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
We need a separate page for our favorite children's lobbyist, who pays no child support or does her?
We also need a separate page for each Judge - Like the convicted disgraced Judge Gerald Garson, his wife the sitting Judge Robin Garson, The bias Judge Joan Lobis (anyone sees Tessa's and Esther's story - Disrobed Reynold Mason is protected by Judge Lobis like Judge Gische for Ex-Judge Michael Garson (yep - the convicted Gerald Garson's cousin))
then we need a separate page for attorneys like Edelsteins (Esther ex's attorney giving money to Judge Rachel Adams (The convicted Gerald Garson's former law clerk) and to Judge Panepinto and to 6 more judges
then we need a separate page for Lawyers for Children or other people like Efrain Rodriguez _ anyone knows Efrain's girlfriends or ex- wives?
then we need a separate page to post everything - expose - expose - expose
Public Information
www.nycourts.gov
JUDGE JOHN C.BIVONA
ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
DOUGLAS A. DURNIN, ESQ.
INDEX NO:020840/2006 SUFFOLK COUNTY
GREGG IS THIS YOUR CASE?
MORE VETERANS GO TO PRISON
- see below - Esther, You should send this to your Judge Joan Lobis and her bias law clerk Marilyn Sugarman
Male Veterans Less Than Half as Likely as Male Non-Veterans to be in Prison in 2004
Thu May 17, 7:49 PM ET
WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There were an estimated 140,000 veterans held in state and federal prisons in 2004, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. State prisons held 127,500 of these veterans, and federal prisons held 12,500.
Almost all veterans in prison were male (99 percent). Among adult males in the U.S. population in 2004, veterans were half as likely as non-veterans to be in prison (630 prisoners per 100,000 veterans, compared to 1,390 prisoners per 100,000 non-veteran U.S. residents). The difference is largely explained by age. Two-thirds of male veterans in the U.S. population were at least 55 years old, compared to 17 percent of non-veteran men. The incarceration rate of these older male veterans (182 per 100,000) was far lower than for those under age 55 (1,483 per 100,000).
In 2004, the percentage of state prisoners who reported prior service in the U.S. Armed Forces (10 percent) was half of the level reported in 1986 (20 percent). BJS began surveying federal prisoners in 1991, and federal inmates showed a similar decline in reporting military service -- from 20 percent in 1991 to 10 percent in 2004.
Despite the declining percentages of prisoners with prior military service, the estimated number of veterans in state and federal prison increased by more than 50,000 between 1985 and 2000. This increase coincided with a rapid growth in total prison populations. Since 2000, the number of veterans in prison has fallen 13,100 or 9 percent.
The average length of military service of veterans in prison was about four years, and six in 10 received an honorable discharge. The majority of veterans in state (54 percent) and federal (64 percent) prisons served during a wartime period, but a much lower percentage (20 percent of veterans in state prisons, 26 percent of federal) reported seeing combat. Vietnam-era veterans (36 percent) were the largest group of wartime service veterans in state prisons, followed by veterans of the 1990-91 Persian
Gulf War (14 percent). Only 4 percent of the veterans in state prison had served since operations began in
Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Over half of veterans (57 percent) were serving time for violent offenses, compared to 47 percent of non-veterans. In particular, veterans (23 percent) were more than twice as likely as non-veterans (9 percent) to have been sentenced for sexual assaults, including rape. Among violent offenders, a higher percentage of veterans reported victimizing females (60 percent for veterans compared to 41 percent for non-veterans) and minors (40 percent for veterans compared to 24 percent for non-veterans).
Veterans were much older than other inmates; the median age of veterans in state prison was 45, compared to 33 for non-veterans. Veterans in state prisons were also more likely to be white (54 percent) than non-veterans in state prisons (33 percent). Veterans were much better educated than other state prisoners. Nearly all veterans (91 percent) reported at least a high school diploma or GED, compared to 60 percent of non-veterans in state
prisons. College attendance was three times higher among veterans in state prison as well (33 percent compared to 10 percent of non-veterans).
Veterans were less likely to report drug use in the month before their offense (42 percent) than other state prisoners (58 percent). Veteran status was not related to inmate reports of alcohol dependence and abuse.
The report, Veterans in State and Federal Prison, 2004 (NCJ-217199), was written by BJS statistician Margaret E. Noonan and BJS policy analyst Christopher J. Mumola. Following publication it can be found at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/vsfp04.htm.
For additional information about the Bureau of Justice Statistics please visit the BJS Web site at /www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs.
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP), headed by Assistant Attorney General Regina B. Schofield, provides federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, administer justice and assist victims. OJP has five component bureaus: the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the National Institute of Justice; the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and the Office for Victims of Crime. Additionally, OJP has two program offices: the Community Capacity Development Office, which incorporates the Weed and Seed strategy and OJP's American Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Desk and the Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART) Office. More information can be found at www.ojp.usdoj.gov.
To Greg - Gregg Fischer Plaintiff
v.
Linda Fischer Defendant
Is this you as the children's lobbyist???
Amityville, North Amityville, Copiague, East Massapequa, and Long Island, New York
Searching Amityville Record for douglas a. durnin, esq.
Score Date Title
15309840610.1 05/16/2007 PUBLIC NOTICES-
14989750768.53 05/09/2007 PUBLIC NOTICES-
Gregg Fischer Plaintiff
v.
Linda Fischer Defendant
Greg - when is your next court appearance? can we be witnesses to your children's lobbyist advocacy?
Will your girlfriends be there so we can advocate your PAS/Richard Gardner's junk science theory and why you are very passionate to have custody so you don't have to pay child support?
You might want to invite Esther's ex as your advocate or his attorney or Efrain Rodriguez. What does Children's lobbyist do? Lobbying to the judge why your girlfriend should raise you kid/s?
Why you have money for babysitter but not child support? why you should have custody so Linda pay you child support?
Why you are FOR THE CHILDREN because you don't want to pay child support.
WHY YOU ARE FOR SHARED PARENTING AS LONG AS YOU DON"T HAVE TO PAY FOR CHILD SUPPORT?
FOOD STAMPS FOR LINDA AND MY CHILD/REN BECAUSE CHILDREN'S LOBBYIST KNOW WHAT IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST
HAVE MORE CHILDREN - PREFERABLY WITH OTHER WOMEN AND GET CUSTODY USING PAS SO THE STATE CAN GIVE YOU MORE MONEY
CHILDREN'S LOBBYIST For the children,
Greg Fischer. "the children's lobbyist"
P.O. Box 285
Calverton, NY 11933-0285
VOTE FOR GREG THE PLAINTIFF - WELFARE FOR MY EX-WIFE LINDA AND MY CHILDREN
CHANGED THE LAWS - HAVE MORE CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT WOMEN AND GET PAID
LOBBY YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS - GREG DOES NOT WANT TO WORK - LINDA SHOULD
BETTER YET RUN FOR OFFICE - GREG KNOWS HOW, PAY HIM OFF THE BOOKS, LINDA MUST NOT KNOW BECAUSE GREG KID/S SHOULD BE ON WELFARE.
CHILDREN'S LOBBYIST - MAKE BABIES AND GET PAID USING PAS - TERMINATE YOUR CHILDREN'S MOMS RIGHT
WE ARE FOR MOMS AND DADS JUST NOT OUR EX WIVES.
WE ARE FOR CHILDREN JUST NOT OUR KIDS.
DO THE RIGHT THING - USE PAS -RICHARD GARDNER'S JUNK SCIENCE - TELL YOUR GIRLFRIENDS ANY SAD STORIES - GET THEM TO RAISE YOUR KID/S FOR FREE - CALL ME CHILDREN'S LOBBYIST - YEP - I LOVE THIS COUNTRY !!!
www.nycourts.gov
JUDGE JOHN C.BIVONA
ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
DOUGLAS A. DURNIN, ESQ.
INDEX NO:020840/2006 SUFFOLK COUNTY
From The Villager Volume 76, Number 18 | September 20 - 26, 2006
[Greg] Fischer — a former Department of Corrections officer from Long Island — was seen tearing down campaign posters for any candidates who did not support father’s rights legislation. The candidate was concerned about Fischer’s behavior.
- Greg - is this true, you are a correction officers in Long Island?
To Greg -
A former (?) correction officer from long Island?
Did you quit? Got fired? if so why?
Your anger? their faults? Your ex-wife's faults? Can you please post the termination finding or the misunderstanding hearing? You must have a hearing. Did you get disability? Can you please post that as well?
Thank you for being the Children's lobbyist so we all can learn from you in regards to your disability or was it a settlement or did you win the lawsuits?
Efrain Rodriguez is also a former correction officer or some type of law enforcement something?
What do father's rights group do anyway? use Richard Gardner's PAS junk science to cover up your former training?
Got more former law enforcements in your group - would love to meet the ex-wives and to interview the kids?
Would love to read all the court papers to learn from them?
Greg or Efrain or any of your father's group members - can you please post your financial networth and also the ACS report or the judge's decisions? can you guys post all your players including the mothers supervisors/ the companies and how much were they being paid or how much were you being paid if you are the supervisor or please point us to the right directions.
Besides law enforcement, Do you know people in child protective services as well? if so which counties?
How do you fathers do it - use PAS and it works?
Quote Richard Gardner?
What I don't get is - which attorney to use? or do you fathers have the same attorneys that use the same law guardians and also the same forensic experts.
Any help will be so greatly appreciated?
The other question is how did you get the mothers to pay child support?
How did you guys get the Federal funding together to pay for fathers attorneys or create the supervisory companies?
And then how did you tell the elected officials/ Chief Kaye to support all of you? Which statistics did you use? From which publications? Did anyone ever did a fact check?
Any of the court officers in your father's group?
Can you tell us their names? But most importantly to be fair, can you give us their ex wives phone #. We really want to see the filings and all the affidavits.
Do you know how we can get those records who appointed who and how much they get or who pays for the fathers attorneys?
When you did downward modification - what stories works best? How did you get the judge to reduce your monthly child support payment?
Did you use the junk science by Richard Gardner again? You must know that Richard Gardner is a pedophille? That's what I mean, how did you get away using PAS and the judges bought it? We want to use the same crooked attorney like Paul simonovsky to get custody?
please teach us
Thanks again for your help.
Gregg if you know anybody from CPS can you give me a hand?
Can I use your attorney for my case too and can you tell him to get the money out of the same funds he used for your legal fees.
Also since you must know some cops I need to find some police reports and criminal records that have dissapear, maybe all the records are in the same warehouse. Can I have the key? I just want to make sure they don't get wet.
Gregg I also need your Judge to talk to the Judge in my case and maybe you know collegue to collegue they can work something out. I will go to Cuba and get some cigars, since disgraced Gerald Garson likes cigars maybe we can work out a deal, for all we know that is the trick. Buying a good Cuban cigar will get you custody of your children.
Gregg, please I need an answer ASAP. Remember time is money and the more time the more money I will have to spend. I am playing the lotto if I win maybe I can cut you a check not a payoff. It can be consider either a "Donation," a "Referral Fee," or a "Christmas Gift" almost like a "Gift Card"
Dear Greg - our favorite children's lobbyist, Mr. Adam Edelsteins, Judge John Mc Guirk, Dr. Bert Pepper, Law Guardian Bernadette Lupinetti, Mr. Gary Greenwald and Judge Joan Lobis:
We can give the money to your favorite judge campaign funds, the way crooked Paul Simonovsky and the convicted Judge Gerald Garson got caught on tape saying to give money to the sitting Judge Robin Garson? Nobody will knows.
We can divert the money - like the way you said children's lobbyist when you mean no child support.
or PAS when you mean eliminate the MOMS parental rights.
or NO disability, no child support - just say that you are for the children just not their moms.
You are for moms and dads just not your children moms.
You are for changing the laws - as long as you don't pay child support
Hooray for Greg. Change the laws. Lobby to change family laws - use PAS junk science Richard Gardner .- so what he was a fraud
lets hire women actors to make us look good that we are a diverse group
- Greg Fischer - the children Lobbyist Just NOT my own children
- Meet Greg Fishers - Just don't bring Linda, my ex-wife - I don't want her to tell the truth
Greg Fischer and Efrain Rodriguez working the system together for the children - just don't interview our kids or their separate mothers.
We will be court watchers for you - just don't come to our court appearances to know the truth about Greg and Efrain
Men don't be afraid to use law enforcements to legitimize you - Macho, Macho Men.
and Men don't forget to get as many girlfriends as you can to raise the kids. Meet up is for us to get girlfriends
- Remember Free babysitters - have more children, get custody so we can be "father of the year" -
Just don't interview our wives or our kids let alone come as court watchers to our hearings.
For the Children - A good name to meet women
For the Children - A good name to steal your buddy's girlfriend.
Children Lobbyist- A great name - I love this country.
I am running for President !!!
Saul Edelstein _ Adam Edelstein's father from Brooklyn _ the firm gave money to Judge Rachel adams - (former law clerk of the convicted disgraced judge Gerald Garson) see previous posting
Chairman, Committee on Family and Matrimonial Law, 1976-),
Is this true? Anyone else?
I wonder which Democratic club?
Judge Frank Seddio - anyone knows this judge?
I wonder why Saul Edelstein gave $$$ to convicted Judge Gerald Garson's former law clerk - Judge Rachel Adams?
what's the connection?
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Saul Edelstein gave money to Judge Seddio?
BROOKLYN—After less than 18 months wearing a black dress, Brooklyn Surrogate Frank A. Seddio has announced his resignation after the state Commission on Judicial Conduct opened an investigation of Seddio for allegedly violation rules which bar judges from giving campaign money to political candidates or charities.
Seddio, a former assemblyman from Canarsie, had reportedly said that he was bored with the job and was concerned about the low pay for the $136,700 a year job.
Seddio’s allegedly violated ethics rules for contributing over $55,090 in unspent campaign money to political cronies and a political organization who had helped him gain a judgeship.
According to a spokesman for Power Express, a Long Island based mortgage banking firm, Seddio will join the bank as a vice president in charge of mortgage lending operations in the five New York boroughs.
In another matter before the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, Alan L. Honorof, a judge of the Court of Claims and an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, has been admonished, the lowest level of public sanction administered by the judicial panel.
In a determination dated April 18, the Commission found that Judge Honorof failed to make payments he owed under a confession of judgment related to his former law practice and that he asserted invalid claims in litigation related to the matter.
Honorof settled a claim by a former client by agreeing to pay $55,000, including 60 monthly payments of $500. When the judge stopped making the required payments, the former client filed a lawsuit to collect the amount owed. In connection with that litigation, the judge filed a verified answer that contained “invalid” defenses.
Noting that judges “are held to stricter standards than ‘the morals of the market place,’” the Commission stated that the judge “was especially obliged to be candid in the litigation process.” The commission concluded: “A judge, who is sworn to uphold the law and seek the truth, has a duty to respect and comply with the law and to act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary.” Judge Honorof acknowledged that his conduct violated the ethical rules. http://www.scjc.state.ny.us/Determinations/H/honorof.htm 5-11-07
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Judge Seddio - $$$ from Saul Edelstein - Edelsteins Faegenburg and Brown - see previous posting
I've had it, sez judge
Focus of probe quits, source cites boredom
BY NANCIE L. KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
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Under intense scrutiny for alleged ethics violations, Brooklyn Surrogate Judge Frank Seddio plans to resign next Friday, sources told the Daily News.
Seddio will step down from the $136,700-a-year post slightly more than a year after he was placed on the bench as part of a political deal between then Gov. George Pataki and the Legislature, sources said.
Seddio, a former assemblyman from Canarsie, has been under scrutiny by the Commission on Judicial Conduct for allegedly violating rules barring judges from giving campaign money to political candidates or charities.
The administrator of the judicial commission, Robert Tembeckjian, declined to comment.
His agency launched a probe of Seddio last year after The News' editorial page reported that Seddio had given more than $55,090 in unspent campaign money to party pals and a political club whose backing he needed to get on the bench.
But sources close to Seddio said yesterday he's quitting because he's bored with the job.
"The man likes to work. There's so many holidays and he likes the political life. You can't do that as the judge," a source said. "Plus, judges' salaries are too low."
Seddio is joining Power Express, a Long Island based mortgage banking firm. He will be in charge of "community relations," the firm's president said.
Judge Seddio - $$$ from Saul Edelstein - Edelsteins Faegenburg and Brown - see previous posting
NY Daily News - Editorial
Those rare instances when a hack loses a judgeship that was procured only by virtue of party loyalty are cause for celebration. Today we cheer the departure from the bench of one such slug, Frank Seddio, who stepped down yesterday just a year and 131 days into what he hoped would be a 14-year term.
Seddio packed it in rather than risk formal removal by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, which is in the thick of probing his affairs. The agency took an interest in Seddio after this page accused him of violating the canons of ethics regarding the use and misuse of campaign funds.
Based on what we discovered in filings of this former Brooklyn Democratic assemblyman, we predicted that "Seddio could go down as having had one of the shortest judgeships in New York history." How true, how true. Pardon our gloating.
Now that he's gone, it's worth retelling the story of Seddio's rise and fall because it is so revealing of the disgraceful way judges are made in New York. From time immemorial, Brooklyn has been served by one surrogate judge, who handles wills and estates and is a patronage font for the party machine. And, in fact, Brooklyn needs only one such judge.
But, from out of nowhere in the final moments of the 2005 legislative session, then-Gov. George Pataki, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno rushed through a big judge-making deal giving posts to the Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx Democrats, as well as to GOP leaders upstate.
The Brooklyn machine - and not the voters - was given the power to select the new surrogate. Assemblyman Joe Lentol was their pick, but he had the good sense in the end to decline. Next up was Seddio, a longtime party man whose Assembly bio depicted him as "best known for his elaborate Christmas display that surrounds his home each year, which is visited by thousands."
Seddio's only judicial experience had been as a judge of the Queen of Coney Island beauty pageant, but he was a lawyer - and he had $50,000 in campaign funds to spread around. Which he did. Which was against the rules. As we pointed out.
Incorrigible to the end, Seddio wrote in his resignation letter: "It is my hope that during my tenure I have been able to improve the image of the court." Good grief.
Can someone check if Edelstein Faegenburg and Brown gave more money to anyone else besides the judges that were posted already
- Judge Seddio - quit after being investigated
- Judge Rachel Adams - convicted Judge Gerald Garson former law clerk
- Judge Panepinto _ anyone has info about this judge?
Who was at the convicted judge Gerald Garson's trial - did you hear any of the Edelstein name on tape?
From Judicial Reports –
IS THIS JUDGE A CROOK OR JUST BORED?
This short nugget was scooped by The Daily News: Brooklyn Surrogate Judge Frank Seddio plans to resign next Friday after being investigated by the Commission on Judicial Conduct for allegedly violating rules barring judges from giving campaign money to political candidates or charities. Seddio was chosen as Surrogate last year by what the tabloid describes as “a political deal between then Governor George Pataki and the Legislature.” As reported by the News, the Commission began investigating Seddio after the paper’s editorial page wrote that the judge had given more than $55,090 in unspent campaign money to “party pals” and a political club whose backing he needed to get on the bench. But the judge said he’s simply bored with the job. "The man likes to work. There's so many holidays and he likes the political life. You can't do that as the judge," a source told the News. "Plus, judges' salaries are too low."
The Edelsteins giving $$$ to Judge Seddio - why?
see past posting
urrogate Court Judge Frank Seddio is shucking off his robes for a private sector job with a mortgage banking firm, this newspaper has learned.
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After just over a year behind the bench, the former State Assemblymember announced last week that he will be leaving his post effective May 11.
Despite rumors – propagated mostly by the New York Daily News – he is not leaving the bench because of some scandal, he said in an exclusive interview with this paper.
“I simply looked at my job and said to myself, ‘Do I want to be in this place in five years,’” said Seddio, 60. “I decided that the answer was no. So if I was going to not be here in five years, why keep going?”
Seddio said that he has taken a job as director of intergovernmental affairs for Power Express Mortgage Bank, a nationwide firm located in Nassau County.
He said that he not only an extensive background with working with mortgage companies as a lawyer, but the position would allow him to be the “people person” at his core.
“The work I did with the surrogate court was incredible,” he said. “It’s another whole side of the world that I would never have known. But I’ve learned that I’m a much more active person than the role that a judge requires. “I like expressing my opinion and working with people.”
Seddio said that no internal problems led to his departure and he is leaving on excellent terms with co-Surrogate Court Judge Margarita Lopez-Torres.
After being an Assemblyman for seven years, Seddio came to the Surrogate court post mired in controversy, with challengers claiming that the judgeship he filled was created in the fall of 2005, preventing any other viable candidates from running for the position.
Albany’s “date game” ensured that the first judge for the new spot would be selected by the reigning political party which, in Brooklyn’s case, is the Kings County Democratic Party.
The party’s executive committee selected Seddio after the man who was expected to warm the bench, State Assemblyman Joe Lentol, opted out.
Seddio was elected to the bench without any opposition.
While critics are scratching their heads as to why he didn’t decide to leave the bench in the summer, when election petition season would be concluded, Seddio said he decided to leave the judgeship early enough to give viable applicants a chance to file their petitions.
“Neither I or anyone else in the Democratic party wants to have a stranglehold on the process,” he said. “We want any candidate who wants the position to have a real fair shot.”
Despite going into the private sector, Seddio would not rule out the possibility of him holding another elected position down the line.
“Everything that has happened in my career has never been something that I have planned,” he said. “They say that man plans and God laughs, so I’m going to let the world flow around me.”
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Esther - my gift to you ---
Judge Rachel Adams - SSS from Esther's ex attorney (Saul is Adam Edelstein's father - from Edelsteins, Faegenburg and Brown) to the convicted disgraced judge Gerald Garson and see RCBA's article - finally a confirmation
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From RCBA - confirmation that Judge Rachel Adams is the convicted disgraced judge Gerald Garson's law clerk
Judge Rachel A. Adams The RCBAwould like to welcome Judge Adams to Staten Island. Judge Adams is the new matrimonial judge and is sitting at the Homeport Courthouse. Judge Adams was elected to the Kings County Civil Court in November of 1999 by the voters of the 5th Municipal District. After serving in the Kings County Civil Court she was assigned to the Kings County Family Court in January 2001. Before being elected a judge, Judge Adams handled family law cases as a DC37 attorney and was a hearing examiner for over 9 years in Kings County Family Court.
She also served as a law secretary to Justice Gerald P. Garson in a Kings County Matrimonial Part. She is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School.
Judge Adams resides in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, with her husband, Greg Brooks, a deputy comptroller in the office of NYC Comptroller William C. Thompson. He was the former chief of staff to Brooklyn’s former Borough President Howard Golden. Judge Adams has three children aged 21, 17 and 12. She wanted to thank the members of the bar for the consideration showed to her since arriving on Staten Island.
Posting Information about some of the names post it here. I like to contribute to Freedom
A11474
Committee To Elect John K. Mcguirk Supreme Court Justice
15 De Palma Drive
Highland Mills NY 10930
These are some of the contributions in 1999 to elect Judge John k. McGuirk, in 2006 he was not relected he was put in place by Pataki. What politics would do for you.
1999 CITIZENS FOR LARKIN
P.O. BOX 4321
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 250.00
19-OCT-99
1999 CITIZENS FOR LARKIN
P.O. BOX 4321
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 200.00
20-MAY-99
1999 FRIENDS TO ELECT DONNA BENSON
MT. EVE RD., BOX 229
GOSHEN, NY 10924 50.00 09-SEP-99 C
1999 FRIENDS TO ELECT DONNA BENSON
MT. EVE RD., BOX 229
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 26-MAY-99
1999 GREENWALD LAW OFFICES
99 BROOKSIDE AVE.
CHESTER, NY 10918 200.00 20-MAY-99
1999 LARKIN, AXELROD, TRACHTE & TETENBAUM, L.L.P.
34 RTE. 17K
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 500.00
13-SEP-99
1999 LARKIN, AXELROD, TRACHTE & TETENBAUM, L.L.P.
34 RTE. 17K
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 500.00
13-SEP-99
1999 LUPINETTI, BERNADETTE E
3 HATFIELD LANE
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 20-MAY-99
1999 ORANGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
14 RAILROAD AVE.
CHESTER, NY 10918 1,500.00
24-OCT-99
1999 TOWN OF NEWBURGH REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
9 CONGRESSIONAL DR.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 400.00
11-OCT-99
1999 TOWN OF NEWBURGH REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
9 CONGRESSIONAL DR.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 50.00 24-OCT-99
1999 UNITED FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT,PAC
112 GAYLOR RD.
SCARSDALE, NY 10583
1999 UNITEMIZED 1,899.00 27-SEP-99
1999 UNITEMIZED 150.00 18-OCT-99
1999 UNITEMIZED 100.00 18-OCT-99
1999 UNITEMIZED 50.00 25-NOV-99
1999 UNITEMIZED 125.00 11-JUL-99
1999 UNITEMIZED 725.00 11-JUL-99
1999 UNITEMIZED 1,500.00 11-JUL-99
1999 UNITEMIZED 25.00 25-NOV-99
1999 UNITEMIZED CONTRIBUTIONS
620.00 27-SEP-99
1999 UNITEMIZED CONTRIBUTIONS
80.00 27-SEP-99
Attorney Complaint Center
GARY GREENWALD, ESQ
Date : 10/3/2005
Subject: RIP OFF ARTIST Topic: Unethical
Complainant: unethical, overcharges
Used the law firm for a divorce - one year later and $60,000,
still not divorced. I was
passed off to 3 different lawyers within the firm, overcharged
and double billed by all. I
was told by a staff member at the firm to seek another lawyer
and to pursue fee
mediation. They even gave me the name of a new lawyer.
The new lawyer settled the
divorce for $3,000 in just 1 month. Now I hear from other
people and lawyers that he has
a terrible reputation and has had numerous complaints
through the bar. A former lawyer
in his office now tells me that he directs his lawyers to run up
a clients bill. Until I was in
another law office and started to hear horror stories, I didnt
realize he had such a bad
reputation locally. I took him to task and did pursue fee
mediation - guess what, he tried
to charge me an additional $10,000 for "fee mediation prep".
Gary Greenwald should be
taken to task by the bar - stop protecting a lawyer who has no
morals and does not abide
by the ethical code of attorney conduct.
scobby scobby doo where are you, are hidding with Gregg Fischer.
Is Greg Fischer correction officer's filing - public records?
Since Gregg is pro children - wouldn't it makes sense that we know why Gregg is a FORMER correction officer in Long Island?
If Gregg is on disability like Esther's ex - aren't we all paying for that disability?
Gregg, can you please clear this up for us.
Since you are the children's lobbyist - wouldn't it makes sense that your disability money be given to children.
I saw you using the bull horn and walking - does Long Island Correction Department knows that you go to Albany often, does your ex-wife knows about the disability?
Is Efrain Rodriguez also on disability - since you both are for the children and you both are lobbyist.
We want to know your children's child support payment?
Is it with one mother or 2 mothers. Married or out of wedlock?
Did you use FERPA for the school or did you eliminate contact with the mothers in the school?
Still got your badge? Are you allowed to carry guns, now that you are a FORMER correction officer?
Efrain - supervise any mothers lately? Train any fathers lately?
Can you both please post your court papers? We so want to learn from you
Someone has Justice John Mc Guirk - if you have the players Gary Greenwald and Bernadette Lupinetti as Law Guardian
BINGO !!!! - They both gave money to the judge. Somone ought to write to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for this Judge Mc Guirk failure to report that contributions and possible conflict of interest.
A good reporter to contact is Dan Murphy - he wrote about Catherine Wilson
Also another organization will be the Attorney General Cuomo
Anyone else has the same players ??- I list all the attorneys just in case your ex's attorney or good ol Bernadette is your players
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P.O. BOX 509
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P.O. BOX 509
CHESTER, NY 10918 200.00 15-JUN-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
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P.O. BOX 4323
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P.O. BOX 4323
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P.O. BOX 4323
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C/O STROMMER, 60 DUELK AVE.
MONROE, NY 10950 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
BONURA, JOSEPH A
90 SARVIS LANE
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
BRIAN G. GILMARTIN, ATTORNEY
90 EAST MAIN ST., P.O. BOX 478
WASHINGTONVILLE, NY 10992 100.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
BRIAN G. GILMARTIN, ATTORNEY
90 EAST MAIN ST., P.O. BOX 478
WASHINGTONVILLE, NY 10992 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
BROOMERKEL, ELENA
17 ROSE HILL PK.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 11-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 11PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
BRUCE F. BRYAN AGENCY, INC.
201 HUDSON ST., P.O. BOX 457
CORNWALL ON HUD, NY 12520 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
BUCHANAN HEATING & COOLING, INC.
15 FACTORY ST.
BUCHANAN, NY 10511 100.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
BUHL, TED
RD 3, BOX 184M
RICHFIELD SPRIN, NY 13439 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL OF ROCKLAND
11 KAY FRIES DR.
STONY POINT, NY 10980 250.00 11-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 11PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
CAMERON, JOHN B
12 CAMERON LANE
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
CAMPBELL, DAVID M
2 JOHNSON AVE.
PORT JERVIS, NY 12771 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
CARLA S. WISE, ATTORNEY
210 MAIN ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 50.00 08-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
CARLA S. WISE, ATTORNEY
210 MAIN ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
CAROLYN L. MARTINI, ATTORNEY
234 WASHINGTON ST.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 09-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
CENTURY 21 SMITCHGER REALTY
270 MAIN ST.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 20-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
CENTURY 21 SMITCHGER REALTY
270 MAIN ST.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
CHARLES P. OBREMSKI, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 547
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 09-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR CALHOUN
P.O. BOX 59
WASHINGTONVILLE, NY 10992 50.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR CALHOUN
P.O. BOX 59
WASHINGTONVILLE, NY 10992 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR FREEHILL
P.O. BOX ONE
HOWELLS, NY 10932 50.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR FREEHILL
P.O. BOX ONE
HOWELLS, NY 10932 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR LARKIN
P.O. BOX 4321
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 250.00 19-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR LARKIN
P.O. BOX 4321
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR MILLS
C/O GEORGER JR., 2 SUMMIT CT., SUITE 302
FISHKILL, NY 12524 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR RAMPE
P.O. BOX 727
WARWICK, NY 10990 50.00 21-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR RAMPE
P.O. BOX 727
WARWICK, NY 10990 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR SHERIFF H. FRANK BIGGER
BOX 409, 2 APPLE LN.
WESTBROOKVILLE,, NY 12785 100.00 20-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS FOR SHERIFF H. FRANK BIGGER
BOX 409, 2 APPLE LANE
WESTBROOKVILLE, NY 12785 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS TO ELECT JOHN BONCIC
P.O. BOX 455
NEW HAMPTON, NY 10958 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
CITIZENS TO ELECT JOHN BONCIC
P.O. BOX 455
NEW HAMPTON, NY 10958 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
CLANCY, JOHN M
42 ROYCE AVE.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 23-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
CLARKE, THOMAS P
2 THORN DR.
HIGHLAND MILLS, NY 10930 100.00 23-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
COMMERICAL OFFSET PRINTERS
222 MACARTHUR AVE.
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
CONNELLY, MARGARET B
204 FOSS DR.
UPPER NYACK, NY 10960 100.00 28-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 11PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
CONST. CONTRACTORS ASSN. OF THE HUDSON VALLEY
330 MEADOW AVE.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 50.00 10-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
CONST. CONTRACTORS ASSN. OF THE HUDSON VALLEY
330 MEADOW AVE.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 22-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS ASSN. OF HUDSON VALLEY
330 MEADOW AVE.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
COOKE & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS
TEN HAMILTON AVE., P.O. BOX 1444
MONTICELLO, NY 12701 100.00 24-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
COYLE, MARY M
407 PHILO ST.
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
CUSACK, ELAINE
632 N CLINTON AVE.
LINDENHURST, NY 11757 100.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
CUSACK, ELAINE
632 N. CLINTON AVE.
LINDENHURST, NY 11757 100.00 25-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
CUSACK, GERARD
546 ROUTE 111
HAUPPAUGE, NY 11788 250.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
DAVID I. GOLDSTEIN, ATTORNEY
747 CHESTNUT RIDGE RD., SUITE 200
CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY 10977 100.00 16-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
DEAN, JAMES J
96 JEFFERSON ST.
METUCHEN, NJ 08840 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
DENNIS P. PORTARARO, ATTORNEY
19-21 DEWITT ST.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 50.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
DENNIS P. PORTARARO, ATTORNEY
19-21 DEWITT ST.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 09-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
DENNIS P. PORTARARO, ATTORNEY
19-21 DEWITT ST.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
DEPROSPO, PETRIZZO, LONGO, BARTLETT
900 PROFESSIONAL BUILDING, RT 17M
GOSHEN, NY 10924 250.00 21-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
DEPROSPO, PETRIZZO, LONGO, BARTLETT
900 PROFESSIONAL BUILDING, RT 17M
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 25-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
DESROSIERS, ROBIN A
14 KINGS RD.
HIGHLAND FALLS, NY 10928 150.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
DEWIT INSURANCE AGENCY, INC.
284 MAIN ST., P.O. BOX A
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
DEWITT, DOLORES D
4 VALEWOOD DR.
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 100.00 08-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
DEWITT, DOLORES D
4 VALEWOOD DR.
NEW WINDSOR, NY 6137 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
DOMBROSKI, LINDA A
P.O. BOX 2242
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
DONATO, MARGARET A
9 SEAWIND
IRVINE, CA 92614 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
DRAKE, SOMMERS, LOEB, TARSHIS & CATANIA, P.C.
ONE CORWIN CT. P.O. BOX 1479
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 250.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
DRAKE, SOMMERS, LOEB, TARSHIS & CATANIA, P.C.
ONE CORWIN CT., P.O. BOX 1479
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 1,000.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
DROTZER, HOROWITZ LLP, ATTORNEYS
2000 MAPLE HILL ST.
YORKTOWN HEIGHT, NY 10598 100.00 08-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
DUPEE & DUPEE, PC
P.O. BOX 470, 30 MATTHEWS ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
EDSALL, MARK J
19 CLARK AVE.
CORNWALL-HUDSON, NY 12520 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
FABRICANT & LIPMAN, ATTORNEYS
ONE HARRIMAN SQ., P.O. BOX 60
GOSHEN, NY 12524 250.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
FARINA, RICHARD
7 PINECREST
WARWICK, NY 10990 100.00 14-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 11PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
FERRARO, ANTHONY N
SHORE RD. P.O. BOX 368
CORNWALL-HUDSON, NY 12520 100.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
FINKELSTEIN, JOEL
436 ROBINSON AVE.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 09-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
FISCHER, ROBERT N
9 CONGRESSIONAL DR.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 50.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
FLYNN, JOAN
IDLEWILD CREEK, 8 LANDMARK DR., 98
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 05-NOV-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
FOGARTY, JOSEPH P
65 BREWSTER DR.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 08-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
FORMAN, PETER M
49 MONELL PL.
BEACON, NY 12508 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
FRIED, ELYSSA
80 VALLEY AVE.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
FRIENDS TO ELECT DONNA BENSON
MT. EVE RD., BOX 229
GOSHEN, NY 10924 50.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
FRIENDS TO ELECT DONNA BENSON
MT. EVE RD., BOX 229
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
FWJ INC.
3 WEMBLEY SQ., SUITE 104
ALBANY, NY 12205 200.00 25-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
GARRISON, JOHN
P.O. BOX 152
WALDEN, NY 12586 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
GELLERT & CUTLER, P.C. ATTYS.
75 WASHINGTON ST.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12601 200.00 27-JUL-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
GEMMA DEVELOPMENT CO.
35 BUENA VISTS TERR.
CENTRAL VALLEY, NY 10917 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
GLADYS C. LAFORGE, ATTORNEY
3 HATFIELD LANE
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
GORSS, FREDERICK G
P.O. BOX 389
MONTGOMERY, NY 12549 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
GRASSELENA, GREGORY C
14 PANEL LANE
FLORIDA, NY 10921 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
GREENBLATT & WINSLOW P.C.
369 FULLERTON AVE.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 50.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
GREENBLATT & WINSLOW, PC
369 FULLERTON AVE.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 16-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
GREENE, ELIZABETH J
36 CHAPEL RD.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
GREENWALD LAW OFFICES
99 BROOKSIDE AVE.
CHESTER, NY 10918 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
H. MALCOLM STEWART III, ATTORNEY
48 NORTH CHURCH ST., P.O. BOX 312
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 23-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
H. MALCOLM STEWART III, ATTORNEY
48 NORTH CHURCH ST., P.O. BOX 312
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
HANNAN, ROBERT P
45 BAYVIEW AVE.
CORNWALL-HUDSON, NY 12520 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
HANSEN, MARY-TERES
P.O. BOX 537
FORT MONTGOMERY, NY 10922 50.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
HARDENBURGH ABSTRACT CO. - ORANGE, INC.
12 SCOTCHTOWN AVE.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
HARDENBURGH ABSTRACT CO.-ORANGE,INC.
12 SCOTCHTOWN AVE.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 22-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
HARVEY C. KALLUS, ATTORNEY
100 COMMERCE DR., STE 107
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
HARVEY C. KALLUS, ATTORNEY
100 COMMERCE DR., SUITE 107
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
HEKKER, JOHN M
35 WEATHER VANE DR. #11
WASHINGTONVILLE, NY 10992 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
HERMAN & CUPERO LLP
50 NORTH CHURCH ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
HERMAN & CUPERO LLP ATTYS.
50 NORTH CHURCH ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
HIGHLAND SAND & GRACEL INC.
P.O. BOX 1007, 911 RT 32
HIGHLAND MILLS, NY 10930 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
HINES, DORIS M
20 SMITH RD.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
HOOVER SR., GREGORY G
25 MAIN ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 09-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
HOWARD S. DALLOW, ATTORNEY
225 DOLSON AVE.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
HOWARD S. DALLOW, ATTORNEY
225 DOLSON AVE.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 200.00 02-JUN-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
HUBNER, C E
14 GREGORY DRIVE
GOSHEN, NY 10924 1,000.00 24-MAR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
HUDSON HIGHLANDS CRUISES INC.
P.O. BOX 355
CORNWALL-HUDSON, NY 12520 100.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
HUDSON VALLEY BUILD PAC
P.O. BOX 7123
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 200.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
ITZLA, ROBERT
48 MEADOW RD.
FLORIDA, NY 10921 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
JACOBOWITZ & GUBITS LLP
158 ORANGE AVE.
WALDEN, NY 12586 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
JACOBOWITZ & GUBITS LLP, ATTORNEYS
158 ORANGE AVE.
WALDEN, NY 12586 50.00 08-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
JACOBOWITZ AND PAZ, ATTORNEYS
P.O. BOX 366, 156 ORANGE AVE.
WALDEN, NY 12586 50.00 05-NOV-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
JACOBOWITZ AND PAZ, ATTORNEYS
P.O. BOX 366, 156 ORANGE AVE.
WALDEN, NY 12586 50.00 05-NOV-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
JACOBOWITZ, MARLENE
15 TAFT PLACE, P.O. BOX 486
CORNWALL ON HUD, NY 12520 100.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
JOHN J. LEE JR., ATTORNEY
56 MAIN ST.
WARWICK, NY 10990 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
JOHN S. HICKS, ATTORNEY
11 MAIN ST., P.O. BOX 493
CHESTER, NY 10918 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
JOHN T. OFRIEL, ATTORNEY
BUENA VISTA TERRACE
CENTRAL VALLEY, NY 10917 100.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
JOHN T. OFRIEL, ATTORNEY
BUENA VISTA TERR.
CENTRAL VALLEY, NY 10917 100.00 16-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
JOHNSON & COHEN, LLP.
1 BLUE HILL PLAZA, SUITE 800
PEARL RIVER, NY 10965 200.00 19-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
JOHNSON & COHEN, LLP.
1 BLUE HILL PLAZA, SUITE 800
PEARL RIVER, NY 10965 250.00 23-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
JOSEPH A. OWEN, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 1000, 198 MAIN ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
JOSEPH W. COBURN IV, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 67
PINE BUSH, NY 12566 50.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
JOSEPH W. COBURN IV, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 67
PINE BUSH, NY 12566 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
JOSEPH W. COBURN IV, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 67
PINE BUSH, NY 12566 25.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
KAVANAGH, JAMES
129 MAIN ST., APT A7
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
KEARNS, JOSEPH
5204 MANOR DR.
PEEKSKILL, NY 10566 100.00 21-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
KENNETH D. JOHNSON, ATTORNEY
5 BANK ST., P.O. BOX 272
WALDEN, NY 12586 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
KLEIN, CAROL
9 NORTH HUDSON ST.
CHESTER, NY 10918 50.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
KLEIN, CAROL
9 NORTH HUDSON ST.
CHESTER, NY 10918 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
KLINE, JAMES K
P.O. BOX 769
CORNWALL, NY 12518 150.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
KLINE, JAMES K
P.O. BOX 769
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
KOHN, EDMUND R
STATION RD., BOX D
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
KRAFFT, CHARLES G
BOX 81, SPRUCE DR.
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY 10953 100.00 29-JUN-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
KUSLANSKY, ALLAN
P.O. BOX 41
CORNWALL ON HUD, NY 12520 100.00 05-NOV-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
LABORERS LOCAL 17 PAC
451A LITTLE BRITIAN RD.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 200.00 10-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
LABORERS LOCAL 17, PAC
451A LITTLE BRITAIN RD.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
LANC & TULLY ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING, PC
P.O. BOX 687
GOSHEN, NY 10924 200.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
LARKIN, AXELROD, TRACHTE & TETENBAUM, L.L.P.
34 RTE. 17K
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 500.00 13-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
LARKIN, AXELROD, TRACHTE & TETENBAUM, L.L.P.
34 RTE. 17K
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 500.00 13-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
LAVERY, KENNETH
105-00 SHORE FRONT PKWY., APT. 7 T
ROCKAWAY PARK, NY 11694 50.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
LAVERY, KENNETH
105-00 SHORE FRONT PKWY., APT 7T
ROCKAWAY PARK, NY 11694 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
LAWRENCE B. GOODMAN & CO. P.A.
32-16 BROADWAY
FAIRLAWN, NJ 07410 100.00 05-NOV-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
LAWRENCE M. KLEIN, ATTORNEY
302 NORTH ST.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 21-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
LEE JR., JOHN J
12 CAMPBELL RD.
WARWICK, NY 10990 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
LEWIS, KERMIT W
MAIN ST.
HOWELLS, NY 10932 100.00 23-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
LIGHTRON OF CORNWALL, INC.
65 RIVER RD., BOX 4270
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 50.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
LINDA CHRISTOPHER, ATTORNEY
328 N. BROADWAY, P.O. BOX 33
NYACK, NY 10960 100.00 28-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 11PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
LOCAL 628 ASSOCIATION COPE FUND
7 NEW SCHOOL ST.
YONKERS, NY 10701 500.00 03-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 11PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
LOCAL UNION NO. 373 U.A. PAC
P.O. BOX 58, 76 PLEASANT HILL RD.
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY 10953 100.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
LOUGHRAN, JIM
RT. 94 & SCHOOLHOUSE RD.
SALISBURY MILLS, NY 12577 100.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
LUBINSKY & KESSLER, ATTORNEYS
207 PROFESSIONAL BLDG., P.O. BOX 1009
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
LUBINSKY & KESSLER, ATTORNEYS
207 PROFESSIONAL BLDG., P.O. BOX 1009
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 09-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
LUPINETTI, BERNADETTE E
3 HATFIELD LANE
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
LUSIGNAN, ARTHUR P
13 NANUWITT LANE
SALISBURY MILLS, NY 12577 100.00 20-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MAJ'S T-SHIRT EXPRESS .
BOX 503
CORNWALL ON HUD, NY 12520 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
MANDELBAUM, JONAH
57 COLONIAL AVE.
WARWICK, NY 10990 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
MATTAUSCH, SALLY G
BOX 31
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY 10953 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCADAM & FALLON, P.C.
90 SCOFIELD ST. P.O. BOX 500
WALDEN, NY 12586 100.00 21-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCCABE & MACK LLP
63 WASHINGTON ST., P.O. BOX 509
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12602 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCCLURE, DEBORAH A
18 WILLELLA PL.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 08-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCCORMACK, DAMIANI, LOWE & MELLION
499 RT 304
NEW CITY, NY 10956 150.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCDERMOTT, PAUL T
63 EISENHOWER DR.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 23-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCGLINN, JOSEPH P
256 CROMWELL HILL RD.
MONROE, NY 10950 100.00 19-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCGLINN, JOSEPH P
256 CROMWELL HILL RD.
MONROE, NY 10950 1,000.00 21-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCGOEY, HAUSER AND EDSALL CONSULTING ENGINEERS
45 QUASSAICK AVE., RT 9W
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCGUIRK, JOHN K
P.O. BOX 434, 49 MINE HILL RD.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 8,000.00 24-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCGUIRK, JOHN K
P.O. BOX 434, 49 MINE HILL RD.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 3,055.00 22-NOV-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCGUIRK, JOHN K
P.O. BOX 434, 49 MINE HILL ROAD
CORNWALL, NY 12518 48.51 12-FEB-00 2000 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE XX A Sup. Court Justice 9
MCGUIRK, JOHN K
P.O. BOX 434, 49 MINE HILL RD.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 1,000.00 11-MAR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
MICHAEL D. KRANIS, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 4978
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 12602 100.00 27-JUL-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
MICHAEL S. SACHS, ATTORNEY
219 QUASSAICK AVE., P.O. BOX 4277
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 200.00 14-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 11PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
MICHELE LEE NEUSCH
718 BROADWAY
NEWBURGH, NY 12559 100.00 24-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
MICHELE P. ELLERIN, ATTORNEY
506 EAST MAIN ST.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
MICHELE P. ELLERIN, ATTORNEY
506 EAST MAIN ST.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
MIRABILE, EDWARD F
103 EXECUTIVE DR., SUITE 300
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MIRRO & BENNETT, ATTORNEYS
176 MAIN ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
MOULTON. JR., EDWARD C
P.O. BOX 415, 1 BRADEN PL.
CORNWALL-HUDSON, NY 12520 100.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
MURPHY, TONIE
BOX 432, WATERBURY RD.
WARWICK, NY 10990 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
NANNINI & CALLAHAN EXCAVATING, INC.
262 ANGOLA RD.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
NEW YORK STATE LABORER'S, PAC
18 CORPORATE WOODS BLVD.
ALBANY, NY 12211 200.00 05-NOV-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
NEWMAN, ROGER
275 NORTH ST.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
NEWMAN, ROGER
275 NORTH ST.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
NOBILETTI, RAYMOND J
29 MOTT ST.
NEW YORK, NY 10013 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
NOLAN, JOHN
130 SYCAMORE DR.
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 100.00 20-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
NORTHROP, STRADAR & GLENN, ATTORNEYS
ONE CORWIN COURT, P.O. BOX 2395
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 825, PAC
ROUTE 46 EAST
LITTLE FALLS, NJ 07424 500.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 825, PAC
RT. 46 EAST
LITTLE FALLS, NJ 07424 200.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court Justice 9
ORANGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
14 RAILROAD AVE.
CHESTER, NY 10918 1,500.00 24-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
PARIS, CAROLE B
244 JEFFER ST.
RIDGEWOOD, NJ 07450 150.00 20-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
PARKER, PHILIP E
9 KNOX RD.
EASTCHESTER, NY 10709 150.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 27PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
PASCUAL, VIRGILIO V
5 VER'S LN.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 15-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
PATRICK S. OWEN, ATTORNEY
198 MAIN STREET
GOSHEN, NY 10924 50.00 20-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
PATRICK S. OWEN, ATTORNEY
198 MAIN ST.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
PATRICK T. BURKE, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 397
SUFFREN, NY 10901 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
PAUL BRITE, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 7061, 1661 RT 300
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
PETER D. BARLET, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 1010
WARWICK, NY 10990 50.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
PETER D. BARLET, ATTORNEY
P.O. BOX 1010
WARWICK, NY 10990 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
POMERANTZ, SHEILA
8 SUMMIT RIDGE ROAD
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
PROTTER, HOWARD
59 WEEKS AVE.
CORNWALL-HUDSON, NY 12520 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
QUIGLEY BROS. FUNERAL HOME, INC.
337 HUDSON ST.
CORNWALL ON HUD, NY 12520 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
QUINLAN, T W
520 ANGOLA RD.
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
REGAN, AGNAS
85 BRONX RIVER ROAD
YONKERS, NY 10704 100.00 27-JUL-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
RICHARD ANDREW RUSSELL, ATTORNEY
52 NORTH PLANK RD.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 250.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
RICHARD N. LENTINO, ATTORNEY
138 WEST MAIN ST.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 23-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
RICHARD W. HOYT, ATTORNEY
43 ORCHARD ST., P.O. BOX 402
WALDEN, NY 12586 200.00 15-JUN-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
RICH, RITA G
41 RANDALL HGTS.
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
RIDER, DAVID L
655 LITTLE BRITAIN RD.
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 250.00 09-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
RIEGER HOMES INC.
RT 208, P.O. BOX 688
MONROE, NY 10950 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
RITTER, MILTON
23 SOUTH PLANK RD., P.O. BOX 386
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
ROCKLAND COUNTY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
11 OAKWOOD TERRACE
SPRING VALLEY, NY 10977 250.00 11-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 11PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
ROGER DONOVAN BUILDING CONTRACTOR
P.O. BOX 456
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
ROGER DONOVAN, BUILDING CONTRACTOR
P.O. BOX 456
CORNWALL, NY 12518 50.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
RONALD S. KOSSAR, ATTORNEY
402 EAST MAIN ST., P.O. BOX 548
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 04-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
RONALD S. KOSSAR, ATTORNEY
402 EAST MAIN ST., P.O. BOX 548
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
RONALD S. KOSSAR, ATTORNEY
402 EAST MAIN ST., P.O. BOX 548
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10940 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
ROUTE 94 ASSOCIATES
207 LAKE DR.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court Justice 9
SALVATORE, RONALD A
6 BLACKWELL ST
CORNWALL-HUDSON, NY 12520 300.00 27-JUL-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
SCALZO, MARGARET M
25 OAK ST.
NEWBURGH, NY 12550 100.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
SCHAFFER, MARTIN B
F12 CLARK DR.
HARRIMAN, NY 10926 100.00 21-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
SCHAFFER, MARTIN B
F12 CLARK DR.
HARRIMAN, NY 10926 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
SEEGER, ROBERT
15 BERRY RD.
MARLBORO, NY 12542 100.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
SEEGER, ROBERT
15 BERRY RD.
MARLBORO, NY 12542 100.00 20-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
SHEFFIELD, MARY PAT
33 BLOOMING GROVE TPK.
NEW WINDSOR, NY 12553 50.00 28-AUG-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG A Sup. Court Justice 9
SHEILA CALLAHAN O'DONNELL, ATTORNEY
257 MAIN ST., P.O. BOX 484
CORNWALL, NY 12518 100.00 08-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG B Sup. Court Justice 9
SHERWIN, JEFFREY D
187 MURRY AVE.
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 23-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC A Sup. Court Justice 9
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Adult Edntertainment Meetup Group - is that the same as children lobbyist?
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hey this came from his own posting as children lobbyist in adult entertainment group
From National Alliance for Family Court Justice -
Children's Rights Council, Formed in 1985 in Washington, DC, definitely the kingpin in the fatherhood movement, closely tied to other leading groups such as ACFC and NCFC. While they claim to only work for benign goals such as presumptive joint custody, they are really ring-leaders for a bad-dad's custody scheme which involves scaring divorcing men into believing that system is rigged for women, then luring them into joining one of their locally affiliated groups, getting them to pay up front money to one of the AFCC affiliated attorneys in a custody switching program. Dad's attorney fees and other expenses are paid back with federal fatherhood program money after the deal is done. CRC also runs programs to educate judges, lawyers and court evaluators on Richard Gardner's incest friendly Parental Alienation Syndrome and anti-protective parent bashing.
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts "an international and interdisciplinary association dedicated to the constructive resolution of family disputes" but their focus is on training judges, custody evaluators and mediators about fatherhood issues and promoting alienation theories. Listed on AFCC's Board of Directors is Children's Rights Council's favorite researcher and recipient of a $10M federal grant Sanford L. Braver, Ph.D. who found, astoundingly as a result of his study that after divorce, women do as well finacially as men!
Wade Horn -
Wade Horn: The Marrying Man is a founder of the National Fatherhood Initiative which runs a child custody clearing house for fathers. While claiming to be totally unrelated to the notorious "radical" groups, they have links to CRC, NCFC and ACFC and refer callers to them. Horn was a primary lobby is for the fatherhood. And now he's again in a position to do something about it.
WOMEN ARE AS VIOLENT AS ARE MEN, AND WOMEN INITIATE VIOLENCE AS OFTEN AS DO MEN., This factoid cites research by Murray Straus, Suzanne Steinmetz, and Richard Gelles, as well as a host of other self-report surveys. Those using this factoid tend to conveniently leave out the fact that Straus and his colleague's surveys as well as data collected from the National Crime Victimization Survey (Bureau of Justice Statistics) consistently find that no matter what the rate of violence or who initiates the violence, women are 7 to 10 times more likely to be injured in acts of intimate violence than are men.
Richard Gardner - Father of PAS - men consider him a hero and if you go to Efrain Rodriguez's meeting, he suggested everyone to get Gardner's book.
FROM National Alliance fior Family Court Justice - Abour Richard Gardner PAS sickos
Therapy with the Pedophilic Father
"He has to be helped to appreciate that, even today, [pedophilia] is a widespread and accepted practice among literally billions of people."
Gardner (1992, p. 588) does not believe in doing therapy with fathers who deny committing sexual molestation. If father desires treatment, the therapist should focus on enhancing his self-esteem. This is accomplished by helping him to appreciate that "there is a certain amount of pedophilia in all of us" and that "pedophilia has been considered the norm by the vast majority of individuals in the history of the world" (Gardner 1992, pp. 592-3).
He has to be helped to appreciate that, even today, it is a widespread and accepted practice among literally billions of people. He has to appreciate that in our Western society especially, we take a very punitive and moralistic attitude toward such inclinations. He has had a certain amount of back (sic) luck with regard to the place and time he was born with regard to social attitudes toward pedophilia. (Gardner, 1992, p. 593)
In addition to feeling sorry for his own misfortune, the father should be helped to feel pity for the child for having been "a victim in a society that considers his [the father's] behavior a heinous crime and/or a mortal sin" (Gardner 1992, p. 592). If the father feels no guilt, then the therapeutic goal is to increase it. Gardner (1992, p. 594) notes that the father may rationalize that pedophilia is an ancient tradition, a worldwide practice, and that there is nothing at all to be guilty about.
Such fathers have to be helped to appreciate that although what they say on this point is true, this does not justify its practice in our [italics in original] society, even though our society overreacts to it. It is because our society overreacts to it that children suffer. (Gardner, 1992, p. 594-5)
Despite the molesting father's "bad luck" regarding the place and time he was born, he "must learn to control himself if he is to protect himself from the Draconian punishments meted out to those in our society who act out their pedophilic impulses" (Gardner 1992, p. 594). However, therapy with the father should not be spent focusing on the primary problem --sexual molestation. Instead, therapy should be spent "talking about other things" as the goal of therapy is "to help people forget about their problems" (Gardner, 1992, p. 592).
Child custody for sex offenders
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Posted: April 20, 1999
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Kelly O'Meara released an expose entitled, "Pedophiles Get Child Custody -- Has Psychiatry Gone Psycho?" in a recent edition of The Washington Times' weekly newsmagazine, Insight.
The press often cheers the judicial award of children from normal homes to that of homosexuals and AIDS carriers. Now, O'Meara documents a series of "bizarre" cases in which convicted child sex offenders are being awarded sole custody of the children they abused.
How could this happen? O'Meara cites "court acceptance" of a pop-psychology fad, parental alienation syndrome (PAS) which has emerged as a judicial backlash to the escalation of child sex abuse charges in custody disputes.
According to PAS theory, if a parent (usually mom) accuses the other (usually dad) of sexual abuse, this "turns the child against the father," hence, mom's "influence over the child should be halted." That is, even when the accused is a convicted sex offender, mom has lost custody and visitation rights.
The theory, based on Gardner's observations during child custody disputes, largely discredits incest charges.
PAS was invented by Richard A. Gardner. Gardner is a Columbia University clinical professor of child psychiatry and he defends his theory in his 749 pages of "True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse" (1992).
Inevitably, Gardner's sole experimental authority for this PAS theory is Alfred C. Kinsey. In fact, Gardner largely plagiarizes Chapters 5 in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Female (1953) to show child molestation is normal.
No reputable scientific organization has validated PAS. Even the American Psychiatric Association rejects the scientific reliability of Gardner's PAS. O'Meara further quotes numerous professional critics of PAS, typified by of Jon Conte, University of Washington psychologist, "PAS is not research-based, and it has done a great injustice to the family and the justice system."
Legal scholars are also aware of PAS' danger. To quote John E.B. Myers, a professor at McGeorge School of Law, University of Pacific, California, PAS "increases exponentially the skepticism of society generally about whether child abuse exists."
As a further indication that PAS is nothing but pseudo science we need only look at some of Gardner's other "scientific findings." Gardner uses recent "sonograms that showed baby boys holding their penises in utero" as an example of such boys' sexual desire or activity.
Gardner, a medical doctor who would know better, not only completely discounts the infant's common grasp of toes, arm, foot and nose, he also seems to project his own desires or imaginations onto infants when he says that "most, if not all, children have the capacity to reach orgasm at the time they are born" and "children are not only naturally sexual but that they may be the initiators of sexual activities."
Like his mentor, Kinsey, pathologically suspect, Gardner implies that infants sexually seduce their caregivers.
Having testified successfully in hundreds of custody cases, Gardner's PAS is cited by many in the justice system who make life and death decisions for children.
Some mothers now hide the incest in a custody case lest the judge declare she is "emotionally" abusing the child by reporting the offender. Gardner told Insight his personal life and sexual orientation "aren't relevant."
But the personal life of a court sex expert is indeed "relevant." Because his closeted life was relevant to his data, Kinsey, a sexual psychopath, told the world he was a conservative family man. Indeed, claims of sexually lusty fetuses suggests that Gardner is significantly disordered. His PAS testimony in child custody rulings can and should be challenged and reversed.
Gardner's website identifies a PAS lecture due June 5, 1999 at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital, another sponsored by the South Carolina Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, then off to the Open University to teach PAS in Breda, The Netherlands (the home of the international academic pedophile movement).
Let's hope that both the legal and health professions will soon take PAS for what it really is, pseudo scientific garbage.
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Dr. Judith Reisman is president of the Institute for Media Education and is the author of "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences."
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The courtroom as battleground
In February, Nathan Grieco, 16, of North Huntingdon was found dead in his bedroom, a belt around his neck. His death came after years of custody disputes between his mother, Karen Scott, and his father, Louis Grieco. Nathan's death has attracted national attention from children's rights groups and legal experts, and has raised the question of how courts should treat children who are caught between warring parents. The dispute between his father and mother intensified after Scott remarried in 1993. That's where today's story begins.
On the night of Oct. 23, 1993, Karen Scott's North Huntingdon neighbors rushed to their windows and porches after hearing blood-curdling screams coming from Scott's driveway.
While accounts differ on exactly what happened, all sides agree that some kind of physical altercation occurred at the home that night, injuring both Scott, who needed stitches for cuts in her cheek and mouth, and her ex-husband, Louis Grieco, who suffered a fractured finger and some scratches and bruises around his neck.
Four years after their divorce, the simmering Grieco-Scott feud had erupted in violence. Grieco, a retired Navy pilot, had been saying in court petitions that Scott was preventing him from seeing his children; Scott contended that Grieco had become increasingly hostile to her and to the three boys, Nathan, then 11; Justin, 9; and Patrick, 7, ever since she had informed him in 1992 she was going to remarry.
Whoever was right, the events of that evening would have lasting, traumatic effects on the three children.
Grieco was arrested on assault charges and jailed for two weeks. The incident prompted an investigation by the Westmoreland County Children's Bureau, counseling sessions for the boys, and a protective order barring Grieco from contacting them.
More than a year afterward, in November 1994, he was found not guilty in a jury trial. The prosecutor, Alan Pawanda, said that because no witnesses had seen who had started the fight, there was plenty of reasonable doubt facing the jury, and "juries are kind of hesitant about convicting when there isn't overwhelming evidence. They think this kind of thing is a private matter."
Unpleasant visits
Shortly after the acquittal, Louis Grieco filed for renewed visits with his sons.
The family court judge in the case, John Blahovec, took a cautious tack.
He ruled that supervised visits could take place "in a therapeutic setting." He chose the Comprehensive Counseling Center, a branch of Westmoreland Hospital, which receives the bulk of the court's therapy assignments.
The visits were not successful. Nearly half a dozen times between November 1994 and February 1995, Grieco came from Illinois to see the boys, and each time they refused, citing their fear and anger because of the assault. Social workers who were present noted that Karen Scott urged them to go see their father.
In December 1995, a new judge took over the case. It was former District Attorney John J. Driscoll, who had won election to Common Pleas Court that fall.
Trained as a prosecutor, Driscoll took a decidedly harder line when the boys continued to defy court orders to visit their father. In January 1996, he ordered that sheriff's deputies escort the children to the center -- or Karen Scott would face the possibility of six months in jail.
On Jan. 16, 1996, the boys were dragged, kicking and screaming, into a sheriff's van at their home and taken to the counseling center.
The same day, Scott's attorney, Sandra Davis, asked the court to appoint a "guardian ad litem" for the children -- a lawyer who would represent the interests of the children. The court appointed Richard Baumgartner of Latrobe.
Shortly afterward, Scott said, Nathan had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized in the child psychiatric unit at Monsour Medical Center. His diagnosis: anxiety, depression and oppositional disorder, which encompasses hostility, disobedience and difficulty controlling impulses.
Enter Richard Gardner
Not long after Nathan's hospitalization, in February 1996, the stakes rose dramatically in the battle between his parents.
Louis Grieco filed for full custody, saying the children were suffering from something called Parental Alienation Syndrome, or PAS.
PAS is a theory espoused by Dr. Richard Gardner, a psychiatrist on the faculty of Columbia University.
Gardner believes that 90 percent of the allegations of abuse against children in custody cases are false, whether they involve physical, emotional or sexual abuse.
When children claim abuse in a custody battle, Gardner said, it's usually because they are suffering the effects of PAS, a mental disorder mostly afflicting "vindictive mothers" who have brainwashed their children into making allegations against the fathers.
Gardner provides no scientific data to support his theories about PAS, and most of his articles on the subject have not appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals, which require analysis by fellow professionals before publication. Instead, he publishes his own books, audio tapes and videotapes.
PAS also isn't listed as a "syndrome" in the American Psychiatric Association's manual of such disorders.
Still, Gardner, who declined to be interviewed for this report, has become a favorite witness for some divorce lawyers -- usually those representing fathers -- who believe that his scientific language and his forceful personality are a potent weapon in the courtroom.
Most therapists agree that children often become alienated from one parent or another in contentious divorces. But Gardner's "syndrome" goes too far, they say, particularly because it erroneously places all blame on one parent, usually the mother.
Determining the causes of a child's alienation isn't easy, and the Grieco case was no exception.
The experts disagree
Carol Patterson, a psychologist and investigator with the county Children's Bureau, told the court she didn't believe that Scott had negatively influenced the children. Dr. Dale Fruman, a psychiatrist with the Comprehensive Counseling Center at Westmoreland Hospital, felt otherwise.
Citing the center's difficulty in arranging visits between the father and his children, Fruman said Scott had done "everything she could not to promote a positive relationship with the father over the course of many years, to undermine it, to devaluate it, demote it, interfere with it."
Still, both Patterson and Fruman agreed that visits should not be forced.
Gardner had a very different view.
In a 61-page report to the court, he stated that while his conclusions had to be considered "hypothetical," the Grieco case was, in his opinion, a "classical example of PAS."
Even though Scott's attorney rejected his request to interview Scott or the boys, Gardner concluded that Scott was "sadistic" in failing to allow Grieco to visit his children on two occasions; and that the children were "sadistic" in how they treated their father, and had "indeed been injured psychologically and mentally by their programming mother."
Scott's "obstructionism," he said, "was massive."
While Gardner did not recommend transferring custody of the boys to Grieco at that point, he did recommend something he called "threat therapy."
"These children need coercion" to see their father, he said. If they are forced to visit him, they "then will most likely relax with their father."
And the penalty for not complying, he said, should be court-enforced sanctions against the mother.
The judge's ruling
With the experts' contradictory opinions in front of him, it was time for Driscoll to make a decision.
In February 1997, the judge ordered the boys and their mother to appear in his courtroom. He then read them his order.
Mother would retain custody, but the children had to visit their father. And under his order, Scott would not only be responsible for delivering the boys for visits with their father; she would ensure that they were in "a positive frame of mind, ready and willing to go with" Grieco; she would ensure that they were "at all times respectful of father and of his lawful commands."
If she failed to fulfill these and other responsibilities listed in Driscoll's order, she would be held on contempt-of-court charges, "and if she is determined to be in contempt, she will be sentenced to a period of incarceration."
There have been some cases nationally of judges sending adolescents to jail for refusing to visit a parent. Last summer, a 14-year-old girl in North Carolina was locked up for three days for refusing to visit her father in Los Angeles (the psychologists in her case also cited Parental Alienation Syndrome).
But this kind of sanction, "threat therapy," is almost unknown, according to experts in family law and custody cases.
"There certainly is a whole intensity that accompanies these cases," said Jeff Atkinson, a family law expert at DePaul University. "Sometimes judges will get exasperated and enter blustery orders or comments to try to make the children have a good relationship with their parents."
And sometimes, in rare cases, a parent will be jailed if there is strong evidence that he or she has been maliciously blocking a relationship with the other parent.
"If the jailing results in changing conduct, if it results in a better relationship with the alienated parent, it's quite possibly justified. The problem is, it doesn't usually work," Atkinson said.
Richard Baumgartner, the children's legal representative in the Grieco case, favored the judge's ruling.
He said Pennsylvania law required that noncustodial parents such as Grieco be allowed visits unless they posed a risk of grave harm to the children.
"When you have a mother who has custody, and has been found by the courts to have alienated her children, and you have a father who isn't a perfect parent seeking visitation, what's the court to do?" Baumgartner asked.
But is such an order in the best interest of the children?
No, said Dr. Janet Johnston, a California researcher noted for her work on high-conflict divorces. While it's understandable for alienated parents to become frustrated and angry when a child refuses to see them, Johnston said, "there is a tendency (by courts) to become arbitrary, punitive and coercive with the child," and courts "may be tempted to impose changes of custody and access arrangements on children that they are not well equipped to handle."
She and other mental health professionals believe that long-term therapy for the child, as well as counseling and support for both parents, is the best way to help children who fear one of the parents.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Max Baer, who presides over the county's family and juvenile courts, declined to talk about the specifics of the Grieco case, but said he didn't believe alienated children were a result of brainwashing by one parent.
"It's a complex matrix of factors, including the fact that many children want to please the parent with whom they live," Baer said. "And to the extent you live with Mom and Mom hates Dad, to some extent the kid will mirror that."
So are forced visits the answer?
Baer said the answer depended partly on the age and development of the child.
"As a judge, if I'm presented with a healthy 12-year-old with good grades, I have him go see Dad. But a 16-year-old is different. I would not force a 16-year-old to go. A 14-year-old, well, he's on the cusp. I would be careful. I probably would not force it."
Driscoll, who also declined to comment on the specifics of the case, would say only that his court order was not based on Gardner's recommendations alone.
"I did not arrive at (the decision) quickly," Driscoll said. "It was based on all the testimony and the history of the case. I ultimately concluded that it was appropriate to enter such a strong order, which would compel the mother to produce the children for dad's visits."
No sign of improvement
In the year in which "threat therapy" was in effect, no signs emerged to show that it was promoting a healthy relationship between the boys and their father.
Scott contends that the dozen or so visits that took place were "horrible" for the boys, especially Nathan, whose school guidance counselor phoned her after the visits began and said Nathan seemed unusually depressed.
Initially, at least, county officials seemed inclined to blame Scott for any problems. After one weekend visit, the boys were "unusually negative," said Dennis Donahue, director of the court-ordered therapy program for the boys. That behavior, he said, could be "directly attributed to the mother, who is not fulfilling her obligation to bring the boys in a positive frame of mind regarding visits."
Two months later, Donahue wrote to the court again. This time, however, he chastised Grieco over "hitting incidents" that had occurred during a two-week vacation with the boys during the summer of 1997, and told him that he should enroll in a parenting program to learn about appropriate discipline.
Grieco enrolled in the program, but did not go to all the sessions. The "threat therapy" remained in place.
Early this year, a new judge replaced Driscoll, who was transferred to criminal court. Karen Scott's attorney asked that the "threat therapy" order be rescinded, but at the end of January, Judge Rita Hathaway denied her request.
That same month, Nathan wrote a series of essays in his creative writing class at Norwin High School.
In one, he bitterly described how a girl had rejected him. He moved on to "the other torture in my life" -- his parents' divorce, in which his father is "still harassing us through court case after court case."
His essay concluded: "Thus ends this chapter in my life of endless torment."
Two weeks after he wrote those words, Nathan was dead. His mother found him in his room with a belt around his neck.
The coroner's office declined to rule it either a suicide or an accident. "There just wasn't enough evidence either way," Deputy Coroner "Skip" Rusiewicz said.
Shortly afterward, Scott's attorney made a request on behalf of the two surviving boys: a break from visits with their father. She presented Nathan's essays to the court as evidence of his state of mind when he died.
Hathaway rejected that request.
A week after Nathan's funeral, Patrick and Justin were ordered to meet with their father again, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Greensburg, with Bishop Jeffrey Farr, a church elder, serving as a mediator.
But Scott did want to talk. And on March 16, she decided to go public with her story.
She appeared at a hearing in Harrisburg on custody reform before the state House Judiciary Committee, brought there by a children's rights activist who had learned of her plight.
After describing Nathan's death, she went on to say that Justin and Patrick, who were not present, were "very angry over their lack of rights. This has been ... three years and 99 motions filed by my ex-husband. All forms of visitation were unsuccessful."
While legislators listened in what appeared to be stunned silence, Scott urged them to "give children choices" in custody disputes.
Nathan, she added, had been "feeling no worth because no one listened to him. Right before Nathan died, I found him refusing to look in the mirror at himself. He just felt so useless.
"I implore you to look at the face of my dead son, Nathan, which, by the way, means 'gift from God.' Read his obituary and please understand that the world is not a better place without him."
The friction continues
Last week, Louis Grieco asked the court to jail his ex-wife on contempt charges for violating the "threat therapy" order, after a visit with his two surviving sons in late April ended badly when he argued with Justin. He also complained that Justin had refused to speak with him on the telephone.
As she awaits yet another court ruling, Karen Scott has put her house up for sale.
The family wants out, she said. Reminders of Nathan are too sharp. For weeks after his death, Justin, 14, and Patrick, 12, refused to sleep in their second-floor rooms, opting instead for the first-floor family room.
Sitting in their mother's kitchen recently, they talked about their travails. Karen Scott had left the room, saying she wanted the boys to feel free to speak.
If this was a family in grief, it wasn't immediately obvious. By turns flip and somber, the boys deflected probing questions with a skill obviously honed from countless meetings with judges, therapists and lawyers.
"It's not going to stop until we're 18," said Justin, shrugging his shoulders.
They talked about Louis Grieco, but there was little emotion. They described a man who took them to the movies and the mall and the golf course; who didn't take kindly to backtalk; who "would get in your face with a legal document" if they resisted seeing him.
And what if the courts were to decide that they should live with their father?
"I'm hitting the road. I'm gone," said Justin, leaning back in his chair, his face a blank.
"Me, too," piped up Patrick.
"Yeah," his older brother shot back, with a slight smile. "I'll put you in my pocket."
Saul Edelstein from Edelsteins, Faegenburg and Brown gave $$$ to Judge Seddio _ and below is the real truth about Judge Seddio
FYI - Saul and Adam Edelsteins are Esther Yang's ex-husband's attorneys. The firm also gave $$$ to Justice Rachel Adams and Justice Rachel Adams was the convicted disgraced judge Gerald Garson's law secretary - See last posting from Richmond County Bar Association. The Edelsteins Faegenburg and Brown also contributed to about 7 Judges - see previous posting.
EDELSTEIN, SAHL
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-OCT-03 2004 COMMITTEE
> FOR FRANK R. SEDDIO:
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> Jan Periodic A Member of Assembly 59 N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, SAUL
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> , 1,000.00 13-JUN-02 2002 BROOKLYN
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I wonder if Justice Adams ever said anything to the District attorney's office re: the convicted Gerald Garson. Can you work there and not know anything?
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Frank, we hardly knew ya
Saturday, May 5th 2007, 4:00 AM
Editorial
There are fresh reports that, as we predicted, these are the last days of the very short judicial career of Brooklyn Surrogate Judge Frank Seddio. He is expected to quit the bench next week. Good riddance.
After we reported that Seddio had funneled campaign funds to buddies as he finagled the coveted judgeship from the Brooklyn Democratic machine, he became the subject of an investigation by the Commission on Judicial Conduct. He told pals he's quitting out of boredom, having taken office only last year. Right.
Bright-side factor: As long as Seddio quits before July, Brooklyn boss Vito Lopez will not be able to hand-pick a replacement. Since this is the same Lopez who placed his own daughter and his girlfriend's brother on the bench last year, better that there will be a completely open primary, with voters choosing the new surrogate.
But even better than that would be for the Legislature, which created Seddio's judgeship as part of a shady deal, to abolish the unneeded post. Seddio's departure removes only part of the stench.
DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU, FRANK
Monday, December 4th 2006, 12:00 AM
Last February, we predicted that Frank Seddio, then newly installed as a Brooklyn surrogate judge, might well "go down as having had one of the shortest judgeships in New York history" because of ethical improprieties uncovered by, well, us. And correct we seem to have been. According to pals, Seddio wants to bail out of his 14-year term right-quick because, they say, he discovered that presiding over the estates of the dead while handing out rich patronage assignments is terribly, terribly boring. Which is the kind of patently unbelievable thing you say when you have been caught red-handed violating the canons of ethics, prompting the state Commission on Judicial Conduct to take a close look at bouncing you from the bench. Rather than suffer such a disgrace, you hang up your robes, declaring that the job you once wanted so badly, a $136,700-a-year post coveted by scores of your fellow Democratic Party hacks, is an intolerable yawn. Seddio is a stalwart of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club and was serving as an assemblyman from Canarsie when Gov. Pataki and legislative leaders created a new surrogate judgeship for Brooklyn last year and timed the opening so that party bosses, rather than voters, would fill the position. Seddio went after it hot and heavy - with money. At the time, he had a healthy Assembly campaign bank account, and he spread $55,090 of it generously among party chums, the Thomas Jefferson club and local groups. Unfortunately, judicial candidates are barred from making any political contributions (even to honorable charitable organizations) to avoid the perception, if not the reality, that judgeships can be bought. It's an offense that can get you tossed from the bench. Seddio did not return phone calls seeking to discuss his career plans, but close associates say he's angling for a new berth in the Brooklyn political sphere. As we said in February, in an editorial headlined "Don't get too comfy, Judge Seddio," easy come, easy go. Putrid pork Why did Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno fight so hard to keep the Legislature's rampant pork-barrel spending a deep, dark secret? That's now obvious, following the court-ordered release of reams of Albany records: Forced to detail how they've been doling out $170 million a year in discretionary grants, Silver and Bruno can no longer hide just how shamelessly they use tax dollars to keep getting themselves reelected again and again, showering bucks by the bucketload on the favorite projects of constituents and cronies - in effect, using the public treasury as a campaign slush fund. Cozy with these two? Handsome rewards result. Silver has personally doled out a gargantuan $7.4 million this year, including $710,000 to Brooklyn's Ohel Children's Home, a worthy outfit that happens to be chaired by a Silver pal; $480,000 to the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty, directed by the husband of a top Silver aide; hundreds of thousands more to clients of former aide Pat Lynch, now a high-powered lobbyist. Over in the Senate, Bruno used his clout to deliver $180,000 to the politically powerful AFL-CIO, which happened to be sprucing up a historic property it owns in Bruno's upstate home base. He has also been generous with seemingly every volunteer fire department, VFW post and hunting club in Rensselaer County. Pols buy friends with money like this. Which is why said money is also a key weapon Silver and Bruno use to enforce Albany's brutal pecking order: Legislators who cooperate with them get their own share of taxpayer dollars to hand out, while those who don't, don't. Bottom line: So long as Bruno and Silver control the spigot, no one has a realistic chance of booting them from office - since any district that elects a challenger is voting to send all this taxpayer-financed gravy somewhere else. The whole greasy business is wrong from top to bottom. If these nonprofit groups are providing a legitimate public service - which is doubtful - the Legislature should fund them in an above-board way, through competitive grant programs in the regular budget. Individual lawmakers should hand out at most a few thousand dollars each, in full daylight, with all 212 members of the Legislature receiving equal consideration. As it stands, this pork long ago went bad.
B'KLYN JUDGE PROBED. ALLEGEDLY GAVE CAMPAIGN BUCKS TO POLS
Wednesday, March 22nd 2006, 12:00 AM
ANOTHER BROOKLYN judge may be in trouble. Surrogate's Court Judge Frank Seddio is under investigation for allegedly violating rules barring judges from giving campaign money to political candidates or charities, the Daily News has learned. The state's Commission on Judicial Conduct is probing allegations, first reported on The News' editorial page, that the former state assemblyman gave more than half of $55,090 in unspent campaign money to party pals and to a political club whose backing he needed to get on the bench. He gave the rest to religious groups, a volunteer ambulance corps, a youth anti-drug group and other organizations in his home base of Canarsie. Under the state rules, Seddio was supposed to return all funds to the donors to avoid any appearance of impropriety. Seddio, a Democrat, made it to the bench after Brooklyn received a second Surrogate's Court judgeship as part of a deal between Gov. Pataki and the Legislature. He joins Margarita Lopez Torres on the Surrogate's Court bench. She succeeded Michael Feinberg, who was booted by the state's highest court after an exposé by The News revealed he routinely awarded excessive fees to a pal he appointed. Seddio could face public censure if found guilty of the ethical infractions. He did not return calls yesterday. nkatz@nydailynews.com
B'KLYN JUDGE PROBED
Wednesday, March 22nd 2006, 12:00 AM
ANOTHER BROOKLYN judge may be in trouble. Surrogate's Court Judge Frank Seddio is under investigation for allegedly violating rules barring judges from giving campaign money to political candidates or charities, the Daily News has learned. The state's Commission on Judicial Conduct is probing allegations, first reported on The News' editorial page, that the former state assemblyman gave more than half of $55,090 in unspent campaign money to party pals and to a political club whose backing he needed to get on the bench. He gave the rest to religious groups, a volunteer ambulance corps, a youth anti-drug group and other organizations in his home base of Canarsie. Under the state rules, Seddio was supposed to return all funds to the donors to avoid any appearance of impropriety. Seddio, a Democrat, made it to the bench after Brooklyn received a second Surrogate's Court judgeship as part of a deal between Gov. Pataki and the Legislature. He joins Margarita Lopez Torres on the Surrogate's Court bench. She succeeded Michael Feinberg, who was booted by the state's highest court after an exposé by The News revealed he routinely awarded excessive fees to a pal he appointed. Seddio could face public censure if found guilty of the ethical infractions. He did not return calls yesterday. nkatz@nydailynews.com
That was an excellent tip from Sanford L. Braver Ph.D. and worth all $10 millon of the taxpayers' money. After all these years of women fighting to achieve pay parity with men now we know. Just divorce them. Let the revolution begin!!!
Everyone knows something stinks, and many have tried to get the system to respond to the obvious injustices and inequities that are constantly dealt out in the courts. Mothers can blame fathers and fathers can blame mothers, but that doesn't get anything resolved. I'm sure many of you are very familiar with the Domestic Relations laws and what is supposed to be done. And I'm sure it is easy to blame the mother/father for the problems.
The real answer (or explaination) to what the real problem is, is contained in the following article that is in this week's 'Westchester Guardian.' The fact is that cases are fixed up to the highest levels of the Office of Court Administration. While the "evidence" mentioned in this article does not go to the tippy top, be assured, everybody knows what has been going on.
The story in this article is really just a brief outline of what has been occurring in this case. And if it can happen here, you can be sure it happens to people who are not as assertive.
By the way, you may also recognize this judge's name, Scarpino, from the Westchester Surrogate Court and the Carvel case.
THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2007
VOL. I NO. XXXXII
Westchester’s Most Influential Weekly
SPECIAL
Court Report
Debra Weissman Ronald H. Weissman
Weissman v Weissman
May 17, 2007
Debra C. Weissman
Armonk, New York 10504
Justice Jonathan Lippman
Chief Administrative Judge
Justice of the Supreme Court
New York State Supreme Court
Westchester County Courthouse
111 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
White Plains, New York 10601
Re: Emergency Request for Criminal Investigation Regarding
Judge Silbermann’s Unethical Interference and influence over Judge Scarpino’s Judicial Authorities
I am writing you an open letter requesting that you intercede in a criminal activity that is currently taking place in the Matrimonial Part of the Westchester Supreme
Court. I am requesting that you place a temporary stay on all of my pending proceedings in front of the lower and appellate court until we can meet and you can hear the
tapes that I have regarding Justice Silbermann’s interference by inappropriately contacting and directing the honorable Judge Scarpino as to how to proceed. I am requesting
that you handle the investigation because Judge Silbermann reports directly to you and we are no longer dealing with unethical referees but one of the highest judges in our
court system. I sent Judge Silbermann a letter last week before I realized that she, not Judge Scarpino, was the culprit. After you hear my tapes, you will agree that she must be
handled immediately and must refrain from intimidating judges who are overseeing my case.
You are well aware of my case, in which you intervened more than two years ago, when my attorneys contacted you regarding the former Referee Montagnino’s unethical
behavior toward me, a battered wife and ward of the Court. His rulings against me were so blatantly biased and egregious that I was forced to fi le a grievance against him in the
latter part of 2004. When my attorneys accused him of having ex-parte relationships with Mr. Joel Bender, the defendant’s attorney, during my entire matrimonial proceedings,
he had the audacity to sanction us approximately $70,000 for even broaching the subject in open court. For getting too close to the truth, I was punished while my ex-husband
was granted an illegal Conversion Divorce without a grounds trial, and was allowed to retain 99% of the marital assets worth over $30 million dollars.
Fast forward to March 28, 2006, when Mr. Bender finally admitted under oath that he did have many meetings with James Montagnino and his wife because of his desire
to become a Supreme Court Judge. Now, more than 3 years later, I have spent over $100,000 in legal fees trying to rectify the financial damage done by these two co-conspirators,
the former Referee Montagnino, and Mr. Bender, that transpired throughout the divorce proceedings.
I am experiencing déjà vu. However, this time it is with the head of the matrimonial division of the New York State Supreme Court, Jacqueline Silbermann, Judge Scarpino,
and the unethical Mr. Bender. As occurred in January 2005 when I had indisputable
evidence regarding their ex-parte relationship, which they both denied, I now have evidence
that Judge Silbermann has actually interceded in My Judicial Misconduct Motion
by contacting and instructing Judge Scarpino not to decide my case, which, in essence,
is a ruling in my ex-husband’s favor. The law firm of Bender, Jenson & Silverstein, LLP,
and the former Special Referee have blatantly ignored the law, ethical mandates, and
evidence of fraud committed by the defendant with his legal representatives.
One can only surmise Judge Silbermann pressured him this way because of her
personal, long-time relationship with Mr. Bender. How disingenuous could a head of
matrimonial matters, who is at the end of her career, be? She seems willing to not only
destroy her career for the sake of a corrupt attorney, but also, far worse, attempt to ruin
Judge Scarpino by unethically interfering with his judicial decision-making powers.
I was contacted by different sources who all informed me of her actions. At fi rst I
did not believe it, but it was reconfirmed. Please be advised that I have recorded their
stories because I wanted to have proof of Judge Silbermann’s unethical behavior, knowing
full well that no one would believe this. What makes it so appalling is that if my
case, given all the publicity it has received, can be fixed by the head of the matrimonial
division, how many others were also fixed? To the public she touts herself as an advocate
for victims of domestic violence, but nothing could be further from the truth. Although
I never intended to confront Judge Silbermann given all of her power and influence, I
feel I have no other choice. I am not going to spend the rest of my life in poverty and
shame as a result of the corruption that presently exists in the Matrimonial Part of the
Westchester, Supreme Court. I do not deserve this type of treatment and I have always
acted with dignity and respect to everyone I have encountered in the court system.
The CPLR mandates that newly discovered evidence be presented to the court
in which the judgment being challenged originated. My attorneys and I have adhered
to the letter of the law in every aspect of this litigation, but continue to have to
fight against opposing counsel and the judges who are presiding over this case, who
themselves fail to follow the law they have taken an oath to uphold. My September,
2006 motion asking the court to address the newly discovered evidence, resulted in
a decision where everything but the newly discovered evidence was addressed. Judge
Scarpino’s attempt to avoid actually making a decision on the clear and convincing
evidence is almost too incredible to believe, but could easily be explained if he was
unduly influenced by his boss, Judge Silbermann. His attempt to “punt” and avoid
having to actually address the fraud, misconduct, lying, and cheating which are pervasive
and obvious can only lead to one logical conclusion.
Judge Scarpino has just recently accepted my ‘Motion to Reargue’ to address the
fraud and misconduct committed by the defendant, the defendant’s attorneys and
the former Referee Montagnino, but instead of allowing me to obtain the relief from
their fraud and misconduct and allowing me to uncover additional documentation
and provide the financial relief I desperately need, and am entitled to, he rewards the
defendant and his attorneys by striking any items of relief by allowing the defendant
to be in contempt of court for the past 6 years.
Among the items of fraud that need to be addressed are millions of dollars of real estate
and other financial investments the defendant has been allowed to control and shift in his
continuing efforts to defeat any equitable distribution of the marital assets which I actively
participated in accumulating. Specifically, Judge Scarpino is allowing the defendant, Dr.
Ronald Weissman to continue to hide assets by striking from the motion the following:
• The purchase of a commercial building located at 15 North Broadway, White
Plains, which was in the process of being purchased, with my active participation and
marital assets.
• Money taken, in the form of a loan, from a marital investment account in Merrill
Lynch (850-19D82), which was never repaid, and was used as an initial payment
for the property at 15 North Broadway.
• Failed to allow tracing of almost a half million dollars in investment accounts
which were never disclosed in any Statements of Net Worth or any other documents.
• Address the misappropriation of the defendant’s contents of a Merrill Lynch
(850-88808) IRA account in the amount of approximately $300,000.
• Address the failure of the defendant to provide life insurance in the amount of
$1.8 million to cover payments due plaintiff .
• Address the fact that the defendant is conspiring with his insurance agent to
provide false and misleading documents to the Court to show compliance with the
requirement to provide life insurance to the plaintiff when, in fact, he has actually
named someone else as the beneficiary.
One need only read the series of court papers submitted in my most recent attempt
to have the Westchester Supreme Court address the misconduct and fraud committed
by the defendant, the defendant’s attorneys and the former Special Referee, to
be able to see, without a doubt, that the defendant had this case fixed. Each and every
allegation listed above of fraud and misconduct is not only backed up with evidence,
but the evidence includes sworn statements by the guilty parties themselves, Mr. Joel
Bender and former Special Referee James Montagnino. It is abundantly clear that the
defendant’s attorneys have conspired with judges to obtain favorable decisions.
Judge Scarpino was brought into the Matrimonial parts last spring following an
investigation by the Office of the Inspector General of the bias and misconduct on the
part of the former Special Referee Montagnino of which I was one of the leading complainants.
For thirteen months (from January 2005 until the end of March 2006), my
attorneys had attempted to elicit the truth from the defendant’s attorney, Joel Bender,
and the former Referee Montagnino and have them admit to an improper ex-parte
relationship which they had engaged in during the time of my divorce proceedings.
It was not until months after the judgment was entered, and my papers had been
submitted to the Appellate Court, that Mr. Joel Bender finally admitted, while under
oath, to the truth of his relationship with the former Referee.
With this newly discovered evidence, my attorneys and I submitted a motion to
Judge Scarpino to have him rule on the fraud and misconduct which was finally admitted
by Mr. Bender. However, Judge Scarpino, denied my judicial misconduct motion
by stating that the relief being sought was the same as that which was pending before
the Appellate Court despite the fact that almost 99 percent of the motion requested
Judge Scarpino to address the newly discovered evidence of fraud and misconduct.
In his decision, Judge Scarpino skirted around the issue that underlies the integrity of
the entire legal proceeding and addressed everything else. While the relief sought in
the motion may have been the same as that which is before the Appellate Court, the
facts, supported by the evidence he had before him, were not available at the time the
appeal was perfected and could not have properly been included in the appeal since
it had never been presented to a lower court to rule on. Judge Scarpino knew it was
not possible in terms of the sequence of events, for the issue of ex-parte communications,
meetings, etc. between the former Referee Montagnino and the law firm that
represented the defendant to be included in my appeal. Mr. Bender and Montagnino
conspired and intentionally concealed their relationship until Mr. Bender, who was
taken by surprise at a sanction hearing and placed under oath, was finally forced to
reveal the truth after concealing it for months.
The issue of these meetings between Mr. Bender and former Referee Montagnino
are significant for several reasons. These ex-parte meetings took place during a period
that Mr. Bender was appearing in front of former Referee Montagnino involving contested
matrimonial cases. These meetings took place in Mr. Bender’s offices after hours. It
is mandatory that these types of meetings be brought to the attention of those who appear
in front of a Judge or hearing officer to insure that if a party feels they may be prejudiced
by the relationship they can have the official recused. Not only was the relationship not
presented by those individuals, but they intentionally concealed and lied about there being
any ex-parte communication when directly questioned. Further, the purpose of these
ex-parte communications was intended to support the former Referee Montagnino in his
well-known attempt to obtain a nomination to become a Supreme Court Judge. Additionally,
it was only after October 9, 2006 in his own affirmation that Mr. Bender finally confessed
to having these clandestine meetings, but added details incriminating several other
prominent Westchester attorneys also having meetings by naming names.
It was only after the damage was done and the defendant had obtained an illegal
conversion divorce, was able to obtain all the marital assets and all the other assets he
had hidden from me, tricked me, and manipulated the legal proceedings forcing me
into an unconscionable stipulation (a stipulation which was clearly intended to have
been formalized by a written agreement) that the former Referee Montagnino made
me a ward of the Court. Another unbelievable act which was meant to further control
and destroy me was to instruct his hand-picked court-appointed guardian to take the
limited funds that I received from the defendant and put them in trust to be dispersed
with the assistance of the defendant. How corrupt is that?
Facts About My Case
I initiated my matrimonial action against my ex-husband, Ronald H. Weissman,
MD following 25 years of abuse including many brutal physical beatings. The most serious
of these beatings occurred in August 1998 when the defendant, punched me repeatedly
in the face with such force that my brain was thrust against the inside of my skull
many times, with such severity that he ruptured -literally ripped apart- the bridging
veins between my cortex and my venous sinuses. The defendant, in an attempt to coverup
this beating, began treating me as a patient, put me to bed, prescribed and administered
medications which were contraindicated and failed to summon emergency medical
attention or to notify my own personal physician. As a direct result of the trauma, I
suffered several strokes, which further weakened me physically and added to the damage
caused during the beating. The strokes prevented part of my brain from getting the
blood and oxygen needed thereby causing part of it to die. Only belatedly did I receive
medical treatment, and that was only when a friend came by the house several weeks
later and demanded that I be taken to the hospital immediately.
I have provided to the Court certified medical records of over 1,000 pages from
three nationally recognized medical centers which have certified that my medical diagnosis
is that of Traumatic Brain Injury. These certified records also contain admissions
by the defendant, Dr. Ronald H. Weissman, that the cause of my Traumatic Brain Injury
was the beating which he alone had administered. Despite the voluminous documentation
and undisputable written proof by physicians and by independent medical providers,
the defendant, the defendant’s attorneys and the former Referee continue to deny
that there was ever any spousal abuse, and that I suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury.
The certified proof I have submitted establishes that the defendant and his attorneys
are liars. They must be held accountable for their intentional misrepresentation of the
facts and the abuse I have been subjected to by the Court for the past six years, and they
must be disciplined for years of malicious conduct which is unbecoming Officers of
the Court. Every statement, every allegation I have made can be supported by written,
certified, evidence. Every piece of evidence has been in both the Matrimonial Division
of the Westchester Supreme Court, and the Second Department of the Appellate Division
since 2001. The only ‘evidence’ the defendant and the defendant’s attorneys have to
present is his “denial” that there was ever any spousal abuse.
Yet, despite all the evidence and all the motions and court proceedings, the former
Referee Montagnino and many of the former matrimonial judges have found
ways to have ruled in the defendant’s favor at every opportunity they could. The have
allowed him to control, from day one, over $30 million of marital assets. They have
allowed him to submit almost blank Net Worth Statements from 2001 to the present.
They have refused to prevent him from moving or selling assets which he continues to
do in an obvious attempt to prevent their tracing. The defendant continues to buy major
Westchester real estate properties and distributes our marital wealth unilaterally to
others (See attached). All of these “Officers of the Court” continue to ignore the 800-
lb. gorilla in the room, of a victim of spousal abuse who has been left with permanent
physical and brain injuries as well as the testimonies from legal and medical experts/
institutions on domestic violence. The former Referee Montagnino has gone so far as
to ignore his own hand-picked law guardian’s findings and recommendations and has
actually accused me of making up this diagnosis in anticipation of my matrimonial
action (Please see attached two decisions and orders dated 11/2005.)
Defendant’s brutality against me robbed me of a life and career that I worked my
entire life to obtain. Despite the years of abuse, I was a dutiful wife and mother and
worked hard to improve my husband’s career and our family’s life. In a cruel brutal and
clearly criminal instant, my life was taken away from me. I will never be able to accomplish
the goals I had aimed for in my life. While the defendant reaps the benefits of our
marriage, I am left to face an uncertain future with serious physical disabilities and brain
injury. I will never fully recover from the injuries I suffered. The defendant and his attorneys
continue to mischaracterize and misrepresent, in a demeaning and disrespectful
manner, the disability I suffer and the cruel and unconscionable treatment they have
subjected me to during this litigation. Instead of obtaining the assistance of the courts
to allow me to end an abusive marriage and leave with sufficient assets to be able to take
care of myself and obtain the medical care I still desperately need, I have had to endure
six years of fighting through the fraud and corruption with seemingly no end in sight.
My sources have informed me that Judge Scarpino will allow me to sell the house
but put the proceeds in escrow and yet not direct that the defendant place $30 million
in escrow as well. How fair is that? According to the fraudulent outline of settlement
placed on record, I already have the right to sell the house but for the fact that the
defendant sued my former realtor and by doing so, terrorized every other realtor in
Westchester. It is not bad enough that I can’t get on with my life but that the courts
support my ex-husband in his actions that clearly violate the law.
While this is going on, I am still responsible for paying my own legal fees although
there is a clear disparity between the income levels of the defendant and myself. Instead
of taking the judicial action this case calls for, in fairness and equity, and considering the
years of abuse, and the fraud and misconduct which the defendant and counsel have carried
on for over six years, Judge Scarpino suggested that I file a Plenary Action to obtain
relief. This is quite upsetting given the fact that I can’t afford to pay for my own medical
coverage, and this action would be another legal expense, another waste of judicial resources and would give the defendant more time to continue his lavish lifestyle while manipulating the marital assets and blocking me from getting the proper medical attention I
still need. I want to be able to plan for my future which now includes planning on how to
manage with a severe disability. You should be outraged that as a battered wife and a ward
of the Court, Judge Scarpino did not afford me the legal protections mandated by state
and federal laws and constitutions. Additionally, Judge Scarpino has failed to replace the
Guardian Ad Litem who personally told me she was withdrawing because she could not
deal with Mr. Bender’s unethical shenanigans, thus denying me the ability to have equal
access to the courts and be able to protect myself and my property.
Although this case is in Judge Scarpino’s hands, he is apparently being coerced by
Judge Silbermann to not rule, but to defer a decision until the Appellate Court rules on
the separate issues before it. As a Judge in the Supreme Court of New York State, he has a
responsibility to follow the rules, laws and Constitutions of both New York State and the
United States. It is his responsibility to protect those individuals who need protection. In
this case, I not only need the protection of the Court, but sought it out. It is now time for
Judge Scarpino to do the right thing and rule on the evidence he has before him.
A review of the papers the defendant and defendant’s counsel have submitted do
not address the issues of fraud and misconduct that the plaintiff motion papers go into
detail describing. Why is it that Mr. Bender does not submit an affirmation denying the
allegations? The reason the defendant’s papers do not address the issues in the motion is
because they already know the outcome. Reading the Order to Show Cause that Judge
Scarpino signed May 1, 2007, it is clear what the outcome of the proceedings will be.
I am asking you to immediately investigate the actions of the judicial personnel
in my case who have denied my rights, continue to deny my rights, and continue
to victimize me for what appears to be both a fear of doing the right thing, and an
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Hey Gregg Fischer I need your help. I need to know if you have a law book that states that fixing child custody and divorce cases to favor abusers is legal.
I goggled for the information but keep coming up with only one case the one for Garson but these practices appeared to be illegal in New York State.
Maybe you know of a private law library and want to share with us, after all is all about the children. I got a couple of cases that need to be look at where children have been placed with an abuser. I figure you will be interested since you are for "The Children"
What is your input in this matter do you think rigging of child custody and divorce cases should be legalized in New York State?
My dream is to someday buy a book writting by you. You should call it: "I looked in the mirror and I saw myself as Richard Gardner's clone"
Hurry up I will like to have the book before Thanksgiving, it just that I have a dinning room table and two of the legs are short and I need to make them even that way I won't have a shaky table.
Look what I found on the recordonline.com
Town of Crawford court clerk arrested
May 24, 2007
A clerk in the Town of Crawford court was charged today with altering court records to cover up the theft of fine money.
Catherine Lucas, 44, of Black Hawk Road in Pine Bush, was arrested this afternoon by state police, who charged her with first-degree falsifying business records, a felony.
She was released on her own recognizance, pending a court appearance on June 5.
The investigation is continuing.
Town of Crawford court clerk arrested this is in Orange County New York
Look what I found, maybe they belong to one of member of groups for father's in favor of joint custody. Give custody to a pedophile and eventually that child will become one too and joint daddy one day.
Father, son accused of sexually abusing children
May 23, 2007
A man accused of having sex with a child has joined his son in Orange County jail.
Releasing details this week, Village Police Chief James Watt said Thomas M. Kyles, 53, had sex with a girl younger than 15 years old and is charged with second-degree rape. Kyles was arrested on May 8 and sent to Orange County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Kyles' son, who is 22 and has the same name, was indicted in March on charges he had sex with another child.
The Orange County Child Abuse Investigative Unit arrested the younger Kyles in February on felony charges of first- and second-degree course of sexual conduct with a child and misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child. The indictment says the victim was younger than 11.
Doyle Murphy
to Debra C. Weissman
Armonk, New York 10504
The feds might be interested - 212 384 1000
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct. Silbermann is retiring, you tube will be a good place to put the tape.
Channel 2, 4 , 7 or the most wanted would love to hear the tape.
If it's in the media, they have no choice to look at it.
Garson taught us 3 steps - Investigation, Indictment and conviction. We survived all threes in his trial. The next one will be sentencing Garson 6/5
Everyone knows everyone so no one is going to help but Divine Intervention.
Contact Dan Murphy - another reporter
be strong, keep telling us all the players - you will be ok.
US Attorney's office 212 637 2200
go to NYS election and find out who gives $$$ to whom - like Saul Edelstein and his firm gave $$$ to Judge Rachel Adams who was the Convicted Judge Gerald Garson's law clerk. The firm also gave $$$ to Judge Seddio _ see Daily news disgust about Judge seddio in previous posting
Names - we need names to connect the dots
To Greg:
Please post your Correction Officers' finding re: why you are now a FORMER correction officer.
Since you are for the children - Can you please help the courage kids network - from PBS documentary breaking the silence, how to get more press coverage,
You must read Bob Port's article.
For the Kids Greg for the Kids
want to help Genia get her children back from Texas
Greg - you must help them instead of reading junk science Gardner
Greg:
if you are on disability - do you have to turn over your gun?
Do you have 1 child or 2?
Do you claim your disability as marital asset
This attorney and Bernadette Lupinetti work together they have the same and address and I think the same letter head
GLADYS C. LAFORGE, ATTORNEY
3 HATFIELD LANE
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
DONNA BENSON HER NAME SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR WHERE, WHERE, WHERE DID I SEE THIS NAME LET ME THINK....
DEE DEE DEE:
Orange County Government Center
255 Main Street
Goshen, NY 10924
Donna L. Benson, County Clerk
FRIENDS TO ELECT DONNA BENSON
MT. EVE RD., BOX 229
GOSHEN, NY 10924 50.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
FRIENDS TO ELECT DONNA BENSON
MT. EVE RD., BOX 229
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
Google the New Law Library and Information tool
Gregg what happened to you?
Can't take the heat, I know you talk a lot but say nothing. Is it that you have a problem when somebody confronts you with the truth and you prefer to do a dissapearing act.
Are you a magician too?
I kown maybe you are know a couple of Law clerks and you to busy teaching them magic tricks to make court documents dissapear.
Greg Fischer the FORMER correction officer:
Greg as a FORMER correction officer, you must have known a lot
Can someone please post his hearing panel into why our friend Greg is a FORMER correction officer?
Did he get fired? Did he claim disability? if so why does he has the strength to run Juan Pagan's campaign? Greg was seen around with a bull horn and the Villager column stated - he was seen taking other candidates poster off.
Greg - we want to know how you make a living? As a children lobbyist, what is your monthly child support? Is Linda your first wife or second? got anymore kids from other women?
Do you invite all your wives to your meet up group?
Your meet up was posted in Adult entertainment _ see previous posting?
As a Children lobbyist - do you bring your kids to these adult entertainment meet up?
Is Judge Bivona still presided over your case with Linda?
Please post your financial networth and your hearing report into why you are now a FORMER correction officer in long island.
Thanks Greg - we want to know more about your kids or step kids on how you are a great dad and a great husband. Can you please tell your wife Linda to post her story into why she is the defendant and you are so for the children, which is why you filed for divorce?
what ground did you use - since you love Linda sooo much - cruel and inhuman treatment?
The Public Information Lobbyist said...
This attorney and Bernadette Lupinetti work together they have the same and address and I think the same letter head
GLADYS C. LAFORGE, ATTORNEY
3 HATFIELD LANE
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 01-APR-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC B Sup. Court
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
May 25, 2007 8:09 AM
The Public information lobbyist said...
DONNA BENSON HER NAME SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR WHERE, WHERE, WHERE DID I SEE THIS NAME LET ME THINK....
DEE DEE DEE:
Orange County Government Center
255 Main Street
Goshen, NY 10924
Donna L. Benson, County Clerk
FRIENDS TO ELECT DONNA BENSON
MT. EVE RD., BOX 229
GOSHEN, NY 10924 50.00 09-SEP-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 32PG C Sup. Court Justice 9
FRIENDS TO ELECT DONNA BENSON
MT. EVE RD., BOX 229
GOSHEN, NY 10924 100.00 26-MAY-99 1999 COMMITTEE TO ELECT JOHN K. MCGUIRK SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JULY PERIODIC C Sup. Court
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
Google the New Law Library and Information tool
Can someone filed a complaint against Judge Mcguirk for his failure to report bernadette and gary? weren't they both presiding in one case?
If State Commission on Judicial conduct is too tired - contact Dan Murphy, the public has the right to know and Chief Kaye wants to know
Contact all the reporters - see something say something, the feds want to know all leads.
Orange County, New York a Dirty County must search to see who gave contribution money to whom.
Trials & Tribulations: No conflicts in Crawford case
May 25, 2007
What looked like clear-cut conflict of interest to defense lawyers looked like "speculation" to a judge, who rejected the notion this week that the Orange County District Attorney's Office should be disqualified from prosecuting corruption charges against three officials in the Town of Crawford.
In a six-page decision, visiting County Court Judge Victor Alfieri slam-dunked arguments by lawyers for Councilman Daniel Flanick and Building Inspector John Calaca. Those two, along with James Detch of the town's Police Advisory Board, are accused of leaning on Kevin McGill and Jeff Long, who own a dog-training school in town.
The three officials are accused of coercion, witness tampering, conspiracy and official misconduct. To be precise, they're accused of misusing their powers on behalf of Claude Babcock, a friend of Flanick and a builder in town who ran, unsuccessfully, for Crawford highway superintendent in 2005. He was charged with disorderly conduct in September of that year after a ruckus over the placement of one of his campaign signs on McGill and Long's property.
In return for a zoning variance, McGill and Long were coerced into dropping their complaint against Babcock, according to the indictment.
Babcock is a builder. He built a house for Senior Assistant District Attorney Catherine Walsh, among others. According to court papers, he also asked her advice about whether he should accept a plea bargain to settle the disorderly conduct complaint filed by McGill and Long.
The defense lawyers also argued that Gary Cooper, an investigator in the district attorney's office, is friendly with Babcock.
The judge pointed out that prosecutors conceded there was a potential problem, but immediately took steps to avoid an actual conflict of interest. He didn't give details of how Walsh and Cooper were separated from the Crawford case, but it's a matter of record that they're not assigned to it.
What's more, Alfieri said it's his judgment that any potential problem doesn't meet the threshold set by the state's highest court for disqualifying a district attorney's office.
The judge also pointed out that there's no evidence Walsh knew about the investigation into the Crawford officials beforehand, or that she persuaded Babcock to take his plea bargain.
Alfieri said that the defense lawyers were engaging in "mere speculation."
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
My goal in life is not to become president. I just want everybody to know that I had enough and as they fall, I will be standing right there to laugh as hard as I can to make up for the tears I cried.
Slobod gears up for November
A fundraiser to benefit the state Supreme Court campaign of Orange County Surrogate Court Judge Elaine Slobod will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 13 at The River Grill in Newburgh. RSVP to Jack Berkowitz at 615-1111 by June 13.
Slobod is one of two Democrats running for two state Supreme Court seats in the 9th Judicial District in November. The district includes Orange, Rockland, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties.
The Orange County Republican Committee gave a "vote of confidence" at its Wednesday night convention to another local state Supreme Court candidate: Christine Krahulik, a lawyer from Warwick who is the law clerk to Family Court Judge Carol S. Klein. Krahulik starts a new job on June 4, as a Family Court support magistrate.
She said the opportunity to run for Supreme Court was a sudden, recent development, something she described as "the opportunity of a lifetime." Krahulik accepted an invitation to meet with Rockland GOP leaders at their convention last night. Nominations won't be final until regional conventions in September.
Not the last word
Whatever happens at West Point tomorrow, it won't be the last word on banning protesters from the grounds of the U.S. Military Academy.
Eight anti-war demonstrators got five-year bans from West Point in 2004. They were arrested by military police after they unveiled anti-war T-shirts at a West Point basketball game. They're challenging their arrests and the ban on First Amendment grounds, and they're pointing out that the feds decided against prosecuting them.
They, along with West Point, are still waiting to hear from U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson, who's deciding whether to dismiss the lawsuit or allow it to be tried. Michael Sussman of Goshen represented the "West Point 8." He'll be among the leaders of protests outside West Point tomorrow, when Vice President Dick Cheney gives the graduation speech.
Another federal judge, Charles Brieant, ruled that West Point can keep the protesters off campus, but his ruling only deals with tomorrow.
Trials & Tribulations is the Times Herald-Record's weekly roundup of news, updates and anecdotes about local courts and criminal justice. Tips and threats are welcome. Call Oliver Mackson at 346-3130 or e-mail omackson@th-record.com.
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Finally a disrobed Supreme Court Justice in Jail
Deadbeat judge jailed
Long fall from bench continues as he owes 270G in child support
BY NANCIE L. KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, May 25th 2007, 4:00 AM
Former judge Reynold Mason, the first Caribbean-born New York State Supreme Court justice, is put into a patrol car outside a Manhattan courthouse yesterday.
Reynold Mason, a lawyer who rose to become the first Caribbean-born state Supreme Court judge, was led out of a Manhattan court in handcuffs yesterday and ordered jailed for refusing to pay nearly $270,000 in court-ordered child support.
Yesterday's court hearing was the first time Mason, who was booted from the bench in 2003, had come to the Manhattan court where his former wife, Tessa Abrams Mason, has been trying to get a 1998 agreement enforced.
Now a Realtor in Georgia, the Grenada-born Mason sat silently as his lawyer, Homer Richardson, argued that the deadbeat dad had no one to borrow money from and begged Justice Joan Lobis not to enforce an arrest warrant issued in April.
"The man came here knowing the consequences," said Richardson. "If he doesn't have the money, he can't pay. He's not going to make it in jail."
Mason told the judge he could no longer afford to pay the same amount of child support he had when he earned more than $136,000 on the bench. He said he has earned $68,000 selling real estate over the past two years.
But Lobis wasn't buying it.
"I have no alternative," she said. "There doesn't seem to be any excusable default."
Yet for his ex-wife, justice came a little too late.
She received notice yesterday that she was being evicted from the Long Island rental home she shares with their three children - ages 16, 14 and 9.
"I'm very sad. I couldn't even look at him," she said. "Why didn't he come with something, even a quarter? I would have worked it out. If I'd seen the money, it would have been a victory. I see no victory here."
Abrams Mason, 47, ran her husband's 1994 campaign for the Civil Court bench in Brooklyn, then helped him win election to the state Supreme Court, where he earned $136,700 a year.
But right after he took that seat in 1998, Mason, 57, left his pregnant wife and their two children. She's been suing him for child support since.
In 2003, Mason was kicked off the bench when Abrams Mason told the state Commission on Judicial Conduct that the former landlord-tenant lawyer had once dipped into a client's escrow account.
In a January interview with the Daily News, Abrams Mason claimed her husband paid off local politicians to get the Democratic endorsement for the bench. He vigorously denied the allegations.
nkatz@nydailynews.com
Ex-Brooklyn judge is jailed for not paying $250,000 child support
5/25/2007, 3:46 a.m. EDT
By SAMUEL MAULL
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Several people in court cheered when a judge ordered sheriff's deputies to jail Reynold Mason, a disgraced former judge accused of failing to pay more than $250,000 in child support.
Mason was taken from a courtroom in handcuffs and jailed Thursday after being arrested on a warrant. The warrant for Mason, a former Brooklyn judge now living in Hampton, Ga., was valid, Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis said.
"At this point I have no alternative but to direct that the order of arrest be executed," Lobis said.
The cheers came from people who had accompanied Mason's former wife, Tessa Abrams Mason, to court. She said she was very surprised that her ex-husband had shown up.
Mason, a native of Grenada and reportedly the first Caribbean-born judge on the Brooklyn Civil Court, was elected in 1994. He was elected to the state Supreme Court in 1997. Soon afterward, he left his pregnant wife and their two children, Abrams Mason said, and she has been chasing him for child support since.
Abrams Mason, 47, said she married Mason, 57, in 1993. She said they separated in 1997 and divorced in 2004.
In 2003, Mason was kicked off the bench after the state Commission on Judicial Conduct found that the former landlord-tenant lawyer had improperly taken money from a client's escrow account.
Abrams Mason and their children — a daughter, 16, and two sons, 14 and 9 — live off monthly workers' compensation she gets after being injured on the job at Wal-Mart. Outside court, she showed an eviction notice she said she got Thursday.
Abrams Mason said she believes her ex-husband, now a real estate broker in Georgia, owes her about $267,000. She said she was surprised and disappointed that he went to court, apparently with no intention of paying anything.
Her lawyer, Robert Z. Dobrish, said she had received child support payments totaling a few hundred dollars over the past couple of years.
Dobrish said Mason can spring himself from jail if he comes up with even a fraction of what he owes and a plan to pay the rest. He said Abrams Mason believes her ex-husband has hidden assets.
Mason's lawyer, Homer Richardson, told the Manhattan judge his client had tried everything he could to raise some of the money he owes, including reaching out to friends and relatives for loans, but had failed.
Richardson said outside court later that his client, "a very depressed man," was arrested because he failed to follow up on his Jan. 5 application in a Brooklyn court requesting a reduction in $2,600 monthly child support payments.
JUDGE BUSTED AS A DEADBEAT
By DAREH GREGORIAN
NY Post
DISGRACE: Former Judge Reynold Mason is led out of a Manhattan courthouse in cuffs yesterday.
May 25, 2007 -- A disgraced former judge was led out of Manhattan Supreme Court in handcuffs yesterday for stiffing his wife out of more than $250,000 in support.
Reynold Mason, 57, was ordered locked up after failing to come up with any cash or even a plan to pay money he owes ex-wife Tessa Abrams Mason and their kids, ages 9, 14 and 16.
"We've been reaching out to numerous friends, family and bondsmen, but we've made no real progress as such," his lawyer, Homer Richardson, told Justice Joan Lobis.
Lobis had told Mason he could avoid jail by coming up with at least $75,000, but his ex said the only money she had received was a few hundred dollars from the state of Georgia, which is garnisheeing his wages.
"There are just no excuses here," said her lawyer, Robert Dobrish.
Mason has been living in Georgia since he was booted off the Brooklyn bench in 2003 for dipping into a client's escrow account.
Lobis ordered him locked up pending a court hearing on June 14.
Abrams Mason, 47, said she was hoping Mason would just pay up because she and her kids were hit with an eviction notice at their Long Island home yesterday.
Richardson said Mason had problems finding work and was "a very depressed man."
dareh.gregorian@nypost.com
Esther Yang is a litigation machine! She puts in countless motions and filings. A true litigation abuser. In court all the time. Always on the attack. LITIGATION ABUSE IS EVIL.
If we cry there will be "no peace without justice" we have to accept that "if we have no peace we have no justice".
esther yang is a raster con artist...its amazing that she mamages to con so many people. she is a deadbeat mom who has nver made a single child support to the custodial parent, choosng instead to con others to make the payment that KEPT HER OUT OF JAIL...where she would have shared a cell with MASON!!! She is no better than MASON. her poor daughter>>> if a white anglo saxon male got custody of an asian daughter isnt it possible that the 2 not1, neutral court appointed psycholgits got it right when they recomended tht yang not get custody cause shes a freaking loony? from the bottom of my deepest heart i thank god everyday that she does not have custody cause the kid would be a mess..truth always rise to the top
Odd how a guy collecting a monthly check from the VA because he is "disabled" and can't hold down a job (not even at the post office?)has bottomless pockets when he wants to pay his attorney to slap his ex wife around in court on a regular basis. He manipulates her filing motions by denying court ordered time for mother and daughter and shows blatant disrespect for his daughter. You said it, his "Asian Daughter" who, in the past, he has denied the right to celebrate the lunar new year and continues to do so every year.
We don't need Sigmund Frued to tell us there's more than a few screws loose here. On the up side of it, as long as his masochistic obsessions are focused on his ex wife and daughter the rest of the population may be safe.
Esther Yang's ex or his attorney or the Judge I mean:
Anonymous
May 26, 2007 6:07 AM
May 26, 2007 7:30 AM
A message for you:
Run Forrest!! Runnnnnnnn
One of the things that I have a problem with is when people come leave comments to express their psychotic ideas and behavior and then when confronted with the truth they act like rats when the ship is going under water. I need to read more books about the world of psychotic individuals living in America and trying to show the world that they are good parents using "Adult meeting groups" to protecting children
To Jonathan:
With all due respect to your comment. Is not that these rats abandoned the ship is just as simple as this:
"It is better to keep your mouth shut, and look like a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt"
Hey Greg did I take the words right out your mouth, I thought somebody should speak out for you after all you are "the children lobbyist"
Who is ranting about Esther Yang _ must be her ex- husband who defrauded the VA or his live in AA girlfriend.
Where do they meet Narcotic Anonymous, Alcoholic Anonymous or Gregg Fisher "Children Lobbyist" adult entertainment meet up?
The other posting could be her ex- attorneys - Saul and Adam Edelsteins from Edelsteins, Faegenburg and Brown who gave $$$ to the convicted disgraced Judge Gerald Garson's law clerk _ sitting Judge Rachel Adams.
Come out from hiding???
Esther
Please post all your players in your case
To anonymous re: Anglo father (Esther Yang's ex) winning custody
You tell them!!! I love white people. I love white supremacy.
KKK should run this country !!!!
Eat, Drink beer and fart all day
FART ARE US
(Fathers Against Racial Taint) - FART
Esther's baby - get with the program
start giving $$$ to judges like your Ex's attorneys - Saul and Adam Edelsteins from Edelsteins, Faegenburg and Brown
Girl - grease, GIVE, CREATE THE APPEARANCE, $$$ TALKS - GIVE TO piggy black robeS and see how fast you get custody of your girl back
Equal justice for all - ain't for all.
Find $$$ - give $$$ to judges like they do
Baby girl - see below - 12 JUDGES ($$$ AND DATES)
and 1 law enforcement - you better catch on quick
AND THE ENVELOPES $$$ GO TO
1. JUDGE PANEPINTO (3X - MUST BE A GOOD MATRIMONIAL JUDGE, SHE NEEDS MORE MONEY),
2. JUDGE ANDREW ENGEL,
3. JUSTICE LOUIS GONZALEZ,
4. JUDGE ELLEN SPODEK,
5. JUDGE HOWARD MILLER,
6. JUDGE KAREN ROTHENBERG,
7. JUDGE IRA B. HARKAVY,
8. JUDGE MARTIN SCHNEIR (Twice $$$ - wonder why?)
9. JUDGE ANGELA IANNACCI,
10. JUDGE BARRY SALMAN,
11. FRANK SEDDIO (WASN'T HE THE SURROGATE JUDGE THAT QUIT - INVESTIGATION??, SEE PREVIOUS POSTING RE; DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL),
12. JUDGE RACHEL ADAMS - GAVE $$$ TWICE (YEP - THAT'S HER - THE FORMER LAW CLERK OF THE CONVICTED DISGRACED JUDGE GERALD GARSON) - SEE NOTHING - SAY NOTHING.,
AND WHO CAN FORGET OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT -
13. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE EMPIRE STATE LODGE
1. JUDGE ANDREW M. ENGEL
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 03-AUG-06 2006 COMMITTEE TO ELECT ANDREW M. ENGEL 32 Pre Primary A District Court Judge N/A Nassau Hempstead
2. JUDGE PANEPINTO
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 23-NOV-05 2006 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT JUDGE PANEPINTO Jan Periodic A Civil Court Judge N/A Richmond Richmond
3. JUSTICE LUIS A. GONZALEZ
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 14-JUN-06 2006 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT JUSTICE LUIS A. GONZALEZ July Periodic C Sup. Court Justice 12 N/A N/A
4. FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE EMPIRE STATE LODGE (HEY - GOTTA TO BE FRIENDS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENTS)
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT ST SUITE 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 125.00 25-AUG-03 2003 FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE EMPIRE STATE LODGE INC. 11 Pre Primary B N/A N/A N/A N/A
5. JUDGE ELLEN SPODEK
THE EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-APR-06 2006 JUDGE ELLEN SPODEK FOR SUPREME COURT July Periodic A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
6. MORE $$$ TO JUDGE PANEPINTO
THE EDELSTEINS FAGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET STE. 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 20-APR-06 2006 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT JUDGE PANEPINTO July Periodic A Civil Court Judge N/A Richmond Richmond
7. MORE MORE $$$ TO JUDGE PANEPINTO (MUST BE A MATRIMONIAL JUDGE ???) - MAKE YOU WONDER HOW MANY CASES UNDER THE MINI SKIRT JUDGE?
THE EDELSTEINS FAGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET STE. 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-MAY-06 2006 COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT JUDGE PANEPINTO July Periodic A Civil Court Judge N/A Richmond Richmond
8. JUDGE HOWARD MILLER
THE EDELSTEINS, FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 05-OCT-04 2004 COMMITTEE TO REELECT JUSTICE HOWARD MILLER TO SUPREME COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL DIST 11 Pre General A Sup. Court Justice 9 N/A N/A
9. JUDGE KAREN ROTHENBERG
THE EDELSTEINS, FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 500.00 11-APR-06 2006 JUDGE KAREN ROTHENBERG FOR SUPREME COURT July Periodic A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
10. JUDGE IRA B. HARKAVY
THE EDELSTEINS, FRAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT STREET, SUITE 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 04-OCT-00 2000 COMM. TO ELECT JUDGE IRA B. HARKAVY AS JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT 11 Pre General A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
11. JUDGE MARTIN SCHNEIR
EDELSTEIN & FAEGENBURG
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 1,000.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE
TO ELECT JUDGE MARTIN SCHNEIER JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT:
www.elections.state.ny.us
27 Post General A Sup. Court Justice 2 N/A N/A
12. JUDGE ANGELA IANNACCI
11 Pre General A N/A N/A N/A N/A
EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT ST- STE 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-MAY-05 2005 COMMITTEE
TO ELECT JUDGE ANGELA G. IANNACCI:
www.elections.state.ny.us
July Periodic A Sup. Court Justice 10 N/A N/A
13. JUDGE BARRY SALMAN
EDELSTEINS FAEGENBURG & BROWN
26 COURT ST, SUITE 1503
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 200.00 25-JUL-04 2004 COMMITTEE
TO RE-ELECT JUDGE BARRY SALMAN JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT:
www.elections.state.ny.us/
14. FRANK SEDDIO (WASN'T HE THE SURROGATE JUDGE THAT QUIT - INVESTIGATION??, SEE PREVIOUS POSTING RE; DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL)
N/A N/A N/A
> EDELSTEIN, SAHL
> 26 COURT STREET
> BROOKLYN, NY 11242 250.00 07-OCT-03 2004 COMMITTEE
> FOR FRANK R. SEDDIO:
>
www.elections.state.ny.us/
15. JUDGE RACHEL ADAMS (YEP - THAT'S HER - THE FORMER LAW CLERK OF THE CONVICTED DISGRACED JUDGE GERALD GARSON) - SHH! SEE NOTHING - SAY NOTHING.
EDELSTEIN, SAUL 26 COURT STREET
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ADAMS FOR SUPREME COURT:
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16. MORE $$$ TO JUDGE RACHEL ADAMS - IT'S HARD TO A JUDGE
EDELSTEIN, SAUL
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BROOKLYN, NY 11242 100.00 31-JUL-02 2003 RACHEL
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17. JUDGE MARTIN SCHNEIR
SAUL EDELSTEIN, P.C.
26 COURT STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11242 1,000.00 29-OCT-99 1999 COMMITTEE
TO ELECT JUDGE MARTIN SCHNEIER JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT:
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EVERYBODY - GO FIND YOUR PLAYERS IN WWW.ELECTIONS.STATE.NY.US - IF YOU CAN'T FIND IT - GO TO THE BOE AND ASK TO SEE THE HARD COPY - FIND YOUR PLAYERS AND FIND THOSE $$$
EXPOSE THEM AND LET THERE BE LIGHT!
ESTHER BABY - WAKE UP GIRL - $$$ OUT - YOU GET YOUR GIRL BACK
IN NYS - JUSTICE IS FOR SALE
Lawpac gives to every incumbent?
- what is that mean? someone pleeeze
educate ol' dirty harry
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I am a member of FART (Fathers Against Racial Taint)
We just don't eat, drink beer and fart all day
HOW INSULTING
we also picked our noses
Hmmmm! Would be interesting to go through the calendar to see how many cases the members of The Edelsteins, Feagenburg and Brown law firm have tried before these judges.
Chan says blogs can’t spin her off bench
By Lincoln Anderson
With the results of the Second District Civil Court primary race still too close to call, Margaret Chan and her supporters rallied at the Grand Harmony restaurant in Chinatown on Saturday, warning that they will not allow the election to be “stolen.”
Most of those filling the seats and enjoying the buffet were from Confucius Plaza, the area with the judicial district’s highest Chinese population. The district runs south of 14th St. on the East Side, taking in parts of Soho, the Village, Little Italy and Chinatown. Chan and her supporters say for her to win would be a major stride for Chinese representation in New York City, where only a handful of elected officials and judges are Asian.
After the election, which initially had Chan up by about 40 votes over David Cohen in unofficial results, Lower East Side bloggers started spinning rumors that there had been “irregularities.” Three voting machines on Grand St. had been sabotaged, the blogs went, some said by sticking coins in the Cohen voting levers.
“I will tell you, there is a lot of noise out there,” said Scott Levenson, a Cohen campaign consultant, of the rumors. “There is frankly much more noise than I’ve ever heard. Nothing is substantiated,” he added. “There’s a lot of allegations.”
Chan is saying allegations are all there is, and that Cohen and by association Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — who is supporting him — are trying to tarnish her apparent victory.
“It takes away from our win,” Chan said of the accusations. “I don’t have the political support. I’ve been playing it clean. In the beginning I said to David, ‘Let’s run a clean campaign and may the best candidate win.’ I won, and not because I cheated — and that’s a major, major insult.
“I’m going to be very busy doing the recount,” Chan said. “This is the most boring race during the election period, and now all this comes out because I beat Shelly Silver’s candidate.”
Of the negative blogs, she said, “The blog says what it says — maybe I need to put out my own blog.”
On Saturday, Michael Oliva, Chan’s campaign manager, reported Chan had picked up 108 votes, giving her a lead of about 130: A voting machine that had 120 votes for Chan had been incorrectly read on election night as having only 12. Oliva said he subsequently went down the Board of Elections and found out that only one voting machine on Grand St. had broken, after which 21 emergency paper ballots had been cast for that election district. There were about 170 paper ballots, including absentee and affidavit ballots. Fifty to 60 of the 170 were emergency ballots, Oliva said, which are usually counted right after the election.
Andrea Masley, a third candidate, came in a distant third.
“I think by Wednesday we’ll know, unless they try to pull something in court,” said Oliva.
The remaining uncounted paper ballots will be counted on Wednesday. Observing the process for Cohen will be his attorney, State Senator Martin Connor, and Jessica Loeser, an aide to Speaker Silver. Jim Quent, a Silver spokesperson, said Loeser was volunteering to help Cohen, whom she supports and is a friend of hers.
Connor discounted the rumors of voting irregularities.
“Please — anybody can say anything they want on a blog. Just because they say it doesn’t mean it’s true. I don’t pay any attention to blogs.”
Oliva was also campaign manager for Shlomo Hagler’s Civil Court victory three years ago in the same district, so Oliva has a familiarity with the district, which, he said, helped him forge a winning strategy with Chan.
Oliva said he met with Cohen, but decided to work for Chan.
“David Cohen is no Shlomo Hagler,” Oliva said.
A race that was supposed to be boring also got wild the day before the election, when Chan and her brothers, who were helping her out with the campaign, had a run-in with a supporter of Juan Pagan, who was running for Assembly. Both Chan and Greg Fischer — the Pagan supporter — agree he was tearing down Chan posters on Avenue D. He says the posters had been pasted on top of Pagan posters near a polling site. Chan says that Fischer had been hounding her to support bills in Albany for fathers’ custody rights, but she refused, and feels this angered him.
There was a verbal altercation and Fischer’s van, with Fischer in it, but not driving, came in contact with Michael Chan. Michael Chan says the van was veering into him at 15 miles per hour. But Fischer says Michael Chan chased him and broke the window.
Michael Chan was later handcuffed, held at the Ninth Precinct for seven hours and issued a desk appearance ticket. He says he’s willing to pay for the broken window.
“It was an unfortunate incident,” Michael Chan said. “It was a reaction. I did not mean to break the window. I don’t have any records of violence.”
However, another candidate, who requested anonymity, said Fischer — a former Department of Corrections officer from Long Island — was seen tearing down campaign posters for any candidates who did not support father’s rights legislation. The candidate was concerned about Fischer’s behavior.
“I was wondering why that van was driving around with cardboard in its window,” the candidate said. “It got to the point where I called my workers to check on them if they were O.K.”
Meanwhile, in the Assembly District race in the 74th District, Sylvia Friedman is still not conceding. Brian Kavanagh holds a lead of more than 350 votes, more than 3 percent of the total, going into the counting of paper ballots. Kavanagh said he’s received congratulatory calls from local election officials, including Congressmember Carolyn Maloney and Senator Hillary Clinton.
Esther - baby follow the $$$$ - you'll see how fast you get your daughter back
dark alley - envelopes - don't use the white one like Garson - try dark enevlope
About 4 years ago, I seperated from my wife of 2 years (We had been together for 16, and have 2 daughters - the marriage taking place during the pregnancy of our younger) and moved to Amherst, NY - my father's home. This was done to be able to work, save, and send what I thought would have been sufficient child support to my ex-wife. Well, foolish me.
My divorce was filed some 36 hours after I left by my ex-wife, who managed to retain a lawyer, while claiming she was unable to pay rent for the 2 mos. after i had left. Strange, this lack of money - whereas, she received, signed and cashed my income tax checks for some $3500.00 and had to the point of the end of the second month, received a total all in all of about $7200.00. (Our rent at this apartment was $1000.00) So eventually, the date came around for the Pendite Lite hearing, where a "temporary" amount is established to pay for child support, etc. I was warned about being without a lawyer, but as for the main topic I was interested in, my daughters' custodies, I had made an agreement for my ex to retain custody as the girls would not be grossly affected. There really wasn't any money to speak of or real property, or anything worth waging full-scale war over. My girls were the only worry. Day one, THREE MINUTES into the hearing, I thought I had won...seriously...the Judge goofed. In no uncertain terms, he abandoned normal proceedure - rather than taking my W-2's and paycheck stubs, which obviously show my actual incomes, he states...and I AM directly quoting.."Mr. ______, we're not going off of any paperwork, but what I FEEL a plumber makes." Haha....I had him, dead cold. I kept my mouth closed, not objecting, in the belief that I just witnessed the Judicial equivelent of football's defensive offsides, I could let the play continue, and call it back - i.e. appeal - if the results were not fair. He had my career wrong, I don NOT hold a license as a Master Plumber, I simply work as a mechanic for a plumbing company, owning nothing but my hand tools.
Again, foolish me. The amount was obviously off - hell it was a guess of someone prejudiced by the stigma of what is believed EVERYONE working in trades is burdened with, that we make a helluva lotta money. Nope. Not even close. Every decision subsequently was based on this incredulous amount, an amount which exceeded what I had brought home; ever. But foolish me, I believed the Courts and Law would eventually rectify the problem. And of course, they did not. I sent a formal request to the Judge, stating my concern over the money that appeared to have vanished. I act as an attorney for myself, I would expect a formal reply at the least. Nothing. Not until I mentioned it IN COURT did he remark upon it, stating he would credit $2000.00 of the $3500.00 in tax returns towards my payment. Not bad, commit 3 seperate Federal offenses in signing and cashing someone else's checks, and be rewarded with ANOTHER $1500.00! Now the ex wasn't without credit - this was used for her lawyer, her living expenses, etc. (Where ELSE but in Divorce Court would you get a magical 50% cash-back credit card?) Yes..Marital debt.
The Saga continues. I NOW get charged with "contempt" for the inability to pay the Judge's guess - SHOCKING! I am sentenced to 10 weekends in jail. After doing 2, I finally reatain a lawyer whom I figured would sort out the mess. He requested a Stipulation to the Judge, never informing me that drafting one would, in fact, negate ANY ability to raise an appeal. He and her lawyer also altered the signed document before the Judge, out of my presence, so that the arrears prior to that date were NOT in fact, dealt with.
Since that time, I was sentenced to 3 mos. in jail. I mercifully served 2 weeks, after my father had mortaged his home for a second time to bail me out.
The question remains - where di all of the money at the beginning of the case go? In life, there's barely TWO things unpayble with a credit card, your rent - renters are NOT bankers, and EVERYTHING that's illegal. - That's I will defy anyone to show me something else. The money was spent, I'm sure, leading to one and only one logical answer - a bribe. Why ELSE "guess" at someone's income? Why be so quick to incarcerate for the inablity to pay? (Which IS, incidentally ILLEGAL. You cannot be jailed for an INABILTY to pay, only the willing neglect to.) To give you some perspective of the railroad job I was involved in, one more fact - the hearing to set up the contempt hearing was the Wed. prior to it; it was set for the following Wed. When the Judge gave the day, I uttered "Excellent, your Honor, I have a meeting with my lawyer that Tuesday." I get that Wed. off rom work, my 8th or so day since the divorce began, on Thursday. My boss now threatens termination, of course. I get a call the next day, Friday, from the Judge's clerk saying "Ummm we have to move your day to this coming Monday, he has a special trial on that Wed." Bullcrap. huge, HEAPING mounds of bullcrap. That WOULD have been on the calender, and STRANGE isn't it that it happens to be the day BEFORE my meeting with my lawyer. At the hearing, I tried to evoke my right to cease the case to obtain counsel, explaining "didn't I say I have my lawyer's meeting tomorrow? I don not want to proceed without councel." The jist of the anwer was "tough luck" we're proceeding. Now as it turns out, my divorce was going on as 2 State Supreme Court Justices were arrested, tried, and convicted of taking....you guessed it, bribes in divorce cases in Westchester. My case was in Rockland, but guess where our friend, the Judge LIVES.....yup..Westchester. I was one of his LAST cases for the County of Rockland. The day of the ratification of the flawed stipulation was his final day for that system. He's now in Putnam. I ask you all...draw your own conclusions.
Look what I found CPS worker in Orange County, Goshen New York a very corrupted county ummm
Cops: Husband planted gun, drugs in estranged wife's car
By Oliver Mackson
Times Herald-Record
June 01, 2007
Middletown — A Sullivan County man is accused of planting a gun and drugs in his estranged wife's car in an attempt to sabotage her chance at getting custody of their daughter.
Anthony Campbell, 44, of Kiamesha Lake, called Middletown police at about 11 a.m. today, complaining that his estranged wife pointed a handgun at him on Dolson Avenue. State police went to the woman's workplace at Orange Regional Medical Center's Arden Hill campus and asked to search her car. She consented, and when she opened the door, a handgun and a bag of crack were in plain sight.
But after following up with Campbell, police found the story was a hoax, said Lt. Patrick Freeman.
Freeman said that Campbell is suspected of planting the cocaine and the gun in Campbell's wife's car while they were attending their daughter's recital at Truman Moon Elementary School in Middletown this morning.
Campbell was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony; and third-degree falsely reporting an incident and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanors.
Police believe Campbell got the gun in the Bronx, from a former resident of the Goshen Residential Center, a rehab center for juveniles who have had brushes with the law. Police said Campbell works for the state Office of Children and Family Services, which runs the Goshen Residential Center.
He's being held in the city lockup, awaiting arraignment.
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
Victim of Rockland who are the players in your case.
Judge
Law Guardian
Attorney's
Expose their criminal activity most important expose the criminals by first and last name.
Another fine father showing how unstable he can be. I wonder if he will use PAS as a defense. Hey Gregg you are a Father's Right Group supported maybe you can tell this guy how to utilized PAS for a criminal defense. More scary he works for CPS in Goshen another fine agency in need of investigation maybe they will help him falsified documents and erase his criminal record before he goes to trial and go ahead with his psychotic plan to get custody.
Man plants gun, crack in wife's car, cops say
By Oliver Mackson
Times Herald-Record
June 02, 2007
Middletown — Anthony Campbell started the day by claiming that his wife pointed a gun at him. By the end of the day, he was the one in handcuffs.
Police said that Campbell cooked up a story, hoping to submarine his estranged wife's chances of getting custody of their daughter.
Campbell is 44. He lives in Kiamesha Lake. His wife lives in the Town of Wallkill. He called Orange County 911 at about 11 a.m. yesterday, Middletown police said. He told the dispatcher that his wife squared off at him with a loaded handgun near the McDonald's on Dolson Avenue, then took off in her car.
Campbell gave a description of the car to the dispatcher. He told the dispatcher that his wife might be headed to her job as a nurse's aide at Orange Regional Medical Center's Arden Hill campus, about eight miles south of Middletown.
While Middletown police interviewed Campbell, state police went to the hospital. A trooper asked Campbell's wife if he could search her car. Go ahead, she told him.
As soon as the trooper opened the door, he saw a loaded .38 caliber revolver and a package of crack on the driver's side, near the seat.
Campbell's wife told the trooper that she didn't know how the contraband got there.
Meanwhile, back at the Middletown police station, Campbell was being interviewed. His story started to change.
"He gave us a statement, and we were able to determine he purchased the gun in the Bronx, purchased the crack in Monticello and planted both under the seat," said Middletown police Lt. Patrick Freeman.
Police suspect that Campbell planted the contraband while he and his wife were both at their daughter's musical recital yesterday morning at Truman Moon Elementary School in Middletown.
Campbell, they said, knew the key codes to his wife's car doors.
Campbell works as a youth aide at the Goshen Residential Center, a home for children who've had trouble with the law. It's operated by the state Office of Children and Family Services, which confirmed that Campbell's been employed by the agency since 1997.
He's charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, and third-degree falsely reporting an incident and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanors. He'll be arraigned this morning in City Court. Police suspect that Campbell obtained the gun through a connection with someone who used to live at Goshen Residential.
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
To: Victim of Rockland said...
That's New York justice. Many mother's go through the same thing (it's really the monied spouse, which is ususlly the husband.) It doesn't seem possible that this nonsense could occur anywhere, let alone in a court, with all their laws, rules, ethics etc. It makes me sick to hear what happened to you. You think you can get justice in a court, think again.
It looks like Orange County, NY Police maybe do not want a system where things can be track easily. What if they use a system where you can easily track who is deleting criminal records for Father's Right Group Members. ummmm
County, local police disagree on system to link databases
1 of 1 A data-entry window for the IMPACT system is the what is favored by police chiefs, but Orange County officials and the local police haven’t reached an agreement on how best to connect police databases so officers in different towns can share data. By Chris McKenna
Times Herald-Record
June 04, 2007
Two years ago, Orange County was poised to create a computer network for every police department in the county to share access to arrest reports, mugshots and other valuable records.
But what exists today, after several twists and turns, is a partial network — initiated by the police, not the county — and a technology tiff that has the police chiefs butting heads with county officials for the second time in a year.
Having rejected a record-keeping system they initially endorsed, the chiefs want the county to adopt a program that 13 of the 31 departments already use. That would mean paying to install the software in the remaining departments and the sheriff's office.
But to the chiefs' chagrin, county officials are pursuing a different approach: a new method for linking records from different computer systems, which would let each department keep its existing program.
"Different agencies want to use different software to meet their needs," said Walter Koury, the county's emergency services commissioner. "Let the software be the decision of each agency, but we will create a solution so that they'll still be able to share data."
The potential cost hasn't been determined, he said.
The computer dispute has rekindled the tension evident last year when the chiefs sparred with county officials over the creation of a police academy.
That rift came to a head in July, when the police dropped the county-led project and went with a training center they were already developing in New Windsor.
The two sides were in harmony in 2005 when they agreed to hire a Canadian company called Niche Technology Inc. to build a records network. That May, county lawmakers approved a $1.5 million bond to begin the project, expected to cost up to $4.5 million.
But plans broke down last year after police were asked to dedicate officers to work 40 hours a week on the system for six months or longer, according to the chiefs. The county never signed a contract with Niche nor paid the company anything, said Koury.
By then, Long Island vendor Admit Computer Services had found a way to link the databases of the departments already using its IMPACT software. Eight departments in Orange, along with six to eight IMPACT users outside the county, are now sharing records.
So the chiefs have championed IMPACT as a Niche alternative — with a price tag of $1.5 million, about a third of the original cost.
"The benefits, I think, of a single computer system just speaks for itself," said Woodbury police Chief Robert Kwiatkowski.
But Sheriff Carl DuBois, whose department uses the state's free SJS system, said he was concerned about the cost of switching over to IMPACT and training his deputies, who don't need the records as much as a police department.
"You have a system out there that's free," he said. "SJS works for us."
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
Police said [Anthony] Campbell works for the state Office of Children and Family Services, which runs the Goshen Residential Center.
Can someone find out if anthony campbell ruined other moms' lives and which fathers' group - he belong to?
Children Lobbyist - Greg Fisher _ do you this guy? do you know anyone else that know this guy?
remember that you are for the children???
Esther Yang ex's attorneys - the players in her case:
1. Eric Davis from Davis and Davis - ex first att
2. William Cobb - ex former
3. Andrew Spinnell - ex -former
4. Ernest hammer - ex - former
5. Rawlins - ex - Former
6. Martin Ochs - ex - current attorney dealing with my daughter's Bankruptcy
5. ex - Current matrimonial attorneys - Father and son - Saul and Adam Edelsteins from Edelstein, Faegenburg and Brown
No law Guardian
Forensic expert
1. Sara Weiss EdD (Doctor od Education - from Staten Island
(custody determination)
Mental fitness (not custody determination) -
2. Alex Weintraub _ investor of Soft Split - 34 Appointed Experts owning a business together _ google NY Times article by Leslie Eaton
Presiding Justice Joan Lobis
Law Clerk Marilyn Sugarman
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瞻養費糾紛案再延遲 美華裔楊天發怒責法庭歧視
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2007年02月25日 15:48 來源：中國僑網
中國僑網消息：據美國《星島日報》報道，曾競選紐約州眾議員的華裔楊天發(Esther Yang)和前洋丈夫的瞻養費糾紛案，2月23日在法庭經過另一番的爭辯後，法庭再將案件展延至4月間，而楊天發繼續面對被判30天監獄的可能。面對沒完沒了的官司折磨，楊天發怒責法庭歧視。
曼哈頓高等法庭法官勞比絲(Joan Lobis)將案件延至4月23日，對此，楊天發表示憤怒，她形容這宗案件已令她面對太多的痛苦，她直指這宗沒完沒了的官司是對她的折磨和騷擾，也是一宗種族歧視的案件。
楊天發和前洋夫離婚後，曾因正在撫養兩人女兒的前夫向她要求瞻養費而展開訴訟，曼哈頓高等法院法官勞比絲(Joan Lobis)裁定敗訴，必鬚根據法庭的規定交付瞻養費，但她卻因拒絕遵守法庭裁決而面對坐牢的可能。
在23日的庭訊中，其前夫的代表律師向法庭堅持她必須因違反庭令而面對後果，但在法庭自辯的楊天發，則指其前夫曾吞侵她的私人財產，也一直沒有供養過女兒，她認為法庭裁決不單不公，簡直是在折磨她，她堅持不會付出分文瞻養費給前夫。
法庭將案件展延至4月間，以便雙方再次上庭為自己辯護，再作裁決。楊天發對法庭再將案件延至4月感到不滿，她說，將案件一再拖延簡直是浪費時間，也令她繼續受到折磨。
楊天發事件已受到各方的關注，超過25個紐約州民權團體、華人小區代表和團體向法庭呈書，傳達對楊天發的支援，其中包括全國婦女協會紐約州分會、紐約市議員劉醇逸和前紐約州眾議員孟廣瑞、亞洲人平等會、中華公所等。亞洲人平等會的陳倩雯23日率領了多名耆老出庭以示支援。 (林意善)
【編輯：陸春艷】
宣判再被延迟 美华裔母亲女儿抚养费案四月续审
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2007年02月25日 09:47 来源：中国侨网
中国侨网消息：据美国《侨报》报道，华裔杨天发(Esther Yang)与前夫卡特(Edward Carter)的女儿抚养费纠纷案2月23日在纽约曼哈顿高等法院再次开庭续审，但原本定于23日的宣判被再次延迟，法官洛碧斯(Joan Lobis)决定在4月底再继续审理。
杨天发23日在庭审中为自己辩护称，自己离婚时财产全部被前夫侵占，自己形同破产，孩子的监护权也判给了前夫，但实际上前夫根本没有供养过女儿，基于以上的原因，她绝对不会给前夫任何抚养费。
而卡特的律师埃德尔斯坦(Edelstein)23日在法庭上则坚持要求法官判杨天发入狱30天，以作为对她拒付女儿抚养费的惩罚。法官最后决定4月底再次就本案开庭。
杨天发表示，长达五年的诉讼对她是一种折磨，生活完全无法正常进行，案子之所以被一拖再拖，完全是种族歧视在作祟。
许多社区人士和民选官员对杨天发表示同情和支持。在不久前参选纽约州众议员时，杨天发自己也表示，她希望能通过参选为和自己有着相同遭遇的妇女争取应有的尊重和权利。
杨天发出生于印尼，童年时前往新加坡读书并学习中文。12岁时，杨天发的父亲不幸去世，7个兄弟和杨天发先后被一对新泽西的美国夫妇收养。杨天发在14岁时前往美国，后来进入纽约时装学院就读。毕业后从事身心理疗师的工作。(管黎明)
【编辑：陆春艳】
War Over Boy Raised By Gays
Brad Hamilton – New York Post May 30, 2004
An ugly tug of war is raging over the fate of a 6-year-old boy being raised by a gay couple who won custody of the child in a landmark decision in 2000.
Gays hailed the ruling as a major victory for same-sex couples, but the boy has since become a troubled kid who punches his teachers and repeatedly says he wants to kill himself, according to an expert's report requested by his school.
The report has spurred the mother to fight for increased access to her son, who has lived with the two men since the ruling - the first time a New York court awarded custody to a gay couple over a woman they claimed to be a surrogate.
The mother says she was never a surrogate and that she, the father - once a close friend who worked for her - and his live-in lover intended to raise the child as a parental trio.
"I just hadn't met the right guy yet," said Courtney St. Clement, 52, who had never been identified in the press or spoken out about her experiences.
"They held out that they had a lot of money, and at the time, I felt like I was marrying a doctor. They said, 'We're a family.' We were supposed to all live together, but we didn't get that far."
St. Clement, who runs her own marketing and consulting firm and lives on the Upper West Side, had no inkling of how badly things would go for her son, whose name is being withheld by The Post.
He punches and kicks his teachers, hits and bites himself, curses and says he wants to kill himself as often as twice a month, according to the new report, completed in January by NYU's Child Study Center.
It also says he repeatedly kisses and touches classmates inappropriately and once ran around naked.
"[He] is exhibiting significant behavioral problems at school," said the report, which was based on a personal evaluation of the boy by two experts, along with interviews with his teachers and both parents and their spouses.
It blames his unruliness in part on the "hostility" between his parents.
"His mother and father have always lived apart and have had remarkably significant disputes regarding custody and visitation from very early on," said the report, which recommended that the boy be appointed a law guardian.
He was previously kicked out of PS 116 as a kindergartner in 2002 after just two weeks there and placed in a private special-needs school on the Upper East Side.
St. Clement says the family arrangement broke down after the father, part-time substitute teacher Gerald Casale, 47, and his partner, a trusts and estates lawyer, Ernest Londa, 46, stopped her from seeing the 6-month-old infant in April 1998. She then sued for custody.
The partners claimed they struck a deal with St. Clement in which she agreed to carry Casale's child to term, then step back and allow them to be sole parents.
"I think Ms. Clement has a certain bent," said Phyllis Levitas, Casale's lawyer.
"My client and I have given this some very careful consideration, and we believe that it's not in the child's best interest to discuss this case with the media."
Last December, St. Clement challenged the custody ruling - made by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Marylin Diamond - in light of the boy's disturbing behavior at school, and the boy's pediatrician requested a follow-up evaluation by a court-appointed specialist.
In March, an appeals court ruled that the new judge in the case, Supreme Court Justice Joan Lobis, reconsider the custody question.
But Lobis refused to take up the custody issue, denied the evaluation request and rejected the recommendation for a child guardian, spurring a motion in which the mother slammed Lobis for "abdicating her role as judge."
Lobis' office did not respond to The Post's request for comment.
The mother is part of the Alliance for Judicial Justice, a group of 200 litigants who suspect their cases were tainted by judges' personal interests, led by activist Anthony DeRosa.
http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/24903.htm
Ready their jail cells
Judge sentenced to 3-to-10; Brooklyn big sent to Rikers
BY NANCIE L. KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, June 6th 2007, 4:00 AM
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Ex-Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gerald Garson after being sentenced yesterday to up to 10 years in jail.
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Disgraced Brooklyn Party big Clarence Norman was ordered to begin own sentence.
Two former Brooklyn powerhouses - a Democratic leader and a judge - were led out of court in handcuffs yesterday in a corruption scandal that has prompted calls for sweeping changes in picking jurists.
"I am profoundly sorry," cried ex-Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gerald Garson, 74, who broke into sobs before being sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for accepting bribes.
Garson was convicted of taking cash, cigars, dinners and drinks from a crooked lawyer - all caught on tape - in return for favors.
"As I watched the tapes, I was embarrassed and appalled at my demeanor," he sobbed.
Just a few hours earlier in the same courtroom, Clarence Norman, the former Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman and 11-term assemblyman, was shackled and ordered to begin a two-to-six-year sentence for campaign corruption. His appeal was rejected last week.
"God is good," Norman said, hugging relatives before being shipped off to Rikers Island.
The courtroom drama yesterday closed the circle on a four-year probe into judicial corruption by Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, who began going after Norman when Garson told investigators at his March 2003 arrest that the bench could be bought. No hard evidence has emerged of that yet, but the probe is continuing.
Yesterday, in a courtroom packed with family and Brooklyn residents who believed Garson had done them wrong, Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Berry slammed Garson for tainting the judiciary by allowing crooked lawyer Paul Siminovsky to "sucker him into" giving him lucrative appointments and fixing a case in exchange for thousands of dollars in free meals, drinks, cigars and cash.
"What you brought upon yourself is terrible. ... The perception you gave is that justice was being bought," Berry said in an hour-long speech before announcing the sentence. "You should be as pure as the driven snow. You abdicated your judicial responsibility, your moral fiber."
Sigal Levi said she no longer has a relationship with her two oldest sons because Garson gave custody to her ex.
"Mr. Garson, you sold my children for a very cheap price," said Levi, whose husband pleaded guilty to paying $10,000 to a middleman to gain custody. "You had a moral obligation to protect the welfare of my children. You abused the system and ruined all our lives."
Defense attorney Michael Washor asked Berry for leniency, citing Garson's battle with cancer and heart disease, personal tragedies and his bout with alcoholism.
But prosecutor Michael Vecchione shot back, branding Garson's courtroom a "vile, corrupt place" that he treated as a personal "piggy bank."
Garson does not have to head straight to jail, however. An Appellate Division judge allowed him to stay out of jail on bail pending his appeal. Garson declined to comment.
A federal judge ruled in August that the process for selecting state Supreme Court justices - where party bosses pick the candidates - is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to back-room wheeling and dealing.
nkatz@nydailynews.com
January 16, 2005
Orange County New York
Town of Wallkill
- A decorated Town of Wallkill cop suspended without pay files a federal lawsuit against the town. Officer Dennis Rolon alleges in the lawsuit that his supervisors in the police department brought him up selectively on charges over the past few years and then illegally suspended him. Gary Greenwald, whose Chester-based law firm represents the town, called Rolon's lawsuit bogus and said the litigation is an attempt to avoid getting fired. Rolon was a central figure in the Wallkill police troubles nearly five years ago that culminated in a suit against the town brought in federal court by state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
ummm the opinion of a corrupt attorney who represents the Town which is located in a corrupt County.
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
Assisting with All Types of Criminal Charges
But we have not narrowed our focus to only large-scale cases. The Greenwald Law Offices remains committed to representing clients charged with all criminal offenses, no matter how large or small. In all, we take cases involving:
White collar crimes
Violent crimes: assault, murder
Drug charges
Gun charges
License suspension
Drunk driving (DUI / DWI)
Juvenile criminal defense
Internet crimes
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Our reputation in this area is built on thorough legal representation of clients, marshalling our legal staff, paralegals, investigators, medical experts, polygraphers and forensic experts to give our clients the best defense possible. The firm has the experience necessary to fully protect the rights of our clients in these difficult cases.
"The Public Information Lobbyist"
for Goshen New York
I have heard about this attorney and heard stories from other attorneys that work in Orange County and Rockland County that like to call him names such as human waste, crook, liar, not fit to practice, rip off, shady character, clueless and one attorney even said "I can't wait for this piece of s*** to be disbar" here is an overview of what he does:
A criminal representing criminals using all type of manipulations, trickery, perjury and for the right amount of money this attorney will falsify and backdate court documents for you,using stamps from the court, Judges signatures, attorneys signature and apparently has friends within the Clerk's Office tampering with court records.
I hope the DA's office in Orange County, New York do their job and take this rat out of the courtrooms to protect public safety as people have been complaining about Gary Greenwald, Esq. for a long time
I just google the name of this example of why New York is so corrupt and saw this blog. I figured I give my honest opinion.
God bless freedom of Speech
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