THE EVOLUTION OF JUDICIAL TYRANNY IN THE UNITED STATES:

"If the judges interpret the laws themselves, and suffer none else to interpret, they may easily make, of the laws, [a shredded] shipman's hose!" - King James I of England, around 1616.

“No class of the community ought to be allowed freer scope in the expression or publication of opinions as to the capacity, impartiality or integrity of judges than members of the bar. They have the best opportunities of observing and forming a correct judgment. They are in constant attendance on the courts. Hundreds of those who are called on to vote never enter a court-house, or if they do, it is only at intervals as jurors, witnesses or parties. To say that an attorney can only act or speak on this subject under liability to be called to account and to be deprived of his profession and livelihood by the very judge or judges whom he may consider it his duty to attack and expose, is a position too monstrous to be entertained for a moment under our present system,” Justice Sharwood in Ex Parte Steinman and Hensel, 95 Pa 220, 238-39 (1880).

“This case illustrates to me the serious consequences to the Bar itself of not affording the full protections of the First Amendment to its applicants for admission. For this record shows that [the rejected attorney candidate] has many of the qualities that are needed in the American Bar. It shows not only that [the rejected attorney candidate] has followed a high moral, ethical and patriotic course in all of the activities of his life, but also that he combines these more common virtues with the uncommon virtue of courage to stand by his principles at any cost.

It is such men as these who have most greatly honored the profession of the law. The legal profession will lose much of its nobility and its glory if it is not constantly replenished with lawyers like these. To force the Bar to become a group of thoroughly orthodox, time-serving, government-fearing individuals is to humiliate and degrade it.” In Re Anastaplo, 18 Ill. 2d 182, 163 N.E.2d 429 (1959), cert. granted, 362 U.S. 968 (1960), affirmed over strong dissent, 366 U.S. 82 (1961), Justice Black, Chief Justice Douglas and Justice Brennan, dissenting.

" I do not believe that the practice of law is a "privilege" which empowers Government to deny lawyers their constitutional rights. The mere fact that a lawyer has important responsibilities in society does not require or even permit the State to deprive him of those protections of freedom set out in the Bill of Rights for the precise purpose of insuring the independence of the individual against the Government and those acting for the Government”. Lathrop v Donohue, 367 US 820 (1961), Justice Black, dissenting.

"The legal profession must take great care not to emulate the many occupational groups that have managed to convert licensure from a sharp weapon of public defense into blunt instrument of self-enrichment". Walter Gellhorn, "The Abuse of Occupational Licensing", University of Chicago Law Review, Volume 44 Issue 1, September of 1976.

“Because the law requires that judges no matter how corrupt, who do not act in the clear absence of jurisdiction while performing a judicial act, are immune from suit, former Judge Ciavarella will escape liability for the vast majority of his conduct in this action. This is, to be sure, against the popular will, but it is the very oath which he is alleged to have so indecently, cavalierly, baselessly and willfully violated for personal gain that requires this Court to find him immune from suit”, District Judge A. Richard Caputo in H.T., et al, v. Ciavarella, Jr, et al, Case No. 3:09-cv-00286-ARC in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Document 336, page 18, November 20, 2009. This is about judges who were sentencing kids to juvenile detention for kickbacks.


Wednesday, September 10, 2014

A judge will not disbar a judge

I have been analyzing reports of judicial misconduct and reactions to them from various states of this country.


As you, probably, know if you read my blog regularly, I am also researching the issue of judicial retaliation against attorneys who criticize judges.


A peculiar pattern appears from all reports of judicial misconduct.


A judge apparently can do nearly anything - and still escape with his or her law license, and all that an attorney has to do to lose his law license is to criticize a judge.


I decided to put some of my findings into a table illustrating to what lengths judges can go and still keep their licenses.


With no effective judicial discipline, ever expanding judicial immunity for malicious and corrupt acts and nearly no criminal prosecutions of judges no matter what they do on the bench - judgeships are, probably, the safest careers of all.


Such careers are safety nets for incompetent and immoral people who can do ANYTHING in their office - and still escape with their law license.


Apparently, the public does not have to be protected from a lawyer the same way that people are to be protected from a rogue judge.


It is beyond me why attorney disciplinary authority do nothing to remove law licenses from former judges taken off the bench for misconduct or mental instability - it is very easy to do, by using the same "collateral estoppel" that is regularly used against attorneys who get disbarred without an opportunity for a hearing because some state court has decided a related issue by a low evidentiary standard.


Here, disciplinary standards are the same in the judicial disciplinary proceedings and the attorney disciplinary proceedings.


So why not discipline these judges as attorneys, too?


The only answer that comes to explain this situation is judges of the attorney licensing courts are afraid to create such precedents as to not to destroy their own safe harbors, should they themselves be removed from the bench for misconduct, incompetence or mental instability.


And that is one good reason to take attorney licensing out of the hands of the judiciary.




No.
Name of Judge
State
What did the judge do
Disciplined as a judge?
Suspended or disbarred?
Where works now
1.
James C. Tormey
New York
Asking a court employee to spy against a democratic judicial candidate, a judge of Family Court;  demoting and harassing the employee when she refused
 
No
No
Chief Administrative Judge, 5th Judicial District
 
2.
Bryan Hedges
New York, Onondaga County Family Court
 
Allegedly molestation of a 5-year old deaf-mute niece
The alternative version is that Judge Hedges actually warned Attorney Morin that Judge Tormey is planning a retaliation against her, and that’s why he was destroyed by Judge Tormey’s friend William Fitzpatrick who failed to get a payoff from Judge Hedges
 
Yes, taken off the bench
 
No
 
3.
Diane L. Schilling
New York,
East Greenbush Town Court (also until the scandal, special counsel to Judge Coccoma, Chief Admin. Judge of upstate New York)
 
Fixing a traffic ticket for another judge's wife
Yes, taken off the bench
 
No
Partner in MGuire and Cardona where a son of a late chief appellate judge Anthony Cardona and a niece of the present federal NDNY judge Mae D’Agostino are partners.  The law firm mentions in the website that Diane Schilling has “served” as a judge in East Greenbush court, not that she was taken off the bench
 
 
4.
Robert Restaino
 
New York, Niagara Falls City Court
Jailed the whole courtroom full of people because one cell phone rang
 
Yes, taken off the bench
No
 
5.
Gerald P. Garson
Former judge of NYS Supreme Court
 
Taken off the bench
Disbarred
 
6.
Gilbert A. Abramson
Family Court, Saratoga County
Sexual jokes and suggestive behavior with female litigants
Taken off the bench
Registration status delinquent, but not suspended or disbarred
 
 
7.
Gerard E. Maney
Family Court Judge Albany County
Caught driving drunk, asked for a "professional courtesy" from the police
 
 
Censured, remained on the bench
Joseph W. Belluck, a Manhattan lawyer, wrote that it was “mind-boggling” that the judge would be left on the bench after making “a calculated effort” to ensure that the law “would not be applied to him personally.”
No
8.
Cory Woodward
California, Superior Court Kern County
 
Having Sex in chambers
Reprimand, remained on the bench
 
No
 
9.
Scott Steiner
California, Superior Court, Orange County
Having sex in chambers
Reprimand, remained on the bench
 
No
 
10.
Wade McCree
Detroit, Michigan
Having sex in chambers with a witness in a criminal case, discussing sentencing of her husband who did not pay child support with that witness
 
Taken off the bench
No
 
11.
Kimberly Brown
Indiana
47 counts of misconduct: Delayed release of defendants from jail, failed to train court employees, created hostile environment for staff, did not cooperate with investigation
 
Taken off the bench
No
 
12.
Illinois, was a judge since 1994, had mental breakdowns since 1994, with at least 5 hospitalizations
shoved a court deputy, found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity
 
Taken off the bench for mental instability
No
 
13.
California
Gross neglect of cases, delays, disorganized files
 
Taken off the bench
Suspended, but not disbarred
 
14.
Florida, Broward County Drug Court
 
DUI
Suspended
From the bench
No
 

Exchange of gifts between American Inns of Court, attorneys and judges behind closed doors really smacks of corruption and should be investigated

I have written in this blog about the so-called American Inns of Court and the benefits this attorney-funded secret-membership organization gives to participating judges.

I have also just made a post about the swift actions of an Inn of Court in Albany and a federal judge Lawrence Kahn to remove Judge Kahn's name as the President of the Inn as soon as a federal civil rights lawsuit seeking discovery of Judge Kahn's perks from that organization was filed, and about the multiple suspicious connections that one of the powerful law firms whose members confirmed participation in Judge Kahn's inn of court have with Judge Kahn's court.

Here is a diagram I put together showing the possibilities of corruption through the secret communications and secret monetary and non-monetary arrangements between judges and attorneys through social networking organizations such as the American Inns of Court.




I say "possibilities of corruption" because the actual documents on true membership and true perks, both monetary and non-monetary, that judges receive from attorneys in such organizations are secret, and I can draw reasonable inferences only from the information I have found about judicial participation in the Inns of Court on the websites of the few Inns that made that information available.

As I already wrote in this blog, that in an action that clearly seemed like protecting their recent employees, and, possibly, protecting their personal interests, Judge Kahn together with Judge Suddaby, a judge whose former law clerk joined the law firm that was sued in Neroni v. Peebles that Judge Suddaby dismissed sua sponte, did not allow me a possibility to explore the issue of possible judicial corruption of judges who decided and are deciding my fate, through discovery.

Yet, please, look at the diagram above and look at the scans that I made from the list of certified CLE (continued legal education) providers below (a lucrative appointment allowing certified providers to charge hundreds of dollars for live CLE sessions while New York requires "new attorneys" to attend live CLE sessions for the first 2 years after admission):











These are, ladies and gentlemen, SECRET MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING MONTHLY RECEPTIONS FOR JUDGES BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.  

Yet, these same organizations are in receipt of lucrative endorsement from the judiciary allowing more money to come their way - to be used for more catering for judges behind closed doors?

In encourage you, my readers, members of the public, whose rights are daily affected by judicial decisions, to check out on the Internet the websites of each and every "Inn of Court" which was endorsed as a certified CLE provider (see photos above).  

You will see, as I did, that all of those organizations conceal their membership, their schedule of meetings, whether judicial members are accepted and pay for their participation and what kind of perks were offered to judges and members of their families for free - such as, possibly, free international travel for judges and their spouses, as I described earlier in my blog when I first described the American Inns of Court.

So, each time you are in court, whether state or federal, against a large and powerful law firm, if the judge ruled for that law firm, you never know whether the judge ruled this way based on the law and the judge's so-called "discretion", or whether that "discretion" was motivated by a secret lavish dinner with alcohol, by a free international trip with the judge's spouse at the expense of the organization sponsored by the law firm.

When justice is bought this way, you can never be assured of "judicial independence" or "judicial integrity" of ANY judge who rules in your case, because, once again - membership in such organizations, as well as perks of particular organizations for its members, and member fees or lack thereof for judicial members are a SECRET that I could not reveal even through a federal lawsuit.

I wish that the U.S. Attorney's office already investigating corruption in New York State government, will finally turn their eye on these cosy arrangements, because such a blatant, how to put it politely,  this exchange of gifts between the judiciary and organization of politically powerful and wealthy attorneys who are providing monetary and non-monetary benefits to judges behind closed doors should simply stop. 

Even though children of judges may work in that office, like the son of Chief Judge Gary L. Sharpe of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York does...

If it isn't improper - why hide it? Judge Lawrence E. Kahn of the NDNY federal court removes his name from an American Inn of Court website when sued to disclose his perks

I've written in this blog about the "mutually beneficial interaction" of attorneys and judges through the secret-membership social networking organization "The American Inns of Court" and dangers of bribery of the judiciary and fixing cases without opponents' knowledge through such mediums.

I have also filed a lawsuit to verify membership and perks of judges who were or are about to decide my fate through a federal lawsuit Neroni v. Peebles, which was dismissed with a lightning speed by the court which was named as a Defendant, which was even more illegal that its judges were sued in their individual capacities for misconduct they appeared to be involved in against me outside of any court proceedings.

The interesting thing is that I provided in Neroni v. Peebles, as an exhibit, Judge Lawrence E. Kahn's membership in the Albany "Innovation" Inn of Court.



The quality of the snippet is poor, but the quality of the exhibit submitted to the court is good and allows to see Judge Kahn's name as the President of this Inn of Court, the document is available on Pacer.gov.  I put this scan here to show the path on top of it, that evidence of Judge Kahn's participation in this particular inn of court was submitted to the NDNY in Neroni v. Peebles on May 28, 2014.

Here is a better scan where Judge Kahn's name as the President of the Inn is clearly visible:




After the lawsuit was filed, information that Judge Kahn was president of that particular Inn of Court, was removed from its website.



"Key contacts" remained, Judge Kahn's name was removed.

There are peculiar coincidences about the removal of Judge Kahn's information and about known members of that particular Inn of Court (information about memberships is not available on the website of the Inn, only by self-reporting of the members).

Multiple attorneys from a large and powerful law firm Hiscock & Barclay of Albany, NY self-reported membership in the same Inn of Court where Judge Kahn was (and, possibly, still is a member - only in secret), see, for example, a partner in that law firm John Cook who is also, "coincidentally", a former law clerk of NDNY and a current member of the "Local Rules Committee".

In other words, Hiscock & Barclays decides what local rules need to be introduced in the courts where Hiscock & Barclays appears as attorneys of record.

And, Hiscock & Barclays likely pays or paid for monthly dinners of Judge Kahn, because judicial members are participating in Inns of Court for free (I only can derive this information from Inns where it is available - and it was available from a Federal Inn of Court).  Well, at least another judge, Judge Glenn Suddaby, whose former law clerk has also recently been accepted as an attorney into Hiscock & Barclays, and who worked as a prosecutor together with William Fitzpatrick, law school roommate of a famous New York rogue judge who wanted my disbarment because I reasonably questioned his integrity, did not allow my lawsuit against NDNY to proceed.  

That was the same William Fitzpatrick who wanted to share in the blackmail money from Judge Hedges (the judge who, according to affidavits submitted to NDNY in the Morin v. Tormey, lawsuit "outed" Judge Tormey's role in her harassment to the victim) and turned the judge in for a disciplinary proceedings when that effort failed.  

Without the joint efforts of: 

(1) Judges Tormey, 
(2) Suddaby (who dismissed sua sponte Neroni v. Peebles), 
(3) Kahn (who dismissed portions of my husband's case pertaining to John Casey's corruption and remanded my own disciplinary case back to the 3rd Department, disregarding evidence of selective enforcement of law and corruption by John Casey) and, of course, 
(4) efforts of the disgruntled judge Carl F. Becker, who acted obviously in concert with John Casey and his law firm, but was allegedly covered by absolute judicial immunity for malicious and corrupt acts, disciplinary proceedings against my husband (which resulted in his disbarment) and proceedings against me would not have been possible.

Talking about company, coincidences, transparency, accountability and judicial integrity.

By a "sheer coincidence", Hiscock & Barclays' partner John Casey was involved in prosecutorial corruption in investigation and prosecution of myself and my husband when he was a member of the Committee for Professional Standards, Appellate Division, 3rd Judicial Department, and that was discussed in two federal lawsuits over which Judge Kahn was presiding in Neroni v. Zayas (what remained of it is still pending), and in that lawsuit Judge Kahn ruled in such a way that precluded further discovery of prosecutorial misconduct of John Casey in order to accept as paying clients AGAINST myself and Mr. Neroni two people who John Casey was supposed to prosecute in the Committee for Professional Standards.

Even more "coincidentally", those clients for whose benefit John Casey traded his oath of office, but created a financial benefit for his law firm Hiscock & Barclay, were a retired judge Robert Harlem and his son attorney Richard Harlem, of Oneonta, NY who escaped disbarment, apparently, only because of the efforts of John Casey - read what these two attorneys did in the Blanding saga.

Even more "coincidentally", John Casey similarly rescued (and accepted as law partner) attorney M. Cornelia Cahill, the wife of Judge Richard Sise, the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Claims, when she was turned in to be investigated and prosecuted by John Casey's Committee for fraudulently receiving benefits from school districts as if she were the school district's employee.  She disgorged those benefits, but was never disciplined - thanks to John Casey who instead embraced her as a partner and allowed her to be promoted as the manager of the Albany office of Hiscock & Barclay.

"Coincidences" did not stop here.  

Hiscock & Barclay also employ multiple recent law clerks who worked for various judges in the Northern District of New York, including a former law clerk of the Chief Judge.

It would be bad politics for the judge to punish these people and expose corrupt practices of their law firm or partner, especially since the law firm likely very literally feeds the judge lavish monthly dinners (at least) through the American Inn of Court where Judge Kahn was President at the time when he was deciding Neroni v. Zayas.


Even before he came to the federal bench, Judge Kahn was known for making self-serving political decisions on the bench.

For example, Judge Kahn first tossed a state lawsuit challenging legality of cross-endorsements of judicial candidates by multiple political parties which was challenged as depriving voters of choice in judicial elections - and three years later got elected exactly because of the same cross-endorsement deal that he ruled (for his own sake, obviously) was valid.

A well respected attorney Doris Sassower who for decades was a pillar of legal community, suddenly became an outcast once she filed that lawsuit and was quickly suspended without a hearing once she announced that she is going to appeal the decision of the intermediate appellate court legalizing the cross-endorsement deal to the New York State Court of Appeals.

The timing of suspension was, I understand, also " coincidence" - her announcement to pursue the appeal of the cross-endorsement deal to the Court of Appeals was published on May 19, 1991, and she was suspended in June of that year.


I guess, to expect justice from Judge Kahn under the circumstances is beyond naive.  Judge Kahn appears to be a politically and, possibly, financially motivated block to fair resolution of cases in federal court rather than an impartial tool of that resolution.

And it will remain this way until citizens demand from their representatives in the federal legislature to provide better mechanisms of judicial selection and accountability.




Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Judge Revoir's revenge against the indigent mother who complained against him to the Judicial Conduct Commission


On September 1, 2014 an indigent mother, a family court litigant, filed a complaint agAinst judge Frank B. Revoir with the  NYS Judicial Conduct Commission.

On September 5, 2014 Judge Revoir issued a bench warrant for complainant's arrest for failure to comply with the judge's order dated September 4, 2014 that was served upon the mother to her Albany P.O. box by mail, so by law she was not required to comply with the order until 5 days after it was served by mail (Civil Practice Law and Rules), and that would be September 9, 2014.
 

 
Yet, Judge Revoir issued a bench warrant for her arrest on September 5, 2014, without any legal basis for it, and when she was ready to transfer her child to the father who came unannounced to pick the child up from visitation, she had the Delaware County police, with a TASER gun and handcuffs, on her porch, assaulting the child's middle-aged disabled grandmother with a TASER gun and with the police vehicle in an effort to destroy video recording of the unlawful arrest and arresting the indigent mother in front of her child, with a red spot of the TASER gun trained on the indigent mother's back.
 
Was all of this Orwellian SWAT-team production somehow in the best interests of the child?
 
One thing I know - the child might not forget this trauma for the rest of her life, simply because Judge Revoir needed to play out his revenge on her mother in the cruelest way possible.

Moreover, Judge Revoir did not reduce his screaming on the record of August 29, 2014 to a written order and thus prevented the mother's appeal of his decision.
 
Moreover, there was no petition before the court from the father so that Judge Revoir would be able to rule on such a petition and issue the September 4, 2014 order that was the basis of the September 5, 2014 bench warrant agaisnt the mother.
 
Moreover, Judge Revoir himself said on August 29, 2014 that all future petitions must be filed in another state, and thus there is no reason for him to accept new petitions in New York state on behalf of the father, nor were there any petitions submitted to result in the September 4, 2014 decision that was used to issue the September 5, 2014 bench warrant.
 
Moreover, Judge Revoir has failed to search the registries of sex offenders and protective orders which is a jurisdictional requirement for all orders in New York involving custody or visitation, thus making Judge Revoir's orders in this case void.

Additionally, the police came to the mother's house to "help" the father retrieve the child from the mother, while there was no indication the mother was not surrendering the child, on the contrary, the mother texted the father that she is packing the child's belongings and the child will be soon ready to be picked up.
 
And here, one more curious detail transpires.

Family Court in New York does not have criminal jurisdiction, only jurisdiction for civil contempt of court, to coerce a person into obeying a court order, not to punish her - that is criminal jurisdiction that Family Court does not have.

As I stated above, since the mother was served with Judge Revoir's invalid order of September 4, 2014 by mail, she could, first,  never be held in contempt of an invalid order, or at the very least, she could not be held in contempt until at least 5 days passed after she was served.

Yet, Judge Revoir could not wait with his revenge and harassment that long.

That is obviously why on September 5, 2014 he has ordered the mother arrested for violating the order Judge Revoir knew the mother could not possibly have recieved yet, not to mention that the order was jurisdictionally invalid on many grounds I mentioned above.

But, this is the judge for whom legal grounds and legal arguments are the equivalents of "lying", did not consider lack of authority or legal grounds as a bar for his abuse of power where he could use it to harass the person who dared to complain about his misconduct to the Judicial Conduct Commission.
 
And I must point out once again that, before being elected, Judge Revoir claimed he has a perfect judicial temperament for the job.
 
Right.
Family court has the most emotional proceedings of all courts, and judges who rule in such courts without a jury, should be of the highest competence, integrity and the most balanced temperament.

Judge Revoir sorely failed that on all points test by committing grievous misconduct against an indigent mother with a low social status, and, when she filed a formal complaint about the judge, retaliated with more misconduct, with worse misconduct and with the illegal use of police power.
 
The use of police power was illegal because, once the child was returned to the father (coercion to obey the order), the bench warrant from a Family Court judge who did not have criminal jurisdiction, lost its grounds even if it had such grounds (it didn't, as I described above).
 
Thus, dragging the mother in handcuffs and under a TASER gun and dragging her to the court after the child was delivered to the mother was clearly illegal - and Judge Revoir knew what he was doing when he was issuing such an illegal bench warrant.
 
It is obvious that this judge, as many other local judges I know, would be guided only by his own whims. 
 
The temperament that Judge Revoir demonstrated in this case is the temperament of a petty tyrant, not of a balanced, reasoned and competent judicial officer.

I truly believe this judge should be removed from the bench and stripped of his law license for his gross abuse of his power in this case, to the detriment of an indigent parent and of an innocent child.

Judge Tormey is at it again - now he has put two of his direct subordinates on my disciplinary case. Will this judge and these attorneys be punished for fraud upon the court and disbarred?

I've written in this blog about the disciplinary prosecutors of the 3rd and now the 4th Department who are perpetrating fraud upon the court while attempting to "discipline" me.
 
I did not realize the depth of fraud, and incestous relationships with the judiciary of my so-called prosecutors who are supposed to be neutral and impartial to me.  Right.
 
The 4th Department Grievance Committee notified me just which of their subdivisions is prosecuting me only last Friday, while the case was transferred to them on June 11, 2014 (by an ex parte court order, and access to the application for such an order is denied to me until this day - I have filed a complaint  to the Judicial Conduct Commission against Appellate Division Third Department because of that and some other things).
 
I definitely did not have time to conduct a full investigation of all of their disqualifications, especially that I was sick this weekend and these two days, to the point that I had to move two court appearances.
 
Yet, tonight I started looking "who is who" in that particular grievance sub-committee - and was horrified to learn that two out of 16 attorney members of the prosecuting team are court employees of the Onondaga County court system and direct subordinates of Judge Tormey, while the 3rd Department Committee have snuck in the court order by Judge Tormey punishing me, among other things, for suing HIM and making a motion to recuse HIM and because I mentioned in my motion to recuse the lawsuit in which the Onondaga County Family Court clerk was embroiled.
 
If the 3rd Department felt it was disqualified for this case because I sued all of the judges and all of the attorneys and attorney members in that Department for potential misconduct and conflicts of interest, how come the 4th Department's Grievance Committee has selected for prosecuting me specifically the 5th Judicial District Grievance Committee, where most attorneys appear routinely in front of Judge Tormey and thus are interested in ruling against me in a way Judge Tormey would be pleased with, and two of these prosecutors are Judge Tormey's employees and subordinates who have a direct financial interest in the outcome of my prosecution - because if they do NOT prosecute me, no matter how fraudulent are the charges, the fate of Bobette Morin, demotion or termination from their jobs can await them, and they might not be as lucky or persistent as Attorney Morin in suing Judge Tormey.

By the way, Judge Tormey punished me for his own inability to read - because, without reading the record, he claimed there was only one case by a certain name, and I mentioned two, with two different index numbers, not that Judge Tormey cared - and he punished me as if there was just one court case, only the case where I was attorney of record, and my case was specifically about the fraud upon the court in the case where I was not attorney of record.
 
Here is the list of attorneys for the grievance committee, 5th Judicial District.

Here is the table I put together today based on attorney registration records as to where these attorneys are employed.







No.
Name of Attorney
 
Name of law Firm
County
Ties with the state and federal judiciary
1.
Lawrence W. Golden
 
The Golden Law Firm
Utica, NY, Oneida County
To be investigated
2.
Alan S. Burstein
Scolaro, Cohen, Shulman, Fetter and Burstein
 
Syracuse, NY, Onondaga County
To be investigated
3.
Julie Ann Grow Denton
 
 
 McMahon and Grow
 Rome, NY, Oneida County
 Several years of clerkships in federal courts, including being a confidential clerk to the Hon. Richard Cardamone of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
 
4.
Matthew R. Dunn
Goettel, Poplaski & Dunn, PPLC
 
Watertown, NY, Jefferson County
Mr. Dunn's partner had the questionable honor of having being a Judicial Law Clerk to the dishonorable judge Mark Ciavarella of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania, who is now doing time in federal prison for his involvement in Kids-for-Cash scandal, which did not deter Mr. Dunn from allowing his partner to call Mark Ciavarella "Honorable" as of today on his website (scan of website on file with me in case Mr. Dunn chooses to erase that evidence)
 
5.
Donald R. Gerace
 
Law Offices of Donald R. Gerace
Utica, NY, Oneida County
To be investigated
6.
Peter L. Hubbard
 
Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece
Syracuse, NY, Onondaga County
Glen T. Suddaby (presiding judge on Neroni v. Peebles, the case that was made part of the record when the 3rd Department Committee recused) worked in the Menter law firm,
Judge Suddaby's law clerk Jason C. Halpin who is now with Hiscock & Barclay (H & B partner John Casey is a defendant in the Neroni v. Peebles lawsuit) worked for Menter law firm;
Glen T. Suddaby worked in the Onondaga County District Attorney's office where;
Judge Glenn Suddaby worked under Onondaga County DA William Fitzpatrick, law school roommate of Judge Tormey, who tried to get money from Judge Tormey's co-defendant in the Morin v. Tormey lawsuit Judge Hedges and, when the blackmail failed, turned Judge Hedges into the Judicial Conduct Commission and made sure he was taken off the bench, even though he already resigned
 
7.
Loretta R. Kipatrick
 
New York Supreme Court, Onondaga County, Commercial Division
 
Syracuse, NY, Onondaga County
Employee of the court, subordinate of Judge Tormey
8.
Joseph E. Lamendola
 
Joseph E. Lamendola, Attorney-at-Law
Syracuse, NY, Onondaga County
To be investigated
9.
Karl Manne
 
Karl Manne, Esq.
Herkimer, NY, Herkimer County
 
To be investigated
10.
James H. Messenger Jr.
 
James H. Messenger, Attorney-at-Law
Syracuse, NY, Onondaga County
To be investigated
11.
C. Andrew Pappas
 
Pappas, Cox, Kimpel, Dodd & Levine
Syracuse, NY, Onondaga County
To be investigated
12.
David M. Primo
 
Syracuse, NY, Onondaga County
Employee of the very same court where Judge Tormey harassed attorney Bobette Morin until she sued in Morin v. Tormey; David M. Primo is a 
subordinate of Judge Tormey who must remember well the treatment by Judge Tormey of Bobette Morin and would not want to repeat her fate - he might not be as successful as she is in suing Judge Tormey...
 
13.
Mark R. Rose
 
Mark R. Rose Law Offices
Little Falls, NY, Herkimer County
To be investigated
14.
Vincent J. Rossi
 
Rossi and Murnane
New York Mills, NY, Oneida County
To be investigated
15.
Susan A. Sovie
Sovie Law Firm
Watertown, NY, Jefferson County
 
To be investigated
16.
Michael F. Young
Company & Young, PLLC
Lowville, NY, Lewis County
To be investigated

I will continue to investigate backgrounds of these attorneys and their law firms, but as of now, what can be readily visible from the table is that:

(1) 7 of 16 of attorney-members/disciplinary prosecutors are out of Onondaga County, where Judge Tormey's seat is;
(2) 6 of 16 of attorney-members/disciplinary prosecutors are likely solo private attorneys, totally dependent in their business on the good attitude of the local judges, and especially on Judge Tormey, the Chief Administrative Judge of the 5th Judicial District.

(3) 6 of 16 of attorney-members/disciplinary prosecutors are law partners in established law firms, with "Martindale" ratings, "Super lawyer" ratings etc., and they will not try to be fair to me and risk losing their business in Judge Tormey's courts, and that can be arranged pretty easily - it is called "judicial discretion", and they will not be able to prove that they lost cases or were sanctioned for "frivolous conduct" because they disobediently were fair to an attorney who stepped on Judge Tormey's toes and was marked for destruction;

(4) 2 of 16 of attorney-members/disciplinary prosecutorsare employees and subordinates of Judge Tormey, and he can do with them as he pleases if they disobey and do not prosecute me on fraudulent charges  - as he did before with Bobette Morin.  Since it was the State of New York (us the taxpayers) who have paid the $600,000.00 settlement to Ms. Morin for Judge Tormey's misconduct, Judge Tormey is not deterred to fire another employee who would not do his bidding.

Will that be Loretta B. Kilpatrick, law clerk to the Onondaga County Supreme Court Commercial Division, part of the disciplinary prosecuting team against me?  Will she be fired if she does not commit fraud upon the disciplinary court?

Will that be David M. Primo, the Chief Clerk IV of the Onondaga County Family Court, the same court where Bobette Morin worked and where Judge Tormey demoted and harassed her for her refusal to yield to his illegal demands that she should spy on a Democratic judicial candidate? He is also part of my prosecuting team.

Why didn't these attorneys notify me of their direct and obvious disqualification and conflict of interest?

Fear for the job was greater than honor? Than duty? Than oath as attorneys?
 
But - with two of Judge Tormey's subordinates in the prosecuting team, the hope of any shreds of integrity disappeared and it became obvious why the case was assigned to this particular grievance subcommittee, and why the grievance subcommittee proceded with frivolous and fraudulent charges no matter what - because the alternative for at least two members of the prosecuting team was to be demoted or to lose their jobs, the way Bobette Morin did.
 
And where do I complain about these attorneys who are obviously defrauding the court for financial and financial reasons and who have FAILED TO NOTIFY ME OF THEIR DISQUALIFICATION? I guess, to themselves, there is nowhere else to complain but to the same attorneys of the same grievance committee - to, please, investigate and prosecute themselves.
 
What a joke.