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to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara
what U.S. Attorney Bharara publicly stated at his April 2, 2013 and April 4, 2013 press conferences, announcing the indictments of Senator Malcolm Smith & Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, & in his April 22, 2013 speech "Public Corruption in New York: More than a Prosecutor's Problem"
CJA's April 15, 2013 corruption complaint to U.S. Attorney Bharara --
"RE: Achieving 'the Dream of Honest Government':
(2) Intervention in Center for Judicial Accountability, et al. v. Andrew Cuomo, et al. (NY Co. #401988/2012) & Transfer to the U.S. District Court, with Amendment of the Verified Complaint to Embody Additional Causes of Action and Supervening Facts, Including as to the Violations of Constitutional, Statutory, and Rule Provisions Underlying Passage of the NYS Budget for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 and Judiciary/Legislative Appropriations Bill S.2601-A/A.3001-A."
click here for: enclosures to CJA's April 15, 2013 corruption complaint
click here for: VIDEO of the Legislature's February 6, 2013 budget hearing on "Public Protection"
(CJA testifying last at 07:21:50 mins)
REFERRED-TO WEBPAGE:
Here's the evidence, U.S. Attorney Bharara:
Let's start at the top -- with Governor Cuomo, who colluded with the Legislature in rewarding a systemically corrupt Judiciary with a slush-fund budget whose unidentified, unitemized funding includes statutorily-violative, fraudulent & unconstitutional judicial salary increases
CJA's March 29, 2013 letter to Governor Cuomo's Chief of Staff -- "RE: The Governor’s Duty to Disapprove S.2601-A/A.3001-A (Judiciary/Legislative Appropriations Bill), Pursuant to Article VII, §4 & Article IV, §7 of the New York State Constitution, Because the Legislature Violated Express Constitutional and Statutory Safeguards, as well as its Own Rules, in Passing It"
THE LEGISLATURE'S GRAND LARCENY
OF THE PUBLIC FISC
Senate Floor -- March 24 & March 26, 2013
Assembly Floor -- March 28-29, 2013
EXHIBIT A: Judiciary & Legislative Budget Documents
Judiciary's two-part budget, with transmitting November 30, 2012 coverletters from Chief Administrative Judge Prudenti:
Judiciary's "Operating" costs budget & Judiciary's "General State Charges"
December 1, 2012 letter to Governor from Temporary Senate President Skelos & Assembly Speaker Silver
-- enclosing Legislative budget request for fiscal year 2013-2014
Legislature's announcement of its budget hearings - Jan 10, 2013
"Skelos, Klein, Silver Announce Joint Legislative Budget Schedule" -- January 31, 2013
Governor's Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary & Legislature
S-2601; A-3001: (Judiciary appropriations at pp. 10-27)
Governor Andrew Cuomo's "Executive Budget" for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 -- Judiciary and Legislative Budgets camouflaged as "Agency Appropriations"
See "Statewide Summary Information with its multiplicity of funds/appropriations, etc. for Judiciary -- pp.2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13
Governor Cuomo's Division of the Budget, headed by Robert Megna
Division of Budget Summary of 2013-14 Judiciary Budget
Exhibit B: CJA's Information & Document Requests to the Secretary of the Senate & Assembly's Public Information Office
Info & Document Request #1
CJA's December 3, 2012 letter to Secretary of the Senate -- "RE: (1) Senate Violation of its Rule VII, 4(d) & Rule XIV, §1(a): Annual Reports of the Senate's 33 Standing Committees; (2) FOIL Request: Senate Judiciary Committee's Annual Reports"
Secretary of Senate's December 10, 2012 e-mail, with attached 2011 Annual Report for Senate Judiciary Committee
CJA's December 11, 2012 letter to Secretary of the Senate -- "RE: CJA's December 3, 2012 letter: (1) Senate Violation of its Rule VII, §4(d) & Rule XIV, §1(a): Annual Reports of the Senate's 33 Standing Committees; (2) FOIL Request: Senate Judiciary Committee's Annual Reports"
CJA's February 28, 2013 letter to Secretary of the Senate ---- "RE: Did You Respond to CJA's December 11, 2012 Letter?: (1) Senate Violation of its Rule VIII, §4(d) & Rule XV, §1(a): Annual Reports of the Senate's 33 Standing Committees; (2) FOIL Request: Senate Finance Committee Annual Reports; 2012-2009; Judiciary Committee Annual Report: 2010"
CJA's February 28, 2013 e-mail to Assembly Public Information Office -- "Where are the Annual Reports of the Assembly Ways & Means Committee?"
Info & Document Request #2
CJA's February 25, 2013 letter to Secretary of Senate & Assembly Public Information Office: "RE: The Legislature's Certified Itemized Estimates of its Financial Needs for Fiscal Year 2013-2014, as Required by Article VII, Sec. 1 of the NYS Constitution"
Assembly Public Information Office's March 4, 2013 e-mail -- "Subject: FOIL request re. itemized estimates"
attachments: (1) December 1, 2012 letter to Governor from Temporary Senate President Skelos & Assembly Speaker Silver; (2) Legislative budget request for fiscal year 2013-2014
Info & Document Request #3
Info & Document Request #4
Secretary of the Senate's March 13 2013 e-mail
Info & Document Request #5
CJA's March 26, 2013 letter to Secretary of Senate & Assembly Public Information Office -- "RE: The Public’s Right to Know the 'Process' Behind Adoption of Senate Resolution 818 and Assembly Resolution 812: The Scandal of Judiciary Appropriations Bill S.2601/A.3001, the Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Salary Increases Therein, District Attorney Salary Reimbursement Based Thereon – & the Price Tag of Each"
Secretary of the Senate's April 2, 2013 e-mail
Secretary of the Senate's April 25, 2013 e-mail
Assembly Public Info Office's April 3, 2013 letter
Info & Document Request #6
CJA's March 28, 2013 letter to Secretary of the Senate & Assembly Public Information Office -- "RE: Request for Production & Posting on Senate and Assembly Websites: (1) the Filed 'Joint Certificate' Establishing the 'Joint Budget Conference Committee' and its Subcommittees; (2) Such Filed 'Written Report(s)' as the Joint Budget Conference Committee and its Subcommittees Rendered
Secretary of the Senate's April 4, 2013 e-mail with attached certificates
Assembly Public Information Office's April 5, 2013 letter with attached certificates
Info & Document Request #7
CJA's April 1, 2013 letter to Assembly Public Information Office -- "RE: Request Pursuant to Assembly Rule VI "Freedom of Information" for Unidentified Assembly Resolutions Passed by Voice Vote on March 29, 2013"
Resolutions supplied by Assembly Public Information Office
Info & Document Request #8
CJA's April 2, 2013 letter to Secretary of Senate/Assembly Public Info Office -- "RE: Request for Name, Etc. of 'the superintendent of public buildings', Charged with Safeguarding Fiscal Committee Records by Legislative Law §67"
April 8, 2013 response of Assembly Public Info Office
EXHIBIT C: The VIDEO EVIDENCE of the February 6, 2013 Senate & Assembly Budget Hearing on "Public Protection"
- With CJA's Testimony Relegated to the End, as the Last Witness (07:21:50)
click here for: VIDEO, as posted by Senate website
click here for: VIDEO, as posted by Assembly website
click here for Senate posting of witness list & written testimony
click here for Assembly posting of hearing transcript
EXHIBIT D: The DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE handed up by CJA director at the February 6, 2013 budget hearing in substantiation of her testimony in opposition to the judicial pay raises & the Judiciary budget
#1: click here for: CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
#2: click here for: verified complaint in CJA's People's lawsuit vs NYS' three government branches & highest constitutional officers to void the judicial pay raises & secure judicial accountability -- CJA, et al. v. Cuomo, et al.
#3: CJA's correspondence with NYS's highest constitutional officers in its three government branches about the February 6, 2013 budget hearing on "Public Protection"
With the Judicial Branch:
CJA's January 29, 2013 letter to Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti - "RE: (1) Clarifying the Judiciary’s Budget for Fiscal Years 2013-2014 & 2012-2013: (a) The dollar amounts sought by the Judiciary for judicial salary increases; (b) The dollar amounts sought by the Judiciary for 'compensation and non-salary benefits for judges and justices of the unified court system', exclusive of salary; and (2) Production of the Judiciary’s findings of facts and conclusions of law with respect to CJA’s October 27, 2011 Opposition Report and People’s lawsuit based thereon against New York State’s three governmental branches and highest constitutional officers ,CJA, et al. v. Cuomo, et al., to void the three-phase judicial salary increases"
CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Temporary Senate President Dean Skelos & Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver -- "RE: Enabling the Legislative Committees Directly Responsible for Oversight of the Judiciary’s Budget to Discharge their Mandatory Legislative Function"
CJA's January 30, 2013 letter to Senate Finance Committee: Chair John DeFrancisco & Ranking Member Liz Krueger; Assembly Ways and Means Committee: Chair Herman D. Farrell, Jr. & Ranking Member Robert Oaks; Senate Judiciary Committee: Chair John J. Bonacic & Ranking Member Ruth Hassell-Thompson; Assembly Judiciary Committee: Chair Helene E. Weinstein & Ranking Member Tom McKevitt -- "RE: February 6, 2013 Joint Legislative Hearing on 'Public Protection': The Legislature’s Mandatory Duty to Override the Judiciary’s Request for 'funding for the next phase of the judicial salary increase', in Discharge of its Checks-and-Balance Constitutional Function"
With the Executive Branch:
EXHIBIT E: The additional DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE substantiating CJA's February 6, 2013 testimony in opposition to the judicial pay raises & the Judiciary budget -- referred to and relied on by its director during the testimony
As to the constitutional requirement of itemization in the budget --
& the power & duty of the Legislature to reject a budget whose lack of itemization prevents meaningful review
The referred-to & quote cases therein:
Saxton v. Carey; People v. Tremaine (II); Hidley v. Rockefeller
NOTE: the quality of "justice" in NY's courts: the fraudulence of the Supreme Court decision in Pines v NYS, imposing a liability of $51 million upon the State for judicial salary raises purportedly passed by the Legislature in 2009 -- read page 6 of the decision describing the Assembly & Senate floor debates -- & compare transcript of Assembly debate & transcript of Senate debate
click here for: the Judgment: "ORDERED, that [NYS] shall cause the sum of Fifty-One Million Six Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Nine ($51,006,759) Dollars, for the 2009-2010 appropriation adjusting the compensation of the judges and justices of the Unified Court System, to be allocated and forthwith paid..." record-appeal: Pines v. NYS
As to the the comment by legislators at the prior three budget hearings on "public protection" as to the need for greater itemization by the Judiciary in its budget
As to the statutory link between judicial salaries
CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report; at p. 24 & September 2, 2011 New York Law Journal article "Raises for Justices Mean Higher Pay for Some D.A.s", referred-to & quoted therein
Testimony of Shaun Byrne, Acting Commissioner of Division of Criminal Justice Services -- & the colloquy between him and then Senator Saland at the January 30, 2012 joint budget hearing on "public protection" -- video -- at 1:51:40 - 1:51:58 and 1:53:15 - 1:56:50 ; transcript at pp. 103; 104-107
2013 "Yellow Book" summary -- "District Attorney Salary Reimbursement: "The Executive proposes a total of $3.9 million, an increase of $1.05 million from SFY 2012-13 level, to support the full cost of local district attorney salary increases that are tied to scheduled increases in judicial compensation."
Exhibit F: CJA's post-hearing correspondence with Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Krueger, & with staff of the Senate Finance Committee, Assembly Ways & Means Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee, Assembly Judiciary Committee -- and majority & minority counsel
CJA's February 27, 2013 e-mails -- "Subject: Verifying the Dispositive Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judiciary Budget & Judicial Pay Raises"
to Senate Finance Committee Majority Coalition Chief of Staff & Secretary Robert Mujica, Counsel to Republican Conference Diane Burman, & Counsel David Gruenberg
for Senate Finance Committee Democratic Minority Secretary Joseph Pennisi & Democratic Conference Counsel Laura Wood
for Assembly Ways & Means Committee Democratic Majority Secretary Matt Howard & Counsel Michael Johnson
for Assembly Ways & Means Committee Republican Minority Director Rebecca Dagati & Counsel John Mertz
to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair John Bonacic & Ranking Member John Sampson
to Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Helene Weinstein & Ranking Member Tom McKevitt
CJA's March 4, 2013 e-mail to Assembly Ways & Means Democratic Majority -- "Subject: Assembly Ways & Means Democratic Majority: Verifying the Dispositve Nature of the February 6, 2013 Opposition Testimony to the Judicial Budget & Judicial pay Raises"
EXHIBIT G : CJA's post-hearing correspondence with Senate & Assembly leadership: General Budget Conference Committee & its Subcommittes on "Public Protection", Criminal Justice, & Judiciary
Exhibit A: Senate Majority's "White Book"
link to "Yellow Book"
Exhibit D: Assembly Minority's "Green Book"
CJA's March 15, 2013 e-mail ALERT to All Senate & Assembly Members:
"Is the Judiciary Budget a 'Slush Fund'?"
cc to legislators: CJA's March 19, 2013 letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo -- "RE: Assisting the Legislature in Discharging its Constitutional Duty: The People’s Right to Know the Dollar Cost of the Judiciary Budget & of the Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary & to be Protected from “Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc” by Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Pay Raises, whose Fraudulence, Statutory-Violations, and Unconstitutionality are Proven by Documentary Evidence in Your Possession & the Legislature’s"
CJA's March 22, 2013 letter to the General Budget Conference Committee & its Subcommittee on "Public Protection", Criminal Justice, & Judiciary -- "RE: The Public’s Right to Know the 'Process' Behind Adoption of Senate Resolution 818 and Assembly Resolution 812: The Scandal of Judiciary Appropriations Bill S.2601/A.3001, the Unidentified, Unitemized Judicial Salary Increases Therein, District Attorney Salary Reimbursement Based Thereon – & the Price Tag of Each"
CJA's March 25, 2013 e-mails to Senator Krueger, Senator Latimer, Senator Parker, & Senator Hoylman -- "Standing up for Legislative Law 54 & 'process' with respect to the budget", enclosing (1) transcribed excerpt of March 24, 2013 Senate floor proceeding ; (2) transcribed excerpt of February 26, 2009 hearing of Temporary Senate Committee on Rules & Administration Reform; (3) pertinent pages about the budget from 2009 Minority & Majority Reports of Temporary Senate Committee on Rules & Administration Reform; (4) Legislative Law 54
CJA's March 26, 2013 letter to ALL Assembly Members -- "Why You Must Reject A.3001 -- The Appropriations Bill for the Judiciary" fn. 3: S-2605-C/D
CJA's March 27, 2013 e-mail to Assembly Ways & Means Chairman Farrell, Ranking Member Oaks, Assembly Members Buchwald & Katz -- "Subject -- Assisting Assembly Members in their Duty to Reject Judicial Appropriations Bill A.3001"
CJA's March 28, 2013 e-mail to Assembly Members Buchwald & Katz -- "Subject: Annotations for SUCCESSFUL, due process-procedural objections on Assembly floor" March 24 transcript excerpt March 26 transcript excerpt
Exhibit H: CJA's April 2, 2013 letter to Chairs & Ranking Members of the Senate & Assembly Fiscal Committees -- "RE: GIVING NOTICE: (1) The Mandatory Statutory Duty of the Legislature’s Fiscal Committees to Preserve Evidence, Pursuant to Legislative Law §67; (2) CJA’s Request to Testify in Opposition at Next Year’s Legislative Hearings on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015, Pursuant to Legislative Law §32-a
EXHIBIT I: The VIDEO EVIDENCE of the discussion & vote on Budget Bills by the Senate on March 24 & March 26, 2013 and by the Assembly on March 28-9, 2013:
Senate floor proceedings: March 24, March 26, 2013
March 24 video (at 00:01:19 - 00:14:45; 00:20:00; 00:30:58; 00:45:45) & March 24 transcript
March 26 video (at 00:16:26) & March 26 transcript
voting against: Espaillat, Hoylman, Latimer, Parker, Sampson
also: Senate Finance Committee meetings: March 24 & March 26
Assembly floor proceedings: March 28-29, 2013
March 28-29 video (at 10:50:44 - 10:55:36) & transcript
Exhibit J: The VIDEO EVIDENCE of the discussion & vote Budget Resolutiond by the Senate & Assembly on March 11, 2013:
Senate Floor Proceedings on Senate Resolution 818:
March 11 video (discussion & vote at 9.45 - 2.11);
Senate Resolution 818
transcript of March 11th floor proceeding
Assembly Floor Proceedings on Assembly Resolution 812:
March 11 video (discussion & vote at 0.46 - 3.00)
Assembly Resolution 182
Exhibit K: The VIDEO EVIDENCE of the proceedings of the General Budget Conference Committee
March 11 meeting of General Budget Conference Committee
March 12 announcement of Composition of General Conference & Subcommittees
March 14 meeting of General Budget Conference Committee
Exhibit L: The VIDEO EVIDENCE of the proceedings of the Subcommittee on "Public Protection", Criminal Justice, & Judiciary
video of March 12 Subcommittee meeting
video of March 14 Subcommittee meeting
written March 19 announcement of March 19 Subcommittee meeting
video of March 19 Subcommittee meeting - [not broadcast live & subsequently posted as "This video has been removed by the user"; restored in the afternoon of March 28 or morning of March 29]
written March 20 anouncement of postponement of March 2013 Subcommittee meeting
March 13, 2013 News Relese of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver: "Assembly Passes Sunshine Week Legislation to Increase Public Access and Promote Greater Government Accountability"
find the data: average salary of NYS employees
Governor's March 29, 2013 press release: "Governor Cuomo and Legislative Leaders Announce Early Passage of 2013-14 Budget"
Governor's Division of the Budget March 29, 2013 press release: "Governor Cuomo and Legislative Leaders Announce Early Passage of 2013-14 Budget"
Governor Cuomo's March 29, 2013 video message on NY's budget -- "...Today is a new and different day. Government is working & it is working for you... New York is rising..."
March 31 2013 Press Release THE UNFINISHED NEW YORK STATE BUDGET STORY ON THE GOVERNOR’S DESK
NYS Constitution: Article VII, §7:
"No money shall ever be paid out of the state treasury...except in pursuance of an appropriation by law...and every such law making a new appropriation or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly set forth the sum appropriated, and the object or purpose to which it is to be applied; and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum"
1. The Judiciary's Role in the Budget
NYS Constitution: Article VII, §1
“...Itemized estimates of the financial needs of the legislature, certified by the presiding officer of each house, and of the judiciary, approved by the court of appeals and certified by the chief judge of the court of appeals, shall be transmitted to the governor not later than the first day of December in each year for inclusion in the budget without revision but with such recommendations as the governor may deem proper. Copies of the itemized estimates of the financial needs of the judiciary also shall forthwith be transmitted to the appropriate committees of the legislature.”
NYS Constitution: Article VII, §2
“…the governor shall submit to the legislature a budget containing a complete plan of expenditures proposed to be made before the close of the ensuing fiscal year… It shall also contain such other recommendations and information as the governor may deem proper and such additional information as may be required by law.”
NYS Constitution, Article VII, §3
“At the time of submitting the budget to the legislature the governor shall submit a bill or bills containing all the proposed appropriations and reappropriations included in the budget and the proposed legislation, if any, recommended therein.
“...The governor and the heads of departments shall have the right, and it shall be the duty of the heads of departments when requested by either house of the legislature or any appropriate committee thereof, to appear and be heard in respect to the budget during the consideration thereof, and to answer inquiries relevant thereto. The procedure for such appearances and inquiries shall be provided by law.”
Legislative Law §31
"Appearances and inquiries in respect to the budget; procedure regulated. The governor and the heads of departments, divisions and offices each shall have the right to appear voluntarily and be heard in respect to the budget before the committees of the houses of the legislature to which such budget may be referred under the rules of such houses, as herein provided. Such voluntary appearance by the head of a department, division or office may be made either in person or by an
Legislative Law §32-a "Budget; public hearings"
"After submission and prior to enactment of the executive budget, the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee jointly or separately shall conduct public hearings on the budget. Such hearings may be conducted regionally to provide individuals and organizations throughout the state with an opportunity to comment on the budget. The committees shall make every effort to hear all those who wish to present statements at such public hearings. The chairs of the committees jointly or separately shall publish a schedule of hearings."
Legislative law §53 "Budget review process"
Within ten days after submission of the budget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall jointly or separately promulgate a schedule for the specific budget-related actions of each house, including but not limited to the following:
1. a preliminary response by the houses to the governor's budget submission;
2. fiscal committee hearings on the budget, hearings with heads of departments and divisions pursuant to section three of article seven of the constitution, and other actions which may be taken by the fiscal committees, which shall be designed to inform the public of the contents of the governor' budget policy issues relating to such budget and such other information as the senate and the assembly shall jointly or separately determine. Such hearings and other actions may be conductd jointly or separately;
...4. the dates of the public hearings required by the provisions of section thirty-two-a of this chapter.
1. Upon passage of appropriation bills by both the senate and the assembly, the senate and the assembly shall issue either jointly or separately a summary of changes to the budget submitted by the governor in accordance with article seven of the constitution. The summary shall be in such a form as to indicate whether the budget as amended provides that, for the general fund, any changes in anticipated disbursements are balanced by changes in anticipated receipts. The summary shall be accompanied by descriptions of changes to both receipts and disbursements in sufficient detail as is necessary to describe legislative action on the governor's budget submission. The summary shall be in such format as determined by the senate and the assembly, either jointly or separately, and may be issued separately, as part of the report required by section twenty-two-b of the state finance law or may be included within the introductory memoranda or fiscal committee memoranda relating to such legislation or in such other manner as may be determined by the senate and the assembly, either separately or jointly.
2. (a) The legislature shall enact a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that it determines is balanced in the general fund.
(b) Before voting upon an appropriation bill submitted by the governor and related legislation, as amended, in accordance with article seven of the constitution, each house shall place on the desks of its members a report relating to each such bill and, preceding final action on all such appropriation bills and legislation, members shall be so provided with a comprehensive, cumulative report relating to all such bills and legislation.
(c) The reports prepared by each house shall include for the general fund a summary of proposed legislative revisions to the executive budget for the ensuing fiscal year, and shall separately identify and present all legislative additions, reestimates and other revisions that increase or decrease disbursements, and separately identify and present all legislative reestimates and other revisions that increase or decrease available resources. Such report shall, where practicable, display and separately identify and present all legislative additions, reestimates, and other revisions that increase or decrease state funds and all funds spending, including an estimate of the impact of the proposed revisions on local governments and the state workforce.
Legislative Law §54-a. Scheduling of legislative consideration of budget bills.
The legislature shall by concurrent resolution of the senate and assembly prescribe by joint rule or rules a procedure for:
1. establishing a joint budget conference committee or joint budget conference committees within ten days following the submission of the budget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution, to consider and reconcile such budget resolution or budget bills as may be passed by each house; and
2. promulgating a schedule within ten days following the submission of the budget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution, for considering and acting upon such budget appropriation and related bills which shall include:
(c) a date for the establishment of joint budget conference committee or committees; and
(d) a date by which such joint budget conference committee or committees shall issue their final reports.
As to the Senate Finance Committee & the Assembly Ways & Means Committee, see, also:
Legislative Law §27
"Appointment of secretaries of finance and ways and means committees. The committee on finance of the senate and the committee on ways and means of the assembly shall serve throughout the year, with power to make, through the chairman of the respective committees or through subcommittees appointed by them, such investigation of the various activities of the state as will aid them in their consideration of the budget submitted by the executive and any further appropriations proposed to the legislature. The temporary president of the senate shall appoint a secretary for the senate finance committee and the speaker of the assembly shall appoint a secretary for the assembly ways and means committee. Each appointment shall be evidenced by certificate duly executed by the officer making the appointment, and filed in the office of the secretary of state. Such secretaries shall hold office until their successors are appointed."
Legislative Law §29
"Subcommittees of finance and ways and means committees. For the purpose of more effectively carrying out the provisions of this article, and those of article two of the state departments law, the chairman of the committee on finance appointed under the rules of the senate and the chairman of the committee on ways and means appointed under the rules of the assembly shall have the power to name subcommittees to perform such duties as they may prescribe..."
As to the Senate & Assembly Judiciary Committees, see also:
2013-2014 Senate Rules
Rule VII, §4c.
"Committee oversight function. Each standing committee is required to conduct oversight of the administration of laws and programs by agencies within its jurisdiction."
Rule IV, §1d:
"..Each standing committee shall, furthermore, devote substantial efforts to the oversight and analysis of the activities, including but not limited to the implementation and administration of programs, of departments, agencies, divisions, authorities, boards, commissions, public benefit corporations and other entities within its jurisdiction..."
2011 Assembly Judiciary Committee Annual Report
2012 Assembly Judiciary Committee Annual Report
ASSEMBLY RULES: Rule I: Speaker:
§2. Joint Budget Conference Committee.
In accordance with section 54-a of the Legislative Law, within ten days of the submission of the budget by the Governor pursuant to article VII of the Constitution, the Temporary President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly shall jointly establish a Joint Budget Conference Committee and, as they deem necessary, any number of subcommittees subordinate to such Joint Budget Conference Committee, to consider and reconcile such budget resolutions or bills passed by, or as may be passed by, the Senate and Assembly. Such Joint Budget Conference Committee shall be constituted and conducted as prescribed in Joint Rule II and shall file its written report in accord with the schedule established pursuant to section 1 of this rule.
§1. Committee on Conference. The Temporary President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly may jointly convene a Joint Committee on Conference to consider and report upon substantially similar but not identical legislation that has passed each House of the Legislature. Such committee shall be constituted by the filing of a joint certificate by the Temporary President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the Assembly, and shall consist of the same number of members from each House. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate, there shall be five members on such committee from each House to be appointed by the Temporary President of the Senate who shall appoint the members from the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly who shall appoint the members from the Assembly; provided, however, that of each House's delegation at least one member shall represent the minority in each House. The Temporary President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly shall each appoint a co-chairperson of the committee and such co-chairpersons shall convene and recess meetings of the committee. Meetings jointly convened by the co-chairpersons shall be subject to the provisions of Article 7 of the Public Officers Law. The committee shall file a written report setting forth the joint recommendations of a majority of each House's delegation with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the Assembly or such other committees or officers as may be set forth in the certificate and such report may include specific bill language that would implement the joint committee's recommendations. No report shall be filed except upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of each House's delegation on the committee.
NYS Constitution, Article VII, §4
"...appropriations for the legislature and judiciary and separate items added to the governor's bills by the legislature shall be subject to approval of the governor as provided in section 7 of article IV."
NYS Constitution, Article IV, §7:
"...If any bill presented to the governor contain several items of appropriation of money, the governor may object to one or more of such items whie approving of th other portion of the bill. In such case the governor shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he or she objecs; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect. If the legislatur be in session, he or she shall transmit to the house in which the bill originatd a copy of such statment, and the itmes objectd to shall be separately reconsidered. If on reconsideration one or mor of uch itms be approved by two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the same shall be part of the law, notwithstanding the objections of the governor. All the provisions of this section, in relation to bills not approved by the governor, shall apply in cases in which he or she shall withhold approval from any item or items contained in a bill appropriating money."
CJA's subsequent correspondence with US Attorney Bharara
May 13, 2013 corruption complaint
June 13, 2013 corruption complaint