Month: March 2024

Indictments fabricated on false and insufficient evidence by NY City prosecutors and NYPD officers, and covered up by judges, including those of the NY State Court of Appeals

A test case intended to
expose similar abuse of power in all other jurisdictions.
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/IAB/DrRCordero-Court_of_Appeals_cover-up.pdf

By

Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, England
M.B.A., University of Michigan Business School
D.E.A., La Sorbonne, Paris
Judicial Discipline Reform
New York City
Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@verizon.net, DrRCordero@Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org, CorderoRic@yahoo.com

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Hon. Rowan D. Wilson, Chief Judge
and
Each of the associate judges of the
NY State Court of Appeals [the highest state court]
20 Eagle Street
Albany, NY 12207;
tel. 1(518)455-7700

Dear Chief Judge Wilson,‡

  1. Starting with my complaint of May 28, 2022 infra, I have informed the successive chief judges, the associate judges, clerks in their offices and in that of the clerk of court of the NY State Court of Appeals (CA) of my having witnessed as a grand juror in the Bronx County Supreme Court Criminal Term in NY City the fabrication of indictments on false and insufficient evidence(§A).

  2. After I asked in the grand jury room critical questions pointing to such fabrication, I was discharged on the spot by Grand Jury Justice Laurence Busching with the subsequent approval of Administrative Justice Alvin Yearwood. Thereby I suffered injury in fact by deprivation of my right to be a member of a grand jury; and of my constitutional rights to confront my accusers and to be afforded due process to defend myself.

  3. The defendants who were charged with murder in the fabricated indictment and others who have been victimized by such indictments have suffered and will continue to suffer even more grievous injury in fact as a result of the base motives and complicit cover-up of those to whom I have complained, some of whom are identified hereunder(§B).

  4. There is no denying such cover-up: Till this day, I have not received from any CA member even written acknowledgment of receipt of my letters, let alone a statement of how they will proceed.

  5. On the contrary, when I have called, clerks Heather Davis, Ann Byer, and Ms. Taylor have acknowledged that my letters were received; and stated that the respective judge would be informed of my call; and my call would be referred for action to “the Counsel”, meaning most likely Chief Clerk and Legal Counsel Lisa LeCours. Nobody has contacted me.

  6. The consistency of their refusal to engage me in any discussion allows the reasonable inference -which jurors are allowed to draw even in capital cases- that their way of dealing with me had been coordinated: Public servants intentionally misled me with a false expectation despite knowing that nobody would contact me.

  7. The cover-up has taken a self-incriminating form: I filed my complaint about Justices Yearwood and Busching with the Commission on Judicial Conduct. The latter dismissed it alleging that the Commission lacked jurisdiction to process it because those justices were not members of the NYS Unified Court System (UCS)! I filed with Acting C.J. Cannataro, C.J. Wilson, and the other CA judges the letters between the Commission and me; and UCS webpages showing that those justices are UCS members. The CA judges knew that and received notice thereof through those webpages.

a. The CA judges and their clerks had actual knowledge of fabricated indictments and of the Commission’s mendacity; and

b. had duties of supervision of the UCS and the Commission;

c. ‘the end does not justify the means’;

d. “people are deemed to intend the foreseeable consequences of their actions”;

e. ‘power corrupts and unaccountably wielded is absolute and corrupts absolutely’; and

f. ‘I was following orders’ affords no defense.

  1. Thus, since knowing about fabricated indictments and condoning them, the judges and clerks have constructively intended to fabricate them and coordinate their cover-up. They have sent the ‘fabricated’ indictees to, and kept them in, those hellish places of terrifying depravity and wanton violence that are the Rikers Island and the other NYS prisons.

  2. Action requested: I respectfully request that you:

a. take notice of the statement of facts next;

b. have CA issue me with a written order to disclose to it my 4,743-word, 8-page sworn statement of facts(¶14d infra); and

c. investigate this complaint, summoning me to discuss it with you and the investigators.

Dare shout “I accuse!”…You may trigger history and enter it.

I, Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq., declare pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1746 and under penalty of perjury that I am submitting on 8 March 2024, as true and correct to the best of my knowledge the following:

A. How the fabrication of indictments and its cover-up were revealed

  1. I am a lawyer and hold a Ph.D. in law. I was a member of a grand jury in Bronx, New York City. I had the knowledge1 and was in a position to realize that the prosecutors and police officers had charged people with murder despite their lack of any evidence that any crime had been committed:

1 This complaint is supported by my professional law research and writing, and strategic thinking. They are the skills that have already produced my three-volume study*†♣ of judges and their judiciaries, titled thus:

Exposing Judges’ Unaccountability and
Consequent Riskless Abuse of Power:
Pioneering the news and publishing field of
judicial unaccountability reporting*†♣

The study discusses evidence supporting the axiom ‘Unaccountability breeds abuse’. Its corollary is ‘What judges allow themselves to do -exposed by top national news networks, e.g., The Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters, and The Boston Globe, others copy and exceed’.

How many judges and the individuals and entities, such as government departments and private companies, with whom they coordinate their abuse have found comfort and encouragement in the unethical and illegal acts that justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and the ‘Friends of the Justices’ have committed for decades, as revealed by ProPublica?

Some of my articles♦ on unaccountability and abuse of power are posted to my website Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org. They have attracted so many webvisitors and impressed them so positively that as of 9 March 2024, those who had become subscribers numbered 49,760.

They read what was in front of them and asked for more. They can reasonably be expected to be educated, intellectually curious, influential, affluent, and ready to seek compensation in a class action against public servants who fabricate indictments and judges who in self-interest condone such fabrication and coordinate its cover-up.
____________________

  1. The prosecutors presented no footage of the crime or photos of the victim or the street crime scene, or incident or autopsy report. The footage of the restaurants flanking the street showed no crowd of onlookers or vehicles of the police, the medical examiner, or crime scene investigators.

  2. One footage showed only a Chinese female customer talking to the bearded white male clerk of a bodega over the counter and it had no sound! This footage had no probative value. But it proved the saying “a prosecutor can manipulate a grand jury into indicting a ham sandwich” by exploiting grand jurors’ known indifference and uncritical judgment. So, it was presented in bad faith to mislead the grand jury into thinking that it justified the indictment.

  3. When I asked critical questions, the presenting and the supervising prosecutors referred me to the grand jury judge. He discharged me in his courtroom with a court reporter although neither those prosecutors nor anybody else showed up to make any accusation against me.

  4. I stated these facts in a 4,743-word, 8-page sworn statement and submitted it to the administrative judge. Late enough, he sent it to the grand jury judge, who with no oral argument dismissed it by letter on the disingenuous allegation that the grand jury term had expired.

  5. Rogue prosecutors present to a grand jury charges whose supporting evidence is lacking, false, or insufficient to warrant their degree of gravity, i.e., they are baseless or overcharges. If the jury votes them true, the prosecutors have successfully fabricated an indictment. With it, they seek to coerce the indictee into agreeing to a power abusive plea or prosecute him/her on fabricated charges.

  6. The fabricators reciprocally cover up so leveraging fabricated indictments because through them they secure higher conviction rates; greater chances of reelection and promotion; and IOUs to be cashed in when needed.

  7. They gain a benefit while inflicting injury in fact on the fabricated indictees, such as sending them to jail; causing them financial hardship by requiring bail; and stigmatizing them with a criminal record. Thereby their family and friends are also injured.

  8. Everybody who learns about fabricated indictments is injured by the fear of becoming a fabricated indictee, thus suffering the loss of trust in the justice system.

  9. The public at large is injured by deprivation of the honest services that the fabricators are duty-bound to render it as public servants.

  10. The fabricators join in committing abuse of power, honest services fraud, racketeering, and enterprise corruption.

B. Public officers who instead of investigating have coordinated a cover-up

  1. I wrote a complaint letter♠, mailed it and its follow-ups and adaptations, and subsequently made calls, to:

♠ To have access to those letters through links, read this article at OL3:1650.

a.       i.   NY State Court of Appeals then-Chief Judge Janet DiFiore; -tel. (518)455-7700-;

ii. succeeding Acting Chief Judge Anthony Cannataro;

iii. current Chief Judge Rowan Wilson; and

a) each of the associate judges -tel. (518)445-2360-;

b) Deputy Clerk of Court Heather Davis; and

c) Clerks Ann Byer and Ms. Taylor in the Office of the Chief Judge;

b.      i.   Bronx County [NY City (NYC)] Court Supreme Criminal Term Administrative Justice Alvin Yearwood -tel. (718)618-3700-; and

ii. Grand Jury Justice Laurence Busching;

iii. NYC Criminal Court Administrative Judge Tamiko A. Amaker -tel. (646)386-4937, (646)386-4900-;

c.      i. former NYS Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks;

ii. current NYS Chief Administrative Judge Joseph Zayas; and

iii. Principal Administrative Secretary Tonya Speckhardt -tel. in Albany, NY, 1(518)453-8680; in NY City, (212)428-2884 and (212)428-2120-;

iv. Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Deborah Kaplan, Civil Term -tel. (646)386-5567-;

d.     i. former NY Police Department (NYPD) Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB) Chief David Barrere;

ii. current IAB Chief Miguel Iglesias -tel. (212)741-8401-;

iii. IAB Lt. Atala, Det. Arata, Det. Atway, Sgt. Cortez, Sgt. Dario, Duran, Capt. Keon, Det. Kifaieh, Kim, Det. Peattie, Det. Perez, Det. Pier-Owens, Det. Sunu, Officer Washington,

1) complaints to IAB #     2022-13831;      2022-15482;             2022-15601;     2022-19474;      2023-00275;         2022-03787;

2) Records Unit -tel. (212)741-8414-; and Assessment Unit -tel. (212)741-8444-;

e.       i. former NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell -tel. (646)610-5410; fax (646)610-5865-;

ii. current NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban;

f.       i. former NYPD captain and current NY City Mayor Eric Adams;

ii. Chief of Staff Frank Carone -tel. (212)639-9675-; Mayor’s Operation Unit complaint reference no. EC-00482580

g. Clerk Ms. Brenda, NYC Department of Investigation -tel. (212)825-5959-; complaint reference no. EC-00482590

h.      i. Office of Court Administration Inspector General Sherrill Spatz, Esq., and

ii. Deputy Inspector General Carol Hamm, Esq. -tel. (646)386-3500, fax (212)514-7158-;

i.       i. NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams;

ii. Chief of Staff Rance Huff -tel. (212)669-7200-;

j.       i. NYS Attorney General Letitia James -tel. (800)771-7755-;

ii. Public Integrity Chief Gerard Murphy -tel. (212)416-8610-;

k.      i. NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct -tel. (646)386-4800; fax (518)299-1757-;

ii. complaint # 2022/N-1084;

l. et al. (OL3:1518; 1561; 1562)

  1. Since 28 May 2022, some 50 public officers, including entities, with the duty to serve and authority to investigate, have been informed by letter♠(OL3:1650) fax, phone, and over 10,500 emails of the fabricated indictments and requested to investigate them for their victims’ sake; their email addresses are:

iab@nypd.org, iabcmdcntr@nypd.org, outreach@oignypd.nyc.gov, Shawn.Morris@nypd.org, Sherman.Tyson@nypd.org, Fernando.Garza@nypd.org, Billy.Ramirez@nypd.org, Jesus.Ramos@nypd.org, Kandice.Hall@nypd.org, Robert.Candela@nypd.org, John.McLoughlin@nypd.org, Xiomara.Linton@nypd.org, CorderoRic@yahoo.com, question@nycourts.gov, ig@nycourts.gov, bronxjury@nycourts.gov, doipress@doi.nyc.gov, agencymail@customercare.nyc.gov, Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@verizon.net, rhuff@advocate.nyc.gov, reception@advocate.nyc.gov, jdominguez@advocate.nyc.gov, recordsaccess@advocate.nyc.gov, nsmith@advocate.nyc.gov, gethelp@advocate.nyc.gov, public.integrity@ag.ny.gov, NYAG.Pressoffice@ag.ny.gov, ig.press@ig.ny.gov, Press.Office@exec.ny.gov, mtcsciq1@bb.nyc.gov, scheduling@bronxbp.nyc.gov, pressinquiry@bronxbp.nyc.gov, mivory@bronxbp.nyc.gov, Everas@bronxbp.nyc.gov, lwalton@bronxbp.nyc.gov, jpeguero@bronxbp.nyc.gov, webmail@bronxbp.nyc.gov, jcortes@bronxbp.nyc.gov, rmiraglia@bronxbp.nyc.gov, amukoko@bronxbp.nyc.gov, DrRCordero@Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org, dinowitz@council.nyc.gov, accessibility@council.nyc.gov, district8@council.nyc.gov, district12@council.nyc.gov, district13@council.nyc.gov, district14@council.nyc.gov, district15@council.nyc.gov, district16@council.nyc.gov, district18@council.nyc.gov, socratessolano2021@gmail.com, Info@bronxdefenders.org, justineo@bronxdefenders.org, media@bronxdefenders.org,

  1. The informed public officers have failed to even reply -but see ¶7 supra- despite their duty to investigate with due diligence a credible complaint of public corruption based on verifiable facts. Any looking the other way, willful ignorance, or willful blindness on their part constitutes dereliction of duty.

  2. What are the odds of none of them replying but for coordination established before this case?

  3. Their conduct is non-coincidental, the product of a tacit or expressed complicit agreement on cover-up and reciprocal protection; cf. agreements in restraint of competition by following the price leader. Their failure to investigate results from their common interest in avoiding judges’ retaliation and ensuring their protection if needed, the rights of indictees and the public notwithstanding.

Dare shout “I accuse!”…You may trigger history and enter it.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
2165 Bruckner Blvd.
Bronx, New York City, USA 10472-6506
Judicial Discipline Reform
tel. 1(718)827-9521

Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@verizon.net, DrRCordero@Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org, CorderoRic@yahoo.com

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