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
http://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org
Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@verizon.net, DrRCordero@Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org, Corderoric@yahoo.com
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL3/DrRCordero-leaders_demonstration_citizens_hearings.pdf
Articles like the one below are posted to my website at Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org. They have attracted so many webvisitors and elicited such a positive response that as of 17 September 2024, the number of them who had become subscribers was 52,088(App.3).
Dear deans of school, officers of media outlets,
professors, journalists, lawyers, multidisciplinary experts
and Advocates of Honest Judiciaries,
- I would like to share with you, as I have with others[1], my proposal[2] for all of us -hereinafter the leaders- to handle strategically the protest that Jewish and pro-Palestinian students can be expected to resume upon returning for the new academic year, against Israel’s war in Gaza and discrimination against Jews; its mishandling caused the resignation of the Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Columbia university presidents.
a. The strategy consists in inducing the students to join forces in a coalition to hold an event intended to advance their respective but compatible interests: a 1963 Martin Luther King March on Washington-like demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, next September 29 at noon.
b. This event is apt to have positive national and international repercussions as an effort will be made for it to be held simultaneously in cities across the U.S. and abroad. - I am also sharing the abstracts of some key stories[3] especially suited for students taking investigative team courses and students who need to write a thesis to earn a master’s or Ph.D. degree. I propose that we investigate them jointly; and that you commission an article[4].
- To that end, the leaders and the coalitionists will jointly invite the Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz to a tour of speeches at their schools and outlets[5] to promote a peace agreement, the release of the hostages, and the harsh concessions that Israel and Hamas must, or be forced to, make under international guarantees to move from the barbaric crimes committed by Hamas last October 7 and the Holocaust that Netanhayu and his enabler, President Biden, are perpetrating, toward a state of affairs reasonably calculated to bring about a long-lasting resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Moreover, the leaders will use the several committees necessary to organize the demonstration to foster cooperation between the coalitionists so that at the demonstration they can display convincingly that they have come to a greater understanding of each other’s concerns and to the realization that they can advance their interests more decisively working together than hating each other.
- The organization of the demonstration will allow the leaders to launch an academic and journalistic joint venture[6] to hold unprecedented citizens hearings♦.
a. To be held at university auditoriums and media outlets, the hearings will permit people to tell in person or over the Internet their stories of abuse of power by unaccountable3e public officers, e.g., politicians and their appointees, that they have suffered or witnessed.
b. They will thus attract at the most propitious time the attention of those officers: when the latter need for themselves and others in their party people’s approval and donations.
c. Their stories will inform[7] the national public of the nature, extent, gravity, and harm of the abuse, especially that committed by the most unaccountable abusers: judges[8] and their judiciaries. Public officers’ unaccountability and riskless abuse can become a key[3a] electoral issue that motivates more investigation, exposure, and even leads to compensation of abusees and reform. - The leaders will analyze the stories to detect patterns of individual and coordinated abuse of power.
a. They will publish their findings in the first Annual Report on Public Unaccountability and Riskless Abuse of Power in America;
b. present them at the first national conference on abuse as institutional modus operandi;
c. produce a documentary;
d. create the Institute for Unaccountability Reporting and Reform Advocacy; etc. - The leaders will develop the MeToo!-like civic movement that the hearings will generate into a groundswell for turning academe and the media into a novel powerhouse of American governance, capable of holding public officers jointly and severally accountable and liable.
- I offer to present digitally, and in person if you pay the expenses, this proposal to you and your guests.
Dare shout “I accuse!“…You may trigger history and even enter it.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Judicial Discipline Reform
2165 Bruckner Blvd
Bronx, New York City 10472-6506
tel. +1(718)827-9521
Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@verizon.net, DrRCordero@Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org, CorderoRic@yahoo.com
Endnotes
[1] See the growing list of leaders to whom this proposal is being made and their contact information in the file downloadable through the link‡ in the footer supra.
[2] The digital version of this proposal is posted to my website at http://www.Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org. There I post some of my articles. They have attracted so many webvisitors and elicited such a positive response that as of 17 September 2024, the number of them who had become subscribers was 52,088(App.3).
- The subscribers are people who read and subscribe to read more. They have shown interest in exposing abuse of power by public officers, especially judges; obtaining compensation; and promoting reform. They are likely to be educated, financially well-off, and influencers. They can help implement the strategy.
- As a clientele base, they warrant the commercial development of my site.
- This proposal is supported by my three-volume study (♣ supra) of judges and their judiciaries, the product of my professional legal research and writing, and strategic thinking, titled thus:
Exposing Judges’ Unaccountability and
Consequent Riskless Abuse of Power:
Pioneering the news and publishing field of
judicial unaccountability reporting* † ♣
http://Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org/OL3/DrRCordero-Honest_Jud_Advocates3.pdf
[3] Abstracts of cases ready for joint prosecution. These cases are described in articles already written, downloadable through their links hereunder, and reviewable for publication, for which I can edit them as requested.
- i) Their exposure of abuse of power can so profoundly outrage the national public as to drive it to force politicians to conduct public hearings and official investigations; just as it can set off individual, class, and non-class aggregate actions to hold officers accountable for abuse of power, corruption, false advertisement, etc.; and liable for treble and punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees.
- ii) An outraged national public can compel transformative reform in politics, the judicial and health systems, and the relation between giant commerce and dwarf customers.
a. Federal judges intercept people’s emails and mail to detect and suppress those of their critics, as shown by a statistical analysis. They have the vast technical expertise and equipment infrastructure to run a national IT network that allows the filing, storage, and retrieval of hundreds of millions of briefs, motions, records, petitions, applications, orders, decisions, dockets, schedules, reports, statistics, emails, and all other elements of their management system and electronic case filing(CM/ECF) administer by PACER(Public Access to Court Electronic Records).
1) The judges wield devastating decisional and retaliatory power over Internet-controlling companies(Lsch:17§C), which they can refrain from wielding if the companies assist them in their interception(OL:5fn7).
2) The U.S. Postal Service’s “Informed Delivery” service shows that the technology to intercept mail is already at work(OL3:1304¶20). Register to be emailed every morning a photo of the front side of your mail for that day. Imagine the computing power needed to identify your mail since “The Postal Service processed and delivered an average of 318 million mail pieces daily “.
3) All public power belongs to We the People in a democracy. No abuse of it will outrage us more than the exposure of judges’ violation of our most cherished constitutional freedoms, i.e., of speech, press, and assembly -on social media too-.
4) Exposing such interception will provoke a constitutional crisis -which branch will prosecute the judiciary?-; boost the leaders’ venture; set off a flood of lawsuits by abusees demanding compensation; may lead to the constitutional convention4↓; etc.
b. As a lawyer and a grand juror, I had the knowledge and was in a position to realize that the assistant district attorneys (ADAs) had no evidence supporting their charge of murder brought against two defendants, and neither did the police officers who testified against them.
1) When I questioned what they were doing, the ADAs referred me to the grand jury judge, who discharged me from the jury peremptorily.
2) I have complained about this to the county and state administrative judges, the Judicial Conduct Commission, the NYPD and its IAB, and each of the judges of NYS Court of Appeals. All of them have covered for their colleagues.
3) Lawyers can jointly defend thousands of ‘fabricated indictees‘ by impugning their indictments; and win punitive damages. Scandal sells.
c. The Math of Abuse is a mathematical demonstration that judges do not read the overwhelming majority of case and motion briefs filed in their courts.
1) Rather, they dispose of them by having their clerks rubberstamp reasonless, unresearched, fiat-like 5¢ dumping forms. The latter do not discuss the facts or the law of the case at hand; their only operative words are “affirmed”, if the case was a decision appealed from; or “denied”, if it was a substantive motion requiring judicial action. The status quo remains, for which no judicial action was needed, only concealment of facts.
2) For proof, download the decisions posted to their websites and examine in the clerk of court or county clerk office the decisions only filed there because the judges did not dare post fiat-like, boilerplate, pro-forma decisions.
3) Thereby judges breached the contract formed when parties paid the brief filing fee in exchange for judges basing their decisions on those briefs, which they could only do if they read them.
4) Their clerks cannot make those decisions, for judicial power cannot be delegated to people not vetted for the knowledge, competence, and integrity required to be officially vested with such power.
5) However, clerks, secretaries, and ‘little people’ -with whom judges deal but who are nevertheless too ‘insignificant’ for judges to be cautiously prudent in their presence, e.g., bartenders, waiters and waitresses, maids, janitors, drivers- can be a rich source of inside information as Deep Throat(jur:106§c)-like informants.
6) Many losing parties will file individual, class, and non-class aggregate, actions to recover their filing fees; the money that they invested in prosecuting their case; and punitive damages for breach of contract, fraud, obstruction of justice, and running judiciaries as a racketeering enterprise.
7) By exposing the facts, you, your school, and your students will cause such public outrage as to make a name for yourselves and be played and depicted in an All the President’s Men-like blockbuster and bestseller(3§F).
d. The Follow the Money! And Follow the Wire! investigations apply forensic research techniques, e.g., Fraud and Forensic Accounting(FFA), big data search, and AI(jur:102§a; OL:194§E), to discover assets that judges have grabbed, concealed, evaded taxes on, and money laundered(OL:1).
1) Justice Thomas was shown to have received more than $4 million in gifts from billionaires with business before the Supreme Court. He has failed to declare it in his annual financial disclosure report mandated under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S. Code, Appendix). He refuses to recuse himself from cases related to them.
2) His other eight fellow justices, never mind lower court judges, abstain from exhibiting the moral courage necessary to criticize him, let alone demand that he resign. After all, if one justice falls, he or she can bring down all the other justices and many judges as accessories before and after the fact, and for willful ignorance and blindness, culpable indifference, dereliction of duty to safeguard the integrity of the judicial system, obstruction of justice, etc.(jur:88§§a-e), and for their respective abuse of power.
3) The justices and judges tacitly shout at each other, “If you help them take me down, I bring you with me!” Beholden to each other as a result of their reciprocal complicit silence, they engage in an institutionalized cover-up. It pervades and controls the judicial system’s modus operandi.8↓
4) Judges’ abuse of power and cover-up can be the predicate offenses prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO; 18 U.S.C. §1961 (U.S. Code of federal criminal law) and its version in the law of the several states; cf. NY.
e. Judges abuse the congressional grant to them of self-discipline authority under the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980(28 U.S.C. §§351-364) by dismissing 100% of complaints filed against any federal judge and denying 100% of petitions to review those dismissals.
1) Judges have institutionalized the implicit or explicit complicit agreement for reciprocal exoneration from all complaints: ‘Today I exempt you from the complaint against you, and tomorrow you exempt me and my friends from any complaint against us, no matter the abuse’s nature, extent, gravity, or harm.
2) Judges have defrauded the public by pretending that they will process complaints fairly and impartially in application of the tenet “Nobody is Above the Law” while in fact processing them to cover for each other. By covering for the abuse that was committed, they have encouraged more abuse, thus becoming accessories after and before the fact.
f. Judges’ bankruptcy fraud scheme handles $100s of billions annually. It is covered up by the very circuit judges who appoint the bankruptcy judges in their circuit for a 14-year term(28 U.S.C. §152) and can reappoint them if the bankruptcy judges know how to play the game. Circuit judges are loath to make any of their own appointees appear incompetent or corrupt, as it reflects poorly on their willingness and ability to vet judicial candidates reliably and the character of the candidates that they keep company with, in other words, “birds of the same feather fly together”.
1) Appeals from bankruptcy judges’ decisions are extremely rare, for the overwhelming majority of parties appear pro se and lack the money and the knowledge needed to appeal. What the bankruptcy judge says, goes.
2) Moreover, a bankruptcy judge can have a bankruptcy trustee removed from all the trustee’s thousands of cases by filing a complaint against him in one single case(28 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Part 58.6(a)(4)). Obviously, the trustee has every interest in not even appearing ever to challenge or otherwise displeasing the judge, and in showing his gratitude for every day that the judge allows him to keep his job.
3) As a result, bankruptcy judges are ‘kings who can do no wrong’, wielding ‘totally unaccountable power, which corrupts them totally’(jur:27fn28).
4) For his part, the trustee wields enormous power in his dealings with the debtor, for it is he who recommends to the judge what assets to exempt from distribution to the creditors and the percentage on the dollar to which debts must be paid. Appreciation for a recommended lower percentage, of course, must be shown with a kickback, as must be the judge’s approval of the recommendation.
5) These are some of the mechanisms that provide motive, means, and opportunity for pervasive abuse of power in the bankruptcy courts.
6) Those mechanisms are in line with Congress’s finding in 2005 of “absence of effective oversight” and in 1979 of “cronyism” in the bankruptcy system.(jur:32§§2-6) The result was and still is the unaccountability of the bankruptcy system cronies, e.g., circuit and bankruptcy judges, trustees, and the service providers that they hire, such as accountants, appraisers, warehousers, and lawyers. They take care of, and cover for, each other.
7) Unaccountable, the cronies are free to run risklessly an abusive bankruptcy petition mill. Thereby money becomes accessible by approving for processing every petition for protection from creditors regardless of its merits under bankruptcy law. After all, only if petitions are in the system can the cronies grab the money through their bankruptcy fraud scheme. An investigation must determine whether they abuse the Federal Judiciary’s national IT network to illegally transfer, conceal from individuals and the IRS, and launder onshore and offshore money that they have grabbed.
8) The scheme has millions of victims, namely, the debtors and creditors in one-off cases, who are unlikely to be among the cronies, who are repeated players and thus, the beneficiaries. If the leaders join forces to expose them, the leaders can earn a lot of money and make a name for themselves by shaking to the core not only the bankruptcy system, but also the rest of the judicial system, itself to be held accountable and liable.
g. Medicare administers a budget of $900+ billion for the benefit of its more than 67 million insureds. It works with thousands of HMOs and other health insurance entities.
1) They have common interests: pay the fewest claims and attract to, and maintain in their, networks the largest number of medical services providers.
2) To advance their interests they deny and uphold the denial of as many of their insureds’ claims as possible; disregard the legal obligation to accept as total payment Medicare’s schedules of fees for services; and condone the billing of insureds for the unpaid balance.
3) The majority of insureds who appeal denials and balance billing appear pro se. Due to their ignorance of the law, they are abused.
4) The recovery can be huge and force transformative change.
h. Walgreens is described as having had $139.5 billion in revenue in 2020 and 277,000 employees in 2021. Its purchase-incentivizing program is Cash Rewards.
1) It is a misnomer, for rewards are not earned by paying in cash and cannot be redeemed for cash despite the statement on its false advertisement: “Save time. Redeem your rewards instantly at checkout”. But at checkout you cannot pay the total of the purchase with your Cash Rewards. You can only apply one single “tier” of $1, $3, $5, $10 that is equal to or less than the total purchase cost. The balance must be paid with your money.
2) Your rewards, though earned, are not yours, for they expire.
3) Cash Rewards are a bait and switch scam. Walgreens has shown its propensity for abuse: For its involvement in the opioid epidemic, ‘It will pay $4.95 billion, plus more than $750 million in fees for attorneys and costs’.
4) This is a test case for going after big businesses that make enormous gains by defrauding millions of customers of small amounts that do not justify the substantial cost of individual prosecution.
[4] Synopsis of an article that can be written on commission. A series of articles can also be commissioned along the suggested subjects listed at §B. The leads in the articles can facilitate the joint investigation of their stories.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ONCE AGAIN:
When We the People, who rebelled against King George III,
threw the tea bags overboard into the Boston Harbor, and
decided to stop obeying him to create our own government,
assert our status as
the sovereign of all public power in a democracy and
shouting our Boston Tea Party cry:
“No obedience without respect for the law”,
rebel against a power abusive, kingly Supreme Court,
throw its precedent-breaking and arbitrary decisions into disregard,
and
demand that Congress call the constitutional convention
that 34 states have petitioned it for since 2 April 2014
so that the dead weight of the Constitution that
only white, free, landed men
penned with quills in 1789
for the world of 235 years ago
can be lifted from our lives and
we all can choose the rules that we want to carry in our lives in
today’s diverse, equality-pursuing, digital world
[5] Columbia University President Lee Bollinger invited anti-Semitic and Holocaust denier Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a debate, which they held on campus on 25 September 2007. By contrast, Mr. Gantz is supported by a large segment of the population of Israel, the U.S., and elsewhere.
[6] The venture’s motto is “Doing Justice While Making Money” by publishing Emile Zola’s “I accuse!‘-like articlesa, b, c; investigating leads and going on a tour of presentations(§§E,G); demanding the release of the FBI’s secret reports on vetted judicial candidates; conducting class actions and non-class aggregate litigation through representative journalism(OL3:16993); and other actions.
a. Representative journalism is a proposed new form of journalism. It begins with the investigation of a story -such as those abstracted in endnote3 supra- by one or more journalists. They may bring in a multidisciplinary team of experts as needed, e.g., FFA, IT/AI, statisticians(3d). When they realize that the story affects a large number of people who individually cannot protect their own interests, thus falling prey to big unaccountable abusive entities, they form ad hoc teams of experienced attorneys to represent them in and out of court.
b. Proceeding jointly, for instance, as ‘a partnership limited to a specific case’, they will file class and non-class aggregate actions and, if strategically advisable, engage in multidistrict litigation. They may file civil RICO and enterprise corruption counts(3d.4 supra); and lobby on the abusees’ behalf in Congress, and state and local law-making bodies for official investigations, legislation, and law enforcement to hold abusers accountable and liable.
c. Representative journalists will grow their readership and revenue by informing the public and taking practical actions, e.g., on information gained from citizens hearings and academic and other experts. They may come to do business as an established entity; develop a team formation and management consulting service; and even a franchise by location or specialty.
[7] See the out-of-court inform & outrage strategy for exposing unaccountable judges’ and other public officers’ riskless abuse of power.
[8] Judges’ abuse of power has been exposed by The Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters, Huffpost, The Boston Globe, etc. ProPublica won a Pulitzer this year for exposing Supreme Court justices. See:
a. Federal Judges Admit Conflicts of Interests, Leaving Litigants Reeling; Huffpost
b. Friends of the Court: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon Harlan Crow and Samuel Ali; ProPublica
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Dare shout “I accuse!“…You may trigger history and even enter it.
Sincerely,
Dr. Richard Cordero, Esq.
Judicial Discipline Reform
2165 Bruckner Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10472-6506
tel. (718)827-9521
Dr.Richard.Cordero_Esq@verizon.net, DrRCordero@Judicial-Discipline-Reform.org, Corderoric@yahoo.com
