Why is Janet DiFiore and so many others afraid of prosecuting corrupt lawyers and judges as criminals?
Here's a letter I wrote to Janet DiFiore trying to get her office to prosecute perjury and collusion. It is incredible to me that lawyers and judges with the power to wreck the lives of ordinary New Yorkers are only prosecuted for crimes in insular, double-secret discipline committees. Imaging a discipline committee for shoplifters, a committee by the drug cartels for their errant members, all with a link from the Attorney General's web site to their sites. This is exactly what we have in New York if you look here. Lawyers get a free ride, off to the comfort of their own cozy peers with half-hearted lackadaisical investigations. So here's the letter:
I am somewhat shocked by your response to my letter raising criminality and corruption in your courthouse. It seems that your office, like so many other branches of law enforcement in New York are more a part of the problem of corruption than part of the solution. Government corruption and lapses of integrity are more than just annoyances, they are crimes and there are laws intended to stop such actions. However, for the crimes to be punished it takes a prosecutor with guts to take a tough stance against their friends and it seems that we lack the will in Westchester and much of New York.
I am quite happy to provide all the specific information necessary to prosecute the acts of perjury, collusion and due process violations in my case. I can make time on Thursday November 11th at 4:00 pm to meet with a member of your office and I will bring the evidence of my specific charges. I will bring evidence of the perjuries that were committed during trial and in notarized, sworn court documents as well as proof of the lackadaisical ‘investigations’ into such crimes. I sincerely hope that your office takes criminal investigations more seriously than the laughable efforts of the supposed discipline committees for lawyers and judges that I have encountered, the designated authorities in such cases. Much of the information I would present to you is ‘confidential’ as it is part of a Supreme Court matrimony case and discipline committees so unless your office is serious about looking into the crimes I am not going to send unsolicited confidential information that puts me in a tenable legal situation. If you are serious about prosecution of criminals and upholding the duties of your office, I am serious about helping and fully cooperating with your office to prosecute these crimes by providing specific evidence.
While you flippantly characterize the loss I have experienced from these crimes as ‘frustrations of my personal situation’ the consequences I have felt as a victim of the crimes of perjury pale in comparison to the majority of crimes your office prosecutes such as shoplifting, petty theft, auto theft and drug possession. Any crime could be described as a ‘personal situation’ and if that is how your office views crime victims, as those ‘frustrated by their personal situations’, then criminals are quite safe in Westchester. The consequences of these crimes were the absconding of over $600,000 and complete financial ruin for the foreseeable future. Few non-violent crimes punish the victims more that what I experienced in a corrupt court but the crimes of a corrupt court are real and the victims are defenseless. Your office, like so many others in law enforcement, lets mystery discipline committees handle your job of prosecuting criminals when the criminals are dressed in suits and robes as lawyers and judges, in other words, your friends and peers and the people who get you elected.
In closing, I am happy to rearrange my schedule around the availability of your staff and I look forward to your offices rigorous enforcement of the law against corrupt judges and lawyers.
March 9th, 2011 - 13:33
“the crimes of a corrupt court are real and the victims are defenseless.” They are REAL and yes, we are defenseless!