President Donald Trump recently compelled 46 U.S. attorneys to resign, and to do so within a matter of hours. When one, Preet Bharaha, refused, Trump summarily fired him. Was the president within his rights to remove these public servants? In a word, yes. But being within one's rights and doing what is right are two very different things.
File official complaints to your state judicial oversight bodies. Cite specific violations of rules or codes. And then publish those complaints here and on the FCLU’s Facebook and Twitter sites. Research and publish reports on corrupt judges. An example of such a report, prepared by the NY chapter, can be read here.
Most troubling, though, Gonzales's decision to fire U.S. attorneys midterm politicized the Department of Justice, and in so doing harmed the institution. It was harmed because we as citizens must trust that when U.S. attorneys issue subpoenas or seek the death penalty, they do so without regard to partisan belief.
We are working with other family-law-reform groups on a strategy of INFORM AND OUTRAGE. With your help, we can inform and outrage the public through the media about judges’ abuse. This will make judicial corruption an issue at local and federal elections, and lead to nationally and state-wide televised public hearings thereon.
The attorney general advises the executive branch of state government and defends actions and proceedings on behalf of the state. The attorney general acts independently of the governor of New York.
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AGs investigate and bring actions under their states' respective unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices laws (“UDAP laws”). UDAP laws tend to broadly prohibit “deceptive” or “unconscionable” acts against consumers.
Perhaps the most common kinds of complaints against lawyers involve delay or neglect. This doesn't mean that occasionally you've had to wait for a phone call to be returned. It means there has been a pattern of the lawyer's failing to respond or to take action over a period of months.
The FTC cannot resolve individual complaints, but it can provide information about what steps to take. The FTC says that complaints can help it and its law enforcement partners detect patterns of fraud and abuse, which may lead to investigations and stopping unfair business practices.
At $195,000 a year, New York City has the highest paid mayor in the nation, but he is the boss of more than 300,000 city employees.
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Attorney General is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule, thus earning a salary of US$221,400, as of January 2021.
In practice, district attorneys, who prosecute the bulk of criminal cases in the United States, answer to no one. The state attorney general is the highest law enforcement officer in state government and often has the power to review complaints about unethical and illegal conduct on the part of district attorneys.
If you are a perpetrator of a misdemeanor, your attorney is allowed to appear in court for you. He/she may defend your rights without your presence on your behalf at all stages of your case.
The FBI Director is appointed for a single 10-year term by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. The FBI is an agency within the Department of Justice (DOJ), and thus the Director reports to the Attorney General of the United States. J.
AttorneyBusters.com will expose public official corruption which emanates from public officials ignoring their duty to report crimes of corrupt attorneys and corrupt judges for investigation.
AttorneyBusters.com was created as a vehicle to encourage attorneys, judges, public officials and the media to perform their duties with ethics and responsibility, and promote laws that would discourage them from abusing special privileges. Certain privileges must be preserved, but used with responsibility and for the proper purposes intended.
The Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists ( http://spj.org/ethics_code.asp) states in part “public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy.
Freedom of the Press should not mean that they are free from upholding their duty to report. It is the ethical responsibility of journalists to act as the eyes and ears of the public by reporting on the acts of public officials for all to know and then make an informed judgment. The Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists ( http://spj.org/ethics_code.asp) states in part “public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues.”
The book starts with a chapter on judicial corruption by New York City Department of Investigation Deputy Commissioner Daniel G. Cort , the former chief of units that prosecute corruption at both the New York Attorney General’s Office and New York County District Attorney’s Office. This chapter discusses judicial privilege and includes three case studies detailing the prosecutions of federal circuit judge Martin Thomas Manton, the “Kids for Cash” judges in Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn matrimonial court judge Gerald Garson. It may be downloaded for free.
In addition to describing a voter fraud investigation overseen by his office, Tim VanderGiesen, the Division Chief of the Public Corruption Unit at Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, discusses both federal and state election crimes laws. This chapter also offers practical tips for prosecutors and investigators about addressing claims of election fraud and developing relationships with elections departments to ensure that, when appropriate, those claims can be thoroughly investigated.
The first section of The Anticorruption Manual, “Species of Corruption Cases ,” examines different contexts in which public corruption arises. Authors analyze corruption fact patterns and legal issues, describing how and why corruption occurs within different areas of government. Each chapter focuses on one specific context, addresses the importance of prosecuting corruption in that context, and highlights the legal, structural, and ethical challenges particularly germane to that context. Many authors discuss cases that they investigated or charged and share some of the lessons learned from case studies.
The legal issues that are more likely to arise in different types of corruption investigations, such as judicial privilege or legislative immunity.
In this chapter, Cook County Circuit Judge Dave Navarro and Kathleen Duhig, both former corruption prosecutors at the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, describe several prosecutions of corrupt local officials. They also explain how certain conditions—like allowing one person to control intake, depositing, and recordkeeping of cash payments—can provide fertile ground for embezzlement and share some approaches to investigating cases involving misappropriation of funds.
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced his resignation on Aug. 10 after a state investigation found he sexually harassed 11 women. (Reuters)
Other recent scandals ensnared a powerful Chicago alderman and several top state legislators, and former longtime state House speaker Mike Madigan (D) resigned early this year after being implicated in a bribery scandal. (Madigan has not been charged.) And that doesn’t include convicted former members of Congress: powerful former House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D) and former congressmen Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) and Mel Reynolds (D). Former congressman Aaron Schock (R) resigned amid his own scandal, but his felony charges were dropped thanks to a deal with prosecutors.