E.N.D. CALLS FOR JUDGE KAYE TO RESIGN AS "INVESTIGATOR" OF PATTERSON PERJURY CHARGES

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 19, 2010 -- March 19th, 2010, New York NY: End Discrimination Now, a civil rights and judicial reform activist group, has called for the resignation of Judge Judith Kaye as “Independent Counsel” in the “perjury” case against Governor Patterson. Judge Kaye was appointed to lead the investigation by Attorney General Cuomo after he recused himself from the Attorney General’s office investigation of the same in advance of his likely run for Governor. The Governor is accused of attempting to influence a domestic violence victim and potentially lied to the Public Integrity Commission.

“We appreciate Mr. Cuomo’s dilemma and we support his agenda”, E.N.D. President Kathryn Jordan said, “But Judge Kaye is completely unqualified to lead such an investigation”. Jordan cited Kaye’s “lack of qualifications as an investigator and various conflict of interest issues, most seriously her lawsuit against the Governor for “judicial pay raises”, where Kaye ironically demanded equality with "the private sector", and the allegations of fraud against Judge Kaye and Judge Lippman for misrepresenting the facts of that case, along with the fact that the former Chief Judge is a defendant, along with Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, in an Obstruction of Justice lawsuit filed in federal court by Kathryn Jordan, which the attorney general has been asked to prosecute. Ms. Jordan filed the latter lawsuit after it became apparent that the Chief Judge had been “operating the Judiciary as an organized crime unit” and doling out favors to corporate violators instead of enforcing federal and state anti discrimination laws. Kaye is also Chair of the Judicial Nomination Commission, which also presents another “can of worms” as far as conflict of interests are concerned.

END argues that Judge Kaye’s deployment of “fraud and deceit” in lieu of accurate facts and law to propound the lawsuit against the Governor and Legislature over judicial compensation, her willful manipulation of the law in these cases, and her ruthless exploitation of taxpayer resources (“advertising” the lawsuit on the Supreme Court website) to propound agendas of interest to her renders her unqualified to “investigate anybody”. Moreoever, Judge Kaye is a defendant in Jordan’s “obstruction of justice” lawsuit against several high ranking jurists in New York courts including Kaye crony Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. Judge Kaye is accused of enabling the “case fixing” scheme by declining to hear the most important “perceived disability” case of the last decade in order to help her friend and colleague Judge Lippman perpetuate his cover up of the fixing of the Kathryn Jordan v. Bates Advertising case and to help former mentee

Judge Rolando Acosta. Lippman is alleged to have circumvented the applicable law by creating “new”evidence that was not before the jury and had not yet occurred at the time the case went to trial. He is also alleged to have covered up misconduct by fellow jurist, Judge Rolando Acosta, who was promoted to the First Department four days after the controversial case was reversed on appeal, despite Jordan’s serious complaint of judicial misconduct. Judge Acosta is alleged to have improperly encouraged attempts at influence by Jordan’s discharged attorney on a $1.3M legal fee. He also, by his own admission, openly attacked Jordan as “contemptuous” after she reported his misconduct and then threatened to act as a “fact witness” against her in any legal fee dispute. The Chief Judge is alleged to have disposed of a $3.3M bond for WPP Group by improperly rehearing a JNOV argument that had already been disposed of by the trial court. The latter was effected by fraudulently creating new “evidence”. The $3.3M Bond consequently “evaporated”.

Kaye’s role in the elaborate “favors for promotions” scheme where the outcomes of ‘high risk” discrimination cases would be “sold” to corporate defendants in return for references, promotions and other benefits, was to ensure that the Kathryn Jordan v. Bates Advertising appeal was never heard by the Court of Appeals after the First Department, under friend Judge Jonathan Lippman, “fixed” the case on appeal. Although the acknowledged criteria for granting “leave” to hear an appeal revolves around the “importance” of the issues and consistency of lower court interpretations, Judge Kaye and the Court of Appeals panel heard the “Bianca Jagger Eviction Case” instead. Judge Kaye was well aware of the import of this decision as the reversal of this precedent case effectively turned back the clock on civil rights advances and legislated new law “from the bench” that made proving discrimination cases harder for litigants and created loopholes for corporate defendants to skirt existing federal and state anti discrimination statutes. “Judge Kaye is no friend to women”, Jordan stated “And it is doubtful that she has any understanding of domestic violence or attempts at silencing victims”. END cites the fact that Discrimination has risen 10% or more each year in every protected class under the “Lippman-Kaye” regime as 95% of all cases were “settled” in sweetheart deals for corporate defendants. END claims that the failure to enforce existing discrimination statutues is the reason why discrimination is rising again.

Judge Kaye’s role in the “case fixing” scheme was to enable the Lippman cover up by failing to hear the appeal. END has “substantial evidence” that both of these manipulative jurists have been using their judicial “discretion” to advance political agendas at the expense of taxpayers for decades. More seriously, both have stepped outside the protections of their immunity to do so” rendering them open to the “obstruction of justice” charges. Mr. Cuomo was approached by both the Defendant judges and by the Plaintiff, who has asked the Attorney General to “investigate these serious allegations”. It is not known if Mr. Cuomo will investigate the allegations of
“pervasive corruption” in the New York Court System, or if he will defend the judges.

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