OCA REFUSES TO RELEASE AMANDED FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM OF JUDGE GOLIA......FOIL APPEAL v NY OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATION ETHICS COMMISSION

"Since 1990, the Ethics Commission for the Unified Court System has been responsible for the distribution, collection, review and maintenance of the financial disclosure statements required to be filed annually by approximately 5,000 judges, justices and other employees of the court system, pursuant to the Rules of the Chief Judge, 22 NYCRR Part 40. Effective September, 2006, certain candidates for public election to judicial office are also required to file financial disclosure statements, pursuant to the Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Courts, 22 NYCRR Part 100."

The OCA Ethics Department is mandated to provide any financial disclosure records of "judges, justices and other employees of the court system" that are requested by the public. 

Since July of 2010, when Sunny Sheu was murdered, the OCA has refused to release the financial disclosure forms of only one NY Supreme Court Judge... The Honorable Judge Joseph Golia. 

The records of EVERY other judge in New York State are available to anybody who requests them.

It was these very records that Sunny Sheu procured THREE DAYS BEFORE HE WAS MURDERED, and which, upon reading them, Sunny proclaimed "now I have the evidence to put Golia in jail".


It is these documents that can prove conclusively that Golia has made misrepresentations on his financial disclosure forms, which constitutes a FELONY.

Even thought the OCA Ethic Commission exists for the sole purpose of  providing financial disclosure forms to the public, the Commission has steadfastly refused to release these records for nearly a year.


Below is the official OCA form, filed by the Blackstar News on , requesting the amended financial from of Judge Golia on July 8th, 2011, signed and authorized by Dorothy Jiminez, of the Ethics Commission. 


The amended financial disclosure form is IN THE POSSESSION of the Ethics Commission. This is known because a copy of that form was given to Sunny Sheu on June 23, 2010, three days before his murder.

The next step was to request the documents under NY FOIL law.

When the records were requested under NY FOIL law, the OCA ignored the request. 


The next step in procuring the documents is a FOIL appeal, which is attached below. The Blackstar News is now waiting for a response. 

WHAT KIND OF SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION IS BEHIND THE COVER UP OF THE MURDER OF SUNNY SHEU?  WHY WILL THE FBI NOT STEP IN TO INVESTIGATE THIS BLATANT BREACH OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND FEDERAL LAW?

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BLACK STAR NEWS

Milton Allimadi

Blackstar News

32 Broadway Suite 519

New York, NY

10004 

Lawrence Marks,

Administrative Director
FOIL

Appeals Officer


25 Beaver Street
New York, NY 10004

March 15, 2012

Re: Freedom of Information
 Law Appeal

Dear Mr. Marks,

The Blackstar News requested records regarding financial disclosure forms of Judge Joseph Golia by written request made on March 7, 2012. More than five business days have passed since the certified receipt of the request and no response has been given.

Consequently, The Blackstar News considers the request to have been denied, and we are appealing on that basis.
 As required by the Freedom of Information Law, the head or governing body of an agency, or whomever is designated to determine appeals, is required to respond within 10 business days of the receipt of an appeal. If the records are denied on appeal, please explain the reasons for the denial fully in writing as required by law. 
   

In addition, please be advised that the Freedom of Information Law directs that all appeals and the determinations that follow be sent to the Committee on Open Government, Department of State, One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Ave., Albany, New York 12231.

          

Sincerely,

Milton Allimadi

Publisher, Black Star News

Cc: Robert J. Freeman


Executive Director
NYS

Committee on Open Government


41 State Street
Albany, NY 12231