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May 28, 2016
US Attorney for Southern New York Preet Bharara Requested to Lead Drive for Redo of NY Primary
By Alison Landes
Because of delays in the response from the NY Attorney General and the approaching last primaries, and the July convention, our request for a new NY primary with safeguards, monitors, and no purging now shifts to the Honorable Preet Bharara.
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The Honorable Preet Bharara
U.S. Attorney
Southern District of New York
One St. Andrew's Plaza
New York, New York 10007
212.637.2200
Re: Stolen New York Primary and Relevant Fraudulent Activities
Dear Mr. Bharara,
A highly principled New Jersey attorney whom I know for years, without hesitation, cited your name when asked for a recommendation as to the best person to speak with in the New York area regarding the fraudulent activities surrounding the New York Primary. I am originally a New Yorker and, since 1992, a resident of Florida. You offer a vestige of hope for justice being served.
The Southern District, the oldest court under the U.S. Constitution, predating even the Supreme Court could bring some restitution by getting things right in 2016 by a Federal Court order for the New York Primary to be redone. A link to Stolen The 2016-Primary; Deja Vu of the 2000 Election, my opinion editorial published on OpEdNews.com, provides relevance to the fears of millions.
Another article concerning the unfortunate chapter in United States history when the Supreme Court usurped our right to a fair election, 'On This Day' 2000: Al Gore Concedes 'Stolen Election' to George W. Bush, is here.
In 2016, advocates for honest elections nationwide have watched and contacted mainstream media, telephoned, written letters, faxes, emails and shown up at meetings, primaries and caucuses.
On May 2nd, they sent a moveon.org petition to New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, signed by over 6,300 individuals, with hundreds of New Yorkers commenting on their observations and experiences of voter fraud and suppression in expressing their choice for candidates in the New York Primary. Because of the approaching convention, Mr. Schneiderman's relative lack of response, and relative inaction by his office, we must consider other alternatives to request formally that a Federal Court order a redone primary, complete with safeguards, monitors, forensic computer experts, and observers.
Some skeptical journalists ask how could a planned purging intentionally target ethnic groups. Anyone familiar with New York City (Brooklyn and the Bronx in particular) would have clear demographic criteria to do so. Because of the ties between Schneiderman and Clinton's political machine in New York, perhaps we should have addressed the letter and petition to you in the first place. If we get continued non-responsiveness from Schneiderman's office, we will ask you to ask for a federal order for a new New York Primary. This is not an obstructionist effort and it is not an electioneering stunt. The petition was created and offered as a sincere solution to an egregious election failure at a level unprecedented in American history.
In view of the gravity of this situation, I am compelled to share this correspondence with the appropriate news editors. Any remedial effort, even including assessing criminality, audits, recounts, and affidavit ballots all fall short of the real solution which is a new New York Primary ordered by a Federal Court.
We are now asking you to take on that responsibility with or without the Attorney General's office in Albany, and possibly other plaintiffs, to be determined.
The strongest grounds for such an order derive from 200,000 violations of Federal Civil Rights and Election Law statutes. Further, although this might be secondary in terms of principle cause for rapid federal judicial response, please consider that documented proof of fraud exists from New York, Arizona, Kentucky, Nevada, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Iowa, Colorado, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wyoming and from Washington state, and, most recently, warnings about fraud and dirty tricks 11 days before their primary in California! "Silenced Before We Could Speak"
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U.S. Attorney
Southern District of New York
One St. Andrew's Plaza
New York, New York 10007
212.637.2200
Re: Stolen New York Primary and Relevant Fraudulent Activities
Dear Mr. Bharara,
A highly principled New Jersey attorney whom I know for years, without hesitation, cited your name when asked for a recommendation as to the best person to speak with in the New York area regarding the fraudulent activities surrounding the New York Primary. I am originally a New Yorker and, since 1992, a resident of Florida. You offer a vestige of hope for justice being served.
The Southern District, the oldest court under the U.S. Constitution, predating even the Supreme Court could bring some restitution by getting things right in 2016 by a Federal Court order for the New York Primary to be redone. A link to Stolen The 2016-Primary; Deja Vu of the 2000 Election, my opinion editorial published on OpEdNews.com, provides relevance to the fears of millions.
Another article concerning the unfortunate chapter in United States history when the Supreme Court usurped our right to a fair election, 'On This Day' 2000: Al Gore Concedes 'Stolen Election' to George W. Bush, is here.
In 2016, advocates for honest elections nationwide have watched and contacted mainstream media, telephoned, written letters, faxes, emails and shown up at meetings, primaries and caucuses.
On May 2nd, they sent a moveon.org petition to New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, signed by over 6,300 individuals, with hundreds of New Yorkers commenting on their observations and experiences of voter fraud and suppression in expressing their choice for candidates in the New York Primary. Because of the approaching convention, Mr. Schneiderman's relative lack of response, and relative inaction by his office, we must consider other alternatives to request formally that a Federal Court order a redone primary, complete with safeguards, monitors, forensic computer experts, and observers.
Some skeptical journalists ask how could a planned purging intentionally target ethnic groups. Anyone familiar with New York City (Brooklyn and the Bronx in particular) would have clear demographic criteria to do so. Because of the ties between Schneiderman and Clinton's political machine in New York, perhaps we should have addressed the letter and petition to you in the first place. If we get continued non-responsiveness from Schneiderman's office, we will ask you to ask for a federal order for a new New York Primary. This is not an obstructionist effort and it is not an electioneering stunt. The petition was created and offered as a sincere solution to an egregious election failure at a level unprecedented in American history.
In view of the gravity of this situation, I am compelled to share this correspondence with the appropriate news editors. Any remedial effort, even including assessing criminality, audits, recounts, and affidavit ballots all fall short of the real solution which is a new New York Primary ordered by a Federal Court.
We are now asking you to take on that responsibility with or without the Attorney General's office in Albany, and possibly other plaintiffs, to be determined.
The strongest grounds for such an order derive from 200,000 violations of Federal Civil Rights and Election Law statutes. Further, although this might be secondary in terms of principle cause for rapid federal judicial response, please consider that documented proof of fraud exists from New York, Arizona, Kentucky, Nevada, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Iowa, Colorado, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wyoming and from Washington state, and, most recently, warnings about fraud and dirty tricks 11 days before their primary in California! "Silenced Before We Could Speak"
here
These all highlight the malice, intent, and motive at the highest levels of this election cycle. I just now received notice of yet another outrageous effort to coerce delegates to follow the party leadership:
http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/protect-our-delegates.fb51?source=s.fb&r_by=2430687
Mr. Bharara, this letter to you focuses on New York for obvious reasons. We have written and called the offices of Scott M. Stringer, New York City Comptroller and the New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman and have gotten unsatisfactory responses from both. It is of great concern that Stringer is a Democratic delegate for Hillary Clinton and that Schneiderman was described in a Clinton press release in October 2015 as a member of her New York Leadership Council.
If Attorney General Schneiderman would join you as a co-plaintiff, wonderful! Indeed, please discuss that with him at your earliest convenience. The lack of response from his office clarifies nothing thus far.
Here is the petition.
When you and your staff take the time to go to the petition website, you will read many comments by New Yorkers detailing their own personal experiences of not being able to vote and their willingness to testify. The New Yorkers remarks have also been selected and published several times specifically in articles.
I and others have telephoned and emailed information to numerous people in the media, and sadly, realizing their reluctance to incur the wrath of their advertisers and their corporate board of directors, we have contacted several individuals at the Associated Press including David Caruso, the News Editor of the New York City Metro Associated Press (who informed us that the Associated Press has yet to speak with the two ladies from the Bureau of Elections who did the purging); to George Walsh, the Albany Desk News Editor; Ian Mader, the News Editor in Miami and Sally Buzbee, Chief of the Washington Bureau Associated Press, all in the hope that AP might have more freedom in that their clients are media at large. So far, there has been no meaningful reporting, but only concerning what much of the media would have us believe is a predestined outcome to the Democratic Primary, a kind of American coronation.
Phone conversations today with Aicha Bamba, Director of Community Affairs at City Councilman of the Bronx, Ritchie Torres' office indicated phone calls from their constituents complaining of issues with voting, poll fights, questions as to whether they were registered to vote, questions about poll sites, and many people not able to vote in the end. Bamba referred me to Scott M. Stringer, the New York City Comptroller, for additional information about the audit called for by his office.
Phoning Scott Stringer's office, Julio Perez revealed there is no information about the status of the audit and that no information is to be shared until the audit is done. It can take several months to a year according to how big the audit. If it's about funds, they can't be sloppy about it. Their audit department is conducting the audit. Perez stated that since I was taking notes he wanted to switch me to the press office for accuracy. He had me speak with Jocia Esprella, press officer. She informed me that nothing is public until it is final. They don't have any information until it is done. No one knows anything until the work is completed. She could not answer if the New York Primary would be redone. She did not know. When the audit is done, it will go out. She said mine was the first call she had taken about this matter. I asked to speak with the auditor's department and she advised me that the auditors are doing their job; they don't engage with the public.
A letter on line from Scott M. Stringer to Michael J. Ryan, Executive Director of the New York City Board of Elections, expresses deep concern over widespread reports of poll site problems and irregularities on Primary Day and that an audit is to be conducted.
Another phone call to the office of Eric T. Schneiderman, New York State Attorney General, at 3:48 PM Thursday May 26, 2016, directed me to the press office where a woman who would not give her name advised me that the press office has no information about the audit or redoing the New York Primary. She hung up the phone, and the next two times I redialed I got a recording.
Schneiderman endorsed Clinton but to date has not been on the campaign trail.
Hank Sheindopf, a Democratic consultant, suggests Schneiderman's staying under the radar makes it more difficult for Donald Trump to claim his office's lawsuit against the no longer existing Trump University is politically motivated.
Shortly on the heels of the New York Primary, the questions surrounding the sale of a dilapidated brownstone on the upper west side has raised eyebrows and serious questions as to whether the 6.5 million dollars in profit has anything to do with a clerk at the Board of Elections purging more than 126,000 Democratic voters in Brooklyn alone.
Netra Halperin, author of the article, and two New Yorkers turned their evidence, timeline, and flowchart in to the Attorney General in Albany, like the first phase of the petition, on May 2 as well. [The flowchart is in the above article]
Much of what I have read about your ethics and statements online, such as, "There is no prosecutors office in the state that takes more seriously the responsibility to root out public corruption in Albany and anywhere else that we might find it, and I think our record speaks for itself," offers hope to those working at the grassroots.
The hope is that Barack Obama having appointed you to office in 2009 upon recommendation of Senator Chuck Schumer, does not preclude your office from assisting us in resolving this challenge and it is encouraging that you initiated those efforts to conduct an inquiry into Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision to end work on the Moreland Commission, an anti-corruption panel. Of interest too is that of this day, Hillary Clinton has not committed to re-appointing you to office should she win.
Your opening remarks at a speaking engagement for financial traders where you chided, "I just want to apologize in advance that I don't have enough subpoenas for all of you," had the audience break out in laughter before you added, "I'm just kidding." Pause. "I do have enough." That's Saturday Night Live material at its best.
What else leads me to writing to you on concerns about the New York Primary? Comments like "Everyone should understand that our motivation is always to do the right thing, and we don't pull punches, and we don't care who you are" or "There are too many people who think that if you are rich then you get a bye, and you get treated with kid gloves. That's not true here and we work really hard to make sure people know that's not true."
As in 2000, the race is on. The characters in this 2016 travesty of justice are different but the plot is the same. The American people are being deprived of their rights on an enormous scale. The foundation upon which this country is built and prides itself is a sham if justice is not upheld. How can we continue sending our young men and women to war to fight for Democracy if this election cycle is not righted starting with the New York Primary being done over. We cannot wait for an audit that could take up to a year and possibly swept under the rug as one more tragedy or another flashes across our television screens as the latest crisis of the day.
Advocates will not sit on the sidelines waiting for political offices with conflicts of interest to bring about a do-over for the New York Primary. Citizens nationwide are being encouraged to contact their super delegates to re-evaluate their endorsement of candidates and to utilize information at either www.superdelegatelist.com or www.lobbydelegates.com to contact their super delegates directly.
Thank you for your reply. The nation is watching and all eyes are on New York. We have faith that you will do the right thing, let the press know as soon as your decision is made, and that we can move forward to a partial restoration of what is left of America's Democracy. Thank you for anything and everything you and your office can do to bring this about. America's Founding Fathers and the Framers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights would have it no other way. This is, indeed, our petition for a redress of grievances. Sincerely,
Alison Landes,
Former New Yorker
cc: The Honorable Eric Schneiderman, Attorney General of New York Albany, New York
ADDENDUM I am adding Netra Halperin's as an addendum.
Letter to the Editors
Myself and two NYC investigators spent several weeks analyzing all publicly available sources to put together probable cause that the Brooklyn Democratic Party and Rep. Lowey and possibly even Hillary Clinton participated in planning the purging of over 126,000 Brooklyn voters from the polls. Because it is easy to ascertain the likelihood of voting pattern by residence area, it would have been simple for the two suspended BOE clerks responsible for the purges to target Bernie Sanders supporters. This chart shows the probable connections between the alleged participants in this fraud. We have submitted all of our research to the NY Attorney Generals Bureau of Public Integrity. To find hard evidence, credentialed journalists and preferably law enforcement agencies will need to use all of their tools: including subpoena power, the ability to grant immunity to lower level participants and access to Clinton's emails and the financial records of the mortgages for the overpriced, rat-infested Brownstone on 118 West 76th St.
Netra Halperin, MA Producer/Director Peace Films
[Note: Please keep in mind that whatever gaps in the flowchart might be construed could be filled by investigators from your office with your full powers of subpoena and through interrogations. We have no idea if any of the appropriate interrogations have taken place, as we are not a party to those efforts.
One member of the New York State Senate impressed upon me that asking Eric Schneiderman to do all of this would be the most difficult and politically dangerous thing he could ever do thus far in his career. Thus, we shift our request to include Mr. Bharara].
Authors Bio:
Alison Landes has a multi-faceted host of experiences to draw from over decades of working in marketing communications, education and health care advocacy.