Absolutely
Uncommon Analysis of Family –and "Conciliation" — Courts' Operations,
Practices, and History
Without
a Prayer For Relief: Investigative Reporter Betsy Combier (ParentAdvocates.org)
connects the Dots at Madison Avenue Presby
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| Dr. Fred Anderson, Pastor of MAPC |
This gripping narrative of events in New
York which began ca. 1998 is a little more complex to read than Marv Bryer’s
1997 interview “Exposing and Prosecuting Judicial Corruption through
Common Law Discovery” of events occurring in Southern California
which I just posted, “sticky” status (=stays near the top of the blog’s home
page.). Bryer’s critical description (1997 interview) of his investigation
involved getting copies of bank records (fronts and back of checks) and looking
up corporate records.
However both of them
entail collusion of judges and lawyers, potential money laundering (including
how it’s done — through nonprofits that sound like, but are not, government
agencies in his case, and through cooperation of a major NY landmark church
with a major NY and DC realty investment corporation — plus of course judges
and attorneys — in hers). Both of them seem to be aiming for others property,
whether real estate, or simply money, and pulling a fast one on the public in
general.
This author did
similar things. Both did it for apparently similar reasons — after some very
disturbing damages and utterly strange, abusive, behavior by institutions we
typically should expect to be more honest — they didn’t just complain, or tell
their story — they examined the evidence — and then told their story, with the
evidence. In this case, the writer had to also overcome a retroactive, lack of
jurisdiction, not a party Injunction to not tell her story in 2005.
Short background on
who’s telling the tale: As I cannot personally verify this much information,
here’s the author’s bio-blurb on “OpEdNews”
http://www.opednews.com/author/author13587.html.
The “E-Accountability Foundation, INC. (mentioned up top)
shows a NYC address, date of incorporation 2012? EIN# 16-1642397. I am
finding pieces of the various lawsuits on-line,
as you also could. Here’s a 1996 letter of her under
EcoMedia International, Inc., sticking up for a particular (fired) janitor
and testifying to verbal harassment and intimidation by a maintenance
supervisor at the church who (unlike the janitors) were not union members.
EcoMedia International, Ltd. was dissolved in 1990 (per NYState).
E-Accountability.com, Inc. was formed 2002, dissolved 2005 (while she was
going through these trials, apparently)….
A NYT 1984 Wedding Announcement shows
the family background/influence: Her father P. Hodges Combier was Assistant
Attorney general of NYS, her grandfather, Samuel Strauss, bought,
consolidated, and sold Des Moines newspapers, and from 1910-1916 was Treasure
of the New York Times, which should give a general idea.
She also shows on
the (Advisory) Board of a National
Judicial Conduct and Disability Project, Inc. (Indiana/Incorp. in
2005). This addresses the problem with prosecuting federal judges under a
Title 28 law that allows one to, namely, judicial collusion! (hover cursor or
click through). I.e., basically judges have immunity from prosecution for
what they do ON the bench (the Luzerne County Kids for Cash judges got convicted,
I believe, for what they did OFF it, in re: RICO (or whatever it was). I
remember learning with dismay at the time about this immunity from
prosecution. However, apparently a section of Federal Law was passed to help
in certain cases. But the question still comes up — who would convict? Are
judges generally going to want to expose their colleagues — and maybe later,
possibly themselves — to accountability for abuse of power by the judiciary?
(!!!). They write about the control via threatening or disbarring attorneys
and judges willing to actually address judicial corruption, under “Coups
D’Etat.” … and on a 2009 Supreme Court Decision, “The
Official End of Judicial Accountability….Ashcroft v. Iqbal” The
founder (or, a founder) of this nonprofit NJCDP, was disbarred in Indiana, it
says, for making “false allegations” against a judge, and in federal
district? for failing to pay a $6,000 costs of disciplinary hearing. Interesting, though not strictly on-topic…..
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So, this narrative
involves not only a major NYC landmark Church, but members of the NYS Unified
Court System, including its current chief (Jonathan Lippman), its former Chief
(Judith Kaye) and many issues. The events here started ca. 1998…
MADISON AVENUE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NYS Unified Court System…
Betsy Combier and her
family were long-time members of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (“MAPC”):
921 Madison Avenue, NYC. She has a twin sister, and a mother who volunteered
(had her office) full-time for this church. In the course of attempting to get
her own inheritance, she discovered:
~
Probably embezzlement on its maintenance — i.e. invoice for plumbing repair
$90K; Church paid $169k, so where is the missing about $80K? How often does
this happen?
~ In looking up that, that New York actually owns the church; it is government
property?
~ That MAPC (the church) doesn’t have a separate EIN# for the IRS, but uses the
one of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
~ That somehow MAPC Connections to a REIT, and commercial real estate owner
“Vornado Realty Trust” (This 2009 article on the aggressive REIT (“the Vornado
Tornado,” Steve Roth says it all. Namely they buy up distressed
assets, almost — among largest landlords in NYC and D.C., ruthless, etc.)? to
finance a co-op based on church property? Browse articles for a scope of influence
(i.e., buying up Kennedy real estate, acquiring a West-Side YMCA, etc.). Selling a West Village loft @ 4 times purchase
price(which was ca. $1 million)…2010; Battle of the Skyscrapers: planning a skyscraper to
challenge the Empire State Building (15 Penn Plaza), etc.
~ A
determination by those associated with the church to get Ms. Combier’s
property, incl.? an Upper East Side Manhattan Apartment — apparently a RICO situation (also hover
cursor there):
All in all it raises
and addresses so many issues, I felt it relevant to put on this blog.
EXCERPT
from PARENTADVOCATES.ORG and related pages on this matter:
The City of New York
seems to be the “owner” of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. Most of the
congregation of “MAPC” does not know what is going on.
District
Attorney Robert Morganthau, a friend of my dad,
so far has expressed no interest in this RICO claim. I called Mr. Daniel
Castleman, (212-335-9817) Chief of the Investigation Division, in October, and
he set up a meeting with his “best” investigator, Ms. Judy Weinstock, soon
after. In January, 2006, Ms. Weinstock sent me back every one of my documents,
saying, “We are not looking into this because you did not give us a receipt for
the two toilets’ that were repaired in May, 2004 for $169,224.”
[[Material on who is
the Presbytery of New York, originally published on this post, removed; it's
background info I like to know FYI (and for future reference), not the actual
narrative. That's also one reason my posts get so long, and illegible!]]
I sent Mr. Castleman a letter in January,
and he never responded. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s Charities Bureau told
me they never investigate churches, because churches are not charities.
Spitzer’s criminal division’s Mr. Bill Jorgenson told me in November, 2006,
that the information I had showed “a clear-cut case of embezzlement”, but only
someone at the legislature level could submit it to the Attorney General for
consideration, “sorry”. He advised me not to call the Attorney General’s office
about this matter ever again.
CHURCHES ARE NOT
CHARITIES: It’s True, and It’s Significant! See NYState Charities Search which
says this twice:
{{search for “Presbyterian Senior Services” {{found,
registered with the state as a CORP in 1962, but as a CHARITY (dual-purpose) in
1986) and “Presbytery of New York City” (NOT found) here…. Yet the by-laws of
the Presbytery of New York City clearly state that the latter is a
“corporation” and we can see that it was “incorporated” in 1899…)
Welcome
to the Charities Bureau Registry Search. To search for specific charitable
organizations, use the search fields below. Please note, in order to use the
Registry Search, one of the following search terms must be entered – Name,
Charities Bureau ID #, or federal employer identification number (EIN). Some
organizations, like religious organizations, are exempt from registering with
the Charities Bureau and may not appear in the Registry.
POSTING HERE DOES NOT
MEAN THE ORGANIZATION IS AN APPROVED TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATION UNDER THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE. THE IRS DETERMINES TAX-EXEMPT STATUS.
CONTRIBUTIONS
ARE NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE UNLESS THE IRS DETERMINES THE ORGANIZATION IS TAX-EXEMPT.
TO VIEW A LIST OF TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS, VISIThttp://www.irs.gov/app/pub-78/ . SOME
ORGANIZATIONS, LIKE RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, MAY NOT APPEAR ON THE IRS LIST
BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO FILE WITH IRS IN ORDER TO BE TAX-EXEMPT.
Essentially, these
business entities (it takes money to be a church — real estate, wages, housing,
collections, financial staff, secretarial staff sometimes; settlements for
lawsuits against sexual abuse (or embezzlement) by leadership….they also charge
rent for nonreligious use of their facilities; a lot of assets and income
changes hands in the operations, MOREOVER, federal and other level public
monies (grants, contracts) goes to many religious groups, directly! (see HHS) —
millions, that is…. So where does anyone keep a list of who they are, and where
they are run from? ???
Ms. Combier, Cont’d.:
I
tried to find out. I called the accountant who did the budget,** Sandy Davies
of O’Connor Davies, and was told that Mr. Davies never saw any receipts for any
job. Then I called the Presbytery of New York City, and spoke with the
financial officer, Simon Lai, who is supposed to look at money donated to and
spent by presbyterian churches in New York City. He
told me that he has never seen any financial information from MAPC in the 7
years he has worked at the Presbytery. As MAPC uses the
tax exempt IRS number for the Presbyterian Church, USA General Assembly, I
called over there to find out if any records of MAPC were available. There are
none. Thus, MAPC is an entity doing business in New York City without
any oversight by anyone.
A
very large budget — see church site, and there’s a link to the 2003-2004 one in
the story.
This
church, like most large churches, has many outreach programs (See map
of LOCAL (I count 20)). How many of those are nonprofits, and
given that the MAPC doesn’t show its receipts, apparently even to its own —
who’s checking how much actually made it to those nonprofits, and whether they
are legitimate?
I checked out one: “New Life of New York City.” Yes, it did register as a corp.
in NYS (1973, and a few name changes), and as a Nonprofit in NYS (EIN#
237344354, annual returns back to 1988). I looked up the street address
(website on file with the charities page NYS no good) and found “Young Life”
which dates back to 1938, says it went international by 1953, and by 1972 had
remembered there are urban populations, too….
Story of its Gangleader turned Youthworker (through
“Young Life”), Robert “Bo” Nixon. [A trip to a Colorado camp was involved...]
Here’s its amazing 67-page 990 (as a “Church”
organization with the purpose — and this is about all it says up front for this
Colorado Springs nonprofit…
Director Dennis Rydberg (out of dozens) and his $370K (+$45K from related)
salary, plus the group’s $257 million of revenues ($18 million from
fundraising, say $19 million from “related organizations” (churches?), oh, say
$46.8 million from camp fees, etc.) … a $13 million increase (in one year) in
cash and savings; they have invested in ca. $3 million in public-traded
securities, and $8 million in “other” (must be private then, right?)
securities… about $28.9 million was contributed (and spent from)
endowments….Their assets, buildings, $208 million (depreciation,c a. $68
million)
“Young
Life is a Ministry to help Adolescents become Exposed to the Person of Jesus
Christ. This is accomplished in a variety of ways designed to produce personal
religious experiences…”
…” [[Dennis Rydberg pulls in over $415K; about 5 other men (only)
are pulling in over $150K each. travel for spouses is expected for certain
purposes (like fund-raising), housing for ordained ministry, of course.
They are granting (by wire transfer) all over the world but seem particularly
interested in Central America these days. The lowest paid (of their
"highest-paid" employees (and what looks like the only female) was an
assistant secretrary, at 449K plus $22"other." for a 40-hour week.
Everyone else listed for a 40-hr week was being paid at least twice (more like,
three times) that amount. Of course, they weren't secretaries. I wonder what
their youth ministers got.... Several construction firms and one travel agency
were compensated over $11 million...They also (?) own 100% a for-profit in
Colorado Springs and a Yacht Charter Company in British Columbia. Perhaps to
better help personally expose youth to a personal religious experience of the
person of Jesus Christ, I DNK (but most likely, for profit).
From
MAPC,
There is also global outreach, esp. in Africa, and lots of it. Here's an
"Africa blog" (on the church site), 2012,from
a young man of a missionary couple narrating his confused and
"icky" feelings about being asked for a loan by a single father. I
feel sad that neither I, and I wonder if they, knew how much of Africa's misery
is due to its mineral wealth, and what the British (like Cecil Rhodes and
friends), the Germans (good God!!!) and the Dutch (not to mention some other
countries) did in the scramble for its wealth, from the late 1800s to this day.
They were in Zamibia; for more information, see "Rhodesia."
(WIKIPEDIA -- Frederik Chiluba was a fervent Pentecostal Christian,
5′ tall, finally cleared of corruption charges in 2009, and married three times
(two children by #1, two by #2, and finally married #3). He died in 2011.
More
on Zambia — a product of British Expansionism, formerly part of Rhodesia.
Admittedly this is from a socialist website: The espressostalinist. However I don’t think the
facts are really in dispute:
When Rhodes began his
studies at Oriel College, he returned to South Africa each vacation to attend
to his mining interests – which, by his mid-thirties, had made him, in today’s
terms, a billionaire. By 1891, he had amalgamated the De Beers mines under his
control, giving him dominion over 90 per cent of the world’s diamond output. He
had also secured two other important positions; Prime Minister of the British
Cape Colony, and president of the British South Africa Company {“BSA”], an
organisation that was formed – in the manner of the old East India companies –
to pursue expansionist adventures for which sponsoring governments did not have
the stomach or the cash. The result of his endeavours produced new British
annexations: Nyasaland (now Malawi), Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and
Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
And yet, the
missionaries go to Zambia for the Presbyterian cause, while back at home, their
church attempts to convert property of its own.. Do the missionaries really
know what caused the poverty?
When
it comes to human rights, social services, charity, and any churches….
The reputation for being a social benefactor should be weighed against fiscal
accountability to their own people (i.e., no embezzling!), and the same people
ought to hold them accountable by examining their books – -not just their
declarations — in detail. moreover, what does this say about the religious
exemptions AND no requirement to file the 990s that the public — which ends up
affected – can examine, too?
Why
Post This Information?
I am reminding us of
the financial power and clout of the cloak of religious tax-exemption, plus
trusting membership, and how this cloak can and does attract powerful members
of the courts system (attorneys and judges), real estate investment trusts (als
major landowners, and landlords) and the depth of strategizing they will and do
go to in order to plunder the estates of their own, including launching bogus
court cases, switching jurisdiction where there was no subject matter
jurisdiction, and collaborating to target the (apparently) innocent who may
take years (ten years or more) defending themselves.
It also is a message
to all of us to start understanding these things better if we want any form of
an honest government, and to compare the many philanthropic activities (easier
to do if one is tax-exempt, cheating, and not going to be scrutinized much by
local authorities, i.e., as a charity in similar activities might be) to what
could plain and simple be called, just “wicked.”
I think it’s obvious
to my readers that I have some serious concerns about churches (specifically–
I’m talking, the Christian religion here, not Islam, not Judaism) as tax-exempt
organizations, about faith-based grants, and about Outreach Efforts to engage
faith-based groups to help stop their men from abusing their women. Let’s Get
Real about that reality. See pre-election (i.e., see late Oct. 2012) articles
filling us in on some of the Mormon stipulations about marriage and/or divorce,
that is before and after death, and how people who have died may consent to
some form of (separation? I DNR), however people alive and well (including
Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, before his candidacy or even governorship
days) was treating a mother who had an abortion to save her life, pretty rough,
including trying to talk her out of this.
Then there’s the
matter of then-President George W. Bush, as a FIRST executive order of his
Presidency (and pre 9/11) establishing a White House Office of Faith-Based
STUFF, which has been copied at State level in several states (like Ohio) and
which said Governor’s Offices sometimes get HHS funding for this purpose. After
which, they get audited for misappropriation of grants. It never seems to slow
the participants down much, they are well networked.
Then there is this
“thang” that the Unification Church has a nice influence on the Marriage
Promotion field which is so close to the heart of why we have things like
“National Parents’ Day” and the entire movement (Children’s Rights Council-related,
plus more) that ties the Moons (True Parents) and this international,
money-laundering (or so alleged) religious — cult — involved in coronation
ceremonies (mock, of course) in a U.S. building, i.e., the Dirksen Building,
with the crown carried forwards by Illinois legislator, Congressman Danny K.
Davis, who also sponsored (yet another) Responsible Fatherhood bill. In the
113th Congress, he sits on the subcommittee (of House Ways and Means) whose
jurisdiction closely meshes with the topic of this blog:
That’s
one thing. But this situation here — Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (“MAPC”)
New York City, brings up the entire question of money-laundering and real
estate issues under the cover of religion. I guess someone had to give the
Vatican a run for its money?? (not really, but still…..). Of course with its
huge budget it is very active in human rights causes, including
shelters, etc. — in between trying to steal the inheritance of one of its
faithful members and running, apparently, a number of scams, plus treating its
janitors abusively, and trying to force Betsy here into counseling or therapy
with one of their own when she sued.
I
FOUND THIS STORY FOLLOWING UP ON PRIVATE NONPROFITS NATIONALIZING AND
CENTRALIZING THE COURTS (NCSC, SJI) AND AFTER REALIZING A CERTAIN JUDGE
(FEATURED IN THIS ACCOUNT)HAS JUST BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE ON ONE OF THOSE
NONPROFITS. I’d been aware of ParentAdvocates.org (from parenting perspective),
but never read this before. Jonathan Lippman, Judith Kaye, Cardozo, Proskauer
Rose (powerful global law firm) and others are featured in this story. MAPC is
a powerful institution around since 1901.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
How I came to this site — in reviewing my links and highlighting how private
nonprofits are Nationalizing and Centralizing the courts (policy
operations, and funding) — I already brought up how the NCSC (National Center
for State Courts) became “secretariat” for Association of Family and
Conciliation Courts in the early 1980s. Said AFCC is a private organization who
are not “the good guys” and whose agenda doesn’t seem very philanthropic (or
justice-oriented) when its behavior and its books are scrutinized. Of course, I’ll
just hazard a “guess” here based on the accounts of people who have viewed the
evidence, and its state-skipping and truly odd incorporation history, plus
their habit of getting into top judicial positions and from there re-arranging
the courts, lobbying to get accommodating laws, and fees for friends (in the
fields that AFCC promotes through its ranks), and in general playing dirty with
the public while converting their assets, disrupting their families, and
destroying in many cases, their livelihoods, incarcerating some who confront
them, labeling others, and at times trafficking kids into foster care for which
there appears to be a bounty.
So,
I was going to add the State Justice Institute, yet another
nonprofit which was formed by LAW in: 1984, basically to steer, I mean,
administer grants to improve justice. Its 11 person Board is appointed by the
President (POTUS) and approved by the Senate:
About SJI
The State Justice
Institute (SJI) was established by Federal law in 1984 to award grants to
improve the quality of justice in State courts, facilitate better coordination
between State and Federal courts, and foster innovative, efficient solutions to
common issues faced by all courts.
SJI
is unique both in its mission and how it seeks to fulfill it. Only
SJI has the authority to assist all State courts – criminal, civil, juvenile,
family, and appellate – and the mandate to share the success of one State’s innovations
with every State court system as well as the Federal courts.
{{Representative
Government at its best — the US President appoints an 11-member board of a
nonprofit (Senate must approve) and it administers grants to steer the courts —
including on Criminal, Civil, Juvenile, Family and Appellate law…}}
SJI
is a non-profit corporation governed by an 11-member Board of Directors
appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. By law, the
President must appoint six State court judges, one State court administrator,
and four members of the public (no more than two of whom may be of the same
political party).
{{I wonder how a
lowly member of the public gets appointed. However, no matter who does — if
they are voting, the courts always have the majority (7 to 4).}}
SJI also has a
professional staff who oversee operations, to include grant management and
other government relations. Per 42 U.S.C. 10704, the Executive Director
is responsible for the executive and administrative operations of SJI, and
serves at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. The Executive Director
is also a non-voting ex officio member of the Board.
One
of the rather disturbing initiatives SJI is working on (with “NCSC”) is called
“Court Re-engineering”:
<a href=”http://www.sji.gov/reengineering.php;”
title=”The Strategic Initiatives Grants (SIG) program provides SJI the
flexibility to address national court issues as they occur, and develop
solutions to those problems. SJI uses its expertise and the expertise and
knowledge of its grantees to address key issues facing courts across the United
States. The state courts are also facing severe budget reductions as a direct
result of the current economic situation in the United States. The budget
crisis in the state courts is an emerging and national issue that is being
addressed by the SIG program. The short-term cost reductions taken by the state
courts (hiring freezes, furloughs, and layoffs) will have long-term effects,
but are not enough to meet the current economic demands for reduction in costs. SJI
awarded a Strategic Initiatives Grant (SIG) to the National Center for State
Courts (NCSC) in FY 2009 to focus on reengineering in the state courts in
response to severe budget cutbacks. NCSC began these efforts by establishing
the Budget Resource Center (BRC) – a website to track the latest budget issues
and cost saving measures in the state courts, listed by state. NCSC also
provided direct technical assistance to several states. Through SJI SIG funding
in FY 2010 and 2011, NCSC continues to provide technical assistance to courts
at the state and local level. SJI has also partnered with the Department of
Justice/Office of Justice Programs/Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) on
reengineering projects in the state courts. BJA funding has lead to additional
reengineering program sites. …In addition to support provided by the
SIG program, SJI has also funded individual grants to state and local courts
for reengineering in response to budget reductions. The final reports of those
projects are available below, and new reports will continue to be provided on
this website.
“>State Court Reengineering (hover cursor or click through to read).
But this is what
grabbed my attention — as of January 1, 2013, this Strategic Justice Initiative
has a new appointeed:
Justice Jonathan
Lippman – who took over from NYS Chief Judge Judith Kaye back in 2009 — was
appointed by President Obama last May and has been confirmed by the Senate as a
board member of this SJI:
He is named in the
material which is the topic of this post, mainly writings by Betsy Combier:
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On January 1, 2013,
the U.S. Senate confirmed Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman to the SJI Board of
Directors. Chief Judge Lippman was nominated by the President on May 24,
2012. He is currently Chief Judge of the State of New York and Chief
Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, a position he has held since 2009.
Chief Judge Lippman
has spent his entire legal career in the New York State court system, serving
for 40 years in a variety of roles. He was Presiding Justice of the Appellate
Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Department from 2007 to 2009;
an Associate Justice of the Appellate Term for the Ninth and Tenth Judicial
Districts from 2006 to 2007; a Justice of the Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial
District from 2006 to 2009; and Chief Administrative Judge of all New York
State Courts from 1996 to 2007. Chief Judge Lippman is a former
member of the Board of Directors of the Conference of Chief Justices, former
President of the Conference of State Court Administrators, and former Vice
Chair of the Board of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). He is
the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the William H.
Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence, which the NCSC awarded to him in
2008.
{{The NCSC itself, I think, deals
with these other organizations, i.e., Conference of Chief Justices, etc.)}}
He holds a B.A. from New York
University in Government and International Relations and a J.D. from the New
York University School of Law.
Contrast this with the information in
box at bottom of this page; there appear to be problems with fraud and
coverups for cronies, a figure mentioned was $40 million..
The SJI is
extremely influential, it would seem, as it is providing grants to
“re-engineer” the courts; I have seen studies written up by individuals in
association with “the Family Violence Prevention Fund” aboutcreating domestic violence courts. (These
materials then can be sold, helping he nonprofit — not necessarily the
individuals subject to the demonstration project.). PARTNER
GRANTS are without limit...” Then these authors can advance
their careers without running the nationwide policies by the actual people
going to be most affected by them, as Distinguished Professor Emily Sack apparently did
here in re: creating the domestic violence courts — and recommending
parenting skills training for incarcerated men, BIPs, etc. (hover
cursor). A win-win for the partners, not necessarily for those run
through the programs they create without our serious feedback, and then
nationalize.
“PARTNER
GRANTS
Partner Grants allow SJI and federal,
state, or local agencies or foundations, trusts, or other private entities to
combine financial resources in pursuit of common interests.”
. Judging by the continued roadkill,
someone is doing a lousy job on this; but that doesn’t seem to have affected
the FVPF’s funding, which is multi-million-dollar as always.
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It seems to me I had
heard this Judge’s name in going out of the way to protect child sexual
abusers…
Here,
he joins others in dissenting from a civil confinement despite a contested
mental illness diagnosis, in that a repeat sex offender (impregnating 16 yr old
etc.) has a mental illness related to preoccupation with sex with,
nonconsenting pubescent girls and involving their suffering. (Reuters, 2012
article)
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/New_York/News/2012/10_-_October/State_can_hold_sex_offender_with_controversial_diagnosis__high_court/.
While I can see the point, someone was trying to stop this guy from his
repeat-raping habit. If Lippman has a problem with restraining people on
contested diagnosis of a mental illness, which makes sense, then he should
radically reverse the family court’s habit of doing this to parents (especially
women) who protest abuse of their children, including rape and molestation, as
“high-conflict.”
At the bottom of this
post, I”m putting an article from “Expose Corrupt Courts” protesting this
appointment to the SJI and citing some reasons why. It will be in a “table” to
identify it as from one source.
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[I have excerpted
paragraphs that mention the RICO setup, and refer to New York State Chief
Justice (now retired) Judith Kaye -- who I'm pretty sure must've been AFCC,
and I've written about some of the people and programs she has brought in, as
to their relationship specifically to Family Court matters. for example,
pushing Mediation, Parent Education, appointee?? JoAnn Pedro Carroll, etc. I
think this is on the bottom of a post re: Genia Shockhome, and Dutchess
County (that's NY) Mediation. You can look it up.....
If you have a mind to read, this
reads like a mystery. Apparently, the type of racketeering and embezzlement
we see going on in various government places (or apparently going on, I
should say) -- seems to pale when one considers the state of New York might
own the real estate, literally OWN "Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church" (see photo), but this church doesn't have its own EIN#, rather
using the General Assembly (US Presbyterian) #, and according to the General
Presbyter -- they hadn't seen receipts on financials from MAPC in seven years
(at the writing). Does this not sound like a play out of AFCC (or maybe I
should say, they learned it from religious groups?)....
You'll see the size of the property
and its endowments, weekly collections (ca. $25,000, etc.). Perhaps Rick
Warren with all his trademarks, and Saddleback, with their donated property,
are chump change by comparison with not only the money, but the clout of this
one. I don't know.
I do know that this
same mother of four also has a site "Parentadvocates.org" I've seen
before. Her mother "volunteered" full-time for 40 years for this
church. there is a real fight between twin sisters over the probate (inheritance)
and it appears to be in the course of this that this sister Betsy Combier
found out what she did. It should be mentioned that her father was a District
Attorney (Robert Morgenthau)...
This is full of active LINKS at the site -- not in my copy here. See site for
those links, as reading them helps you understand the situation better. I am
not writing it because of the individual involved, but from a teaching
perspective of the potential clout, and documented behavior, of how a major
(here, Presbyterian) church can, with its respectable community members, and
prime real estate (this one, it says was worth $21,000,000 with an endowment
of up to $30million or so) -- and how with all that, they can still be
laundering money through any number of means.
It also appears that there was (or
was alleged to be) a matter of elder abuse, as in physical abuse, of the
mother, which was the reason that one daughter was taken out of the will. It
is definitely a matter that cuts close to many of us.
There are other articles on the site,
interesting from the perspective of the tax-exempt, and scrutiny-proof status
many religious organizations hold, particularly a six-part series in the
NYTimes which approaches different issues, including religious earmarks,
churches hiring lobbyists to get those earmarks, and another one called
"Without a Prayer for Relief," which I'm gathering is a pun. The
mother involved (whose will it was) apparently had an office in MAPC and was
active there for around 40 years: Imagine all this time, no one ?? bringing
up that this major building did not have its own EIN#.
There are megachurches -- that's one
style. This is another style entirely; see the personnel.
Material is from
the website Parentadvocates.org, the Article. I may add some subtitles.
TOP PART and TITLE:
The judges and
their colleagues in the New York State Unified Court System are operating
under the umbrella of "absolute immunity" in order to rob and
harass you and convert your property to their ownership. Dont fool
yourself into thinking that anyone in the State legislature doesn't know this
is happening, and wants to do anything about it. You just have to outsmart
them all by documenting everything, like I did. I may not win my lawsuit
against them in Federal Court, but I now have the intervenors/conspirators
online for the public to see how it all works. Please share this information.
Betsy Combier.
(PHOTO) Julia
Danger, Claude Danger, Betsy Combier
People are being
victimized by the courts of America's "justice system" every day,
often without knowing anything until it is too late. Perhaps this has
happened to you, and you have been left without your property, family member
and/or child. In 1998, the Manhattan Surrogate Court decided to deny me the
property left to me by my mom in her Will dated November 21, 1997, and has
pursued this goal with such venom I almost died on July 22, 2006 trying
to stop the Judges, lawyers, and common folk - including my twin sister - who
decided to steal the property and deny my rights to it.
The property in my mom's Will that she wanted me to have is sitting right now
in a cold garage and house at 2110 Quaker Ridge Road, in Croton-on-Hudson,
owned by a man named Lawrence Mark. Mark says that he was given the right to
hold onto the property by me and my sister, yet I remember no such agreement.
And I have a phenomenal memory. My lawyers must have made some deal in
secret, to help stop me from probating my mom's Will, and this is the pattern
that runs throughout the past twelve years. I, a reporter and video
producer for more than 35 years, have dedicated myself to getting my mom's
property back, and I'm writing this article to tell you what I have found out
about the people who work in five courts in NYC, my twin sister, my church,
the Presbytery of New York City, and wealthy insurance company Guide One
Insurance Company, all of whom have joined together and denied me my
Constitutional rights.
Judges threaten
lawyers - the people who are being paid by you to defend you and protect your
interests - and make the Attorneys facing the Court do what "they"
- the judges and their political partners - want, and work with the
"fixer" to steal property, take children, and plunder estates for
personal gain. I know what 'they' do, because when my church - Madison Avenue
Presbyterian, ("MAPC") in New York City - came after me in 1998
after my mom's death, I was an innocent victim, and I did not know that the
Courts were dishonest. I relied on the Rule of Law and my Attorneys to do the
right thing, which was always to probate my mom's Will. This was my mistake.
[{I have to ask her why they didn't
put it under a trust...}}
The City of New
York seems to be the "owner" of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Most of the congregation of "MAPC" does not know what is going on.
District Attorney
Robert Morganthau, a friend of my dad, so far has expressed no interest in
this RICO claim. I called Mr. Daniel Castleman, (212-335-9817) Chief of the
Investigation Division, in October, and he set up a meeting with his
"best" investigator, Ms. Judy Weinstock, soon after. In January,
2006, Ms. Weinstock sent me back every one of my documents, saying, "We
are not looking into this because you did not give us a receipt for the two
toilets' that were repaired in May, 2004 for $169,224."
I
sent Mr. Castleman a letter in January, and he never responded. Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer's Charities Bureau told me they never investigate
churches, because churches are not charities. Spitzer's criminal division's
Mr. Bill Jorgenson told me in November, 2006, that the information I had
showed "a clear-cut case of embezzlement", but only someone at the
legislature level could submit it to the Attorney General for consideration,
"sorry". He advised me not to call the Attorney General's office
about this matter ever again.
Summary:
My mom, Julia
Taschereau, died suddenly during the night of March 15-16, 1998. The doctor
told us that she died of a pulmonary embolism. I, my husband and four
children and my mom were very close, and lived near enough to each other to
be able to spend time cooking, going to movies, and playing with the kids. My
mom worked full-time as a volunteer for Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
("MAPC") at 921 Madison Avenue 73rd street) in New York City. The
church and the church building next door are located on prime real estate
worth currently $21,000,000 (tax assessed value, NYC Dept. of Buildings,
2005). The church pays no taxes.
MAPC has an
endowment valued at $20-30 million, depending on who you speak to. Every year
approximately $2 million is raised in donations from the 920+ members.
$25,000 is collected in cash from the plate passed around on sundays. No one
outside of the Board of Trustees knows where this money is spent. As you will
see below, in the 2004 budget (see p. 10) that I was given during
the congregational meeting in January, 2005, there is a listing of a payment
of $169,224 for the repair {{installation?}} of two toilets for the nursery
school {{browse the link. See also p. 2 of the budget}}. This
amount seemed odd, so I and a colleague went to the New York City Department
of Buildings and copied all the work permits for all the repairs made to the
church building from 1999-2005. We found the invoice for the two toilets,
which were repaired by Prudon & Partners for $90,000. Well, if
the congregation was spending $169,224 on a toilet, and the company that did
the work was paid only $90,000, where did the missing almost $80,000 go?
Prudon misspelled the name of the Day School, as well.
{{Then our author
here gets to looking things up and connecting the dots.}}
Vornado Realty
Trust is the landlord of Bloomberg LLP, and is connected to the construction
Company Taylor Ball, whose subsidiary, Ladco Development Inc., is located in
West Des Moines Iowa, home to Guide One Insurance Company. Have you ever
heard the saying "You can't fight City Hall"? Well, fighting
Vornado Realty Trust is like fighting 100 City Halls.
It is my opinion
that as Michael Bloomberg is well aware of the money that flows through the
mega-rich real estate companies/Trusts in New York City, and as he does
nothing to stop the racketeering, he not only condones it, but is enriched by
the spoils (financing expensive real estate deals).
I tried to find
out. I called the accountant who did the budget, Sandy Davies of O'Connor
Davies, and was told that Mr. Davies never saw any receipts for any job. Then
I called the Presbytery of New York City, and spoke with the financial
officer, Simon Lai, who is supposed to look at money donated to and spent by
presbyterian churches in New York City. He told me that he has never seen any
financial information from MAPC in the 7 years he has worked at the
Presbytery. As MAPC uses the tax exempt IRS number for the Presbyterian
Church, USA General Assembly, I called over there to find out if any records
of MAPC were available. There are none. Thus, MAPC is an entity doing
business in New York City without any oversight by anyone.
Then, while surfing the internet and in particular ACRIS {{on-line, property
deeds I think}}, I found a UCC financing agreement of a co-op belonging to
Vornado Realty Trust Executive VP Sandeep Mathrani and his wife, Aiysha which
used the church property, (Block 1388, Lot 21), even though Mr. Mathrani and
his wife are not members of MAPC (the social security numbers of both Sandeep
and his wife were deleted by me before posting the UCC agreement). I called
Mr. Mathrani's office, and asked his secretary if I could ask him why he
financed his coop using the property of MAPC. She told me that he had never
heard of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, and hung up. I called back, and
asked why he would say that, considering the fact that the Mathrani home is
across the street from the Church. Sandeep's secretary asked me to send him
all my documents.
The
attorney who did the financing deal, Mr. Gregory Moundas, worked for
Proskauer Rose when he prepared the UCC agreement. (He was moved to Texas).
Proskauer Rose is a lawfirm that some say own the United States court system.
The lawyers certainly are the most powerful and politically connected in New
York City, as the Chief Administrative Judge of New York State is Judith
Kaye, and her husband Steven Rachow Kaye was a partner of Proskauer Rose.
Michael Cardozo was a partner as well, before Michael Bloomberg appointed him
the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York. I thought it would be
reasonable to believe that Judith Kaye knew what her husband's lawfirm was
doing, which seemed to be financing real estate properties under the color of
"church tax exemptions". Without realizing it, I walked head-on
into the 'wrath of Kaye', a place in which anyone who wants justice in the
court system of New York State never wants to be. Even though I am not an
attorney, I have read the law and written hundreds of motions since March 31,
1998, when the Session of Madison Avenue voted me and my twin sister off of
the membership roll of MAPC, the church that I had belonged to since 1961.
{{NOTE: Look up
Proskauer Rose, Steven Rachow Kaye and Michael Cardozo. Consider what it must
be like to have the Chief Judge of the state of New York married to a partner
in such a prominent (global) law firm -- see the firm's site }}
Chuck elaborated on
my expulsion from my church at his deposition, as did Dr. Fred Anderson, the
Pastor: "We planned to get rid of you as soon as your mother was dead or
incapacitated, whichever came first". (Deposition testimony, 2001)
When I was thrown
out of the church and Charles Amstein had obtained my mom's ashes, I was
worried that he would not allow me to have them back to bury her, because I
heard from people in the office at the church that he was "talking"
with my mom, in ash form. On July 31, 1998, I called Mr. Amstein and told him
I wanted my mom's ashes back, immediately, that day. At 6:30PM I heard that
he would not give them back, and there was nothing I could do. I called him
every day for the next week, and he finally returned the ashes to me on
August 7, with a handwritten note on top of the box that he had
"delayed" returning the ashes until he had heard from Jill. I did
not find out until 2004 that it was attorney Mr. Kenneth Wasserman who told
him to withhold the ashes from me. Mr. Wasserman was on the Ethics Committee
of the NYC Bar Association from 2000-2003. How that happened i dont know, but
in my opinion you will not find an attorney with as little concern for ethics
as Kenneth T. Wasserman....
There is a lot more....
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Over billing by about
50% repairs for children's toilets -- embezzling.
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Every U.S. Senator
will be greeted this morning with an urgent request to vote against President
Obama’s nominee for the national organization The State Justice Institute.
The communication, along with various related newspaper articles was sent,
via facsimile, to all D.C. and local state offices of all U.S.
Senators.September 10, 2012
The United States
Senate
Washington, D.C. 20004
RE: Vote on Presidential Nominee
Jonathan Lippman for The State Justice InstituteJonathan Lippman’s
Involvement in Cover-Up of 9/11 Donation Fraud
Dear Senator,
Please vote against the President’s
nomination of Jonathan Lippman to be a member of the Board of Directors of
the State Justice Institute. The U.S. Senate’s Executive Calendar for
September 10, 2012, lists the pending Privileged Nomination at page 13,
Message No. 1692 and 1693 – Jonathan Lippman of New York, to be a Member of
the Board of Directors of the State Justice Institute.
I have personal knowledge of Jonathan
Lippman, in order to protect political supporters in New York, covering-up a
fraud involving over $100,000.00 in stolen 9/11 donation monies, and that
further defrauded an insurance company that partially paid out on the loss.
To date, those stolen donation monies have NOT been repaid. (Please see the
attached New York Times article, “Red Cross Quietly Settles Case of a
$120,000 Theft,” by Stephanie Strom (April 28, 2006)
In addition,
Jonathan Lippman was implicated in an alleged $40 Million Dollar fraud
involving a prominent New Yorker who was on his deathbed. (Please see
attached letter to the NY FBI). In fact, these troubling allegations
involving Jonathan Lippman were reviewed by White House staffers on April 2,
2012, reportedly while finalizing approval of the President’s nomination.
(See the June 12, 2012 story athttp://www.EthicsRouser.blogspot.com, “White
House ‘Criminal Leaks’ Explained.”
Jonathan Lippman
was politically created by his childhood friend, attorney Sheldon Silver who
was, just last week, the target of a court order involving a Special
Prosecutor to review criminal allegations of improperly using public funds to
cover-up sex harassment charges by and against NYS officials. (Please see
attached Village Voice article, “Justice is Blindsided- How Shelly Silver
Made His Pal Chief Judge.” Various news articles about Jonathan Lippman’s
friend and attorney Sheldon Silver- and the public’s outrage- can be seen at http://www.ExposeCorruptCourts.blogspot.com.
The citizens of the United States
deserve an end to corruption and cover-ups, and we all deserve your vote
against the nomination of Jonathan Lippman for a position at the State
Justice Institute.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL DOCUMENT
WITH ATTACHMENTS
ParentAdvocates.org, another New
York-based web site whose mission is “to put tax dollar expenditures and
other monies used or spent by our federal, state or city governments before
your eyes and in your hands” shares similar concerns over this nomination
saying:
As anyone who lives in New York State
and has had any case filed in the Courts knows, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman
runs the show…unfairly, arbitrarily, capriciously, and without concern for
due process and Constitutional Rights. He has been sued many times, and the
Plaintiffs always get dismissed or give up, because you cant sue Lippman and
win. This is the man who has been nominated by our President, Barack Obama,
to be a member of the Board of the State Justice Institute. What a huge
reckless error that is.
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Only
as part of my general look-up of Ms. Combier's father (P. Combier Hodges?), I
ran across a VERY interesting case, ca. 1963, involving descendants of John D.
Rockefeller, Sr. -- and his grandchildren, plus whether adopted children are or
are not "Issue" (at least the underlying matter). In short, a
granddaughter Ms. McCormick Hubbard, knowing she was diagnosed of incurable
cancer (from which she died in 1959), goes about to adopt three or four
children (two in Yuba County, California, tried another in Nevada; Connecticut
is also involved) -- but possibly in order to defeat a brother's access to some
trust. She had no biological issue, hence the trust was divided about three
ways to charities, with LINCOLN CENTER (see "John D. Rockefeller
Plaza," where it is) wanted its $9+million out of the $10million to
distribute. There was a GAL as well, and Lincoln Center wanted to see (or to
prohibit consideration of -- read the case) the adoption records.
http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp2d/189/741.html
Also about halfway down there are some paragraphs on adoption and a passing
reference to the "full faith and credit" clause, plus this phrase
that the state stands "Parens Patriae" for all children within its
borders:
What
then is the status of the adoption decrees in California? They are beyond
collateral attack on any question whether of jurisdiction or otherwise.
Concededly, Lincoln makes a collateral attack in New York. Adoption proceedings
[189 Cal. App. 2d 750] are of statutory nature and our Legislature has
established a complete legislative scheme whereunder adoptions may be granted
or denied by the courts to which the resolution of all issues has been
committed. Proceedings are initiated by the filing of a petition in the
superior court of the county of residence of the proposed adoptive parents.The
state actively participates in the proceedings, and to all intents and purposes
is a party thereto. The statutes require that upon filing the petition notice
shall be given to the state, which, of course, stands in the position of parens
patriae to all children within its borders. The notice is served upon a state
agency, the Department of Social Welfare, which represents the state and
which must actively examine into all matters touching the propriety of the
proposed adoption, being charged at all times, as is the court also, to keep
foremost in consideration the welfare of the child proposed to be adopted.
Again, ‘WHOSE
children are they?” even if both birth parents are alive and well? Sounds like,
parens patriae, the state. A sobering thought…..keeping in mind that it was
Rockefeller and others, probably, who helped set in place the systems which
eventually resulted in birth certificates for children….
