MAY
22, 2005 --
The
front page of the Metro edition, May 21, had a story on the breathless
mayoral candidacy of Congressman Anthony D. Weiner and one photo
on the Metro front page showed the candidate sprinting down a
congressional corridor to another committee hearing after voting
in the Judiciary Committee.
(The article carried five photos of the congressman/candidate three photos in
color on the first Metro page and two in
black and white inside the section.)
A letter on Congressman Weiner's stationery -- noting his membership on the Judiciary
Committee -- dated December 7, 2000, co-signed by two state legislators, sent
to a bankruptcy judge in Manhattan was written "regarding the ongoing
litigation between the City of New York and the Dayton Operating Company currently
before the court."
This letter, sent without notice to Dayton Operating Company, constituted, this
writer believes (he is a principal in Dayton Operating Comnpany) an ex parte
communication, in breach of the separation of powers principle that keeps the
legislative branch apart from the judiciary branch.
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The judge's
chambers subsequently sent a memo to counsel on the litigation
stating that the letter could not be considered. More than a
year earlier, at the Dayton Seaside apartment buildings, the
congressman agreed to have
his office receive information from
this writer until Mr. Weiner realized that this writer was part of the management
group.
Perhaps Mr. Weiner might be asked why it should not be concluded that, as mayor,
he would rule by the closed door and the one-sided communication.
Or is that the general form of
government, these days?
(The Times
article was written by Randal C. Archibold, who wrote two articles
about Congressman Weiner for the Metro section, last February
15.)
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Mr. Greenspan
Please Consider This Times Headline "Stocks Rally as Oil
Prices and Inflation Recede" NYT, May 22, p. 13 (Business)
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