KOSSACK ACTION IS NEEDED. PERSONAL ACTION.
NY TIMES CITYROOM BLOG -- NOT THE GUTLESS PAPER
CEO George Anderson got drunk. He drove his Mercedes 450GL up urban Water Street at 60 mph. Created a deadly hazard. Then, at Sip Street, he struck Florence Cioffi. Drove off, hit-and-run. No assistance rendered.
Charges in 2008: vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, felony DUI, and leaving the scene (for 20 minutes.)
D.A. is now going to Court 27-FEB-2009 asking this sentence: 16 days and a $350 fine.
The price of a human life ???
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo can appoint a Special Prosecutor.
PLEASE, REQUEST A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
- Attorney General Andrew Cuomo 1-800-771-7755
- Governor David Paterson 518-474-8390
- Mayor Bloomberg 212-NEW-YORK
Manahattan's D.A. is 89-year old Robert Morgenthau. Helpless as a manager. Bribery/favors/whatever have prevented prosecution of Dot.Com and Wall Street perps for decades.
This case is off the rails. We find no parallel in NY State legal history. A year sentence is statutory minimum. More below :::
Kossack action is necessary :::
-- Contact Andrew Cuomo
-- Contact national media: NY Times, LA Times, WaPo, CBS, NBC, Chi Trib, Times of London
-- Contact local media. Anybody, everybody
Cororate press hit this when it was fresh in January, 2008. Now, not one of the major media outlets in New York is sticking on it. Killing is A.O.K. for the rich.
ADA Erin LaFarge back in 2008, in Court, "The woman (Flo Cioffi) flew into the air and was killed."
Anderson is Wall Street royalty. CEO of EEI, 115 Broadway. Works with Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, Putnam Investments, Lehman Brothers, UBS and more. Multimillionaire. Mercedes and BMW.
Sold a Hamptons house for $6,000,000.
Flo Cioffi had been at an office party celebrating her anticipated 60th birthday.
The obvious question, here, is corruption.
16 days and $350 for a 60 mph urban DUI killing and leaving the scene ???
Why would money not be changing hands ???
Legal minimum with Reckless Endangerment -- driving 60 mph down Water Street -- is a year in prison. Maximum on the lesser charges would be 2 1/3 years. Normal sentencing for a DUI killing starts at 2 years. Leaving the Scene of the fatal accident increases the sentence.
This case is now sitting with ADA David Hammer. Lord knows if this prosecutor is on the take.
Failure to prosecute Wall Street royalty -- a terrible disease. Indeed, this echos the carriage scene from "A Tale of Two Cities."
The complaint had sometimes made itself audible, even in that deaf city and dumb age, that, in the narrow streets without footways, the fierce patrician custom of hard driving endangered and maimed the mere vulgar in a barbarous manner. But, few cared enough for that to think of it a second time, and, in this matter, as in all others, the common wretches were left to get out of their difficulties as they could.
With a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days, the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way. At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt, and there was a loud cry from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged.
But for the latter inconvenience, the carriage probably would not have stopped; carriages were often known to drive on, and leave their wounded behind, and why not? But the frightened valet had got down in a hurry, and there were twenty hands at the horses' bridles.
"What has gone wrong?" said Monsieur, calmly looking out.
A tall man in a nightcap had caught up a bundle from among the feet of the horses, and had laid it on the basement of the fountain, and was down in the mud and wet, howling over it like a wild animal.
"Pardon, Monsieur the Marquis!" said a ragged and submissive man, "it is a child."
"Why does he make that abominable noise? Is it his child?"
"Excuse me, Monsieur the Marquis -- it is a pity -- yes."
The fountain was a little removed; for the street opened, where it was, into a space some ten or twelve yards square. As the tall man suddenly got up from the ground, and came running at the carriage, Monsieur the Marquis clapped his hand for an instant on his sword-hilt.
"Killed!" shrieked the man, in wild desperation, extending both arms at their length above his head, and staring at him. "Dead!"
The people closed round, and looked at Monsieur the Marquis. There was nothing revealed by the many eyes that looked at him but watchfulness and eagerness; there was no visible menacing or anger. Neither did the people say anything; after the first cry, they had been silent, and they remained so. The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. Monsieur the Marquis ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out of their holes.
He took out his purse.
"It is extraordinary to me," said he, "that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done my horses. See! Give him that."
He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick up, and all the heads craned forward that all the eyes might look down at it as it fell. The tall man called out again with a most unearthly cry, "Dead!"
He was arrested by the quick arrival of another man, for whom the rest made way. On seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stooping over the motionless bundle, and moving gently about it. They were as silent, however, as the men.
"I know all, I know all," said the last comer. "Be a brave man, my Gaspard! It is better for the poor little plaything to die so, than to live.
So -- now -- with Florence Cioffi. Her life valued by this New York District Attorney Office at 16 days and $350.
NEW YORK Criminal Court
Docket 2008NY007146
Defendant ANDERSON, GEORGE W
Law Code and Code Section/Subsection
VTL 600.2A 2A
Charge Detail
A Misdemeanor, 1 count, Not an arrest charge, Not an arraignment charge
Description: LEAVE INJURY ACCIDENT- PRIOR
Charge added to case on: January 7, 2009
Disposition/Sentence
Law Code and Code Section/Subsection
VTL 1192.3 03
Charge Detail
Unclassified Misdemeanor, 1 count, Not an arrest charge, Arraignment charge
Description: OP MV WHILE INTOXICATED 1
Disposition/Sentence
PLED GUILTY
Law Code and Code Section/Subsection
PL 125.10 00
Charge Detail
E Felony, 1 count, Arrest charge, Arraignment charge
Description: CRMNALLY NGLIGENT HMICIDE
Disposition/Sentence
DISMISSED
Law Code and Code Section/Subsection
PL 125.12 02 *** TOP CHARGE ***
Charge Detail
D Felony, 1 count, Arrest charge, Arraignment charge
Description: VEH MANSLTR-2ND: MV W/HAZ MAT
Disposition/Sentence
DISMISSED
Law Code and Code Section/Subsection
VTL 600.2A 2A
Charge Detail
D Felony, 1 count, Arrest charge, Arraignment charge
Description: LEAVE INJURY ACCIDENT- PRIOR
Disposition/Sentence
REDUCED TO THE PLED TO CHARGE
If this ADA David Hammer gets it through Couret, come February 27th, then George Anderson walks with two relatively minor Misdemeanors.
These DISMISSED dispositions are not final, yet.
We beg your pity. We miserable creatures.