There are Godfather style bullies and petty bulles, but those who seek power, achieve power and then abuse their power, (whether on the grand scale of Abramoff or the petty scale of local lawyers and judges who view corruption and pay-off’s as their “daily entitlement”) are seeing their come-uppance.

In New York City, (the cultural belly-button of the universe), the hunt is on.

Clarence Norman, former head of the Brooklyn Democratice Political Machine has been convicted; Michael H. Feinberg, Surrogate Court Judge in Brooklyn’s “King’s County Surrogate’s Court has been de-frocked; and the attorneys who got their political perks in the way of fiducairy appointments and “enhanced” commissions, are being investigated as this reporter writes.

Interestingly, New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg, (in a Daily News Article published a few days after he “successfully bought the election”), pledged to end judicial corruption in the King’s County Surrogate’s Court and in his city.

But also interestingly, this reporter learned that one of this countries most courageous and admirable champions of justice, an investigative journalist about whom the film “THE THIN BLUE LIE” was made, (a must-see for the rightous); a man who, (I’m told by Daniel Helfgott, writer and producer of the movie, “THE THIN BLUE LIE”), has won 5 pulitzer prizes for his journalistic exposure of political, judicial and police corruption… is currenlty employed by none other than Bloomberg News, (in New York City), heading up it’s Investigative Reporting Division.

So why isn’t Mayor Bloomberg, (who obvioulsy has something to say about how Bloomberg News is run), not allowing (if not begging) Jonathan Neumann, investigative reporter extraodinaire, to investigate and expose the blatant and pervasive judicial and political corruption in the King’s County Surrogate’s Court and in fact in most N.Y.C. Surrogate’s Courts?

The answer amounts to what seems to be “journalitic jurisdiction”.
The excuse: Bloomberg News is a Business “Rag” and doesn’t have “jurisdiction” to investigate Political scams.

But aren’t the corrupt schemes of judges and lawyers very BIG BUSINESS for those lawyers and judges who benefit from the perks of being part of the ongoing corrupt political machine… the residuary “Tammany” influence in New York? Read the rest of this entry »