[sent via Governors website contact page at 3:01 pm, July 6, 2013]

Governor Cuomo,

Don't you think your staff should do some research before appointing members to the Moreland Act Commission on legislative corruption? The trust you've conferred on Dean Makau W. Mutua could be a major embarrassment to you next year, as well as to the faculty of SUNY Buffalo. I suggest that someone in your office take a look at this article in the UB Spectrum (the university newspaper) and perhaps follow-up with some questions to President Satish K. Tripathi about the Section 1983 lawsuit for punitive damages against Dean Mutua that is presently proceeding in federal district court.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/138686306/The-Spectrum-4-28-2013

http://www.scribd.com/doc/100722098/Tripathi-Letter-June-18-2012-perjury-allegation-against-MakauMutua

I agree that public integrity is vitally important to the rule of law, but you can't investigate it with a legal educator and state official who has sworn to false testimony, used his position of trust to subvert the judicial process before a state administrative tribunal, and continues to maintain his perjured testimony in the NYS Court of Claims and the U.S. District Court.

You might also want to contact AAG David Sleight in the AG's Buffalo office, who is defending the Section 1983 case for SUNY, and ask what he knows about the situation in the law school. When you were the Attorney General of this state, I thought your policy was to prosecute crimes, or at least investigate credible allegations of criminal misconduct by state officials and members of the bar, not blindly defend them. I think a statement by Professor R. Nils Olsen, Jr., predecessor dean of SUNY Buffalo Law (1998-2008), is inherently credible, and certainly worth investigating by the AGs Office. Has that changed?

Yours truly,

Jeffrey Malkan 12 Valleywood Ct. W Saint James, NY 11780