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JUNE MAXAM, New York - junegaz@localnet.com I publish the North Country Gazette, started in 1981. It was a weekly paper from 1981 until 1994, when the Warren County Sheriff's Department under Sheriff Lamy and his then undersheriff, Larry Cleveland (who is now sheriff) decided they would shut down the paper because they didn't like it's content. In particular, they didn't like the twelve-part investigative series I did on the sheriff's department operations. They did put me out of business; hurting me financially. I nearly lost everything I had. Then Cleveland came after me with false charges that he brought himself, signing a false complaint against me, charging me with a false instrument that was not false. The special prosecutor actually submitted three false instruments against we that were prepared by a court clerk to get a false indictment and then suborned perjury from her at trial. The jury even caught the false instruments, but still convicted me. A whole case was built on lies to damage my credibility. Also involved in those false charges were two local town justices, both of whom were removed from the bench by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, on my complaint. Now I publish the paper when I can, supported wholly by donations. The sheriff's department and the ex-judges threatened and intimidated my advertisers into not advertising; my newsstand dealer were threatened with being burned out if they continued to offer the paper for sale. The sheriff himself went to the big grocery store chain and demanded they remove the paper from the store, and they did. It has been a long road, but the paper is still going; now a person has come forward to design a web page for me, and we'll be on the internet within a month or so. I'm working on some oaths of office issues right now, and have just found out the sheriff didn't file an undertaking which, according to the New York State Constitution, means the office is vacant. WORKING TOGETHER TO ATTAIN FAIRNESS | |
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