Remove Acting Supreme Court Judge Jeffrey Spinner from Office, Now!

Judge Jeffrey Arlen Spinner, by his illegal and unethical behavior, is not fit to remain sitting as an acting Judge in the Suffolk County, New York, Supreme and Family Courts.

Judge Spinner has shown blatant and continuous disregard for Federal and State laws and has used his position, knowledge and power to attempt to obtain special treatment and bypass accountability of his own illegal and unethical actions and those of his family.

Judge Spinner's actions in circumventing how laws apply to him and his family,
ignoring his sworn oath taken as a Judge under New York law to uphold and abide by the very laws he oversees in his courtroom, as he sits in judgement of people before him in the Family and Civil Court where he presides (as a Suffolk County New York Judge) NEEDS TO END NOW.  

He must be held accountable for his disregard of the integrity of his position, his contempt of others and of blatently holding himself above reproach for those actions.

His willful violations of rules set in place by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, the New York Bar Association and the New York State Board of Elections prove he is unfit to hold any position as a Judge in New York or any other state.

ACTIONS AND INACTIONS OF JUDGE JEFFREY ARLEN SPINNER IN SUPPORT OF THIS PETITION TO REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE ARE AS FOLLOWS:


Recently Judge Spinners daughter Sydney Spinner-Marquez was arrested on April 20, 2018 for feeding her 4 year old son a marijuana laced brownie while in Judge Spinner's home where she and Judge Spinner's grandson also resided.

Judge Spinner had custody of his grandson at that time due to his daughter Sydney's continual drug use and prior arrests (2010, 2015, 2016, 2018) for theft and narcotic/drug possession. These arrests were publicized by local law agencies in news outlets which are easily found online.

Ms. Spinner-Marquez was publicly announcing through social media and in person there was to be a drug party at the home of Judge Spinner for '420 Day' on April 20th, 2018. This is a day with significance to the pot community in celebration of Marijuana use. She also used a personal Facebook page to advertise the party, it's address and time. A time period during which Judge Spinner would normally be at the home.

When New York State Police received an anonymous tip a child had been drugged at Judge Spinners address officers showed up at the home almost immediately, before the planned event that night, and found that a 4 year old child had been deliberately fed a brownie laced with pot to induce sleep and found the child incapacitated in the basement.

At the time Ms. Spinner-Marquez had been baking consumable marijuana products and packaging drugs for sale in Judge Spinners kitchen.

In addition to planning on selling Marijuana inside the Port Jefferson, NY home during the party, Sydney Spinner-Marquez had also been advertising and selling marijuana, its derivatives, waxes and dabs, and Psilocybin (Hallucinogenic Mushrooms), as well as assorted paraphernalia from the Judges house.

Ms. Spinner-Marquez packaged them from home and had been shipping the boxed drugs through the US Post Office to 'Clients' who payed for the illegal drugs through Paypal, Facebook and by money order.

New York State Police had been made aware of these activities (Ms. Spinner had been arrested 4 days before the 20th with over 30 packages ready to be mailed in her possession) they had obtained warrants and were planning on a home raid during the party on the evening of April 20th. They police department interceded sooner due to the report of a child being drugged, effectively short changing their own investigational priorities... a significant drug bust, for the immediate response needed for the rescue of an innocent child.

This was a 4 year old child who Judge Spinner had sole legal custody of. Custody entrusted to him by the court and child services due, as he stated to the court, to his daughters drug history and his desire to protect his grandson.

Judge Spinner is fully accountable in his neglect. Not only did he willfully place the child in direct harm by letting his daughter be unsupervised with his grandson, he turned a blind eye to her perpetual sale and continuing use of drugs in the child's presence and in his home. He allowed his grandson to be left in the care and control of someone he new to have an extensive history of drug abuse, a person he had told the courts should not have custody of a child.

This young child, who weighs less than 40 pounds, who Judge Spinner asked to be given custody of to protect him from his mother, was willfully and knowingly fed a drug laced brownie by the one person the kid was not supposed to be left with.

By remaining silent and turning a blind eye while his daughter promoted illegal drug sales and activities in his home, and by leaving the child unattended, unsupervised and in the company of Sydney, Judge Spinner is as culpable as his daughter in all those crimes.

Any excuse by Judge Spinner as to the ignorance of his daughter's actions, her activities or any other claim of not knowing what was going on in plain sight in his own home draws into view his self claimed 'expertise' in the Family Court Systems. He has purported himself to be an expert in child neglect and abuse, custody matters, drug court and juvenile court among others according to his Candidate Biography in the 2008 Voter Guide published online at nycourtsystem.org site.

Judge Spinner has a Facebook page of his own, he has 'friended' and has access to daughter Sydney's Facebook posts and of her, and her friends, who all post open admissions of continued drug use.

On a recent trip to Vermont the week of April 9th, 2018, a trip to purchase supplies for her drug party at Judge Spinners house (as posted by Sydney along with multiple photos taken at the shop of 'goodies' on one of her pages), Judge Spinner commented on his daughters Facebook page giving her directions to 89 South and telling her to visit some favorite spots along the way.

There has been a long history of drug use and questionable behavior by his daughter that the Judge can not say he was unaware of in defense of knowingly and by active neglect placing his grandson in direct harm.

The following are but a couple of instances to note:

May 18, 2010 Sydney Spinner is arrested near school grounds with 2 friends, she was determined to be under the influence of drugs, taken to a hospital and booked. Syringes and 42 Valium pills were found at the time in their possession. No formal court records or procedings can be found for Ms. Spinner in her fathers jurisdiction, however, her friends records are easily found.

March 4, 2015 Sydney Spinner is arrested in the town where she and her father reside. She was arrested for third degree grand larceny ($3000 or greater value, punishable by 7 years in prison). Yet again, no court proceedings or records are found of this arrest (except from the news media) which took place in her father's jurisdiction.

April 16, 2018 Sydney Spinner-Marquez is arrested for possession of packaged drugs in amounts indicating mass sales through the internet and Postal Services. Bookeeping, customer information and shipping records of drug sales and shipments were siezed on April 20th in Judge Spinners home.

Ms. Spinner-Marquez was released and/or bailed out on the 16th of April and went directly home to continue planning her 420 party in the Judges residence, apparently comfortable that her father's home was untouchable and with no thought to there being any repercussions (as in the past) with her arrest of April 16th on the charges of drug possession (with intent to distribute).

After the report of child endangerment and local and State Police intervention, Suffolk County CPS filed a motion against Judge Spinner on the childs behalf (after his 4 year old grandson was released from the hospital) immediately removing the child from Judge Spinners care and control.

There is a court hearing in Central Islip, New York on June 6th, 2018 at 9 am. scheduled in which Judge Spinner has been ordered to attend for further proceedings.

Court records available online show Judge Spinner is currently in arrears of $218,090.47 in back taxes. Audits by IRS and NYS tax divisions have shown his tax filings to be in error and/or deficienct since 2010, and continued to be, even after formal audits were conducted, up and through 2017.

It's inconceivable to find a good reason for having a combined $300,000 in family income and not pay taxes legally owed to the state and federal government. A normal person would try to enter a repayment agreement at the very least.

By clogging up the tax courts with lawsuits and motions and filings over the course of 5 years Spinner ignored the cost to tax payers which would be an enormous amount of money and hundreds of hours spent on manpower and court time just for the sole purpose of delaying the inevitable (as a licensed Attorney and Judge, Spinner knew how to use this tactic very well).

Again, the apparent feeling self entitlment and brash waste of public funds via these actions with a sole purpose to stall payments due and payable is nauseating.

County employees, like this Judge is, have taxes deducted automatically as standard practice with an annual notice and reminder to adjust dependent claims to avoid potential underpayments and possible tax issues, as do most regular employees in the United States. He can not claim ignorance of the short fall of taxes with this excuse.

Finagling the deductions, earnings and credits on his tax forms however....may be the contributing reasons indicated in the IRS filings.

Judge Spinner used his knowledge as an Attorney and Judge to attempt to clog the legal system with dozens of motions, filings and lawsuits to delay the collection of back taxes owed for several years.

During procedings in the United States Tax Court in Conneticut one judge admonished Judge Spinner in her written decision and alluded to the fact that he (someone who was held to a higher standard as an officer of the court) had been caught red-handed by the judge over lies Judge Spinner made directly to her in court under oath of perjury (over the timely mailing of a required document). This decision is publicly available through tax court records online and UCC links.


During a landmark case a few years ago in his own court room, Judge Spinner made a ruling allowing a couple in Home Foreclosure to keep their house and punished, financially and through harsh written admonitions in Judge Spinner's Determination and Order, the bank that held the mortgage and was seeking payment.

Judge Spinner made very clear his anger at the bank during trial and told them to not only forget about getting the house, the loan was now ruled cancelled and in addition the bank was told to pay almost $200,000 in putative damages to the couple who hadn't made a mortgage payment in several years.

What came to light after the fact was that Judge Spinner, now in tremendous debt and saddled with pending collections and with ever mounting tax liabilities, held a mortgage through a bank whose case was before him in his own court. A bank that held mortgage to his own house of over half million in value. 

This is an obvious case of conflict of interest that later came back to bite in the form of Judge Spinner being told to recuse himself from future cases involving that bank and the decision being overturned in appeal. Who his actions really and devestatingly affected were the couple who thought they hit the jackpot with Judge Spinners award to them valued in excess of half a million bucks.

They lost it all and then some on the banks win of the appeal of this clearly biased ruling (the home owner Mr. H. told the New York Post in a November 25, 2009 interview right after Spinner made the ruling that awarded him a free house and bonus cash "I think the Judge felt it was almost a personal vendetta").

Mr. H. later lost the money and the house, plus an added insult of still owing the bank over $200,000 when the Appeals court reversed Judge Spinner's bad Decision. Much worse off than before.

Judge Spinner's comment of the reversal and the fall out on this couple was essentially an 'oh well...'

By law, Judges can not be held to account for decisions made in thier own courtrooms with few exceptions. They have implied and direct immunity from being sued in that regard, bad or biased decisions don't really make a difference in trying to remove a 'Bad Judge'.

But the behavior and actions outside a court on 'personal' time do reflect directly on a Judges impartiality and trustworthiness and his ability to apply the law equally to everyone who comes through his court room when it crosses unethical, immoral and illegal bounds.

Judge Spinner has shown he is not capable of holding himself to these required standards and refuses to see his scruples and unethical behavior as a problem..

New York County Judges are elected in 10 year terms. During his 2008 Election campaign, Judge Spinner was using a political fund to raise money for his Judicial election. Even though the fund was started by a friend of his (The Committee to Reelect Judge Spinner) he was the one who took responsibility of and had control over maintaining the books. He added donations and made bank deposits, filed election campaign reports and wrote checks from this account.

Election law and the Judicial Election rules in place for Judges seeking office prohibit any Judge or candidate from using court employees for any campaigning or campaign related purposes. Yet Judge Spinner paid his personal law clerk with a campaign check dated 01/12/2009 in the amount of $340 under the itemization of 'Office'. This check was deposited directly into the clerks personal bank account, not an office supply business, a stationary or printing business, nor was it for rent of a campaign office, which Judge Spinner did not have.

On November 4, 2010 a full two years after the election cycle of 2008, Judge Spinner wrote a check from the election campaign funds left over in the amount of $3334.77 noting it was to purchase a personal computer. As he had made a calculated move to deposit exactly $40.12 the day before in the now two year old campaign bank account, he knew he would be draining the account purposefully. Amazingly the $40.12 deposit made the day before that personal $3334.77 purchase, left the fundraising account with exactly $500. A nice round number which looks oddly suspicious in light of Judge Spinners tardy use of the funds and his ability to predict future events down to the penny.

Although campaign funds left over from donors contributions during an election may be used for such things as Judges Robes or other items of that nature, the standard practice of returning pro rata shares back to the persons who gave donations or donating the left over money to approved charities is strongly recommended to avoid any appearance of impropriety with Judicial Candidates.

Even so, it's apparent to any lay person that Judge Spinner used the leftover money to make a very expensive personal purchase two years after he was to dispense or disburse those funds by election rules and standards.

It's obvious in Judge Jeffrey Arlen Spinners case, he makes bad choices and ignores or uses the law to his personal advantage without guilt or thought to collateral damages to others, police investigations, plaintiffs and defendants, taxpayers, State and Federal Government entities, even his own 4 year old grandchild.

For these reasons and many more not addressed in this petition (for length and time constraints) Judge Jeffrey Arlen Spinner of the Suffolk County New York Superior and Family Court is not fit to hold that position or any position in which he makes decisions that affect families, children or cases where impartiality, honesty and integrity are demanded.

Through his abuse of power, his neglect of duty, to the courts and people of New York, to his grandson, whom he placed in grave danger, by his use of Judicial position to hinder justice and law enforcement with regard to his daughter and her illegal activities, his alledged knowledge of the illegal activities in his own home, his manuipulation of the legal system to evade paying taxes, his use of campaign funds not allowed by law and his inability to recuse himself from obvious conflicts of interest in his court room, I ask you to sign this petition, call the court house, forward this to your state representatives and share this with your fellow voters so that Judge Spinner can no longer find a soft and reliable place to take advantage of what we the people entrusted him to uphold and carry out.

In the words of Judge Spinner himself, quoting his favorite and oft used closing statement in his Orders and Decisions:

His behavior is "harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive".

Judge Spinner's actions, to use his words yet again, are "ineqitable, unconcionable, vexatious and opprobrious" and he must be removed from office now and never allowed to hold such in the future.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Please sign and forward this Petition today.