Demand An Investigation Into Why OTDA Clerk. Joseph Farrell Is Allowed To Terminate SNAP (Food Stamps)  Aid Continue Before A Fair Hearing, Acting As A Judge (ALJ), Provoking Starvation 

The Crisis:

NY law is being hijacked. Joseph Farrell, a clerical employee at OTDA, has decided that he should act as "judge/executioner who has the right to overrule law" by manually terminating Aid to Continue (AC)  for SNAP recipients. This is not a clerical error but a criminal usurpation of power. This clerk is stripping the most vulnerable New Yorkers of their right to eat while they wait for a legal hearing—substituting his personal opinion for the Rule of Law.

The Sabotage:
Under 18 NYCRR § 358-3.6, "Aid to Continue" is a mandatory legal protection. Benefits must remain unchanged until an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) rules. Yet, s Joseph Farrell is allegedly altering state records,  original dates of requests and expiration to remove this protection—reportedly to build his resume as a "cost-saving" employee. Saving money by starving eligible persons is a crime, not a career achievement, especially when their medical bills to the State due to starvation exceed the alleged savings.

The Human Cost:
This sabotage has turned the social safety net into clerks’ anarchy and a quest for bonuses, seeking recognition. The consequences are documented and life-threatening:
Emergency Hospitalizations: 
The consequences are life-threatening and are caused directly by benefit termination, requiring urgent protection for all affected.

Systemic Corruption: 
Joseph Farrell is not a judge or a lawyer; he is merely a supervisory CLERK abusing his position and the public trust who has granted himself the power to act as an administrative JUDGE.

WE DEMAND:

Immediate Multi-Agency Audit: A full investigation by the NYS Inspector General and Attorney General into Joseph Farrell’s unauthorized system entries and why such destructive, violating law persons are granted access to alter records and remove approved protection, corrupting other clerks to follow his example, when they trust his electronically manipulated entries of a supervisor.
Criminal Prosecution is required for criminal acts of records tampering: Referral to the Albany District Attorney for Official Misconduct (PL § 195.00).

Automatic Reinstatement: Immediate restoration of all "Aid Continuing" status stripped by clerical interference for ALL affected individuals, regardless of race, age, origin, or sexual orientation—not how Joseph Farrell interprets law based on his, political agenda deciding who does or does not deserve the benefits.

Removal of System Access: Such clerks must be prohibited from accessing “Remove Aid Continue” button and entering discriminatory notes advising others to deny aid based on their personal "decisions and interpretations of who deserved what." This power is reserved exclusively for the Administrative Law Judges, licensed attorneys, assigned to the case, not to those who decided “to play a judge”.

Public assistance is a legal right, not a resume-builder for clerks like Joseph Farrell, who failed to become a judge but craves judicial authority, forcing his, supremacist political views on the most vulnerable families.

Sign this petition if care to demand accountability and protect the lives of New Yorkers.

Your signature is a vote against corruption, anarchy, and for human survival!