Seeking Justice For Perjured Declarations Filed in Court by Eliot Spitzer and New York Attorney General's Office

I am an African-American female. My life should have been an American success story. I was born black and poor in rural north Florida to an unwed mother. We were too poor to even have an outhouse - we had to share my grandmother’s outdoor toilet. As a child I worked in tobacco fields and one year worked as a migrant worker. As a migrant worker I picked peaches, apples, and harvested tomatoes and cabbages. As an underdog born into poverty I managed to achieve my dream of graduating from college and having what should have been a great career with New York State Department of Corrections. My dream and my life were shattered by employment discrimination.

My case was my personal discriminatory experience until the New York State Attorney General under the leadership of Eliot Spitzer filed perjured declarations in a court of law in this country. In my book ” Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer I detail my life, my horrific hostile work environment experience, and my Pro-Se legal battle with Eliot Spitzer.

I am still suffering emotionally, financially, and physically, from my employment discrimination and retaliation experience with New York State Department of Correctional Services which violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended and Eliot Spitzer. New York State Attorney General’s Office an agency with a Civil Right Bureau filed SEVEN perjured declarations in a Civil Right Act of 1964 Title VII (employment discrimination) case. Based on the perjured declarations and/or disposition testimony of Lee Gould, Personnel Director of New York State Department of Correctional Services, Sgt William Reed, Superintendent A. Andrews, Mike Russo, Assistant New York Attorney General, Gerald Goncalves (Affirmative Action) and Deputy Supt of Administration James Berbary, filed with Eliot Spitzer’s summary judgment motion my employment discrimination case was unjustly dismissed.

I would like to be made whole by New York State Governor Cuomo because I have exhausted all avenues of judiciary redress i.e. my appeal to the United States Supreme Court was denied.

Vera Richardson
Author of Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer 

My Book Screwed by Former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

“Screwed by Former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer”  is a non-fiction account of Vera Richardson’s David and Goliath battle with Eliot Spitzer. The book details Richardson’s humble, and poverty stricken childhood, her determination to obtain a middle-class lifestyle for herself and her family, obtaining her dream of graduating from college and becoming a professional only to have that dream shattered by New York State Department of Correctional Services and Eliot Spitzer.

Imagine if you hadn’t done anything to deserve it and you lost everything because of your sex and race. By losing everything I mean your job, career, friends, relationship with family members, and physical and mental health. Imagine complaining of employment discrimination at your work place for three years and the discrimination and retaliation escalating instead of ceasing.

Imagine filing an employment discrimination lawsuit without an attorney. Imagine having your employer New York State Department of Correctional Services represented by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and his staff of over 450 attorneys. Imagine the New York State Attorney General’s Office an agency with a Civil Rights Bureau violating the Civil Right Act of 1964 as amended during your employment discrimination lawsuit.

Imagine your Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VII case being thrown out of court because of perjured declarations filed by Eliot Spitzer. Imagine appealing the clearly unjust dismissal of your lawsuit without an attorney to all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Imagine the United States Supreme Court denying you justice by refusing to even review your case.


Imagine contacting the United States Department of Justice and having that agency agree that Eliot Spitzer filed perjured declarations in a federal court of law. Imagine the United States Department of Justice referring your case to the FBI for an investigation and Eliot Spitzer and/or his staff not being charged or held accountable for their actions.

More importantly, Screwed by Former Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is an example of the resiliency of an African-American woman to receive peace and justice for herself and other victims of employment discrimination and retaliation.

Vera Richardson
Author of “Screwed by Former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer”