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Showing posts with label Charlie Hynes. Show all posts

Vecchione Retires

According to the New York Post, Michael Vecchione, Charlie Hynes' beleaguered rackets chief, has put in for retirement and will leave his six-figure job in the Brooklyn D.A.'s office on December 12.

The news comes days after Vecchione abruptly sacked two veteran prosecutors for trying to dismiss an extortion case against Orthodox Jew Sam Kellner, believed to be anchoring a sweetheart plea deal

Libovits in Court on November 19

According to Haredi blogger Failed Messiah, pedophile rabbi Baruch Lebovits will appear in Brooklyn Criminal Court on November 19.

The court date may relate to what Jewish Week sources say could be a jail-free plea deal.

After Libovits was convicted in 2010 on 8 courts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to a term of 10-32 years in jail, his conviction was overturned on a technicality in 2012

Impeached by Reality TV?

Remember "Brooklyn D.A." -- the controversial, now-cancelled reality show, which some called an "infomercial", that aired in Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes' last months in office?

It seems that an obscure evidentiary pearl is hidden deep in those episodes.

According to Ron Kuby, head lawyer for 48-year-old Shabaka Shakur, jailed for 40-to-life in 1988 for the murder of two drug dealers, was a

Campaigning on Marathon Sunday

Hynes Double-Decker Dropping off Volunteers

Lhota Presser at the Salty Dog

Hynes Still Flyering Norman Allegations

As Failed Messiah reported, Brooklyn District Attorney Charlie Hynes promised NY1's Errol Louis to stop using a campaign flyer charging that disgraced former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman ran rival Democrat Ken Thompson's campaign -- an allegation that Hynes lacks credible evidence to support.

After Hynes promised Louis that he would stop using the flyer, Hynes' campaign

Thompson Outraises Hynes

Leads in Campaign Fundraising

According to campaign filings for the final three-week period before the November 5 General Election, Democratic Brooklyn District Attorney nominee Ken Thompson has outraised incumbent D.A. Charles Hynes by a margin of nearly 2 to 1.

These are the first reported numbers since Hynes announced a continued run on the
Republican/Conservative line in the General

An Ethical Hall of Mirrors

As Frum Follies points out, it was just as much a breach of the city's ethics rules when Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes drafted Assistant District Attorney Dino Amaroso to act as his power of attorney in a series of real estate transactions in 2001 as it was, ten years later, when Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz drafted top aide Carlo Scissura as his pro bono attorney in a 2011 real

Dialing Back on Small-Time Marijuana Possession

Brooklyn leads the city in small-time marijuana possession cases. Last year alone, 12,732 people were busted in Brooklyn for carrying small amounts of weed.

The taxpayers pick up the tab for the cops, prosecutors and court personnel it takes to process these cases.

Ken Thompson, the former federal prosecutor who beat incumbent Brooklyn District Attorney Charlie Hynes in the September

Hynes Race-Baits Thompson in Yiddish

Blogger Failed Messiah reports that Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes, running for re-election on the Republican and Conservative lines, has placed an ad in at least one Yiddish-language Satmar-owned newspaper race-baiting opponent Ken Thompson, who won the September Democratic Primary.

The Thompson campaign had the Yiddish ad translated into English and sent the translation to Failed Messiah.

Thompson Gets an Important Endorsement

The New York Times Editorial Board has endorsed Ken Thompson, who defeated incumbent Charlie Hynes in the 2013 Democratic Primary, for Brooklyn District Attorney.

After losing the primary to Thompson -- by a wide margin -- and announcing the end of his bid for a 7th term in office, Hynes reversed himself, and is now campaigning against Thompson as a Republican/Conservative in the November 5

Hynes Losing the Orthodox Jewish Vote

According to newsblog The Tablet, Brooklyn District Attorney Charlie Hynes, since his primary loss to Ken Thompson in September, has lost the support of even his
closest allies in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community.

Hynes' longtime friend Lew Fidler had switched his
endorsement to fellow Democrat Thompson even before Hynes decided to run again as a Republican in the November 5 General

Schumer Endorses Thompson

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, senior member of the New York delegation,
has strongly endorsed Ken Thompson for Brooklyn District Attorney, saying Thompson would effectively fight crime while delivering the change Brooklyn so desperately needs.

Schumer's endorsement follows Thompson's historic upset victory in the September Democratic Primary for Brooklyn D.A., making him the first

Bay Ridge Dems Work the Vote

In the aftermath of last Tuesday's runoff victory for City Council Member Tish James in the race for Public Advocate, Bay Ridge Democrats, the neighborhood's newest, hardest-working political club, touted its successful endorsement of the major winners in the city's 2013 Democratic Primary.

Endorsing Bill de Blasio for Mayor, Tish James for Public
Advocate, Scott Stringer for Comptroller, and

"Time to Go Joe": "I'm in Again"

Ken Thompson, who beat 24-year incumbent Charlie Hynes 55% to 45% in the Democratic Primary race for Brooklyn District Attorney last month, learned in the newspapers today, just like we did, that his defeated opponent, after conceding the election, promising a smooth transition, and swearing to stop campaigning, has pulled a 180.

According to the New York Post, Hynes' reversal came after a

Hynes: "I'm Out"

In a New York Law Journal interview today, Brooklyn District Attorney Charlie Hynes, who lost the Democratic Primary to Ken Thompson earlier this month, said he won't campaign on the Republican or the Conservative lines in the November general election, as Republican and Conservative supporters have urged him to do.

Hynes' denial ended a very public effort by manager Dennis Quirk, Republican

The Second Coming of Hynes?

No sooner had Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes been defeated by rival Democrat Ken Thompson in the September 10 Democratic Primary than the Republican and Conservative parties, undoubtedly with Hynes' knowledge and consent, placed an item in the New York Post urging Hynes to run on the Conservative and Republican lines in the November 5 general election -- something the 78-year-old had vowed not to

Add Scheduling Conflict, Whip

Incompatible calendars touched off a volley this week in the hotly-adversarial Brooklyn D.A. primary race.

Democratic challenger Ken Thompson's campaign tried, on Monday afternoon, to reschedule the last in a series of three debates with Brooklyn District Attorney Charlie Hynes at the Brooklyn Bar Association on Tuesday, Aug. 27, citing a scheduling conflict.

Because there were three

Hynes Huddles with Satmar Power Brokers

With Primary Day three weeks away, heredi blogger Failed Messiah reports that Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes called a face-to-face with Satmar powerbrokers Lazar (Leo) Kestenbaum and Friedman (Moshe) Gabbai today.

According to Failed Messiah's confidential source, Hynes is calling in his Satmar markers. The as-yet unconfirmed report is that Borough Park's Munkatcher Rebbe will convene a meeting

George All in For Thompson

At a reception this evening at his now-empty campaign headquarters on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, former Democratic Brooklyn District Attorney candidate Abe George introduced his core supporters to once-rival Democrat Ken Thompson.

George, pledging his full support to Thompson, announced that he will donate $20,000 to Thompson's campaign, calling on his

Candidates Forum with Hynes and Thompson

At 7 PM on Wednesday, August 14, VOCAL- NY, Brooklyn Young Democrats and the Brooklyn Reform Coalition will host a Brooklyn District Attorney Forum with incumbent D.A. Charlie Hynes and challenger Ken Thompson, battling for the reform vote, at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street in Brooklyn.

Doors open at 6:30 PM.

See the candidates in person and ask them questions.

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