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

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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

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The White Whale

With his days in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office numbered, the New York Post reports that scandal-plagued rackets chief Michael Vecchione has sacked two assistant DAs for telling him to dismiss a flimsy extortion case against Orthodox Jew Sam Kellner.

When veteran prosecutors Joseph Alexis and Nicholas Batsidis, assigned to the Kellner case, told Vecchione they had no evidence against

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