Former Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes may have committed larceny by using funds seized from crooks to pay for his failed bid for reelection, a stunning investigation revealed Monday.
A scathing report by the city’s Department of Investigations said Hynes paid a consultant more than $200,000 — money that may have been seized from drug dealers and other felons — for political counsel.
He also allowed senior staffers to help in his reelection effort during their work hours, the report found.
The DOI probe revealed that Justice Barry Kamins — then Brooklyn’s administrative judge and now the state’s chief of policy and planning — gave Hynes improper advice about the campaign and pending criminal matters.
Kamins has been relieved of his duties, and the findings have been referred to several agencies, including the attorney general, officials said.
Since Hynes’s humiliating defeat in the election in the fall, his legacy was further tarnished with the release of multiple inmates who were wrongfully convicted of murder during his tenure and with revelations of alleged unlawful tactics employed by his office.
But the damning DOI report may be the most critical indictment to date.
5 comments:
Wonder whst sorts of things could be dug up on our midget marvel?
If this is true, screw Hynes.
The arrogance of elected public servants is growing. They think they deserve their positions and are above the laws they are entrusted to uphold and prosecute.
Looks like his 50 year career wasn't so impeccable after all.
Too much time swilling adult beverages in Breezy Point.
The Brooklyn DA office has been a cesspool of corruption for awhile, I think.
I remember a former classmate of mine back in law school who resigned in disgrace because she, as prosecutor, was divulging strategy and other things to her defense attorney husband, who was representing a defendant in a criminal case, brought by Hynes' DA office.
Corruption is infectious.
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