A former Brooklyn district attorney was accused this week of using money seized from drug dealers and other criminal defendants to pay a political consultant in his failed re-election campaign last year.
The report from the New York City Department of Investigation alleged that Charles J. Hynes, a Democrat, improperly paid the consultant more than $200,000 and could now face larceny charges.
That’s not all. The probe also implicated Barry Kamins, described by the New York Times as a “widely respect jurist” in the city, for allegedly violating a judicial code of ethics through his advisory role on the Hynes campaign.
According to the Times, Kamins was relieved of all administrative duties with New York City’s criminal courts on Monday. Kamins’s lawyer, Paul Shectman, told the Times: “Anyone who knows Barry knows that he would not abuse his judicial position.”
The New York Daily News reported that Hynes was “in hiding” after the report came out, and he does not appear to have commented on the allegations.
Weird how the icon for this story on the front page zoomed in on the random woman in the background.
One more way that The War on Drugs corrupts people.
Here’s the thing: when Hynes lost, there were MANY charges of corruption towards his office from a variety of sources: lawyers, clients, judges, you name it. Most everyone under the sun here in Bklyn. knew the guy was very dirty. He had very little support by the end and that’s almost unheard of here in the CIty.
Well, he had plenty of time in office to piss folks off. Didn’t help that each year in office he became more and more of a despot. His MO reminded me of J Edgar Hoover as time went by - he had enough crap on his enemies, and stroked enough of his allies that he thought he was invinceable.
yeah, poor charlie hynes… apparently he also didn’t realize that protecting ultra-orthodox pedophiles in order to assure political support among the jewish community was wrong. or that relying on a lying, corrupt nypd to convict innocent people was also wrong…