Charles Hynes

Ken Thompson, Brooklyn D.A. Candidate, Asks Gov. Cuomo to Bigfoot Charles Hynes' Review of Old Murder Cases

The race for Brooklyn District Attorney is becoming a bit of a slugfest. First, there was word that longtime Democratic incumbent Charles Hynes' office was getting a reality show right in the middle of the race. Then, Democratic opponent Abe George filed a lawsuit to block the show from airing. Then ... More >>

John Sampson, State Senator, Indicted; Brooklyn Relieved He Wasn't Elected DA

Well, we guess the voters were right to re-elect Charles Hynes back in 2005, when he was pushed fairly hard in the democratic primary by challenger, state Sen. John Sampson. (Hynes won by about four percentage points.) Sampson, a 15-year veteran of the Legislature and chair of the senate ethics com ... More >>

Kimani Gray's Mother and City Council Member Seek Indictments from Brooklyn DA

The mother of a Brooklyn teen gunned down by two Brooklyn police officers stepped out of a meeting with the district attorney Thursday to deliver harsh words for a department she believes is deeply racist. Read more: Everybody Wants a Piece of Kimani Gray Carol Gray, the mother of Kimani Gray, a 1 ... More >>

An Op-Ed by Brooklyn District Attorney Candidate Abe George: Stop Arresting New Yorkers for Carrying Condoms

Carrying a condom in New York could lead to your arrest. Why? Because it is legal for law enforcement to cite condom possession as evidence that a person engaged in prostitution. Targeting condoms, however, is an ineffective deterrent to prostitution and threatens public health. The practice also co ... More >>

Charles Hynes, Brooklyn DA, Defends Record In Puzzling New York Times Interview

Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes is defending himself against charges that his office railroaded three men exonerated of violent crimes and released from custody over the past year. In an interview with the New York Times, Hynes [pictured with aide Michael Vecchione] insists that his office got it right ... More >>

Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes Responds to Voice Cover Story; We (Still) Rest Our Case

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes sent us a lengthy letter in response to our story about his reign as Brooklyn District Attorney ("Brooklyn Deserves a New D.A."). How lengthy? 2,005 words. Basically, he didn't like the article so much. And with the zeal of a Talmudic scholar, Hynes (or someo ... More >>

Brooklyn Deserves a New D.A.

Why the 23-year reign of Charles Hynes must end

Four More Hasids Accused Of Interfering With Orthodox Sex Abuse Trial

For the second time this year, four Orthodox Jews have been arrested for allegedly interfering in the trial of prominent Jewish leader/"therapist" Nechemya Weberman, who allegedly sexually abused one of his patients for several years, starting when the girl was only 12 years old.The four men arrest ... More >>

Eight More Alleged Drug Dealers Nabbed in Undercover Brooklyn Sting

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced the arrest of eight alleged drug dealers from Bedford Stuyvesant yesterday stemming from a long-term drugs-selling investigation. "Once again, undercover police officers put their lives at risk to make these arrests possible and improve life for t ... More >>

NYPD and Brooklyn DA Recover a S**t-Load of Illegal Guns

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced yesterday that they're packing some major heat. And, by heat, we mean the recovery of 154 illegal firearms seized in undercover police operations dating back to 2011. The NYPD launched three different undercover ... More >>

Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes Has New Challenger: Former Attorney For DSK Accuser Kenneth Thompson

The attorney who represented Nafissatou Diallo -- the hotel maid who accused French pol Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her in a Manhattan hotel last year -- announced yesterday that he's looking to unseat longtime Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, and there's already suggestions that the ... More >>

Brooklyn Gets Federal Bucks to Combat Domestic Violence Against Immigrant Women

The Brooklyn District Attorney's office will get $900,000 to beef up its program aimed at supporting domestically abused immigrant women. The Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women awarded the grant to the borough in order to help Brooklyn better assist domestically abused women w ... More >>

Trade in Your Guns and Ammo Today in Bushwick

As we have said before, no matter how much Americans love their guns, we are, in the end, a money-hungry people, which might explain why the last gun buyback program in Queens raked in 509 weapons off the streets.Well, once again, in an effort to rid a particular area of crime, you will be able to h ... More >>

Facebook Leads To Fall Of Two Brooklyn Gangs; "Very Crispy Gangsters" Are Crispy No More

As it currently stands, the body count from the ongoing war between the "Rockstarz" and the "Very Crispy Gangsters," both thuggish Brooklyn street gangs, stands at three dead VCG members -- which prompted a member of the "Rockstarz" to post on Facebook that "Rockstarz are up 3-0."Unfortunately for t ... More >>

Brooklyn D.A. Requests Special Prosecutor To Investigate Assemblyman Vito Lopez's Pervy-ness

Things just went from incredibly bad to incredibly worse for shamed Assemblyman Vito Lopez.Not only has he been "disciplined" by Democratic Assembly leader Sheldon Silver, but he could potentially face criminal charges for several claims of alleged pervy-ness made against him by multiple female staf ... More >>

Four Indicted For Attempting To Cover Up Orthodox Sex Abuse Case

Four Orthodox Jews have been indicted on charges that they attempted to persuade/intimidate witnesses into not testifying in the upcoming trial against "therapist" Nechemya Weberman, who allegedly sexually abused one of his patients for several years, starting when the girl was only 12 years old. ... More >>

Brower Boys Street Gang "Taken Down" Thanks To Facebook And Stupid (Alleged) Criminals

Here's a tip for any potential criminals out there: don't bicker about the proceeds of robberies you've committed on Facebook. Believe it or not, cops also have access to Facebook, and monitor it for dopes dumb enough to announce to the world that they're criminals.That said, more than a dozen membe ... More >>

Brooklyn DA Hynes Does Damage Control Over Orthodox Sex Scandal

A week after a blistering series in the New York Times detailing his apparent complicity in an effort by Brooklyn's Ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic leaders to cover up sex abuse in their communities, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is in damage-control mode. We noted earlier this week that some ... More >>

As the Times Looks at Orthodox Sex Abuse, Critics Say It Should Credit Others' Reporting

Last week the New York Times devoted successive front-page stories to the problem of sex abuse in Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic communities and Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes's deference to the religious authorities that often try to cover the problem up. It's an important issue (one we touched ... More >>

Report: New York Had 114 Child Abuse Fatalities In One Year

A report released by two New York district attorneys shows that New York is on the hook for more than seven-percent of all child abuse fatalities in the entire country.The report -- released by Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown and Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes -- looked at data from 2010, ... More >>

Good News, Brooklyn Stoners: DA Offers Get Out Of Jail Free Card For Marijuana Possession Arrests

Stoners, rejoice: if you currently have a warrant for your arrest after you failed to show up to court to answer for that pesky possession of marijuana charge, you're in luck -- Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes says if you turn yourself in this Friday, the charges will be dropped.Additionall ... More >>

James King, Newbie Voice Writer: Casual Racist BS Will Be Called BS By (Slightly) Older Voice Writer

"In the old days, reporters, in the pages of the Voice, went after one another. Readers enjoyed taking sides in these civil wars, and we ourselves sometimes discovered what we should have known before we so confidently wrote." So wrote Nat Hentoff in "Why I Oppose the Downtown Mosque: How I questi ... More >>

Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes: Scamming Old People Because They're Old Is A Hate Crime

​The best part about ripping off old people is that a lot of the time, they don't even know they're getting ripped off.However, it's still illegal, and, believe it or not, technically is a hate crime -- that's according to Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes, anyway.Hynes has charged a 36 ... More >>

Renewed Firestorm Over Orthodox Sex Abuse in Brooklyn

brooklynda.orgKings County District Attorney Charles Hynes​The relationship between Brooklyn's Orthodox and Hasidic communities and law enforcement has always been a delicate one. Our cover story last summer looked at how hard it is for victims of sexual abuse to get past religious leaders and ... More >>

Four Charged After Allegedly Raping Woman For Eight Years

​The New York Times has the horrifying story of a young woman in Brooklyn who was allegedly raped, forced into prostitution and "terrorized" by four men for eight years starting when she was 13. The men have now been charged with various crimes including rape, sex trafficking and compelling pr ... More >>

Lindley DeVecchio, ex-FBI Mob Buster, Once Again Blasts Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes

​Former FBI Mob investigator Lindley DeVecchio once again lets Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes have it for indicting him for getting to close to his prize informant. DeVecchio, appearing on Curtis Sliwa's talk show yesterday morning on AM 970, called Hynes "either incredibly stupid o ... More >>

Former FBI Agent Slams Prosecutor's "potbelly"

A new book by a former FBI agent cleared of involvement in mafia murder conspiracies slams Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes for being "always more interested in publicity than doing his job," the Daily News reports today. Lindley DeVecchio also takes on one of Hynes' top prosecutors Michael ... More >>

T.G.I. Friday's Among Those Charged With Dumping Waste and Raw Sewage in Brooklyn Waterways

Because untreated grease gives us all something to smile about!​Here's yet another reason we find ourselves weary of the continuing existence of T.G.I. Friday's.

The Post's "Welfare" Fraud

​If you read the Which Lazy Bastards Are Ripping You Off section of yesterday's tabloids — you can find it after the Who Is Sandra Bullock Not Sleeping With/Adopting section — you may have spotted the story that the Post headlined "Millionaires' welfare 'con' ": The Brooklyn DA's o ... More >>

City and NY Restaurant Association Launch Delivery Workers Protection Program

Revenge: best served cold.​Assami Semde may have foiled the would-be thieves who tried to steal his pizza earlier this month, but not all restaurant delivery workers are so lucky. And so in response to a recent rise in violent incidents, City Councilwoman Letitia James and Brooklyn District At ... More >>

ACORN Committed No Crime: Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes

​Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has determined that the ACORN Brooklyn office broke no laws when it was caught in James O'Keefe's sting operation last year. In a statement, Hynes says, "On September 15, 2009, my office began an investigation into possible criminality on the part of ... More >>

Lights, Camera, Interrogation! NYPD Rolls Cameras on Suspects

​In a pilot program at two precinct houses, the NYPD will start filming police interrogations. On the pro side, the American Bar Association and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, who say it'll be a safeguard against illegal grillings and accusations thereof. On the other, the Detectiv ... More >>

How the Mob Hoodwinked D.A. Candidate Leslie Crocker Snyder

Pigott Family "Shun" Ray Kelly; Cop Board Applauds

Method Man Says "Just Say No"

Three Indicted in the Murder of P.O. Russell Timoshenko

"Lovers's Lane Rape" Suspect to Face Judge

Silence of the Lam

Accused of sexually abusing young boys, a Brooklyn rabbi lit for Israel 22 years ago. Now one alleged victim wants him brought back for trial.

Better to Know the Judge

As an adult home deteriorated, a veteran jurist and a lawyer shared cocktails and dinner

Grand Jury's Out

Brooklyn D.A. Accused of Failing to Indict Cops Who Kill

The Backroom Crowd

Indictments Looming, Power Brokering Goes on as Usual as Brooklyn Pols Meet

Judicial Fever in Brooklyn

A Democratic Party Loyalist Talks Out of School

Another 'Justified' Homicide?

A Police Shooting Reveals Scared Tenants and Scary Cops

Elephant Hunters

New Green Party Leaders Learn Some Old Tricks

Black Blood Is Cheap

The Anti-Police-Brutality Movement Has Been Shot Down in the Highest-Profile Cases

Hynes and His ‘Haman’

Orthodox Jews, Angered Over Recent Cases, Up in Arms Against Brooklyn D.A.

Letters

Letters

Raising Patrick Bailey

The painful journey for justice for an unsung victim of alleged police brutality