Discussion for article #223632
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…
The ‘Justice’ system in this country is a rock with a lot of uglies crawling underneath it that no one seems to want to take a hard look at…check out what they’re finding out about LA County jails. LEAs have been confiscating property and money even before conviction for a long time too.
Throw the book at him (see, that is difference between Democrats and Republicans. We prosecute our criminals, you promote them.)
$200,000 is only considered larceny? What does it take to commit a felony in NY? No wonder Wall Street Banksters live and work there.
It’s felony larceny charges.
Lifting this rock in Brooklyn has everybody a little on edge. There are a lot of powerful interests scuttling for cover.
He sounds like a total crook and supreme hypocrite. Glad to see he was caught.
I still don’t understand why a community would want the pedophiles in their midst to be protected.
What makes you think larceny can’t be a felony? Ever heard of grand larceny? It’s just an old common-law term for what modern code states call theft.
these are leaders within that community. and in light of how deferential lessers are to them, it’s very easy to understand.
I’m not being flip here but wasn’t there an episode of LAW & ORDER on this long before this?? SVU, CI, etc.?