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Lights, Camera, Brooklyn! Kings County District Attorney To Star In Reality TV Show

Big things are happening at D.A.’s office. This spring, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will be starring in a new six-part series on CBS, aptly titled “Brooklyn D.A.”

A press release acquired by the Daily News said the show follows “hard-charging prosecutors (with) larger-than-life personalities both inside the courtroom and out. They’re eccentric and Read More

Lew Fidler’s Slate

In case you're wondering who Lew Fidler is endorsing, he emailed reporters to say:

Not that even my already inflated ego believes that you need to write about this and that it is newsworthy, but i wanted to let you all know that today I am endorsing the following candidates in this years Read More

Mark Peters Returns

Eliot Spitzer’s administration is bringing aboard Mark Peters, one of the unsuccessful Brooklyn District Attorney candidates who challenged incumbent Charles Hynes in a primary two years ago.

Peters will be the Special Deputy Superintendent in charge of the New York Liquidation Bureau. Previously, Peters worked in Spitzer’s AG office as chief of the Public Read More

Ballot Blues

At the Democratic state convention coming up next month, the Politicker has been told, candidates without 25 percent of the vote will not be able to speak or have a place on the Democratic primary ballot in September (unless they petition to do so).

Andrew Cuomo could have been a victim of this Read More

Reconciled in Brooklyn

Memories, it seems, are short in Brooklyn.

Just last year, Assemblyman Dov Hikind campaigned, hard, against the incumbent district attorney, Joe Hynes, and for the organization candidate, John Sampson.

But on April 2, Dov will be presenting awards at the Boro Park Jewish Community Council’s legislative breakfast, including the “distinguished guardian award for integrity in Read More

Residency Revisited

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, something of a stickler on residency issues, seems to have established that the time he spends in Breezy Point doesn’t endanger his legal residency in Brooklyn.

But that doesn’t mean it’s not a political liability, which challenger Mark Peters probes pretty directly in this spot.

The letters on the Read More

A Clear and Present Danger

Does anyone really believe that the Indian Point nuclear-power plant deserves to continue operating? Apparently, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission does: The troubled plant’s two active reactors were recently given a clean bill of health by the N.R.C., giving the plant a chance to go full blast despite its long history of shoddy safety evaluations, Read More