NEW YORK
NBC New York
Kenneth Thompson, a lawyer best known for representing the maid in the sex assault scandal involving former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, won the Democratic nomination for Brooklyn district attorney Tuesday, unseating longtime prosecutor Charles Hynes.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Thompson was leading with 55 percent of the vote.
Hynes has the support of the GOP but says he won’t run as a Republican. There are no other major party candidates in the general election. …
Charles “Joe” Hynes, 78, held the job more than 20 years — a ubiquitous figure with a tough-on-crime persona won him diverse fans — and critics — throughout the borough.
He was blasted by some for being soft on crime in the borough’s large but insular Orthodox Jewish community. He was accused of catering to powerful rabbis who did not want criminal cases, especially sex abuse cases, handled by secular authorities. Hynes denied the allegations.
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