{"id":186861,"date":"2013-09-12T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/12\/i-missed-this-on-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2013-09-12T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T02:25:00","slug":"i-missed-this-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/12\/i-missed-this-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"I Missed this on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/for-brooklyn-prosecutor-a-rare-reversal-at-the-polls\">soundly defeated in the primary<\/a> by Ken Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that I have an interest in what would ordinarily be a very local race is because there is a huge Haredim (ultra-orthodox Jewish) community, particularly the Satmar, and many of the leading rabbis threw their support behind him.<\/p>\n<p>When juxtaposed with the very soft touch applied by to the Hynes&#8217; office toward the Orthodox community, the implication of an electoral quid pro quo is hard to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is saying that they will have a, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2013\/09\/if-brooklyns-legal-playing-field-is-made-level-what-will-this-mean-for-haredim-456.html\">DA&#8217;s office, where there will be one standard of justice for all, no matter where you come from, no matter how much money you have<\/a>,&#8221; which I think is a pretty obvious shot across the bow regarding the pattern of aggressive threats toward witnesses in the Haredi community.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I think that Hynes had an inkling that he might lose, because we have some credible allegations that one of his assistants, the, &#8220;scandal-ridden A.D.A. Michael Vecchione,&#8221; has been <a href=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2013\/09\/can-you-spell-coverup-567.html\">removing files from the office for the past few days<\/a>, allegedly to prevent Thompson from reviewing them and referring them to the Bar or a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>If Thompson can break the Omerta of the Orthodox community, it would be a very good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes was soundly defeated in the primary by Ken Thompson. The reason that I have an interest in what would ordinarily be a very local race is because there is a huge Haredim (ultra-orthodox Jewish) community, particularly the Satmar, and many of the leading rabbis threw their support behind him. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,972,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-justice","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}