By COLlive reporter
A lawsuit is being filed against the CBS Corporation and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes for airing a reality TV series about his work in Kings County as he runs for reelection.
Seeking a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to prevent the airing the show is Abe George, former assistant district attorney of Manhattan who is a candidate for Brooklyn District Attorney. He is joined by justice advocate Jeffrey Deskovic, wrongful conviction victim Derrick Hamilton and others.
George will be announcing the lawsuit on Tuesday, May 14 at 1:30 pm in front of CBS Corporation on 52nd Street during a protest by family members and “victims of the District Attorney’s office who have have been wrongfully convicted in Brooklyn during the tenure of DA Hynes.”
It is unclear if they will be joined by members of the Jewish community in Crown Heights who are opposing Hynes for trying to extradite Yitzchak Shuchat, currently living in Israel, for assault charges stemming from an incident 3 years ago.
The lawsuit alleges that Hynes for the past 23 years has agreed to take an excessive campaign contribution from defendant CBS in violation of New York State Election Law during the final months of his closely contested race for re-election this year.
George said in a press release that the “contribution from CBS, which could amount to millions of dollars to Hynes, is under the guise of a reality television show called Brooklyn D.A.”
CBS is planning to broadcast it starting May 28 in six, one-hour weekly episodes, starring Hynes and his office. George said the free publicity “will far exceed the state limit for a corporate contribution, capped at $5,000 a year.”
“In expending the time and resources of his office to coordinate with CBS in the production, filming and promotion of the show, Hynes has also unlawfully used state money to further his own political campaign,” the press release said.
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But who knows if the next guy will be any better
Hynes has blood on his hands. All the countless beatings in ch that took place hynes let all the thugs go out with pink slip. Hynes is a media lover . He needs to be thrown out of office . We need change . He is no freind of the jews dont be fooled
Hynes is not to blame for Shuchat, the Shomrim are, and they are proud of it too, they would not deny it. In fact, members of the shomrim reported their efforts to the Daily News and spoke freely with reporters about how they made sure to report Shuchat to the police and DA (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/suspect-beating-son-livin-israel-victim-father-fumes-article-1.455440 ) .. In the same article the shomrim stated that the DA did not immediately react. it was only after the Daily News reported complaints of shomrim against the DA for NOT taking a strong enough position against Shuchat that the DA became more vigilant about… Read more »
this new guy is very dirty, he will go after the jewish community like never before he will go after any kind of fraud that he can think of and try to put people away for the max,
watch what you pray for, dont fix something if its not broken
he is no friend of the jewish community he is just trying to help the black community and sill say anything now for votes
Do you really think his opponent want prude Shuchats case? I doubt it. But just for the record why doesn’t the media (collive) ask him his opinion – that way we can know who we should support.
About time someone taken him down. He’s old and washed out
My enemy’s enemy is my friend. Hynes is trying to fix up 25 yr’s of damage but lets not be fooled throw him out…