Prosecutor shakeup hits Brooklyn DA’s Office
As Brooklyn’s incumbent district attorney prepares to leave office in January, he has rearranged a number of key staff in his interim days.
In the past few weeks, since his defeat to Ken Thompson in the November election for Brooklyn DA, Charles Hynes has fired one prosecutor and removed two others from high profile cases.
Joseph Alexis and Nicholas Batsidis were the lead prosecutors on a case involving an alleged false accusation by a child of sexual abuse by a Brooklyn cantor. Sam Kellner was a vocal member of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community who was speaking out against covered-up sexual abuse within that community.