Staten Island DA To Investigate Vito Lopez
If Assemblymember Vito Lopez hoped that stepping down as the leader of the Kings County Democratic Party would quiet his critics, he was wrong.
In the wake of ongoing revelations about his alleged harassment of female employees in his state office, Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan has been named special prosecutor in the investigation against against Lopez.
The announcement comes less than a day after Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes called for a special prosecutor to look into the allegations against Lopez – who has said he wants to stay in office — that led Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to strip the 14-term legislator of his committee chair position and order him to go through “supplemental sexual harassment training.”