DA Thompson taps former rival for chief position
Brooklyn’s new district attorney is quickly filing the high ranks of his administration. DA Ken Thompson has selected Abe George to serve as the deputy bureau chief in the Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau.
George, Thompson’s political rival in the 2013 race for Brooklyn DA, was a prosecutor in the Manhattan DA’s Office for eight years prior to his decision to run as Brooklyn’s head prosecuting attorney.
During the campaign, George ran on a platform of decriminalizing low levels of marijuana and putting an end to stop-and-frisk abuses. George was extremely critical of the former Brooklyn DA, Charles Hynes, and filed a lawsuit in May to prevent the broadcast of a reality show scheduled to prominently feature the work of Hynes and his associate attorneys.
Thompson received more tempered treatment from George during the campaign, with George very rarely having a negative word to say about his political opponent.