Brooklyn DA Thompson won’t pursue case that he says Hynes botched
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Prosecutors say they’ll move to drop charges against a Brooklyn man in a controversial extortion case involving a Brooklyn rabbi.
District Attorney Kenneth Thompson tells the Daily News that prosecutors don’t think they could prove the charges against Samuel Kellner at trial.
Kellner’s lawyer says the move is long overdue.
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