Kings County Criminal Bar Association donates money to charities, law school scholarship
The Kings County Criminal Bar Association (KCCBA) has focused on raising money for charity under President Michael Cibella, and during its monthly meeting in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday, it spread some of that money around.
“We raised a good deal of money for two great charities — one was the YWCA of Brooklyn, a group that serves women victims of domestic violence by finding them housing and shelter,” Cibella said. “The other program was Families Rising, which is a part of [The New York Foundling Fontana Center for Child Protection], which helps children charged with a crime find a way out of the criminal justice system.”
Cibella explained that he was inspired to donate to these particular charities by Justice Michael Corriero, star of TV’s “Hot Bench.” It was Corriero who got Cibella involved with working with kids while he was an assistant district attorney at Family Court. Corriero worked with Families Rising and was one of the first to donate to KCCBA’s charity golf outing over the summer.
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