What’s News, Breaking: Wednesday, December 7, 2022
ASSISTANT DAs TO RECEIVE MEDALS NAMED FOR LAW REFORMER IN NEW YORK HISTORY: Christopher Blank, representing Kings County, is among the outstanding assistant district attorneys from each borough, and in the Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, who will be awarded the Thomas E. Dewey Medals next Monday at the New York City Bar Association. The City Bar hosts host its eighteenth annual Thomas E. Dewey Medal Presentation Ceremony, free and open to the public, but in person only, starting at 6 p.m.
Remembered in New York history as having ushered in the era in which the District Attorney’s office hired prosecutors on merit rather than through political patronage, Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971) first came to the public’s attention as a prosecutor in the 1930s, winning criminal cases against gangsters, bootleggers and organized crime figures of the day, before later winning election as governor.
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