John Kennedy O'Hara is an American lawyer,active in Brooklyn,New York politics. He is also the first person convicted of illegal voting in New York State since Susan B. Anthony was convicted for voting in 1872. He was exonerated of the crime on Thursday,January 12,2017. On February 23,2017,O'Hara filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit for $25 million against disgraced ex-Brooklyn D. A. Charles "Joe" Hynes.
Dora Lizette Irizarry is a senior United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Alan G. Hevesi is a former American politician and convicted felon who served as a New York State Assemblyman from 1971 to 1993,as New York City Comptroller from 1994 to 2001,and as New York State Comptroller from 2003 to 2006. Hevesi is originally from Queens,New York City.
Karen S. Burstein is an American Democratic Party politician,attorney,civil servant,and former judge from the State of New York. She served in the New York State Senate,worked in the administration of Gov. Mario Cuomo,chaired the New York State Civil Service Commission,became Auditor General of New York City,and then served as a Judge of the New York City Family Court. Burstein was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of New York in 1994,but was defeated.
Gerald Phillip Garson was an American lawyer and New York Supreme Court Justice who heard matrimonial divorce and child custody cases in Brooklyn. He was convicted in 2007 of accepting bribes to manipulate the outcomes of divorce proceedings. Garson was imprisoned from June 2007 until December 2009.
Dean George Skelos is an American former politician from Long Island,New York.
John L. Sampson is an American former politician and convicted felon. A Democrat,Sampson represented District 19 in the New York State Senate from 1997 to 2015. He is of Guyanese heritage. Sampson became Senate Democratic Leader in June 2009 and served as Senate Minority Leader from January 2011 to December 2012. Sampson forfeited his Senate seat when he was convicted of federal felony charges on July 24,2015. On January 18,2017,he was sentenced to five years in prison.
Charles Joseph Hynes was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from New York who served as Kings County District Attorney from 1990 to 2013.
William Henry Stanton was an attorney,editor,politician and judge. He served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district,elected to fill the vacancy when Winthrop Welles Ketcham resigned and serving for three months from December 1876 to early March 1877. He was previously editor of the Scranton Daily Times until 1872.
Irwin Steingut was an American lawyer,businessman and politician. At the time of his death he had served as a member of the New York Assembly longer than anyone in history. Early in his career he teamed with Brooklyn boss John H. McCooey,who turned Brooklyn into a solidly Democratic power base and dominated its politics for a quarter of a century until his death in 1934. Steingut thereafter became the de facto leader of the Brooklyn Democratic Party. Throughout almost all of his legislative career Republicans held a majority in the New York Assembly,and much of that time Steingut was the Minority Leader. In 1935 for the one year the Democrats had the majority,Steingut was Speaker of the Assembly.
Adele H. Cohen is an American lawyer and former politician. She is a 1964 graduate of Brooklyn College.
The Brooklyn Democratic Party,officially the Kings County Democratic County Committee,is the county committee of the Democratic Party in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the most local level of party governance in New York. Kings County Democratic County Committee is one of the largest Democratic county organizations in the United States,and the largest that is not its own city.
The 137th New York State Legislature,consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly,met from January 7 to May 20,1914,while Martin H. Glynn was Governor of New York,in Albany.
Kenneth P. Thompson was an American lawyer who served as the District Attorney of Kings County,New York,from 2014 until his death from cancer on October 9,2016.
Seymour R. Thaler was an American lawyer and politician from New York. A Democrat,he served in the New York State Senate from 1958 to 1971. He won a seat on the New York Supreme Court in 1971,but never heard a case as a result of his 1972 conviction for dealing in stolen Treasury securities.
Louis N. Scarcella is a retired detective from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) who initially came to prominence during the "crack epidemic" of the 1980s and 1990s,earning frequent commendations before many convictions resulting from his investigations were overturned during his retirement. As a member of the Brooklyn North Homicide Squad,he and his longtime partner Stephen Chmil built a reputation for obtaining convictions in difficult cases. Since 2013,Scarcella has received extensive and sustained publicity for multiple allegations of investigative misconduct that resulted in false testimony against crime suspects,meaning that innocent parties could have served long prison terms and guilty individuals could have gone free because of wrongful procedures.
James M. Turner was an American Republican Party politician who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature,serving one term in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1970 to 1972,and in the New Jersey Senate from 1972 until he was forced to resign from office in June 1973,after being convicted for his role leading a conspiracy to place drugs in the home of a Democratic Party political rival. Despite being evicted from his seat,Turner ran a quixotic campaign to be elected to a second term in the Senate.
The Kings County District Attorney's Office,also known as the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office,is the district attorney's office for Kings County,coterminous with the Borough of Brooklyn,in New York City. The office is responsible for the prosecution of violations of the laws of New York.. The current district attorney is Eric Gonzalez.
Amadeo Henry "Meade" Esposito was an American politician who was a Brooklyn Democratic leader and political boss. Esposito served as chairman of the Kings County Democratic Committee from 1969 to 1984. As a leader,he was known as a political fixer,and honored loyalty,running a citywide patronage system involving gratuity exchanges that ultimately resulted in multiple municipal corruption scandals.
Frank R. Seddio is an American politician and lawyer who served as a member of the New York State Assembly representing southeastern Brooklyn from 1999 to 2005 before serving as a Kings County Surrogate Court Judge from 2006 to 2007.
