Report accuses Charles Hynes of misusing seized funds
A report by the city’s Department of Investigation accuses former Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes of using money seized from drug dealers and criminal defendants to pay for a political consultant.
The New York Times said the report has been referred to the state attorney general for possible larceny charges for misuse of public funds.
The 27-page report obtained by the Times says the consultant, Mortimer Matz, was paid over $200,000 for his work on Hynes’s unsuccessful re-election campaign last year. But the report says Matz provided few if any actual services to the office and served primarily as Hynes’ personal political consultant.