End Of An Era: Kenneth Thompson defeats Charles Hynes in Brooklyn DA race
Kenneth Thompson, a lawyer best known for representing the maid in the sex assault scandal involving former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, won the Democratic nomination for Brooklyn district attorney Tuesday, unseating longtime prosecutor Charles Hynes.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Thompson was leading with 55 percent of the vote.
Hynes has the support of the GOP but says he won’t run as a Republican. There are no other major party candidates in the general election.
Thompson, 48, is a former federal prosecutor who tried the brutal police attack on Abner Louima in 1999. Since going into private practice, he has represented victims of a 2007 steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan and Sherr-Una Booker, the woman at the center of a domestic violence scandal that caused serious political damage to then-Gov. David Paterson, who eventually dropped plans to run for a full term.