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Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes sure does have a lot of enemies. One of his rivals is pointing out many of his top assistant DA's don't live in Kings County, which might violate their "duty as public servants to live in the city where they work," as the Post puts it. John O'Hara filed a complaint with the Conflict of Interest Board; the Post notes that O'Hara has been "prosecuted three times for the felony crime of voting from an address that wasn't his primary residence," so it's a tit-for-tat deal. O'Hara hopes that many defense lawyers will try to get non-Brooklyn-residing assistant DA's recused from cases. As for the other boroughs, both Bronx and Staten Island ADA's live in their boroughs while Queens and Manhattan ADA's can live outside the city. Manhattan DA's were given an exception to the rule that says "at face value...assistants should be living in the five boroughs," according to the Staten Island DA's office. Interestingly, there was an interview with Annie Parisse about playing new assistant D.A. Alexandra Borgia on Law & Order. Parisse's backstory for Borgia is that she's "...unmarried...I live by myself in Brooklyn. I have a cat. I think my family is maybe a little hoity-toity and that I didn't want anything to do with that. A loner, who's maybe even socially defensive and not trusting." No word on if she's a lesbian; we'll probably find out on her last episode. Anyway, who knew that top ADA's made over $100,000? We always thought Jack McCoy made less than that for some reason.
And Detective Green gets shot in this week's Law & Order...Gothamist hasn't heard if Jesse L. Martin is wanting out (he's the second longest detective this side of Jerry Orbach!), but we do know he needs to take time off to film Rent; Michael Imperioli is his temporary replacement.
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first off....ADAs do not make much at all. This is relative to the fact that they are paying down HUGE debts to schools on the smaller salary in comparison to private lawyers. Going after these individuals for not living in the city is just silly. The city is cost prohibitive given their salary, cost of student loans, and cost of living. furthermore making comment that top adas make more then 100k is also a silly point. any lawyer at the top of his/her game who is only making 100k in nyc is by far on the low scale of things financially speaking. ADAs sacrifice their potentially high paying careers as lawyers to give back to humanity through prosecuting those who have been arrested.
my feelings on the "living in the city" rule should pertain to cops as well. they dont make much. lets stop putting constraints on civil servants that would be illegal/contreversial to place on private workplace people.
excuse the above spelling/grammar errors. this was a rant that went unchecked.
there was a very good article in harper's magazine about 6 months ago about O'Hara and brooklyn political machine schenenigans
"The city is cost prohibitive given their salary, cost of student loans, and cost of living."
Not really. I live in Washington Heights. I pay just a little over 1K a month for a HUGE 1br pre war apt, with laundry, 2 supers, security and indoor parking. I'm 2 blocks from the train, it takes me no more than 40 minutes to get anywhere I want to in Manhattan. I'm close to Fairway, which is both cheap and higher quality than any other supermarket in the city. Brooklyn is not that cheap anymore anyway unless you're living in the ghetto or really far away, so I dont buy that excuse. They are living there because its hip, not because they're destitute.