Hey, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes? You Need to Go. Here Are 8 Reasons Why.
7) Hynes Maliciously Pursues Enemies Through Legal Channels
John Kennedy O’Hara has something in common with Susan B. Anthony. They are the only two people in New York history to have been convicted on an obscure electoral fraud charge of voting in the wrong district. O’Hara was charged in 1997 of voting in his girlfriend’s district rather than his own. He believed, and a judge eventually agreed, that Hynes prosecuted him to settle a petty grudge. The source of the grudge was the fact that O’Hara had supported opponents of Hynes. Yeah, it’s just that simple and just that petty. The Brooklyn Paper reported in 2010 that, while the charge and conviction were legitimate, a 255-member Committee on Character and Fitness found that “Mr. O’Hara, accurately it appears, claims that the [Hynes’s political] machine went gunning for him and pounced on his change of residency calling it election fraud.” This finding was then “unanimously approved by the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division.”
