RIP.
Former Brooklyn DA Joe Hynes dead at age 83
Charles J. Hynes, 83, who served 24 years as district attorney in the ‘Republic of Brooklyn’ died Tuesday evening at a Hospice in Deerfield Beach, Florida. According to news reports he had been in failing health for some time.
Hynes was elected district attorney in 1989 and served in that capacity until 2013 when he lost a re-election bid to Kenneth Thompson in a Democratic primary. Thompson would later succumb to cancer in 2016.
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