Brooklyn’s new district attorney is quickly filing the high ranks of his administration. DA Ken Thompson has selected Abe George to serve as the deputy bureau chief in the Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau.

1. DA Thompson taps former rival
for chief position
By :- Charisma L. Miller, Esq.Charisma L. Miller, Esq.
Brooklyn Daily EagleBrooklyn Daily Eagle

2. Brooklyn’s new district
attorney is quickly
filing the high ranks of
his administration. DA
Ken Thompson has
selected Abe George
to serve as the deputy
bureau chief in the
Major Narcotics
Investigations Bureau.

3. George,
Thompson’s
political rival in the
2013 race for
Brooklyn DA, was
a prosecutor in the
Manhattan DA’s
Office for eight
years prior to his
decision to run as
Brooklyn’s head
prosecuting
attorney.

4. George was extremely critical of the former Brooklyn DA,
Charles Hynes, and filed a lawsuit in May to prevent the
broadcast of a reality show scheduled to prominently feature
the work of Hynes and his associate attorneys.

5. In July 2013, five months before the election,
George dropped out of the DA race, promptly
provided Thompson with his endorsement and
donated $5,000 to Thompson’s campaign.

6. Set to receive a
$95,000 annual salary
in his new position,
George may use his
role in the Narcotics
Bureau to further his
and Thompson’s stated
agenda of lessening
the criminality of small
amounts of marijuana
possession.

7. Set to receive a
$95,000 annual salary
in his new position,
George may use his
role in the Narcotics
Bureau to further his
and Thompson’s stated
agenda of lessening
the criminality of small
amounts of marijuana
possession.