“Rabbi Herbert Bomzer, president of the Rabbinical Board of Flatbush, told the Jewish weekly The Forward flatly: “If he [Rabbi Mondrowitz] has managed to get to Israel and is protected by the law there — then leave it alone.” “
Some think they are beyond the law. Maybe they should leave my country.
"..Charles J. "Joe" Hynes is the current District Attorney of Kings County, New York. In his childhood, he attended St. Ann's Academy in New York City (now Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood, Queens). Hynes received his JD from St. John's University in Jamaica, Queens.
Now in his fifth term, Hynes was first elected to office in 1989. After working for the Legal Aid Society, he joined the Kings County District Attorney's office in 1969, where he served as an Assistant District Attorney. Two years later he was appointed as Chief of the Rackets Bureau, subsequent to which he was appointed as First Assistant District Attorney.
In 1975, then New York Governor Hugh Carey and Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz appointed Hynes as Special State Prosecutor to investigate nursing home fraud. Hynes’ office launched a comprehensive attack on Medicaid fraud, and his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit eventually became a national model, cited in a report of the House Select Committee on Aging as the best in the country. [NY Times 27 March 1982: A9] Hynes testified before Congress in 1976 in favor of legislation establishing state fraud control units and providing federal funding. The legislation became law in 1977, and the following year Hynes was elected the first president of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units. [1] Now, 48 states have Medicaid Fraud Control Units.
Hynes was appointed the 24th Fire Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Edward I. Koch on November 5, 1980 upon the resignation of Fire Commissioner Augustus A. Beekman, and served in that position until his resignation on October 22, 1982.
Returning to public service several years later, his first major achievement as a head prosecutor would occur in 1987 when he was tasked with investigating the death of Michael Griffith, an African-American teenager who was set upon by a mob of white teens in Howard Beach, Queens. [2]
Hynes managed to secure three homicide convictions against the defendants, who would subsequently be sentenced to prison terms of varying lengths..."