Yes, it does, but not in the way you seem to think.
I've been reading your assertions about "leaking". Well, there was no classic "leaking" as you would have it.
I am very curious, indeed, about how this came to the attention of the DA, himself, over a *week* before the story hit the press, and then "only" the Schenectady Daily Gazette.
The story was more than the DA merely finding out about this case and deal, so he says, but that the DA actually fired the ADA, Cynthia Preiser, for supposedly keeping him in the dark.
Yes, something stinks, like why, if what the DA says it true, then the question is why was it kept from him. Clearly he felt her actions were a firing offense. This was then finally in the news a couple days ago and is ever so slowly making its way into the the "mainstream" media.
I say the leaking business is not applicable. A DA firing a 15 year ADA is newsworthy, and the case it was over was newsworthy, yet the leak you think happened sure was s-l-o-w in coming.
Most prosecutor's offices have policies regarding what an assistant prosecutor can or cannot do without clearing from higher ups. My guess is this ADA broke the department rules by entering into this type of plea arrangement and then hid it from the boss.