Actually, it’s more collocated. Hynes has always won election with narrow pluralites,with the margin of victory provided by the solid bloc of Satmar votes. Six months ago there were credible reports that Hynes appeared to have ignored reports of witness intimidation and accepted questionable plea deals to misdemeanors in cases involving Satmar defendants. Along came Weberman and I believe Hynes felt he had to get a conviction to disprove the allegations
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