many staff in the Office of the Brooklyn DA believe Vecchione perjured himself in the portions of the testimony pertaining to Lauren Hersh (see pp 95-100 of deposition transcript) that included:......
Everyone in your office remembers that Lauren Hersh gave the aforementioned lecture in the spring of 2012 in an 18th floor lecture room. In the lead up to her lecture many of her staff decamped to escape her incompetence. Staff in other parts of Rackets were assigned to take up the slack but they had no sex crimes experience. That is why your training was resented from the get-go and remembered very well.
This was also around the time that DA Hynes told the press that your office had improperly withheld the recantation by Dula’s accuser. Within a few months Hersh “resigned” and Dula was freed from jail.
Shortly after Lauren’s talk, Amy Feinstein, Chief Assistant District Attorney, sent out a memo to relevant staff reminding them of their Brady obligations. Around that time, Monique Ferrell, Chief Counsel to the Rackets Division, did a “make-up” session on the 18th floor to undo the damage of Lauren Hersh’s presentation. She openly challenged statements about Brady made by you and Hersh, particularly the claim that ‘If you don’t write it down, you don’t have to turn it over.’ Monique emphasized that information beneficial to the defense must be turned over, even if it is not recorded in writing.
Virtually all training sessions at the Brooklyn DA are videotaped. I cannot fathom how you forgot that. I am willing to bet you even remember brushing your hair and thinking about the best camera angle. Like Joe Hynes’s son. you are thinking ahead to Hollywood career. But I am sure you want to control the timing.
Staffers who have suffered under you, Mike, are so fed up that they are going to top personnel in the office and pushing for you to be fired. Others are going further in their thinking. They have concluded that Hynes is culpable for defending you and must be defeated in the September 10th election.
My readers in the Office of the DA, you now know where Mike’s memory went; it went into CYA-motivated, feigned failure. The question is what happened to your courage as prosecutorial staff sworn to uphold the law. Where did it go? Will it come back, and if so, will it come back soon enough? Based on what you know, a group of you could fulfill your professional obligation and file an ethics complaint alleging that Michael Vecchione committed perjury when he gave his sworn deposition.
Update (7/7/13) CBS show, Brooklyn DA, slated for cancellation. Continue reading ![]()
