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One year after the 1898 Consolidation of New York City, Nassau County was separated from Queens County. In case of a vacancy, a DA is appointed by the Governor to fill the office temporarily. A new DA is then elected at the next annual election in November, always to a full term. From 1847 to 1942, the term length was three years.
Melinda R. Katz (born August 29, 1965) is an American attorney and politician from New York City, serving as District Attorney of Queens since January 1, 2020. A Democrat, she previously served as the Queens Borough President. Katz was also a New York City Councilwoman from 2002 to 2009. [1] She had previously run for City Comptroller in 2009. [2]
Joining the Queens District Attorney's office as an intern in 1972, he worked there before joining the state attorney general's office, where he led the investigation of the Tawana Brawley rape allegations. Shortly after the appointment of Richard Brown in 1991, he returned to Queens, serving in the district attorney's office for the next 28 years.
Derek Klever, 27, a paralegal at the Queens District Attorney’s office, ... New York City police officers entering the Kamway Lodge in Queens, New York, during the investigation of missing chef ...
Brown, 86, who previously served as a judge, was first appointed to the office by Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1991 and was re-elected in five subsequent elections, sometimes without opposition.
The last time Queens got a new district attorney, in 1991, the borough that birthed Donald Trump and the fictional Archie Bunker was reeling from gang warfare and crying out for a tough-as-nails ...
The New York County District Attorney, also known as the Manhattan District Attorney, is the elected district attorney for New York County (Manhattan), New York.The office is responsible for the prosecution of violations of New York state laws (federal law violations in Manhattan are prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York).
A New York City woman convicted of trying to kill a friend with a sedative-laced cheesecake was sentenced to 21 years in prison Wednesday in the identity theft plot, the Queens district attorney ...