An Ethical Hall of Mirrors

As Frum Follies points out, it was just as much a breach of the city's ethics rules when Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes drafted Assistant District Attorney Dino Amaroso to act as his power of attorney in a series of real estate transactions in 2001 as it was, ten years later, when Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz drafted top aide Carlo Scissura as his pro bono attorney in a 2011 real estate closing.

The only apparent difference between the two incidents was that Markowitz, unlike Hynes, got busted and had to pay a $2,000 fine to the city's Conflict of Interest Board.

According to Frum Follies, Amaroso, in addition to the 2001 POA embedded in the Frum Follies post, helped Hynes, back in 1996, get financing from the Ridgewood Savings Bank to buy a co-op apartment on 216-35 12th Avenue in Rockaway Point, Queens, and also handled several other mortgage transactions for Hynes and his wife.

Today, ADA Amaroso is the ethics watchdog in the Brookyn's D.A.'s office, policing the professional ethical compliance of the D.A.'s attorney staff; and Charlie Hynes claims residency in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

The post from Frum Follies.