Instead of just checking off the boxes on our favored party's ballot, as most of us do, we should educate ourselves about the specific record of the prosecutor when he runs for reëlection, to be sure that "the person voted into the office has values that align with the electorate's".
That makes it all the more intriguing that the city resists the disclosure of records of how prosecutors and investigators conducted themselves.
That grew more pronounced on Wednesday, when a federal judge made public the names of the people she had recorded, over the objections of prosecutors.
Black legislators have been indicted in three new, unrelated corruption cases, and every lawmaker secretly recorded at the behest of prosecutors by the legislator, Shirley L. Huntley, now a former senator, was black or Hispanic.
An appeals court in Washington, DC, rejected the petition in 2013, arguing that the "reports are not judicial records".To the surprise of prosecutors and corporate attorneys, in July John Gleeson, a federal judge in Brooklyn, approved a deferred prosecution for a money-laundering case against HSBC, but stipulated that the bank should remain under court supervision.
Mr. Genson said the evidence he had seen in the hearing in a single day — including the reading of snippets of prosecutors' recorded conversations in which Mr. Blagojevich, the prosecutors say, seems to demand a high-paying job, donations and a cabinet post in exchange for the Senate seat — was insufficient.
There is an authoritative five-hundred-page record of an investigation for prosecutors to build a case from now.
"I wanted to leave a record of Samsung's corruption because prosecutors' investigation turned it into historical gossip," Mr. Kim said.
Rudin has a long record of holding the city's prosecutors accountable.
In one court document, filed on Tuesday as they sought to prevent the disclosure of the names of those recorded, prosecutors indicated that at least six of seven elected officials recorded by Ms. Huntley were the subjects of criminal investigations.
