The former candidate for Brooklyn district attorney who all but ensured DA Ken Thompson’s victory over incumbent Charles Hynes by dropping out of the race – and was then hired by Thompson – has resigned.
“I am happy to announce that I am leaving the Brooklyn district attorney’s office to join the Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice, as general counsel,” Abe George, 35, said in a statement, about his move from getting bad guys locked up to clearing convicts who were wrongfully convicted.
“I am proud to have supported our current District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson as part of his transition team and in the last year working as a Deputy Bureau Chief in his office.”
George was running in third place to Hynes and Thompson when he dropped out of the race in late July 2013, funneling anti-incumbent votes to Thompson in his landslide victory over Hynes.
“The percentage shows that my dropping out put us over the top,” George told the Post the night of the September primary.
“I knew we were going to split the vote.”
Thompson hired George as deputy bureau chief of the Major Narcotics Investigations Bureau days after taking office.
George, a Brooklyn native, was a Manhattan ADA for eight years working in the homicide and special narcotics bureaus.
The Deskovic Foundation is best known for working to free William Lopez, a wrongly convicted Bronx man who was imprisoned for 23 years before his conviction was overturned last year.
The Post featured Lopez on the front page last week when he tragically died days before his $124 million lawsuit was set to go to trial.