The city’s five district attorneys have been desperately trying to get a sit down with Mayor de Blasio for months but hizzoner has blown them off while holding multiple meetings with Al Sharpton, The Post has learned.
Bronx DA Robert Johnson sent an email to the mayor’s office on behalf of the group and urged him to meet with them to discuss issues involving their budgets and public safety, sources said.
“I ask that, at your convenience, you meet with me and my colleagues from Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan and Brooklyn,” reads the email sent from Johnson on March 11. “We feel that we are an important part of the City’s efforts to provide public safety.”
Johnson also noted the mayor’s “tight” schedule, but said he hoped to give de Blasio a closer look at the “prosecution and prevention efforts” coming from the five DA offices.
The mayor’s office responded with an automatic reply from its director of scheduling that said it would take “approximately two weeks” to process the request.
Sources inside the district attorneys’ offices said they were shocked when City Hall gave them the silent treatment.
“It was surprising that we didn’t hear back from anybody,” said a source in one of the DA offices.
The district attorneys from Queens, Brooklyn and The Bronx also tried to set up one-on-one meetings with the mayor, but were also ignored, a source said, adding, “they tried to get meetings with De Blasio and didn’t get anywhere.”
During this time the mayor held a number of meeting for civil rights activist Al Sharpton, including a roundtable discussion concerning police brutality in August.
De Blasio also attended Sharpton’s star-studded 60th birthday party last week where he called Rev. Al “a blessing for this city.”
A spokesman for mayor said that a meeting would be set and that City Hall has increased the district attorneys’ budgets drastically for the next four years.
“The mayor looks forward to meeting with the five DAs,” spokesman Phil Walzak said.
“A meeting with Mayor de Blasio and all five District Attorneys will be scheduled for the near future.”
Additional reporting by Joe Tacopino