The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office is not required under the state’s Freedom of Information Law to release documents relating to its efforts to extradite an accused child molester who fled to Israel more than 25 years ago, a unanimous appeals panel in Brooklyn has ruled.
The unsigned opinion in Matter of Lesher v. Hynes, 12956/09, reversed the order of Brooklyn Justice David B. Vaughn, who had ordered the release of all correspondence between the district attorney and U.S. government agencies concerning the extradition of Avrohom Mondrowitz. Mr. Mondrowitz had been indicted in Brooklyn for sexually molesting four boys between the ages of 9 and 15.
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