Blutrich responded by hiring a former law partner of Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes as his attorney, which caused Hynes to reassign the case to a special prosecutor, said a Hynes spokeswoman. Once the case was assigned to Brooklyn lawyer Leo Kimmel, sources said, Blutrich switched lawyers, and later agreed to plead guilty to disorderly conduct for threatening Kimmel's private investigator, Lawrence Frost. In this kind of case, sometimes the best thing is to take a plea to something minor,'' said Kimmel, who declined to give specifics of his probe but stressed that Blutrich was forced to undergo a year of therapy and counseling as part of the plea bargain. We've gone through the thousands and thousands of entries and determined the three winners of our fourth Gang Land contest and notified them via email. Newcomers and Gang Landers who've been out of touch recently can easily check out the questions and answers to get up to speed.
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