Bloomberg Law
December 22, 2016, 6:00 PM UTC

Alec Baldwin to Portray Brooklyn Prosecutor

Casey Sullivan

It’s many lawyers’ dream to have a Hollywood script based on them. But it’s hard to think of many lawyers who have achieved such a fantasy.

Today, we have news reports that Alec Baldwin is set to portray the controversial Brooklyn prosecutor Michael Vecchione in a new TV series adapted from the lawyer’s 2015 book,Crooked Brooklyn.

The New York Post’s Page Six reports that the TV deal is “in development,” according to an interview with Jerry Schmetterer, who co-wrote Crooked Brooklynwith Vecchione.

Vecchione was a top deputy of former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes and he retired from the office at the ...

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