Embattled Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. last week announced an outside review of his campaign-financing practices, but that wasn’t enough to quell complaints about his acceptance of donations from attorneys for wealthy, white-collar individuals whom he declined to prosecute.
In an Oct. 15 column in the Daily News, Mr. Vance wrote that he commissioned the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity, a division of Columbia Law School that concentrates on fighting corruption, to “begin an independent review of how we handle campaign contributions.”
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