NOTE: This piece first appeared on NYNewsPress.com.
By Dick LaFontaine and Frankie Pressman with Michael Volpe and Richard Luthmann
Once protected by Cuomo-era backroom deals, Staten Island’s power couple, District Attorney Michael McMahon and Judge Judith “Judy” McMahon, now face a reckoning as their allies fall and their influence wanes.
“The once-invincible ‘McMahon machine’ is wobbling,” one report noted, hit by “an onslaught of scandals and revelations” that have thrown the McMahons on the defensive.
Investigative journalist Richard Luthmann – a longtime nemesis of McMahon – has long vowed to expose what he calls a “weaponized” justice system under McMahon. He accuses the district attorney of running a “crony network” that is now cracking under pressure. In a recent bombshell podcast, Luthmann unloaded.
“They have criminals running their grand jury rooms… The criminal-in-chief, being Michael McMahon, in my opinion,” he said…