Hynes used government e-mail to discuss campaign: report

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes used his government e-mail to chat with pals about campaign strategy against his political opponent, Ken Thompson, according to a report.

A half-dozen e-mails leaked to the Web site BuzzFeed include a reply apparently from former state Chief Justice Sol Wachtler that contains a racial slur.

Wachtler allegedly wrote the word "schwarze," a derogatory Yiddish term for African-Americans.

It wasn't clear why the term was used or whether it was aimed at Thompson, who is black.

Wachtler, who spent 13 months in prison in the 1990s for harassing his mistress, strongly denied sending the message.

"That is a fraudulent and libelous, and we are getting to the bottom of it now," Wachtler told The Post.

A spokesman for Hynes said the DA's staff was investigating the alleged Wachtler message and insisted Hynes never saw it. Spokesman Jerry Schmetterer said other e-mails may have been doctored as well.

He also downplayed the exchanges, saying they were simply "e-mails between friends."

"They have no role in the campaign," Schmetterer said. "They were just talking about what was going on in the primary."

It is a violation of campaign rules for a candidate to use public e-mails to run for office.

Among the e-mails was one in which Hynes gives his take on former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's run for city comptroller.

"Interesting. Spitzer might win," Hynes wrote.

After losing the Democratic primary to Thompson, Hynes, 78, is running in the general election on the Republican and Conservative Party lines.

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