STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Assistant District Attorney Thomas Litsky, who currently serves as chief of the Staten Island District Attorney’s Appeals Bureau, received the Thomas E. Dewey medal from the New York City Bar Association at its annual awards ceremony earlier this month.
“Since 1989, I have had the privilege of serving as a prosecutor and government lawyer in a variety of offices,” Litsky said. “I want to express my sincere gratitude to District Attorney Michael McMahon for his leadership and vision, his trust in me, and for welcoming me four years ago to the talented team of professionals he has assembled. Since Day One, there has been a spring in my step when my feet hit 130 Stuyvesant Place, and for good reason. The Richmond County District Attorney’s Office is truly a special place. It starts from the top.”
The award is given to honor an outstanding prosecutor from each of the five boroughs in the name of Thomas E. Dewey, the former Manhattan district attorney, governor of New York, and 1948 Republican Party presidential nominee.
Litsky is an appellate lawyer who began his career in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he served in the Trial Division and the Appeals Bureau from 1989 to 1997, serving briefly with the Office of the special Narcotics Prosecutor as well. From there, he served for nearly 20 years as an assistant attorney general in the New York State Attorney General’s Office, working on direct criminal appeals and federal habeas corpus litigation.
Following that tenure, Litsky moved to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, where he worked in the Trial Division from 2016 to 2018, until his departure to assume a position in the Appeals Bureau, where he was promoted to chief earlier this year.
“For nearly 35 years, Thomas Litsky has devoted his professional life to the people of New York, to the pursuit of justice under the law, and to the protection of public safety,” McMahon said in a statement. “ADA Litsky is…
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