Attorney for the New York State Gaming Commission #KentDVanderwall was charged with a felony DWI

The Gaming Commission, I will remind my readers, is the Commission where Governor Cuomo gifted his buddy and likely partner in crime Janet DiFiore's husband Dennis Glazer a seat after DiFiore provided an invaluable favor to Cuomo as the head of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

An attorney of this venerable institution connected with NYS Governor and NYS Chief Judge,  Kent D. Vanderwall, was just charged with a felony DWI after he was reportedly found drunk and with open alcoholic beverages next to him in a van parked against the steps of a daycare center, drunk, with the car still running and in drive.

Here is the "hero":

The police found him after he was reportedly driving erratically from Schenectady to Scotia.

It is sheer luck that he did not kill anybody, including children.

Kent D. Vanderwall was reportedly could not complete field sobriety tests, refused a breathalyzer test, thus forfeiting his driver's license, and fought the police when taken to the police station.

Vanderwall was charged with a felony DWI because he had 2 prior DWI convictions.

I do not believe this is the whole story.

I represented people charged with DWI for years, and know that it is usual to offer a reduction to a violation to first-time offenders where there is no injury to people or damage to property.

Moreover, prosecutors bend over backwards to offer any kind of breaks to attorneys, and especially to attorneys working for the State of New York.

If Vanderwall was actually convicted for misdemeanor DWIs before, there must have been something aggravating, and those DWI conviction may have been preceded by more DWI charges reduced to DAI (driving while ability impaired) violations and thus sealed.

I will follow this case and see whether the State of New York will prosecute its own attorney and whether the State of New York will discipline its own attorney for jeopardizing people's lives by driving drunk.