As Brooklyn District Attorney, Kenneth Thompson supervised over 500 prosecutors and ran one of the largest District Attorney’s Offices in the country.  Prior to becoming DA, Mr. Thompson served as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn and then co-founded Thompson Wigdor LLP.  In 2011, after her case had been dropped by prosecutors, Mr. Thompson successfully represented Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who reported having been sexually assaulted in a Manhattan hotel room by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund. As Brooklyn DA, Mr. Thompson also expanded and strengthened his Human Trafficking Unit and established a nationally noted Conviction Review Unit.  Mr. Thompson died on October 9, 2016, at the age of 50.