Judge Richard Brown: Insurance Crime Fighter.

• Date: 01 July 2019
• Author: Serio, Gregory V.

When one thinks of a district attorney from New York City, the scene goes to any one of a number of celebrated crime stories from the City That Never Sleeps: murder, mayhem, and madness, it seems, trump virtually everything else. For anyone who ever tried to gain the attention of prosecutors for an insurance fraud case, even the most salacious of stories could barely hold a candle to the screaming headlines of the New York Post or other tabloids blaring the most recent heinous act. In Queens County, though, Judge Richard Brown was no ordinary district attorney, and his attention to insurance fraud cases was just one way he set himself apart from his peers. And rate payers, insurers and the public are all the better for it.

Judge Brown, who liked to be addressed that way even after he entered the district attorney's office, died on May 4, 2019 after a remarkable twenty-eight year run in that post. He left behind a legacy of showing up at crime scenes at all hours of the day and night, starting a school--at the district...