made to Vance by defense attorneys with links to Weinstein raised further questions. But Vance maintained the campaign cash had nothing to do with his decision — and said the case would not have been provable., and an appellate court is expected to make a decision on the matter in January.in 2017 for one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in New York history — the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
“When I think back on all of the thousands of cases we handled over the last twelve years, I keep returning to Etan Patz and his family,” he said, according to a copy of his prepared remarks. In 2011, just two years after he was elected to his first term, Vance caught heat for dropping charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the then-head of the International Monetary Fund accused of raping a maid at the Sofitel New York hotel in Midtown.