Cy foe also took lawyers’ money

A WRITE-IN candidate critical of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. accepting donations from lawyers has a history of doing the same.

Marc Fliedner raised $130,788 earlier this year when he unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary for Brooklyn DA. Of the total he raised, nearly $52,000, or 39.6%, came from lawyers, records show.

“A month ago, it was OK for this write-in candidate to take tens of thousands in contributions from lawyers. Now it’s ‘pay to play.' That's politics, not principle,” said Vance campaign spokesman Steve Sigmund.

Fliedner defended his fundraising to the Daily News, and said that unlike Vance, most of his lawyer donors “had absolutely no business with the Brooklyn DA or any expectation of any such business in the future.”