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Clark's tenure as District Attorney has been further marred by reports of cronyism and misconduct. In May 2016, newspaper accounts revealed Clark rehired a friend who had been forced to resign form the District Attorney's Office years prior after falsely impersonating a police officer, breaking a man's nose, and fleeing the scene of a crime in a fit of road rage. Reporting further revealed that Clark gave a prominent promotion and raise to the assistant district attorney responsible for the bungled prosecution of Kalief Browder. A federal civil rights lawsuit alleged that Clark and high-ranking members of Clark's Public Integrity Bureau sought to harass and intimidate a police officer who gave a traffic ticket to fellow democratic party member Vanessa Gibson. Another federal lawsuit claimed that Clark demanded the resignation of a disabled prosecutor who requested handicap access to accommodate her wheelchair. Court filings in the conviction integrity investigation surrounding the murder conviction of Calvin Buari revealed that investigators acting on behalf of the Bronx District Attorney's Office sought to bribe and threaten a witness who exculpated the wrongly accused and imprisoned defendant, ultimately silencing this witness. . The Jay-Z produced documentary TIME: The Kalief Browder Story ran on Spike TV in March and April of 2017, detailing the prominent role Darcel Clark played as the judge overseeing Kalief Browder's case, immedicatley prior to her assuming office as the District Attorney, keeping this indigent juvenile incarcerated and in solitary confinement long after the Bronx District Attorney's Office lost their one eyewitness and even after Kalief Browder was beaten by prison guards and attempted suicide.