Scott Shifrel NY Daily News
The first two of eight rowdies charged in a hate-fueled attack on a group of Jewish straphangers in Brooklyn on Chanukah 2007 took no-jail deals Friday.
Four more are slated to take similar deals next week, sources said.
The remaining two still face charges but are holding out for similar deals.
“Those are the ringleaders so we’ll have to see what happens,” a source said.
Kimberly Babajko and Joseph Jirovec, both 20, were chummy when they appeared in court this week as their lawyers told a judge they were still hoping for plea deals.
Jirovec is serving 1-1/2 to 4-1/2 years in prison for an earlier hate crime against black teens. Babajko, who since the Dec. 7, 2007, assault on four Jewish riders has received alcohol and anger management treatment, remains free on bail.
Friday, Joseph Mignano, 22, and Anthony McEwan, 20, admitted their guilt as part of a deal that will have them serve 250 hours of community service with a Jewish organization, diversity training and five years’ probation.
“We were on the Q train … there were words, Catholic and Jewish,” McEwan told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Deborah Dowling. “I threw one punch to help my friends.”
The victims were satisfied with the pleas, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Hanshaft told Dowling.
