Margarita López Torres picked up some rather big league endorsements this morning down at City Hall. From the press relase:

At 9:30AM Monday morning, July 18, on the steps of New York City Hall, three congressional members from Brooklyn, along with other elected officials and supporters, will announce their support for Civil Court Judge Margarita López Torres to be the next Surrogate Court Judge of Brooklyn.

Those three congresscritters? Nydia Velazquez (NY-12), Ed Towns (NY-10) and Major Owens (NY-11). Again, from the PR:

Judge López Torres is running in the primary for the Democratic Party’s nomination to take the place of Michael Feinberg, who was recently removed from office by the Commission of Judicial Conduct and the New York Court of Appeals. Feinberg was removed for allowing his close personal friend, who he appointed as the counsel to the public administrator, to overcharge estates millions of dollars in legal fees, funds that would have gone to the widows and orphans of those who died without wills. The Court said that Feinberg's actions "debased his office and eroded public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary." Already this year the Daily News called Judge López Torres “a kind of Joan of Arc of reform in the borough.