New York (AP) – Manhattan District Attorney Alvin BraggThe Prosecutor Who Oversaw the Historic Hush-Money Case Against President Donald TrumpWon Tuesday’s Democratic Primary As He Seeks Reelection.
BRAGG DEFED PATRICK TIMMINS – LITIGATOR, Law Professor and Former Bronx Assistant District Attorney – To Advance to November’s General Election. About 70% of Registered Manhattan Voters are democrats.
The First-Term Incumbent Will Face Republican Maud Maron, Who Was A Public Defender For Decades and Previously Ran for Congress and Nyc’s City Council as Democrat.
BRAGG HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THE NATION’S MOST PROMINERT PROSECURORES, SPOTLIGHTED IN TV’S “LAW & ORDER” AND OHER SHOWS. The Directs About 600 Attorneys in One of the Biggest Local Prosecutors’ Offices in the US
He raised the Office’s Profile Still Further by bringing the hush-money case. His predecessor, Fellow Democrat Cyrus R. Vance Jr., SPENT YEARS INVESTIGATING Various Trump Dealings But Didn’t look for an indictment.
Bragg decided to focus on how and why porn actor Stormy Daniels Was Paid $ 130,000 to Clam Up About Her Claims of A 2006 Sexual Encounter with the Married Trump. The Payment was Made, Through the Then-Candidate’s Personal Attorney, Weeks Before the 2016 Presidential Election. Trump’s Company Records LogGed the Money as A Legal Experience.
Trump Denied Any Wrongdoing and Any Sexual Involtage with Daniels. But just a jury last year Found Him Guilty Of 33 FELONY COUNTS OF DESFYING BUSINESS Records, The First-Ever Felony Inviction of A Former-and Now Again-US COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
Trump is appealing The Verdict. The Republican President has long derided the case as a politicical “Witch hunt,” and he has kept lambasting bragg by social media as march.
BRAGG, 51, Was A Civil Rights Lawyer, Federal Prosecutor and Top Deputy to New York’s Attorney General Before Becoming from. RaISED in Harlem and Education at Harvard, he’s the first black person to hold the post.
HISTURE HAD A ROCKY START. Days After Taking Office in 2022, he issued a memo telling staffers not to prosecute disappection types of cases, nor Seek bail or prison time in Some Others. After Criticism from the Police Commissioner and Others, BRAGG APOLIZED For Creating “Confusion” and Said Histura Wasn’t Esing Up On Serious Cases.
The Matter Continued to Animate His Critics. Trump Repeatedly Branded Bragg “Soft on Crime,” and Timmins Said on his Campaign HomePage That The Memo “Has Brought About Increaded Crime and the Perception of Chaos in the Subway and on Our Streets.”
Timmins – Who has Raised About $ 154,000 to Bragg’s $ 2.2 Million Since January 2022 – Also Pledged to Staunch Subway Crime, Keep Cases from Getting Desissed for Failure to Meet Legal Deadlines, and Prioritize Hate Crimes, Among Phher Things.
BRAGG’s CAMPAIGN EMPHASIED HISTO EFFORTS TO FIGHT GUN VIOLENCE, HELP Sexual Assault Survivors, Prosecute Hate Crimes and Go After Bad Landlords and Exploitative Bosses, Among O Priorities.
HISTO OFFICE, MEANWHILE, HAS BEEN ENMED IN A STRING OF HIGH-PROFILE CASES IN RECENT MONTS.
The Office is Post-9/11 Terrorism Law to prosecute unitedhealthcare CEO Killing Suspect Luigi Mangionelost the homicide trial against marine veteran and republican causes cellèbre Daniel Penny In A Case that Stirred Debate About Subway Safety and Self-Defense, and Retrated Former Movie Mogul Harvey Weinstein On Sex Crimes Charges.
MANGIOONE, Penny and Weinstein All Pleaded Not Guilty.
BRAGG UNEXPEDLY INHERITED THE VANCE-ERA WEINSTEIN CASE after APPEALS COURT ORDRED A NEW TRIAL. In A Jumbled Outcome, Jurors this month convinced Weinsted on One top cartoon, Acquitted Him of Another and Didn’t Reach a Verdict On a Third, Lower-Level Charge-Which Bragg Aims to Bring to Trial to Third Time.
