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This is the prosecutor prosecuting Donald Trump

He is the first African-American judge to head his district attorney’s office Manhattan: Alvin Bragg entered the history books by reciting charges against Donald Trumpa first for a former president of the United States.

This 49-year-old Democrat, who was elected in November 2021—like all the judges and judges in the United States – New York State’s Attorney for the District of Manhattan has formally charged Donald Trump in connection with the payment of $130,000, shortly before his victory in the 2016 presidential election, to a pornographic actress , Stormy Daniels, with whom he allegedly had an affair.

The former president is due to appear in court on Tuesday, according to his lawyer.

Prosecutor of Manhattan since January 1, 2022, Bragg, who was born in Harlem, in northern Manhattan, immediately became known for his progressive positions on criminal and repressive policy. He came under fire from conservative Republicans when he expressed his willingness to seek alternatives to incarceration for minor offenses and instead to crack down on so-called “white-collar” crimes as well as financial crimes.

Having grown up in the Harlem neighborhood of the 1980s and 1990s, he recounted in 2021 that he had been “deeply scarred by the criminal chain, as he had attended three unconstitutional arrests, gun in hand, by the NYPD”, the police of the New York, whose treatment of black and Hispanic minorities has been repeatedly criticized.

“Without trust, there is no security”

“Without trust, there can be no complete public safety,” the Harvard-educated lawyer who worked for the New York state attorney general told the press. ) and for the federal prosecutor’s office also based in the Manhattan courthouse.

The judicial system in the United States includes federal prosecutors and federal judges, present in each state and affiliated with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a local jurisdiction of prosecutors and judges in each state. Succeeding U.S. Attorney Cyrus Vance in January 2022, Alvin Bragg immediately announced that he would no longer prosecute offenses considered minor, such as refusing to comply or resisting arrest. In New York, a metropolis of 8.5 million people renowned for its vast socioeconomic disparities and occasionally violent history, Bragg also pledged to seek lighter sentences for some thefts.

Imprisonment should also be considered a last resort, according to this left-leaning judge.

“Retreat”

But Alvin Bragg was forced to back down after criticism from the mayor of New York, former policeman Eric Adams. This African-American mayor was elected in late 2021 by campaigning on the theme of fighting gun crime.

In the Trump-Stormy Daniels case, Alvin Bragg was accused in 2022 by the New York Times of delaying the indictment of the former president. Two deputy prosecutors had thus resigned in February 2022, citing “doubts” that Bragg had allegedly expressed at the time regarding the investigation targeting Donald Trump.

On the contrary, “Bragg appeared skillful and realistic,” former prosecutor Bende Gersman told AFP of him, welcoming an “aggressive investigation” against the 45th president of the United States (2017-2021). In addition, prosecutor Bragg managed in January to have the family business Trump Organization sentenced to a fine of 1.6 million dollars for financial and tax fraud. It was the first criminal conviction for the group, which is awaiting a major civil trial this year.

The group’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weiselberg, cooperated with the New York court and was sentenced to five months in prison and to pay two million dollars. Donald Trump was not a defendant in that case, but he repeatedly called Bragg a “racist” and a “leftist.”

In the Stormy Daniels case, the former president on Saturday accused the prosecutor of being “corrupt and highly politicized.” These “attempts to intimidate our services and threaten the rule of law in New York will not be tolerated,” the Manhattan attorney’s office warned.

Source: News Beast

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