New York (AP). Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a prosecutor who supervised the historic Hush-Linings case against President Donald Trump, won a democratic initial chairman on Tuesday when he seeks re-election.
Bragg defeated Patrick Timmins, a case, a law professor and a former assistant to the Bronx County lawyer – to get to November. General elections. About 70% of registered Manhattan voters are Democrats.
The first present participant will be confronted with Republican Maud Maron, who has been a public defender for decades and has previously been nominated for Congress and the New York City Council as a Democrat.
Bragg has been one of the most prominent prosecutors of the nation for a long time, pointing to Law & Order television and other performances. Da indicates about 600 lawyers in one of the largest local prosecutor offices in the US
It further increased the office profile by submitting the Hush-Moke case. His predecessor, a colleague Democrat Cyrus R. Vance Jr., spent a year exploring a variety of Trump’s affairs, but did not sell the indictment.
Bragg decided to focus on how and why porn actor Stormy Daniels was paid $ 130,000 for thinking about her claims about 2006. A sexual meeting with the married Trump. The payment was paid through the then candidate’s personal lawyer, a few weeks before 2016. Presidential election. Trump’s records recorded money as legal costs.
Trump denied any illegal actions and sexual involvement in Daniels. However, last year the jurors found him guilty of 33 crimes related to falsification business records, and the first crime was convicted from the former-US commander.
Trump appeals to the verdict. The Republican President has long filed this case as a political “witch hunt”, and he has recently supported Bragg intimidation as March.
The 51 -year -old Bragg was a civil rights lawyer, a federal prosecutor and a chief deputy prosecutor of New York before becoming DA. Raised in Harlem and educated in Harvard, he is the first black man to take the post.
His term had a stony beginning. A few days after he took office in 2022, he issued a memorandum stating that employees do not delve into prosecution of certain types of prosecution or to seek a collateral or prison time for some others. After the police commissioner and other criticism, Bragg apologized for the creation of “confusion” and said his office did not comply with serious cases.
This issue continued to enliven his critics. Trump repeatedly called the Bragg “Soft of Nucle”, and Timmins said on the main page of his campaign website that the memorandum “increased crime and perception of chaos in the subway and our streets.”
Timmins, which since 2022 January Collected about $ 154,000 $ 2.2 million.
The Bragg campaign emphasized his efforts to fight weapon violence, to help people who have survived the sexual attack, to prosecute hatred crimes and, among other priorities, after bad landlords and exploitors.
Meanwhile, his office has been involved in many high -level cases in recent months.
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Bragg unexpectedly inherited the Vance-Eros Weinstein case after the appellate court ordered a new trial. By receiving the condemned result, the jurors sentenced Weinstein this month for one of the biggest accusations, acquitted him from another, and did not reach the verdict for the third, lower level of accusations, Bragg aims to bring the third time to court.