New York City is bracing for what would be an unprecedented and tense indictment of a former president over alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Weeks into his new job as Manhattan district attorney last year, Alvin Bragg faced a firestorm: Two senior prosecutors heading the office’s four-year investigation of Donald Trump wanted an immediate indictment of the former president.
New York City is already bracing for what would be an unprecedented and tense indictment of a former president over alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Bragg has for decades been destined to do important things, at least according to the Harvard Crimson, which wrote a 1995 story on him titled “The Anointed One.” The son of Sadie and Alvin senior, Bragg grew up in a section of Harlem known as “Striver’s Row” and attended the Trinity School in Manhattan, an elite private school. At Harvard he was known for bringing people together across political divides.
New York City’s police commissioner publicly criticized the memo. A few weeks later, two New York Police Department officers were shot and killed, leading to cries of outrage against Bragg’s more lenient policies. He eventually walked back his instructions to prosecutors. One of his former political opponents agreed. “It is essential that as a prosecutor, you believe in the case and the guilt of the person you are prosecuting beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Diana Florence, one of several candidates who sought the job Bragg ultimately won two years ago.
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