Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, taking office Saturday as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney. Now he’s weighing another: whether to make Donald Trump the first former president ever charged with a crime.
After weeks of speculation about whether Vance would close his tenure with a bang by indicting Trump, the former D.A. has passed that decision to Bragg, a 48-year-old civil rights lawyer and former federal prosecutor who was sworn in at a private ceremony, in part because of Covid concerns.
The investigation resulted in charges last summer against Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, and its longtime finance chief,Trump himself remains under investigation by the office after Vance led a multiyear fight to get access to the Republican’s tax records. Bragg campaigned partly on a promise to change the culture of the district attorney's office. Drawing on his own experiences growing up in Harlem during the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic, Bragg said he wants to “shrink the system,” declining to pursue many low-level offenses and look for alternatives to prosecuting small “crimes of poverty.”
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