Tag Archives: Alvin Bragg

Reuters reports: A U.S. judge on Wednesday denied former U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to move from New York state court to federal court the case against him stemming from a hush money payment to a porn star. “Trump has failed to show that the conduct charged … is for or relating to any act performed by or for the …

CBS News reports: Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal case have released to his attorneys a recording of Trump and a witness, whose identity was not disclosed, according to a document the office made public Friday. The document, called an automatic discovery form, describes the nature of the charges against a defendant and a broad overview of the …

The New York Daily News reports: Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran whose chokehold killed Jordan Neely on a Manhattan subway train, is to be charged with second-degree manslaughter and will turn himself in to police on Friday, sources told the Daily News. Penny, 24, is expected to turn himself in at the Fifth Precinct stationhouse on Elizabeth St. in Chinatown, …

USA Today reports: A federal judge in New York upheld on Wednesday a congressional subpoena for a former prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office to testify about the investigation of Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil ruled that Mark Pomerantz would have to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in its investigation of Bragg. Judiciary Chairman …

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him, trying to embarrass Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on his home turf partly by falsely portraying New York City as a place overrun by crime. The House Judiciary Committee, led by Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, held a field …

ABC News reports: The New York City Police Department responded to a new threatening letter sent to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Wednesday, according to police sources. The sources told ABC News the letter contained a white powder and was discovered just after 3 p.m. in the basement mailroom at 80 Centre Street. The DA’s office later said the …

Law & Crime reports: After being sued in federal court, Rep. Jim Jordan tried to justify meddling in a local criminal investigation by spinning it as a matter of responsible accounting. Jordan claimed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg admitted to using “federal funds” to indict former President Donald Trump. The only problem is: Bragg actually said the opposite, twice. …

The New York Times reports: The Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday sued Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in an extraordinary step intended to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the office’s criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump. The 50-page suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, accuses Mr. Jordan of a “brazen and …

Via press release from Rep. Jim Jordan: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Matthew Colangelo, Senior Counsel to New York County District Attorney’s Office, requesting testimony and documents in furtherance of the Committee’s oversight of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s unprecedented prosecutorial conduct. Colangelo, a former Biden Department of Justice official and senior attorney at the …

From the office of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg: The House GOP continues to attempt to undermine an active investigation and ongoing New York criminal case with an unprecedented campaign of harassment and intimidation. Repeated efforts to weaken state and local law enforcement actions are an abuse of power and will not deter us from our duty to uphold the law. …

Mediaite reports: Judge Juan Merchan said he would not issue a gag order at this time, but warned Trump not to incite violence. Fox News’s Bryan Llenas interviewed Fox legal producer Jake Gibson, who was in the courtroom during the arraignment, about some of the details regarding the proceedings. “The prosecution brought up all of the social media posts that …

PBS NewsHour reports: New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg will hold a news conference on Tuesday following former President Donald Trump’s arraignment. The event is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. More details are expected to emerge Tuesday about the Manhattan district attorney’s case against Trump. The indictment has remained under seal since the grand jury investigating hush money payments …

CNN reports: The indictment against Donald Trump alleges the former president was involved in a conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election. Prosecutors alleged Trump was part of an unlawful plan to suppress negative information — including an illegal payment of $130,000 that was ordered by the defendant to suppress information that would hurt his campaign. The indictment …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Wow! District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me. I know the reporter and so, unfortunately, does he. This means that he MUST BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED. Now, if he wants to really clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing …

The New York Daily News reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been inundated with racist death threats amid his office’s historic indictment of former President Donald Trump, the Daily News has learned. Included in a litany of profane, typo-laden emails sent to Bragg on the heels of Trump’s Thursday indictment were overtly racist and anti-Semitic insults and threats on …

The Washington Post reports: The office of New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday urged House Republicans to withdraw a demand for information on its case against Trump, again rebuffing what it characterized as “unlawful political interference” in an ongoing criminal case. In a letter to the three committee chairmen who are pressing for documents and testimony about …

The Associated Press reports: Former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned Tuesday after his indictment in New York City, court officials said Friday. Trump’s planned surrender will usher in the unprecedented scenario of a former U.S. commander-in-chief being arrested and arraigned. Trump’s indictment, announced Thursday, came after a grand jury probe into hush money paid during the 2016 …

Politico reports: Aides to the former president moved aggressively on Thursday to capitalize politically on news that a Manhattan grand jury had charged Trump — using it to fill their fundraising coffers, mobilize loyalists and further solidify his hold on his base of supporters in the GOP presidential primary. A man with no shortage of love for made-for-TV drama, Trump …

New York City’s CW affiliate reports: Top brass at the NYPD issued a memo on Thursday instructing all officers to wear their uniforms and prepare for mobilization following the Manhattan grand jury indictment of former President Donald Trump. The internal NYPD memo, obtained by PIX11 News, stated that officers of all ranks should perform their duties in uniform and be …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury, according to two sources familiar with the case. Earlier Thursday, a spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the office has contacted Trump’s attorney to “coordinate his surrender” for arraignment on “a Supreme Court indictment, which …