Tag Archives: Alvin Bragg

ABC News reports: A Nevada man has been arrested after he threatened several government officials, including the New York judge who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial and the prosecutor who brought the case, according to an indictment unsealed in Las Vegas. Spencer Christjencody Gear, 32, allegedly made phone calls and sent emails to eight federal officials …

The Associated Press reports: Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday they would not oppose Donald Trump’s request to delay the sentencing in his hush money trial as he seeks to have the conviction overturned following a Supreme Court ruling that granted broad immunity protections to presidents. In a letter filed with the New York court, prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s …

The New York Times reports: The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Monday is expected to make its recommendation to a judge on whether to imprison Donald J. Trump for his recent felony conviction, a crucial step in the first criminal sentencing of an American president. The sentence is likely to be the only moment of criminal accountability the four-times indicted …

Axios reports: If former President Trump wins in November, top supporters will push him to investigate, prosecute — and even try to imprison — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who won Trump’s conviction in the hush-money case. “Of course [Bragg] should be — and will be — jailed,” Steve Bannon, one of the top voices of the MAGA movement, …

Politico reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg begins his press conference by thanking the jury and outlining the work they did throughout the trial, including reviewing call logs, text messages, emails and bank statements, in addition to listening to testimony. “This type of white-collar prosecution is core to what we do at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office,” Bragg says before …

The Hill reports: If former President Trump chooses to testify in his hush money trial, New York prosecutors want to cross-examine him about his various civil lawsuits. In court papers signed last month but not made public until Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office said it would seek to question Trump about 13 court rulings against him or …

The Huffington Post reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a motion to hold Trump in contempt over repeatedly violating a gag order by attacking witnesses, including his former attorney Michael Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels, on social media. “Defendant is not above the law, and he cannot simply disregard judicial orders that upset him,” Bragg wrote. “And …

The Washington Post reports: New York prosecutors said Friday that they expect to get an additional 15,000 pages of potential evidence in Donald Trump’s hush money case — the latest and probably last batch of such papers that may end up delaying the first criminal trial of a former president. In a new filing to New York Supreme Court Justice …

The New York Times reports: Less than two weeks before Donald J. Trump is set to go on trial on criminal charges in Manhattan, the prosecutors who brought the case proposed a delay of up to 30 days, a startling development in the first prosecution of a former American president. The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which accused Mr. Trump of …

ABC News reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday asked a judge to impose a gag order on former President Donald Trump, who is charged in New York with falsifying business records related to hush money he paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is already under a limited gag order in his federal election interference case in …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump is expected at the defendant’s table in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday for a conference that could confirm he’ll be tried next month for allegedly falsifying hush money repayment records — the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. At the same hour in Atlanta, a team of Trump’s lawyers will appear with …

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 …