Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office is investigating former President Trump over hush money payments in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
On Tuesday, a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict the former president on charges related to payments made during the campaign, drawing national attention to 49-year-old Bragg.
Bragg’s decision to convene the grand jury earlier this year led to the first criminal case against a former US president. He successfully convicted the Trump Organization of tax fraud.
Who is Alvin Bragg?
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District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a news conference in New York on September 8, 2022. (ALEX KENT/AFP via Getty Images)
Born in Harlem, New York, Bragg is the 37th elected district attorney in Manhattan and the first Black Manhattan district attorney in the bureau’s history.
He took over from retiring District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and is the fourth elected District Attorney in Manhattan in the last eight decades.
Bragg’s office follows almost all criminal cases in Manhattan and is staffed by about 500 attorneys.
He previously served as Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the New York State Attorney General and Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Bragg ended his service with the district attorney’s office as Chief Deputy Attorney General.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on March 29, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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After leaving government service and before being sworn in as a prosecutor, Bragg was a visiting professor of law and co-director of the Racial Justice Project at New York Law School.
He represented Eric Garner’s mother and sister in a lawsuit against New York City over important details of Garner’s 2014 stranglehold death.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg leaves his office in New York on March 30, 2023. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)
Bragg received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and his law degree from Harvard Law School. He worked for Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. in the Southern District of New York.
Bragg is a former board member of the New York Urban League, the Legal Aid Society, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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