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  1. NYC pension system will be in better hands after Brad Lander’s departure as city comptroller

    Brad Lander won’t be New York City comptroller much longer — and that’s good news for Gotham’s rank…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Personalfinance #AlvinBragg #BlackRock #BradLander #Business #exxonmobil #LarryFink #PersonalFinance #ZohranMamdani
    newsbeep.com/us/321739/

  2. Harvey Weinstein’s Request To Get Rape Verdict Tossed Rejected By Manhattan D.A.: “The Motion Should Be Denied Without A Hearing,” Prosecutors Tell Judge
    #Legal #News #AlvinBragg #HarveyWeinstein

    deadline.com/2025/11/harvey-we

  3. In one memo, #PamBondi will establish a “Weaponization Working Group” to review #law enforcement actions enacted under the Biden admin for any examples of “politicized justice.”

    That review will cover cases brought by fmr #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith over #Trump’s mishandling of #ClassifiedDocuments & 2020 #ElectionInterference, Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg’s hush-money case that led to a #conviction & a case from NYAG #LetitiaJames, in which she won a $454M civil #fraud judgment against Trump.

    #law

  4. Justice #Merchan’s decision came at the request of #Trump, who had asked to #delay the sentencing until after the #election, partly so he had more time to challenge his #conviction. Prosecutors working for the Manhattan DA, #AlvinBragg, who brought the case, had deferred to the judge, paving the way for at least a brief postponement.

    #criminal #law #convict #felon #fraud #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #SCOTUS #immunity #FuckSCOTUS

  5. #FactCheck

    Trump claimed (again) that his #criminal trial in NY was controlled by the #DOJ.

    False.

    One prosecutor who worked on the case, in which Trump was #convicted by a #JURY of 34 #felonies, used to be a #Justice Dept official, but the case itself was brought by the local DA in #Manhattan, #AlvinBragg.

    Period.

    #TrumpLies

  6. @interfluidity @AltonDooley @realcaseyrollins @volkris @Hyolobrika You make a good point here. The only counter I can think of is, what if #POTUS makes the motive clear, ruling out any need for speculation? Let’s say #Trump says publicly, or in a leaked text, that he wants the #DOJ to investigate, say, #AlvinBragg, for everything he’s done to him in regards to the lawfare he made him face.

  7. #Trump’s NY #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference#HushMoney” sentencing may be postponed due to #SCOTUS #immunity ruling

    Trump’s lawyers are seeking to vacate his #NewYork #conviction based on Monday’s #SupremeCourt ruling on presidential immunity.

The Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg says he is not opposed to a #delay requested by Trump’s lawyers so they can seek to vacate his conviction.

    #law
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  8. Prosecutors w/Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg's office said limits on Trump's speech about trial witnesses were no longer needed. But they urged Justice Juan #Merchan to keep in place restrictions on his comments about #jurors, #CourtStaff & individual #prosecutors, citing risks to their #safety.

    #law #criminal #Trump #witnesses #GagOrder #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference #StochasticTerrorism

  9. Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg will have an opportunity to say whether his office would oppose the revocation of the #GagOrder before the judge rules. His spox declined to comment Tues. In seeking the order in the first place, prosecutors cited examples of how #Trump’s rhetoric routinely inspires #threats of #violence & #harassment by his followers.

    #criminal #law #FeloniousTrump #ElectionInterference #StochasticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence #Terrorism #extremism

  10. Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses.

    This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony charges brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg–falsifying business records to commit or conceal other offenses, which in non-legalese means Trump hiding hush-money payments to suppress news coverage of some of the times he had sex with women besides his wife–seemed tawdry and even trivial compared to the other charges Trump faces. And the logic of Bragg’s charges was not easy to follow as the others.

    Most stark among the other cases: The attempted murder of democracy that Trump staged after the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.

    Special prosecutor Jack Smith indicted Trump for that last August. But a feckless Supreme Court–on which two ethics-deprived members, Clarence Thomas (R) and Samuel Alito (R), show multiple signs of being at least insurrection-curious–has instead slow-walked its way through handling Trump’s absurd claim that former presidents warrant lifelong immunity from prosecution for acts during their time in office.

    As a result, Smith’s case may not come to trial until after the election that could see Trump returned to the White House, from where he could fire Smith and order whatever lackey he appoints as his attorney general to drop the charges.

    A separate case that could see Trump and his minions brought to justice for their attempted self-coup now sits in a ditch not because of the waffling of judges but because of a prosecutor’s foolishness. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis decided to hire the lawyer with whom she was having an affair to serve as her special prosecutor, and of course the defense found out.

    The first case Smith brought against Trump–charging the former president with taking hundreds of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida and then refusing to return them while being extremely careless in his custody of them–brings the added karmic richness of targeting the guy who campaigned on Hillary Clinton’s self-serving e-mail habits representing an unforgiveable threat to national security.

    But Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon has been so solicitous of Trump’s interests and so slow in handing down rulings that she has all but assured that this case, too, won’t go to trial until after the election. In the process, Cannon’s contortions in favor of Trump may have single-handedly invented a new job description: emotional support judge.

    All of these cases could have been rendered less eventful had 10 more Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment in February 2021. A conviction would have banned Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States”; instead, many of these cowards said that they punted because courts would hold Trump accountable.

    After all that, 12 unnamed New Yorkers showed up and did their job over the past few weeks in Judge Juan Merchan’s court as Bragg’s lawyers effectively made their case. And they did so even though there is a real risk that the efforts of some of Trump’s more rabid supporters to dox the jurors will lead to one of his most deranged followers shooting one of these dutiful citizens–or a random person whom they think looks like one of them–on Fifth Avenue.

    We owe these 12 men and women our thanks for showing that even former presidents are not above the law. But we cannot thank them by name.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/31/former-area-resident-encounters-belated-accountability/

    #2024Election #AileenCannon #AlvinBragg #ClarenceThomas #convictedFelon #Jan6 #JuanMerchan #ruleOfLaw #SamuelAlito #TrumpBusinessRecordsCase #TrumpDocumentsCase #TrumpFelonies #TrumpImpeachment #TrumpJan6Case

  11. #HouseRepublicans are summoning Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg to #Congress after #Trump’s #conviction on all counts in his #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords NY trial.
    
The #House #Judiciary Cmte’s select subcmte on the *weaponization of the federal government* on Fri invited #Bragg & one of his prosecutors, Matthew #Colangelo, to testify on June 13. The cmte said the hearing “will examine the unprecedented political prosecution” of Trump.
    
The cmte is led by #GymJordan.

    #law #USPOL

  12. "The decision to convict Trump on all 34 counts is significant. Jurors could have acquitted him on some and convicted on others. But the fact that they went all-in, and relatively quickly, suggests they believed the wider story prosecutors told at trial. It is a full-throated win for Bragg and the worst possible outcome for Trump."

    #AlvinBragg #Trump #crime #criminal #felon #guilty #ElectionInterference #LawandOrder
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  13. Alvin Bragg is an American hero.

    "Donald Trump’s conviction on all 34 felony counts on Thursday marked a full-blown victory for Alvin Bragg, the first-term Manhattan district attorney who was criticized for using a novel legal strategy to bring a historic criminal case against a former president."

    ~ Sam Levine

    #AlvinBragg #Trump #crime #criminal #felon #guilty #ElectionInterference #LawandOrder
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    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

  14. @realcaseyrollins

    Sounds like a criminal offence to me. or 34 offences, to be precise 😉

    “The defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.”
    #AlvinBragg

    #criminal #law #TrumpTrial #Trump #guilty #verdict #felon

  15. Best line of the day goes to Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg:

    “The defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.”

    #criminal #law #TrumpTrial #Trump #guilty #verdict #felon