Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who collected the evidence against Donald Trump, indicted by the grand jury yesterday, was born in Central Harlem but studied at Harvard: he has been Manhattan District Attorney since last year, the first African American in office.
The 49-year-old Democrat and liberal was New York State’s assistant attorney general and prosecuted several high-profile cases, including the investigation into film producer Harvey Weinstein, who was later sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes.
The Trump investigation focuses on the illegal payment of $130,000 in 2016, mid-campaign, to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had sex with Trump ten years earlier and gave her the money to silence her bring . Trump denies the whole affair.
Trump’s men — but so has the former president in recent hours — accuse him of being paid by George Soros, the philanthropic financier, Democrat super-donor. Soros said in a note that he had never met him. In recent days, after Trump announced his indictment last week and threatened fire and flames, prosecutors received a letter containing gunpowder and a note with the typed message, “Alvin, I’m going to kill you.”