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Alvin Bragg elected as Manhattan's first Black DA
Alvin Bragg elected as Manhattan's first Black DA
By Tal Axelrod - 11/02/21 09:57 PM EDT
Alvin Bragg was elected as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney Tuesday and will inherit a high-profile investigation into former President Trump’s business.
Bragg, a former chief deputy New York state attorney general, trounced Republican candidate Thomas Kenniff by a roughly 70-point margin in deep-blue Manhattan.
Bragg, who also previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, won the Democratic primary in July with a plurality of the vote.
He will now take the helm of a prominent probe that has already produced an indictment of both the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg, a top executive of the company. They are accused of various fraud and conspiracy charges.
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