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Meet Cyrus Vance's replacement...
Alvin Bragg elected Manhattan’s first Black district attorney
New York Elections
by: Associated Press, Aliza Chasan, Kala Rama
Posted: Nov 2, 2021 / 09:28 PM EDT / Updated: Nov 3, 2021 / 08:39 AM EDT
MANHATTAN — Alvin Bragg has been elected Manhattan’s first Black district attorney.
The 48-year-old Democrat easily defeated Republican Thomas Kenniff on Tuesday to join a wave of progressive, reform-minded prosecutors in several big U.S cities.
As district attorney, Bragg will take over an investigation of former President Donald Trump and his company that the office has been conducting.
After his win, Bragg noted he was likely the first Manhattan district Attorney to have a gun pointed at him by a police officer. He was he’ll use the experience in his new job.
Current DA Cyrus Vance Jr. is retiring at the end of the year. Vance’s successor will be just the fourth-elected district attorney in Manhattan in the last 80 years. Frank Hogan, the namesake of the street where the office is located, served for 31 years. Robert Morgenthau was in office for 34 years, and Vance will leave after 12.
It’s one of the most high-profile prosecution jobs in the world, dramatized on TV’s “Law and Order” and “Blue Bloods.” The district attorney oversees a staff of 500 lawyers and has a budget of about $125 million.
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