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CORRUPTION AT THE D.A. Office in N.Y.C.
NYC District Attorney Alvin Bragg – Bing video
Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr. (born October 21, 1973) is an American politician and
lawyer from New York City who is serving as the New York County District Attorney, covering Manhattan. In 2021, he became the first African American elected to that office.[1] Bragg had previously served as chief deputy Attorney General of New York and as an assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
Early life and education
Bragg is from Harlem, and grew up on Striver’s Row.[2] In an interview with The American Prospect, Bragg said that he had been “deeply affected by the criminal justice system – most directly through three gunpoint stops by the NYPD.”[3] He graduated from the Trinity School[4] before attending Harvard College. He graduated from Harvard cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1995,[2][5] and earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review.[5][4]
Early career
Bragg clerked for federal district judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. before he joined the law firm Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello as an associate, where his work focused on white collar fraud and civil rights issues. In 2003, he joined the office of the Attorney General of New York under Eliot Spitzer before becoming the chief of litigation and investigations for the New York City Council. In 2009, Bragg left the city council to
serve as assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.[6]
In 2017, Eric Schneiderman, then serving as attorney general, appointed Bragg Chief Deputy Attorney General of New York.[7] Bragg ran the criminal justice and social justice divisions, overseeing lawsuits brought by the state against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company, and the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 United States Census.
He left the position in December 2018[8] and became a professor at the New York Law School, where he was co-director of the Racial Justice Project.[6] Bragg is a member of the board of directors for the Legal Aid Society. He has represented the families of Ramarley Graham and Eric Garner in civil litigation against New York City.[9]
New York County District Attorney
In June 2019, Bragg started his candidacy for the 2021 Democratic Party nomination for New York County District Attorney, then held by Cyrus Vance Jr.,[8] who did not to
run for reelection.[10]
Following the June 22, 2021, Democratic primary, Bragg led in the reported vote count and Tali Farhadian Weinstein conceded the primary to Bragg on July 2.[11] On November 2, 2021, Bragg defeated Republican Thomas Kenniff in the general election, becoming the first African American to be elected New York County District Attorney.[1]
Bragg was sworn into office on January 1, 2022.[12]
Policies on low-level offenses
On January 4, 2022, after three days in office, he announced that his office would no longer prosecute low-level offenses such as fare evasion, resisting arrest, prostitution, and cannabis-related misdemeanors unless accompanied by a felony charge. He also decided to seek lesser charges for burglaries and store robberies where the offender “displays a dangerous instrument but does not create a genuine risk of physical harm”.[13] On January 20, Bragg disputed what he described was a “legalistic” interpretation of his prosecution policy memo and indicated that he supported a zero tolerance policy for violent crimes.[14]
Donald Trump prosecution
Main articles: New York criminal investigation of The Trump Organization
and Indictment of Donald Trump. On February 23, 2022, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, the lead prosecutors in the New York County District Attorney’s investigation into Donald Trump and his businesses, resigned abruptly after Bragg “indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr. Trump”.[15]
In his letter of resignation, Pomerantz wrote that the “team that has been investigating
Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes,[16] including falsifying business records, and that it was “a grave failure of justice”[16] not to pursue criminal charges.[17]
The New York Times reported that Bragg “balked at pursuing an indictment against
Mr. Trump” and lacked confidence proving in court that Trump “knowingly falsified the value of his assets on annual financial statements.”[17]
The Washington Post noted that Bragg was slow to meet with Dunne and Pomerantz
after taking office and when they finally met to discuss the case, a source in the D.A.’s
Office commented that Bragg seemed distracted & disengaged, continually checking
his cell phone (allegations Bragg’s spokesperson denied).[18]
On November 21, 2022, The New York Times reported that the district attorney’s
office “has moved to jump-start its criminal investigation” into Trump’s reported
“hush-money payment to a porn star who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.”[19]
Bragg confirmed to CNN in January 2023 that the probe was ongoing.[20]
On January 30, the office presented evidence to a grand jury regarding
Trump’s role in the payment.[21]
Jose Alba prosecution
On July 7, 2022, Jose Alba, a bodega clerk, was attacked by a customer in a dispute
over a bag of potato chips. Alba attempted to de-escalate, but after being shoved into a wall, defended himself with a knife, killing the assailant.[22] Bragg, in his prosecutorial discretion, decided to charge Alba and requested bail at $500,000; the judge set it at $250,000.[23][24] The dead attacker’s girlfriend also stabbed Alba with her own knife, after attempting to turn Alba’s knife back on him. Bragg declined to charge her.[22] After intense backlash, Bragg ultimately decided to drop the charges against Alba, noting that “a homicide case against Alba could not be proven at trial beyond a reasonable doubt”.[25]
Steve Bannon prosecution
On September 6, 2022, The Washington Post reported that Steve Bannon would be indicted on September 8 by Bragg’s prosecutors on the same charges of fraud that he was federally pardoned for by then-President Trump in 2020.[26]
On September 8, Bannon was charged with “defrauding Americans who wanted to contribute to construction of a southern border wall, resurrecting a threat Mr. Bannon seemed to have escaped with a 2021 presidential pardon”; Bannon pleaded not guilty.[27]
Personal life
Bragg married Jamila Marie Ponton in 2003.[28] They have two children.[5]
Bragg at one time taught Sunday School at the Abyssinian Baptist Church.[29]
George Soros and Alvin Bragg.
President Donald Trump, writing on Truth Social, said that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office’s “leader is funded by George Soros.” The leader of that office is Alvin Bragg, the Democratic DA who took office in January 2022, according to Ballotpedia.
In the Truth Social post, Trump also wrote that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday,
and he criticized the prosecutor’s office as being highly political.
Is it true? Was Bragg funded by Soros?
Fox News reported that Soros “funneled $40 million dollars into district attorney campaigns nationwide, and now his beneficiaries represent around 20% of Americans,” including Bragg on that list.
Here’s what you need to know: According to The New York Post, former New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton spoke out against the “$1 million donation that Hungarian-born philanthropist Soros gave to the Color of Change political action committee, which supported Bragg.”
“If you look at every city in America that has violent crime increases and disorder increases…what is the one common denominator?” Bratton said to The Post.
“District attorneys, almost all of whom are funded phenomenally by George Soros.”
The New York Post reported that “Soros also donated $1 million to Alvin Bragg’s successful DA campaign in Manhattan, funneling the cash through the Color of Change political action committee.”
The Gothamist also reported:
“Color of Change PAC, a group that since 2016 has successfully backed reform-minded prosecutors across the country from Philadelphia to Michigan to Atlanta, announced they’d be pitching in $1 million dollars through their political action committee to put towards mailers, canvassing, and phone-banking on Bragg’s behalf.”
The National Police Association accused Soros of funding “ultra-leftist prosecutors
like Alvin Bragg (New York City), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia),
and George Gascon (Los Angeles),” blaming the trend for rises in violent crime.
Color of Change endorsed Bragg, writing,
Update: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg won the November 2021 general election with over 83% of the vote. He assumed office on January 1, 2022, and his current term ends on January 1, 2026.
Alvin Bragg (D) is an experienced attorney and a former chief deputy attorney general of New York. For over twenty years, Bragg has committed himself to defending the rights of New Yorkers without status or power.
He is running to become the next Manhattan District Attorney to bring his professional and lived experiences to the forefront of criminal justice reform. If elected, Bragg would become the first Black District Attorney to lead the Manhattan DA’s office.
As a lifelong Harlem resident and the only Black man in this race, Alvin Bragg has had direct encounters with the criminal legal system that have shaped his understanding of injustices and informed his policy positions.
Growing up in Harlem, Bragg experienced and witnessed violence firsthand.
As a teenage boy, Bragg was repeatedly stopped and frisked by the NYPD, including 3 times at gunpoint. He’s seen loved ones arrested and has opened his own home to support a close family member post-incarceration.
The endorsement post, on a page called Voting While Black, reads:
Alvin Bragg uniquely understands the inequities embedded into our broken criminal justice system, and will work to reverse the effects of mass incarceration. As the next Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg has pledged to:
Hold police accountable by creating a specialized unit to investigate police misconduct and publicly report findings.
Decline to prosecute low-level offenses for which there is no public safety benefit.
Prioritize harm-reduction strategies, including treatment for mental illness and substance use disorders.
Track racial disparities in our criminal justice system and provide training throughout the DAs office to eliminate them.
Reduce the number of guns on the streets by cracking down on gun trafficking and using outreach programs to engage communities and deter violence.
Create an independent, transparent Conviction Integrity Unit dedicated to reviewing and overturning convictions of innocent people who’ve been wrongfully accused.
Read Bragg’s office biography here. See the campaign finance database here.
Great Depression Lessons For The Coming Hard Times – YouTube
THE GREAT DEPRESSION STARTED ON THURSDAY 11 DEC 1930 WHEN THE FED REFUSED TO LEND MONEY TO THE “BANK OF UNITED STATES” AT 77 DELANCEY STREET IN MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY. IN OTHER WORDS, THE FEDERAL RESERVE CAUSED THE GREAT DEPRESSION ! ! !
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Marc J. Metivier Wow! Anyone else see the similarities to what’s happening in 2022?
One of the best, and I think, most realistic movies chronicling life during the
“dirty thirties” was “The Grapes of Wrath”. My father, who grew up in a farming
family during that period, really identified with the farmers’ plight in that movie.
Henry Fonda deserved an Oscar for his performance in that movie.
My grandma remembered it well as she was born in 1925.
When she was a kid, she told her teacher of how she and her family didn’t
have enough money for food, so her teacher went to the store with her and
bought a full paper bag worth of groceries for her to take home.
As she got older and had kids in the 1940s and 1950s and then later becoming my grandma by 1992, she would always make great depression type meals like noodle dishes, German potato salad, and lime jello with peas in it. Depression food was beans and rice. She must have had a middle class experience, if she was able to stay in school.
The history of Social Security published in the 1970s reported that 30% of the USA population literally starved to death or died from shortages of medical services.
The majority were children. The book explained that is what it took to motivate the creation of Social Security. Because Social Security and unemployment insurance create the foundation of the US economy, depressions are NOT likely here.
That doesn’t make sense. And bad as it was, people definitely went hungry, there wasn’t
a mass famine that killed 30% of the country. Also not lots of rice grown in America, it’s potatoes and corn. And social security and EI while good safety nets are not the foundation of the US economy. That’s crazy talk. If they had paid the farmers for the excess produce and distributed it to the starving, that would not have happened.
It is always about money and greed. There is enough food for everyone, but corruption
and greed intentionally prevent some from having enough to eat. I don’t agree with your statement that government payments can prevent depression. When there are shortages and inflation climbs, if those payments get increased that drives inflation even higher. Food shortages are coming so anyone who likes eating better starts producing or supporting locals who will.
My father told me that the day the market crash they was in town, everyone was running to the bank, he said that my grandfather to started laughing, He never kept money in the bank never trusted the banking system when he was a kid his father lost all his money in a bank robbery, My father said that my grandfather turn to my grandmother laughing really loud and said, well I think we are the richest family in the county now, my grandfather kept all the money in a mason jar buried in the barn, by the time the depression was over they still had money left.
Not during the “coming year,” according to the International Monetary Fund.
They call for a 2 to 4% reduction in the global economy.
That is not enough to start a depression. The World Bank says the worst to come in the next 12 months would be recessions. The window of risk of a Global Great Depression has been pushed back to July 2023 to July 2025. We were warned in June 2021 that we were to be monitoring the global economy from January 2023 to July 2025 for any indications of a developing Global Great Depression.
That Is based on pandemic disruptions of economies.
In December 2021, 40% of the world economy was in recession, including Russia, the Americas but not the USA, 14 nations in Europe, East Asia but not Japan. Afghanistan was not mentioned, but families had reported selling children to meet expenses. When the 35 richest nations reported in spring 2021 that they lacked money to fight the pandemic after 2022, Biden took it upon himself to avert a Global Great Depression.
We have been told in June 2022 that the US economy is now stronger than it has ever been. Consumers have caused inflation by going $16,000,000,000,000 in debt. The USA federal national debt has been reduced by Biden to $1 trillion. That is 1/16th of consumer personal debt. One to 2 relevant articles have been published each month, appearing in smartphone free news app news feeds in cities. Business tab. Rural areas don’t seem to get those.
But a person can check online every week or 2.
Search terms can be ‘ recession predictions’ or ‘Global Great depression.’ A person can add a year number. However, note that during election years, a traditional Republican Big Lie is that the economy is in shambles. They hire financial analysts to write negative articles with economics vocabulary to impress the public. Affluent are hoarding. But they are running out of needs, so retail is starting to tank. Some good sales are said to be Begin by clearing excess inventory.
Because the USA has 40,000,000 who are 18 to 27, the USA is unlikely to have a depression. Another 4,000,000 turn 18 each year through 2035. The USA had 100,000,000 born 1996 to 2020–our largest ever work force. They make any USA depression unlikely! Many of the current homeless are refugees from Red States. Red States experience chronic lack of liquidity in their economies because low wages being offered keep workers poor. We are teetering between hyperinflation and a Great Depression at this point.
What I find crazy is our government was paying farmers not to grow food while China
and The Soviet Union was starving to build their infrastructure.
Its called conserving the soil.
You can’t plant year after year on the same plot, the soil gets depleted. It’s a lesson from the dust bowl. you can but you have to rotate crops so you replenish what one crop depletes. But you can’t grow the same crop on the same land endlessly. To raise the price of the crops beyond the price of growing it. You don’t “conserve soil” by NOT PLANTING, at all. You leave a few acres barren for a couple years, then plant those acres and leave others barren. Kind of like “rotating the tires on your car.
Yeah, and right now the Dutch government wants to get rid of the biggest farming companies, because of so-called environmental reasons…;-/
On the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) web site, there is a category for “No Longer in the WorkForce’. There are currently one hundred million working-age Americans (18-65) listed. That’s four times the maximum unemployment during the Great Depression, and does not include today’s “official” unemployed numbers, which add another 6.7 million. Soon we’ll be remembering the Great Depression as “the good old days”.
That can’t be accurate as the USA only has 113.9 million people in That are group. Your numbers would mean only 7 million people are working and over 94% of the rest are not. H5mind: 5 million are in college/university. 5 million are in community college. 15 million are on Social Security Survivor it Disability. 6 million have retired at 62.
Civil servants, military, public school teachers, and mass transit workers retire after 20 years of service. Those get their pensions as young as about 45 to 50. Many affluent stop working when they become adequate investors. Right now (June 2022), there are 3 vacancies for every person on unemployment. You are not analyzing that 100,000 extensively enough. Grandpappy tells of a farmer who made his fortune with farm subsidies.
He was paid to not grow wheat on 80 acres of his land. Great! But that left the land available for growing corn. But instead, he made more by being paid to not grow corn on those 80 acres. And then, paid again to not grow soybeans on that same land. And again, to not grow canola. And again, to not grow safflower. And again, to not grow sunflowers. And again, to not grow cabbages.
So many young folks who just do not even want to hear about those times. They will be frantic! Those who want easy jobs and think being an influencer, an artist, a home-based worker etc. will be hurting. $100. sneakers, expensive fancy nails and hair care, daily outings to eat, constant fancy fashions, luxury upon luxury will end.
Looking at this very interesting report, I kept wondering why it focused so exclusively on white Americans. Thinking about it I realized that there must not be much film material on the life of black Americans at the time and that there was indeed nothing special to report about their life during the great depression because it was not much different to what they experienced over a whole century after the end of the civil war.
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Jesus Christ is the son of God who died and rose three days later and loves all of you.
He died for everyone and wants you with Him, to know Him and live for His glory.
Come be saved eternally and spend time with Him to know Him. Be saved, free, forgiven, healed, delivered, baptized, whole and let Him show you how He is everything you need.
Live righteous and Holy because He said to and paid for our way to live like Him. Ask anything in His name and the Father will do it amen hallelujah praise God thank you Jesus. 
I lift up everyone’s prayers, wants and needs to You Jesus, please pour out blessings.
May Your favor, grace and mercy be upon the world. In Jesus name come help us all.
You know our needs and everything else about each of us.
In Jesus name amen thank you Jesus praise God
Jesus, Help people to be rooted and grounded in Your love and to obey Your truth.
That they are living in the truth being taught by You.
That they know Your voice and word. Knowing truth from errors, discernment.
We are ambassadors of Christ. We represent God, when we are seen Jesus should be seen, His ways not ours. We should be living for and showing God, living for His glory. We are to be an example of Jesus for the world to see Him and want to know Him and know Him more.
2 Chronicles 7:14 says, if My people humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear them from heaven and heal their land.
People need to turn from their wicked ways, Jesus paid for it. That’s God stating it in that verse and there are more verses. People need to repent, to be cleansed by His blood and live Holy because He’s Holy and righteous because He’s righteous. Our God said to stop sinning in many, many scriptures and He paid for everyone to be cleansed of sin (Isaiah 53), and to live how He said. He dwells in the Holy temple (your body) and said not to defile the temple. He said to defile the temple is death. He’s always serious about everything He said to do. He’s just as serious about what He said not to do. We live in obedience to His law, every word if it! He dwells within us all to be with and leads us in His ways.
Deuteronomy 28 there are blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience. The whole chapter, and verse 46 is one example of generational curses. These go into the following generations, the 3 and 4th. Our children pay the price for our sin. Stop sinning, you are sending consequences to yourself and to your loved ones, children. By God’s law you are.
If you don’t believe me, ask Him, in Jesus’ name may you see and know the truth in its fullness.
Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Jesus is worthy of everything He said and paid for, so I implore you to do as God said.
Jesus said If you love me, you will obey my commands. Love Him with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.
Praise God
Hallelujah JesusIn Jesus powerful name
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