Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last week rocketed to global celebrity with his indictment of former president Donald Trump on charges related to a 2016 hush money payment.
Time will tell if the Trump case will end with a bang or slink off with a whimper-the actual charges have yet to be unsealed and the guesswork by the punditocracy indicates there might be slim jurisdictional and evidentiary grounds for the case, leading a judge to throw it out-but Alvin Bragg is not unprepared to do battle.
Bragg has been keeping a low profile since news emerged of the Trump indictment, cultivating a public image of a low-key, nose-to-the-grindstone prosecutor.
A son of Harlem and graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Bragg has deep roots in New York progressive politics and plenty of experience in Trump-related prosecutions.
With early tours of duty at the Office of Attorney General of the State of New York, the New York City Council as chief of litigation, and the Southern District of New York as a federal prosecutor, Bragg in 2017 was appointed Chief Deputy Attorney General of New York.
Bragg persisted on other fronts, and in August he secured the conviction of the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, Allan Weisselberg, on charges of tax fraud and falsifying business records.
In December, Bragg convicted the Trump Organization on charges related to off-the-books pay to Weisselberg and others.
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