Alvin Bragg: “I think it shows the reach of the office. While he may not have stepped foot here, his message, his voice, and his…”

The simple truth that it is a crime to profit off the backs of donors by making false pretenses. And so we are here to say today in one voice that in Manhattan and in New York, you will be held accountable for defrauding donors.

New York has an important interest in rooting out fraud in our markets, our corporations, and our charities, and we will continue to do just that.

This resolution achieves our primary goal: to protect New York’s charities and New Yorkers’ charitable giving from fraud.

I think that the better part of that argument is that we can`t have a system where anyone is above the law, all right? That is a bedrock principle of our entire judicial system, one standard of justice for all.