Alvin Bragg: “this resolution achieves our primary goal: to protect New York's charities and New Yorkers' charitable giving from…”

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.

I`m a public corruption prosecutor. I prosecuted the majority leader of the state Senate. I prosecuted two mayors, one for bribery, one for campaign finance fraud. And at the attorney general`s office, I led the team that held Trump and…

I`ve spent a career following the facts wherever they go. At the attorney general`s office, I led the team that held Trump and his children accountable for the misconduct with the Trump Foundation.

Certainly. And I actually haven’t heard any credible argument to the contrary 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.