Alvin Bragg: “These are felony crimes in New York state. No matter who you are, we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal…”

It is deeply disturbing to me that a member of my profession, a member of law enforcement, would choose to play political games in a murder case.

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.

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

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.