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Alvin Bragg Biography – Alvin Bragg Wiki
Alvin Bragg is the district attorney for Manhattan. He is the 37th District Attorney elected in Manhattan. He became Manhattan’s first Black district attorney in 2022, following his election in November 2021. Alvin took over for retiring District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
A Harlem native, Bragg is just the fourth elected district attorney in Manhattan in the last eight decades. Frank Hogan served for 31 years. Robert Morgenthau was in office for 34 years, until he was 90. Vance retired at the end of 2021 after 12 years.
Prior to his election as DA, Alvin served as an Assistant Attorney General at the New York State Attorney General’s Office and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In these roles, Alvin handled a wide array of criminal cases, including armed robbery, assault, gun possession, witness tampering, narcotics and gun trafficking, wage and hour violations, public corruption, money laundering, and antitrust violations.
He ended his service in the State AG’s Office as the Chief Deputy Attorney General, overseeing more than 1,500 people, a budget of $225 million, and the office’s criminal and civil investigations and litigation, including health care fraud, public corruption, narcotics trafficking, wage-and-hour investigations, tenant harassment, and securities fraud. Alvin also directly oversaw the Attorney General’s litigation against the Trump Foundation and served as the first Chief of a special unit that investigated deaths caused by police conduct, according to his bio.
After his government service and before being sworn in as District Attorney, Alvin was a Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Racial Justice Project at New York Law School. In that role, he represented Eric Garner’s mother and sister in a lawsuit against the City of New York seeking details concerning Mr. Garner’s death.
Alvin earned his A.B. from Harvard University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, clerked for Hon. Robert P. Patterson, Jr. in the Southern District of New York. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the New York Urban League and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and a Sunday School teacher at his church.
Alvin Bragg Age
Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr. was born on October 21, 1973 in Manhattan, New York. He is 49 years old as of 2023. He will celebrate his 50th birthday in October 2023.
Alvin Bragg Wife
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is married to Jamila Ponton Bragg. Alvin and Jamila married at the Heinz Memorial Chapel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in November 2003. The couple met at Harvard University, from which Alvin graduated and received a law degree and from which Jamila Ponton received a master’s degree in education.
Alvin Bragg Parents
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is the son of now-deceased parents, Alvin Leonard Bragg Sr. of New York and Sadie Bragg. His mother, Sadie Bragg, is a former vice president for academic affairs at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. His father, Alvin Leonard Bragg Sr., retired as an assistant superintendent for welfare in the New York City Human Resources Administration and is a former Manhattan director of the New York Urban League.
On International Women’s Day 2021, Alvin Bragg paid tribute to his mother on Facebook. He wrote: “My mom, Dr. Sadie Bragg, was the best educator I’ve ever known. She knew very little about law, but she always loved that I was pursuing it — pursuing justice. On this #InternationalWomensDay and every day after I pledge to honor her memory by never giving up that global pursuit.”
Alvin Bragg Family
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and his wife, Jamila Ponton Bragg, have two children together.
Alvin Bragg George Soros
Alvin is one of the many progressive prosecutors proudly backed by billionaire George Soros. While campaigning to become the next Manhattan DA, he received more than $1 million in support from the Color Of Change PAC, a racial justice group which receives funding from Soros, a Hungarian-born billionaire financier-turned-American mega-donor.
Bragg is just one of at least 75 district attorneys Soros has backed in recent years as part of an ongoing campaign to reshape American society in his liberal vision.
In the 2022 op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Soros defended his donations and said the strategies he supports reduce crime, based on the data that he had seen.
Over the years Soros has thrown millions behind liberal DAs – either with outright donations or funneled through political action committees – effectively buying elections and leading to the installment of prosecutors who support his leftist agenda.
Soros has spent at least $40 million on the project, according to Matt Palumbo, author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros a minuscule sum for a man worth at least $32 billion.
Soros has long backed liberal politics. In the 2000s he was an outspoken opponent of President George W. Bush and donated millions to hinder his reelection, and later donated heavily to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton.
Alvin Bragg Salary
As the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg receives an annual salary of $190,000.
Alvin Bragg Net Worth
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s net worth is estimated to be $5 million.
Ethnicity
He is of Black/ African American ethnicity.
Political Party
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is a member of the Democratic Party.