Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday said politics were not part of the reason he brought criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
He said he treated the high-profile case like any other.
“I did my job. Our job is to follow the facts of the law without fear or favor and that’s exactly what we did here,” Mr. Bragg told reporters after a New York jury found Mr. Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal another crime, which prosecutors said was an election-related conspiracy.
“This type of white-collar prosecution is core to what we do at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office,” he said, saying his team followed the office’s legacy of “independent professional prosecutors.”
He hailed his team of prosecutors on the Trump case as “model public servants” who embody his office’s finest traditions of “professionalism, integrity, dedication and service.”
Mr. Bragg refused to say if he would request prison for Mr. Trump.
“The judge scheduled sentencing for July 11th. We will speak in court at that time. We also set a motion schedule. We’ll speak as we have done throughout this proceeding,” he said.
Mr. Bragg campaigned on a promise to prosecute Mr. Trump and picked up the investigation, which was launched by his predecessor Cy Vance while the former president was still in the White House.
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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