{"id":279812,"date":"2026-06-27T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279812\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:21:42","slug":"manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-accepted-comped-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279812\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg\u00a0accepted comped tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin\u00a0Bragg\u00a0<\/a>accepted free tickets worth at least $21,500 to attend 20 posh black-tie fundraisers and other galas last year \u2014 many thrown by lefty organizations doing business with the city.<\/p>\n

Thirteen of the 20 events were hosted by nonprofits and other organizations that hold city contracts. <\/p>\n

Most of the tickets were valued between $1,000 and nearly $5,000 each, with several featuring sports, Hollywood, and music celebrities, according to Bragg\u2019s 2025 financial disclosure forms filed with the city\u2019s Conflicts of Interest Board and made public this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin\u00a0Bragg\u00a0was comped free tickets worth at least $21,500 to attend 20 posh black-tie affairs and other galas last year \u2014 many thrown by lefty organizations doing business with the city. Steven Hirsch for NY Post<\/p>\n

The 2025 events included:<\/p>\n

An April 8 \u201cPaths to Progress\u201d gala at Ziegfeld Ballroom for the Vera Institute of Justice, whose mission is ending \u201cmass incarceration.\u201d<\/a> The group\u2019s annual dinner helps raise money to \u201creform the criminal, legal and immigration systems,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n

The Robin Hood Foundation\u2019s May 12 benefit at Javits Center, which was hosted ex-Giants star and \u201cGood Morning America\u201d co-host Michael Strahan and also included musical performances by The Weeknd and singer and \u201cFamily Guy\u201d creator Seth MacFarlane. Tickets ran $3,000 to $5,000 a pop and paid attendees \u2014 unlike Bragg \u2014 helped raise $72 million for New Yorkers living in poverty.<\/a><\/p>\n

Phoenix House\u2019s annual soiree in Midtown on May 1 honoring past alumni of the nonprofit for their recovery from substance abuse. Featured guests included Gov. Kathy Hochul and \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d actor Jason Biggs.<\/p>\n

The seven 2025 events not thrown by groups with city business included the April 2 \u201cKeepers of the Dream\u201d awards dinner for Rev. Al Sharpton\u2019s civil rights group National Action Network, which holds plenty of clout with New York Democratic pols; and a Nov. 11 gala for LatinoJustice, which is among the plaintiffs in an ongoing federal lawsuit trying to abolish the NYPD\u2019s gang database.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Bragg \u2014 a Democrat who\u2019s has been slammed by critics since taking over as DA in 2022 for villainizing victims while going easy on suspects \u2014 reported his ticket totals were worth in the range of $21,500 to nearly $138,000.<\/p>\n

By comparison, Bronx DA Darcel Clark disclosed in her filing that she attended seven events last year as gifts worth a combined $1,300 to nearly $11,000; Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez reported attending four valued at a combined $2,500 to $11,300; and Queens DA Melinda Katz and Staten Island DA Michael McMahon reported no such freebies. <\/p>\n

Bragg attended Phoenix House\u2019s annual soiree in Midtown on May 1, 2025 FaceBook \/ Manhattan Manhattan District<\/p>\n

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg (second from left) attending the Brotherhood Sister Sol Voices 2025 Gala on May 8, 2025. FaceBook \/ Manhattan Manhattan District<\/p>\n

Bragg didn\u2019t report attending any events as free gifts in his financial disclosure statements during his first two years in office, but The Post previously reported he attended 17 galas <\/a>in 2024 where the tickets he was comped were worth in the range of $9,400 to nearly $53,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlvin Bragg has spent more time rubbing elbows with the political elite than locking up criminals,\u201d said ex-Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Manhattan District Attorney should be focused on enforcing the law, not collecting free VIP tickets from organizations with business before the city. At the very least, it creates the appearance of a conflict, and that\u2019s something the top prosecutor should avoid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bragg spokesperson Danielle Filson dismissed any criticism, and pointed to a 62% decline in shootings and 74% drop in murders in Manhattan since her boss\u00a0 took office.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin\u00a0Bragg\u00a0accepted free tickets worth at least $21,500 to attend 20 posh black-tie fundraisers and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3015,24433,86064,10426,2132,105323,5533,14821,75,84,83,57,41316,9,24,63,87,58],"class_list":["post-279812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-alvin-bragg","tag-conflicts-of-interest","tag-conflicts-of-interest-board","tag-darcel-clark","tag-democrats","tag-disclosure","tag-eric-gonzalez","tag-galas","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-michael-strahan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}