Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg spent much of his first term trying to show skeptics that a progressive prosecutor could handle violent crime. Now, with murders down, he says he\u2019s expanding his work in financial crimes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re charged with fighting crime from the streets to the suites, particularly when you\u2019re situated where we are in the center of commerce,\u201d Bragg said in an interview with Bloomberg Law. <\/p>\n
The recent<\/a> improvement<\/a> in public safety<\/a> in Manhattan and citywide \u2014 with shootings and other major violent crimes falling \u2014 is allowing Bragg to rethink how he organizes his office, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg spent much of his first term trying to show skeptics that a progressive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[66,61736,24212,100991,81198,132165,132166,1027,3285,75,84,83,15780,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-354463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-criminal-assault","tag-criminal-fraud","tag-cyberlaw-legislation","tag-digital-currency","tag-dna-testing-criminal-law","tag-hacking","tag-homicide","tag-identity-theft","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-money-laundering","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354463","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=354463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}