REPORT: Alvin Bragg’s office faces lawsuit over records related to Trump prosecution

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From the Washington Examiner: A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s office, alleging the elected Democrat illegally withheld records related to the felony hush money case against former President Donald Trump.

The complaint, filed by the conservative group America First Legal, was prompted by Bragg’s repeated denials of AFL’s Freedom of Information Law requests, which sought communications between Bragg’s office, the Biden administration, and other parties potentially involved in what AFL described as the “partisan persecution” of Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.

“There should be nothing to hide,” AFL Vice President Daniel Epstein said in a statement. “If improper ex parte communications influenced what is supposed to be nonpartisan prosecutorial conduct, all Americans are at risk.”

AFL began its investigation in March 2023, focusing on internal and external communications within the district attorney’s office concerning Trump. The group’s requests also sought records of interactions with high-profile figures such as Lanny Davis, a Democratic consultant and attorney for ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who claimed credit for sparking the district attorney’s investigation into Trump during an interview with Politico in March of last year.

AFL announced their lawsuit in a series of social media posts Tuesday afternoon:

We just SUED NY District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Office to obtain:

📑Communications with the Biden-Harris admin, the NY Times, the Free and Fair Litigation Group, or Lanny Davis’ law firm
📑Communications discussing Judge Merchan or Donald Trump

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/2 In March of 2023, we opened an investigation into the New York County District Attorney’s Office to obtain internal and external communications from its key leaders regarding former President Trump.

/3 For example, Democrat political operative Lanny Davis bragged to Politico that he triggered the District Attorney’s investigation of President Trump.

/4 Davis’ claims might be puffery, but they provide an additional reason to believe that the District Attorney’s unusual interest in President Trump has been based on improper partisan considerations from the start.

/5 Then, following the partisan conviction of President Trump in New York on June 2, 2024, we launched new investigations responding to credible allegations of improper collusion between District Attorney Bragg’s office and allied leftist dark money groups.

/6 On June 3, 2024, after more than a year of extension after extension, the District Attorney’s Office granted access to “one single-page record.”

/7 Additionally, its search identified “36 responsive records” to our request for all emails or other communications “mentioning or regarding Donald J. Trump” with the DOJ, but the request was “denied on grand jury secrecy grounds.”

/8 Bragg’s office’s statement appears inconsistent with DOJ’s June 10, 2024, response to @Jim_Jordan, stating that DOJ found nothing from its “comprehensive search for email communications since January 20, 2021, through the date of the verdict, between any officials in Department leadership, including all political appointees in those offices, and the District Attorney’s office regarding any investigation or prosecution of the former President.”

/9 After we fully exhausted all appeals of the District Attorney’s denials of our FOIL requests at the administrative level, we are now suing before the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the release of the following records:
🚨All records of communications between Alvin Bragg and his staff with the Biden-Harris Administration (including DOJ), the New York Times, the Free and Fair Litigation Group, or Lanny Davis’s law firm or PR firm;
🚨All records of Alvin Bragg and his staff discussing Judge Merchan or Donald J. Trump.

/10 As part of our ongoing investigation, we already sued DOJ to compel the immediate release of records requested under FOIA regarding Matthew Colangelo, a key figure in the partisan and politically motivated prosecution against President Trump in Manhattan.

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