Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s troubles are just beginning.
Bragg’s political lawfare has consequences.
And Alvin Bragg is about to get hauled in front of a judge for this terrible decision.
Daniel Penny may sue Alvin Bragg for malicious prosecution
Americans breathed a sigh of relief that a jury got it right and acquitted 26-year-old former Marine Daniel Penny after Alvin Bragg tried to put him in jail for 15 years for killing Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man and career criminal with more than 40 arrests to his name.
Now Alvin Bragg may face a reckoning for bringing these bogus charges against Penny, as Penny’s lawyer told Fox News Penny may sue Bragg for malicious prosecution.
“It’s not necessarily even about breaking the law,” Penny’s attorney Steven Raiser said during an interview on Fox & Friends.
“It’s blurring ethical boundaries and failing to act in the manner in which you are expected, because of your office,” Raiser added.
Raiser argued that Bragg only arrested Penny to quell any potential Black Lives Matter riots since Penny was white and Neely was black.
Bragg being up for re-election in 2025 may have also played a role in his decision to arrest Penny on charges everyone knew were nonsense as evidenced by the fact that the police initially let Penny go after first taking him into custody as it was clear Penny acted to save lives.
“It was clear that there was a fear that if an arrest wasn’t made – and made very quickly – that there might be rioting in the streets, and that that may ultimately look very bad for District Attorney Alvin Bragg,” Raiser added. “And if that in fact happened, that could affect his re-election.”
Raiser said they may also include New York City’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Jason Graham, in the lawsuit as they believe this prosecution wasn’t possible without Dr. Graham rushing back that Neely’s cause of death was strangulation while not waiting for the toxicology report to come back.
“He was appointed by Mayor [Eric] Adams, same political party as Alvin Bragg,” Raiser continued. “There was collusion there, and, I mean, the collusion began from the very beginning of this case and all the way through. The district attorney needed the medical examiner and needed the medical examiner to act quickly, and he did just that.”
Raiser told the co-hosts that Bragg’s other prosecutorial decisions showed Penny was the victim of a political vendetta.
Bragg’s office took it easy on a criminal who snuck up on an 80-year-old man and killed him over $300 in the name of restorative justice.
“There were some highlights that were put out there, quite extensively, in regards to this office’s practice of not prosecuting crime, and some very serious cases to talking about restorative justice and such, which, by the way, in some circumstances, that’s a great thing,” Raiser stated.
“But some brutal cases of an individual who attacked an 80-year-old man, mugging him and punching him and ultimately killing him, and yet you’re going to go after full-throated against my client, who you admit did a laudable thing and is a fine young man? Despicable.” Raiser concluded.
