Due to his failure to comply with state Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests for information regarding his office’s potential exchanges with the Department of Justice, the White House, and Democrat lawmakers regarding his prosecution of Donald Trump, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is now the subject of two lawsuits.

In March of this year, following a protracted investigation into Trump’s hush-money interactions during the 2016 presidential election, Bragg indicted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying records.

According to Bragg, Trump fabricated New York business documents to “conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election.”

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with offices in Washington, D.C., has filed a lawsuit against Bragg on the grounds that it believes Bragg and his office coordinated with the Justice Department, the White House, and Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-New York, regarding the case. Heritage contends in its lawsuit that these actions ultimately prompted numerous House committees to investigate Bragg’s conduct.

“Regrettably, these questions have not been met with answers. These reports have raised concerns in many circles based in large part upon the longstanding history of President Trump’s political opponents coordinating their activities to systematically weaponize the criminal justice system against him and thereby pervert the course of Justice,” According to a filing with the first lawsuit.

In a second complaint, Heritage asserts that Bragg and his colleagues enlisted the gratis assistance of prestigious white-collar crime-focused law firms. At this time, they are requesting that the court rule that the requested documents are “subject to release under the New York Freedom of Information Law,” order Bragg and his team to provide the requested information, and prohibit them from “seeking costs and fees for the request at issue in this case.”

Heritage asserts that Bragg and his cohorts have largely denied the group’s requests for the correspondence between the alleged parties, despite the group’s claims that it has a right to do so under New York’s FOIL regulations.

Mike Howell, the director of the Oversight Project at Heritage, stated that there are grounds to suspect Bragg was a “prolific communicator” via mobile phone and that they believe Bragg was “coordinating, or otherwise communicating,” with Trump’s political opponents.

In an interview with Fox, Howell stated, “The fact we have to file a lawsuit against Bragg who says he can’t produce these records and says he doesn’t have the systems to do so, is proof-positive of another dual standard of justice at play in this country.”

“You have a weaponized actor who’s going after the former president on a loony theory about his document retention, whereas the DA can’t even keep his own documents, and it’s in violation of the information laws he is bound by,” he added.

“He’s a hypocrite. He’s wasting an exorbitant amount of New York’s taxpayer’s dollars to defend this now and delay it and obstruct it when he could’ve just turned it over,” he opined. CONTINUE READING…