Alvin Bragg is the 37th District Attorney elected in Manhattan. Alvin – a lifelong Manhattanite who served as a state and federal prosecutor – has spent more than two decades fighting to make our communities safer and our criminal justice system fairer.
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DA Alvin Bragg says housing fraud is having a ‘moment’
Four years ago Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg set aside a group of about a dozen lawyers to prosecute housing fraud cases across the city. The office’s Housing & Tenant Protection unit has since brought forward 10 cases, including against heavy hitters Meyer and Joseph Chetrit, brothers and former owners of high-profile properties like the Chelsea Hotel and Chicago’s Willis Tower, for allegedly harassing elderly tenants in Chelsea. The unit has also brought forward cases involving deed theft, rental scams and other alleged abuses of New York’s real estate laws. Earlier this month the office secured guilty pleas from three developers in Brooklyn accused of cheating 421-a, the once-popular but now-expired state program that granted generous incentives to developers who built affordable housing. Bragg recently spoke with Crain’s about his office’s quest to bring bad actors in the real estate community to justice.
She Was Paralyzed by a Subway Train. Today, She’s Reclaiming Her Life.
Her vision went dark. She was facedown, and everything below her chest felt numb. A moment before, two hands had grabbed Emine Yilmaz from behind and slammed her head into a racing E train as she stood on a subway platform in Manhattan.
D.A. Bragg Announces Guilty Plea In $325k Wage Theft By School Construction Authority Subcontractor
“With this resolution, High Volt Electric Corp’s workers will receive hundreds in thousands of wages they are rightly owed,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Young New Yorkers deserve safe, modern spaces to learn, and defrauding the School Construction Authority jeopardizes its ability to provide those spaces for the 1.1 million children in our city’s public schools. I thank the Department of Investigation and the School Construction Authority’s Office of Inspector General for their ongoing partnership.”
Bragg Announces Sentence in May 2020, COVID-Related Murder
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., reecntly announced the sentencing of Aljo Mrkulic, 37, to 39 years-to-life in state prison for murdering 30-year-old Christopher Rodriguez, his intimate partner, setting fire to Mr. Rodriguez’s apartment and assaulting three police officers who responded to the scene in May 2020. On December 17, 2025, New York State Supreme Court Judge Curtis Farber convicted Mrkulic of one count each of Murder in the Second Degree and Arson in the Second Degree, and three counts of Assault in the Second Degree.
Jury Convicts Man Who Paralyzed Woman in UES Subway Attack
Nearly three years after a man shoved a woman’s head into a moving subway train at the 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue station, paralyzing her from the shoulders down, a Manhattan jury has found him guilty on all counts.
Harlem man who gunned down roommate over stolen soda gets sentence of 25 to life
After he was found guilty of fatally shooting his roommate in their apartment on West 152nd Street, 52-year-old Marquis Chappelle on Tuesday received a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
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