George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley described Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump as a “Frankenstein case” based on resurrected alleged misdemeanor business record violations.
Bragg indicted Trump last spring on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, taking what are normally misdemeanor violations and making them felonies, because the DA alleges that Trump was seeking to hide an underlying crime.
The felony charges allowed Bragg to extend the statute of limitations from two years to six.
But Bragg has not been entirely clear what the underlying crime is; although he suggested when he announced the charges, it had to do with a reported $130,000 in payments made to porn star Stormy Daniel ahead of
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