- Title: Envelope containing white powder reportedly delivered to Manhattan DA's office
- Date: 24th March 2023
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 24, 2023) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE VARIOUS OF STREET SIGN READING (English): "HOGAN PL"
- Embargoed: 7th April 2023 20:51
- Keywords: Bragg NYPD Trump white powder
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: US
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions,North America
- Reuters ID: LVA004011224032023RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: An envelope containing white powder was reportedly delivered to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on Friday (March 24), hours after New York prosecutors probing former U.S. President Donald Trump's hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels said they would not be intimidated.
A New York City Police Department (NYPD) police officer was seen departing the district attorney's office at 80 Centre Street with evidence bags.
The Friday incident was the latest in a string of incidents on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg since last Saturday when Trump wrongly predicted he would be arrested three days later.
Bragg's office, in a letter to Republican committee chairmen in Congress on Thursday, challenged their standing to investigate his office and said Trump had "created a false expectation that he would be arrested" in his Saturday post.
The letter called the chairmen's request for communications, documents, and testimony an "unlawful incursion into New York's sovereignty."
Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress and director whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she received the money in exchange for keeping silent about a sexual encounter she had with Trump in 2006.
Trump has denied ever having an affair with Daniels, and has called the payment a "simple private transaction." He has said he did not commit a crime and has called the investigation politically motivated.
The Manhattan grand jury probing Trump is not due to reconvene until next week.
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