NYC prosecutor leading Trump probe wonโt seek re-election
Vance Jr. fought for a year and a half to get access to former President Donald Trumps tax records. who sees the Trump case through. โI never imagined myself as District Attorney for decades like my predecessors. The Trump case will likely be an early test for the next D.A. Vanceโs successor will be just the fourth elected district attorney in Manhattan in the last 80 years.
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
The world also said goodbye to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement who died in July. Other former political figures who died this year include Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Arizona Gov. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2020 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___David Stern, 77. The guitarist who supplied the scratching, seething sound that fueled the highly influential British punk band Gang of Four. He fused African rhythms with funk to become one of the most influential musicians in world dance music.
New York City's first Black mayor, David Dinkins, dies at 93
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 2, 1990, file photo, David Dinkins delivers his first speech as mayor of New York, in New York. Dinkins, New York Citys first African-American mayor, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. De Blasio, who worked in Dinkinsโ administration, named Manhattanโs Municipal Building after his mentor in October 2015. There were 8,340 New Yorkers killed during the Dinkins administration โ the bloodiest four-year stretch since the New York City Police Department began keeping statistics in 1963. That deal guaranteed that the U.S. Open would remain in New York City for decades.