ALVIN BRAGG HOUSE JUDICIARY HEARING | MADELINE BRAME OPENING STATEMENT

Madeline Brame is the chairwoman of the Victims Rights Reform Council and the mother of former US Army vet Hason Corea, who was beaten and stabbed to death in Harlem in 2018. Bragg inherited the case after taking office in 2022 — and cut deals with three of the four suspects, all siblings.

“He dismissed — completely dismissed — gang assault and murder indictments against two of the defendants clearly on video participating in the brutal, savage slaughter of my son,” Brame said of the DA. “And as far as the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, if he’s receiving one penny of federal dollars, you need to pull that funding until he starts doing his damn job and prosecuting crime.”