There are no politics more brutal than church politics, and there is no politician who knows that better than Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Before he took a seat on the front row of a Manhattan criminal courtroom where he is personally prosecuting former President Donald Trump in a salacious hush money trial, Bragg managed to maneuver his way around a scandal at a house of worship where politics is practically written in the bylaws.

Bragg is a member of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, where a deacon, Jerome Yeiser, is accused of posing as a contractor and scamming home-owning parishioners out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Bragg, the prosecutor, has been forced to watch from the sidelines because of his obvious conflict of interest. Not only is Bragg a church member, but he is also a Sunday school........

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