Edited by: TJVNews.com
As the nine-way race for Manhattan District Attorney continues to heat up, there is one candidate that stands out from the rest.
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, 45, arrived in the United States in 1979 as a 4-year-old, the daughter of Jewish parents from Iran who fled the revolution and applied for asylum, according to a New York Times report.
Having attended Yale Law School, Farhadian Weinstein was then offered clerkships with Merrick B. Garland, who was then a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, as was reported by the New York Times. She even worked at the United States Department of Justice as an attorney under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who remembers her as a fierce debater.
“She had really good judgment and the guts to challenge people at the Justice Department,” said Mr. Holder, who has endorsed Farhadian Weinstein, as was reported by the New York Times. “She was not a shrinking violet.”
In addition to working at the Department of Justice she also has experience working in a city prosecutor’s office. Having achieved the state of a Rhodes scholar, Farhadian Weinstein also have a formidable and quite impressive legal resume, as was reported by the New York Times.
Thus far, Farhadian Weinstein has been offered endorsements from prominent New Yorkers and has been able to raise significantly more campaign dollars than her opponents.
Farhadian Weinstein is married to Wall Street hedge fund manager, Boaz Weinstein and as a result, as of January of this year, she has raised $2.2 million. The NYT reported that hundreds of thousands of those dollars were donated by Wall Street titans and other major players in the financial sector.
As to Farhadian Weinstein’s positions on the issues that are being discussed in this important race, rather than taking the perspective (as her opponents are) that reforming laws focused on the reduction of prison sentences for convicted criminals, she has promulgated a more conservative position, according to the NYT report. She has expressed concern about rising crime statistics in New York City as well as the proliferation of illegal guns and the deleterious impact of drug related gangs, as was reported by the Times.
As is quite common in politics, Farhadian Weinstein’s opponents are balking about the sources of the money that she has raised thus fair. They have notably mentioned that the Manhattan district attorney’s has tremendous influence over a large number of financial crimes.
