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Had she won, she would have been the first female and first immigrant ever elected as Manhattan DA.<ref name="auto13"/> She was the only candidate who had worked in a New York City ]’s office and been a ].<ref name="auto13"/> An April 21, 2021, poll by Benenson Strategy Group found her leading with 16% of those polled.<ref> ''Politico''.</ref> She was endorsed by the '']'' and the '']''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2021/06/09/the-post-endorses-tali-farhadian-weinstein-for-manhattan-da/|title=The Post endorses Tali Farhadian Weinstein for Manhattan DA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-manhattan-da-primary-endorsement-20210526-reuaitntnjhavp4kqmxdwzwrlm-story.html|title=Ms. District Attorney: Tali Farhadian Weinstein for Manhattan DA|first=Daily News Editorial|last=Board|website=nydailynews.com}}</ref> Had she won, she would have been the first female and first immigrant ever elected as Manhattan DA.<ref name="auto13"/> She was the only candidate who had worked in a New York City ]’s office and been a ].<ref name="auto13"/> An April 21, 2021, poll by Benenson Strategy Group found her leading with 16% of those polled.<ref> ''Politico''.</ref> She was endorsed by the '']'' and the '']''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2021/06/09/the-post-endorses-tali-farhadian-weinstein-for-manhattan-da/|title=The Post endorses Tali Farhadian Weinstein for Manhattan DA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-manhattan-da-primary-endorsement-20210526-reuaitntnjhavp4kqmxdwzwrlm-story.html|title=Ms. District Attorney: Tali Farhadian Weinstein for Manhattan DA|first=Daily News Editorial|last=Board|website=nydailynews.com}}</ref>
She was also endorsed by former Attorney General Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, and Congressman Ritchie Torres.<ref>https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-elections-2021/ny-nyc-manhattan-da-race-tali-farhadian-weinstein-hillary-clinton-endorsement-20210615-xskojtsrqrgthmt4cdobjj363i-story.html</ref> She was also endorsed by former Attorney General Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, and Congressman Ritchie Torres.<ref>https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-elections-2021/ny-nyc-manhattan-da-race-tali-farhadian-weinstein-hillary-clinton-endorsement-20210615-xskojtsrqrgthmt4cdobjj363i-story.html</ref> Before and during the race, she publicly shared that she was naturalized as a US citizen at age 19 and became a registered Democrat at the same time, despite not having voted in every state and local elections in New York.<ref>{{Cite web|title=IMMIGRATION|url=https://www.taliforda.com/issue/immigration/|access-date=2021-06-22|website=Tali Farhadian Weinstein for Manhattan DA|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=77 WABC's NYC DA Debate Full|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mWbl0Qjx_o|language=en|access-date=2021-06-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=How I Became Tali Weinstein|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-became-tali-weinstein-tali-farhadian-weinstein|access-date=2021-06-22|website=www.linkedin.com|language=en}}</ref> However, her "registered Democrat since age 19" statement was disputed by a reporter Sam Mellins partially funded by the ].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-14|title=Manhattan DA Candidate Tali Farhadian Weinstein Skipped Years of Voting in Local Elections, Records Show|url=https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/06/14/manhattan-da-candidate-skipped-voting/|access-date=2021-06-22|website=New York Focus|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ethics and Funders|url=https://www.nysfocus.com/ethics/|access-date=2021-06-22|website=New York Focus|language=en}}</ref>


On July 2, 2021, Weinstein conceded to Bragg.<ref>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/manhattan-district-attorney-results-alvin-bragg-wins.html</ref> On July 2, 2021, Weinstein conceded to Bragg.<ref>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/manhattan-district-attorney-results-alvin-bragg-wins.html</ref>

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American attorney, professor, and politician

This surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Farhadian Weinstein, not Farhadian or Weinstein.
Tali Farhadian Weinstein
BornTali Farimah Farhadian
1973 or 1974 (age 50–51)
Tehran, Iran
EducationYale University (BA, JD)
Magdalen College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil)
Occupation(s)Attorney, professor
Years active2003–present
Political partyIndependent (until 2017)
Democratic (2017–present)
Spouse Boaz Weinstein ​(m. 2010)​
Children3
AwardsRhodes Scholar
WebsiteOfficial website

Tali Farimah Farhadian Weinstein (born in 1974 or 1975), is an American attorney, professor, and politician. She is a former federal prosecutor and was a candidate in the 2021 New York County District Attorney race.

A Mizrahi Jew born in Iran who fled it with her family as a child, Farhadian Weinstein and her family became eligible for US citizenship through President Ronald Reagan's 1986 amnesty policies.

Farhadian Weinstein was a law clerk in the federal courts, worked in the Department of Justice, was the general counsel for the Brooklyn District Attorney's office and is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law.

Early life and education

A Mizrahi Jew, Farhadian was born in Tehran, Iran, to Farah Farhadian, then a biostatistician and now a math teacher, and Nasser Dan Farhadian, a hydraulic engineer. Her paternal grandfather was a cloth peddler.

After fleeing antisemitism and the Iranian Islamic Revolution and spending 10 months in Israel (where her parents attended university), Farhadian emigrated to the United States with her family at four years of age on Christmas Eve in 1979. She reminisced, while explaining her desire to help others have opportunity and safety in their lives: "I know what it’s like to be given an opportunity." The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), a nonprofit devoted to helping refugees, helped the family apply for asylum. The family became eligible for US citizenship through President Ronald Reagan's 1986 amnesty policies.

The family lived first in Queens, New York, and then in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. She attended yeshiva day school at the Moriah School and the Frisch School. She studied in Israel in 1992 pursuant to a Bronfman Youth Fellowship.

In 1997, Farhadian graduated from Yale University where she majored in Humanities. She edited the Yale Women's Haggadah, a feminist interpretation of the Jewish Passover text. She wrote her senior essay on the Spanish Jewish poet and philosopher Yehuda Halevi. She received Yale's Alpheus Henry Snow Prize.

As a Rhodes Scholar, she attended Magdalen College, Oxford, in England. She earned a MPhil and a D.Phil in Oriental Studies (Modern Middle East Studies) in 1999, writing her thesis on the literature of Jews from the Arab world in Israel.

She then earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2003, where Farhadian received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She passed the New York State Bar Exam in July 2003.

Career

At the outset of her legal career, in 2003–04 Farhadian Weinstein was a law clerk to Judge Merrick Garland in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. From 2004 to 2006, she clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. From 2006 to 2007, she was a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City. From 2007 to 2008, she was an adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

In 2009, Farhadian Weinstein joined the U.S. Department of Justice. Through June 2010, she served with the Department as Counsel to the Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder. Farhadian Weinstein joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in 2011 as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, where she investigated and prosecuted federal crimes including violent crimes, public corruption, narcotics trafficking, and national security matters, serving through 2017.

From 2018 to 2020 she was the General Counsel for Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Farhadian Weinstein has been an adjunct professor at NYU Law School since 2017.

2021 New York County District Attorney race

Farhadian Weinstein was a candidate in the June 22, 2021, Democratic primary for the 2021 New York County District Attorney race to replace Cyrus Vance Jr., overseeing over 500 lawyers.

She and fellow candidate Alvin Bragg were the top fundraisers in the race, which included US$8.2million of her own money.

Had she won, she would have been the first female and first immigrant ever elected as Manhattan DA. She was the only candidate who had worked in a New York City district attorney’s office and been a federal prosecutor. An April 21, 2021, poll by Benenson Strategy Group found her leading with 16% of those polled. She was endorsed by the New York Post and the New York Daily News. She was also endorsed by former Attorney General Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, and Congressman Ritchie Torres. Before and during the race, she publicly shared that she was naturalized as a US citizen at age 19 and became a registered Democrat at the same time, despite not having voted in every state and local elections in New York. However, her "registered Democrat since age 19" statement was disputed by a reporter Sam Mellins partially funded by the Open Society Foundations.

On July 2, 2021, Weinstein conceded to Bragg.

Political positions

Farhadian Weinstein views as priorities: gun violence (which she would seek to stem by addressing gun trafficking and ghost guns) and gender-based violence (such as sexual assault and domestic violence. If elected, she says she will create a new Bureau of Gender-Based Violence, composed of a Sex Crimes Unit and a Domestic Violence Unit). Other top priorities of hers are: ensuring fairness in the legal system, protecting immigrants, addressing traffic violence, and preventing hate crimes. She supports abolishing cash bail, and giving judges discretion to jail defendants deemed dangerous. Weinstein says she will investigate Donald Trump’s taxes if she is in a position to do so. If elected she says she will create an Environmental Crimes Unit, to prosecute corporate polluters.

Farhadian Weinstein does not support defunding the police, calling the phrase "inflammatory". At a forum with eight candidates for the Manhattan DA's office, she was one of only two who said they would not "defund the police," something that the DA's office has no authority over. She has indicated support for police reform. She was in favor of the repeal of a rule that kept personnel files for police officers confidential. This rule was repealed in 2020 by the New York State Legislature.

Personal life

In November 2010, she married hedge-fund manager Boaz Weinstein, whom Farhadian had met while attending a book party at the UJA-Federation of New York, at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan. In 2012, they purchased the penthouse apartment at 907 Fifth Avenue of the late heiress Huguette Clark for $25.5 million. In May 2020 they gave $2 million to non-profits helping domestic violence victims. The couple have three daughters.

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