Subject: Re: Trumpers walk out on Trump
BTW, should not Trump have to be convicted of an election law violation before Bragg can make that assertion.

No. The NY statute for falsification of business records allows it to be considered a felony if it "includes an intent to commit
another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof." The other crime need not actually have been committed, need not have been committed successfully, or have been committed by the defendant.

So if you falsify a business record intending to commit another crime, but then don't commit that crime, it's still a felony - you intended to commit a crime when you falsified the record. Similarly, if you falsify a business record in an attempt to commit a crime but fail to do it successfully, you would have still committed a felony. And if you falsify a business record to help someone else commit a crime or to conceal that someone else had committed a crime, it would be a felony. And, of course, if you falsify business records and do commit the other crime, the prosecution doesn't have to convict you of that in a separate proceeding if they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt in this proceeding that you did that.