Tali Farhadian Weinstein

A Persian 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 Islamic Revolution in Iran, and spending 10 months in Israel (where her parents attended university), Farhadian arrived in the United States with her family at four years old on Christmas Eve in 1979. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society helped the family apply for asylum She attended day school at the Moriah School and the Frisch School. She studied in Israel in 1992 pursuant to a Bronfman Youth Fellowship. She edited the ''Yale Women's Haggadah'', a feminist interpretation of the Jewish Passover text. She passed the New York State Bar Exam in July 2003. == Career ==

From 2003 to 2004, Farhadian Weinstein was a law clerk for Judge Merrick Garland of the United States 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. 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. During this period, she created a post-conviction justice bureau to reevaluate possible wrongful convictions in collaboration with the Innocence Project. Farhadian Weinstein stepped down from her position at the Brooklyn District Attorney's office in July 2020 to become a candidate in the Democratic primary for the 2021 New York County District Attorney race to replace Cyrus Vance Jr. and oversee more than 500 lawyers in Manhattan. She and fellow candidate Alvin Bragg were the top fundraisers in the race, which included $8.2 million of her own money. Farhadian Weinstein was the only candidate who had worked in a New York City district attorney's office and been a federal prosecutor. 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, and Gloria Steinem, as well as Representatives Adriano Espaillat, Nydia Velázquez, and Ritchie Torres. She was also endorsed by New York City branch of the National Organization for Women and Robbie Kaplan who co-founded the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund. Farhadian Weinstein had the most votes in several neighborhoods including Upper East Side, Inwood and Washington Heights. She earned 30.7% of the total vote, second to Bragg's 34.3%, in a primary with eight candidates. On July 2, 2021, Farhadian Weinstein conceded the primary to Bragg. In late 2021, she became a legal analyst for NBC News. Farhadian Weinstein was appointed to the board of trustees of the New York Public Library in May 2018 She previously served on the Reform Leadership Council of the Vera Institute of Justice. On November 8, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Farhadian Weinstein to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Her nomination was not sent to the Senate before Biden left office. == Political positions ==

During her 2021 campaign, she proposed creating a new Bureau of Gender-Based Violence, composed of a Sex Crimes Unit and a Domestic Violence Unit, in the district attorney's office. She supports abolishing cash bail entirely and giving judges discretion to jail defendants who they believe pose a danger. Farhadian Weinstein does not support defunding the police, calling the phrase "inflammatory". She has indicated support for police reform. == Personal life ==

In November 2010, Farhadian married wealthy hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein, whom she had met while attending a book party at the UJA-Federation of New York, at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan. In May 2020, they gave $2 million to non-profits helping domestic violence victims. The couple have three daughters. In 2021, ProPublica reported that Farhadian Weinstein and her husband had paid virtually no federal income taxes in four of six recent years. This was despite reported annual income as high as $107 million. == Electoral history ==