(CNSNews.com) - If the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is receiving even "one penny of federal dollars, you need to pull that funding until he starts doing his damn job and prosecuting crime."

That's what Madeline Brame told a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in New York City on Monday.

Brame is now a victims’ rights advocate, following the murder of her son in 2018. She said restoring law-and-order is more important than political considerations:

"There are hundreds and thousands of us. We don't give a damn about your politics. We don't care. It could be the man from the moon who's running for president. Okay? As long as whoever's in there (stands) for law and order and is going to return some civility and sanity to our city."

Brame's son, Sgt. Hason Correa, an Afghanistan war veteran, was beaten and stabbed to death in Harlem in October 2018 by four people he did not know -- four people who had the most serious charges against them, including gang assault and murder, either dropped or reduced by Bragg's office.

Brame says she and her family were "totally disrespected" by Bragg's office.

"When Alvin Bragg came into office, he was handed a strong, trial ready murder case and gang assault case against all four of these individuals," Brame said, noting that her son’s murder was captured on video.

But, she continued, as soon as Bragg took office, "the case immediately began to unravel.

“He dismissed, completely dismissed, gang assault and murder indictments against two of the defendants, clearly (seen) on video, participating in the brutal, savage slaughter of my son.

“Mary Saunders, the sister involved in the homicide, he dismissed her indictment and recharged her with assault with a shoe and sentenced her to one year, time served.”

Brame said Bragg’s office also dismissed the gang assault and murder indictment against the fourth suspect and reduced the charge to “attempted gang assault." Brame said this defendant plead guilty, received a seven-year sentence, but will be out in the next 18 months.

Meanwhile, Brame fumed, "Mary Saunders is currently walking the streets of Harlem like she didn't just participate in the slaughter of another human being...if that's not a threat to public safety, I don't know who is...

“This is the type of criminal element we have walking the streets of New York City on a daily basis. All types of criminal elements, free to do what they want, when they want, however they want to whomever they want, with no consequences, no deterrence," she said.

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