Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to New York State Attorney General Letitia James to Matthew Colangelo, a former Justice Department official and current chief prosecutor in New York v. Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. He requested that relevant documents be handed over. Trump incident.
“Mr. Colangelo’s recent work history indicates that he is more concerned with investigating people than prosecuting crimes,” Jordan said in a letter to James on Wednesday. .
“At the New York Attorney General’s Office, Mr. Colangelo, who at one time held the title of Chief Counsel for Federal Initiatives, conducted an investigation into President Trump and led a ‘wave of state litigation against Trump administration policies,'” Jordan said. Ta. continued. “On January 20, 2021, the first day of the Biden administration, Mr. Colangelo began work as the acting deputy attorney general, No. 3 in the Department of Justice. Upon approval from Deputy Attorney General Vanita Gupta, Mr. Colangelo was appointed as the acting deputy attorney general. Served as Deputy Attorney General.
But months before the former president’s indictment, Mr. Colangelo left a high-ranking position at the Justice Department to join New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation of Mr. Trump.
“In December 2022, District Attorney Bragg ‘toughened up’ [his] The office was created by hiring Mr. Colangelo to fill the void left by the resignations of political affairs prosecutors Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunn. District Attorney Bragg reportedly hired Colangelo to “start” the office’s investigation into President Trump because of Colangelo’s “history of taking on Donald J. Trump and his family business.” . Mr. Colangelo is currently the lead prosecutor in President Trump’s trial,” Jordan continued.
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Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo speaks in a Department of Justice video. (Ministry of Justice/YouTube)
Colangelo has a long history in government, having served in various legal roles since the Obama administration, Fox News Digital previously reported.He was almost serving until recently. Two years at Biden’s Justice Departmentserving as Deputy Attorney General and overseeing the antitrust, civil, civil rights, environment and natural resources, and tax divisions, among other roles.
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Biden, the former head of the Justice Department who is prosecuting Trump, once received compensation for “political consulting” from the DNC.
Mr. Colangelo has previously prosecuted cases involving Mr. Trump.
Colangelo assisted in the case. 2018, when President Trump disbanded his predecessor The Donald J. Trump Foundation, a New York-based philanthropic organization, has filed a lawsuit against Trump after prosecutors said it illegally collaborated with the 2016 Trump campaign. The charity organization was disbanded.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks at a press conference. (AP Photo/Britteny Newman, File)
That same year, Mr. Colangelo served as lead prosecutor in a case involving the Trump administration’s push to include a citizenship question in the 2020 Census. Ministry of Justice The decision was ultimately made to print the 2020 Census without the citizenship question due to a lengthy legal battle, including the Supreme Court considering not adding the question for the time being.
Experts who previously spoke to Fox News Digital said Colangelo’s career transition from the top position at the Justice Department to the district attorney’s office was “very strange.”
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“It’s very strange. Usually it’s the other way around…and frankly, it’s like someone thought, ‘Oh, here’s my chance to go get Donald Trump,'” said lawyer and former member Hans von Spa. Kofsky said. The Federal Election Commission spoke to Fox News Digital in a phone interview last month before the trial began in earnest.
President Trump has said publicly that he is not a fan of Colangelo.He accused his lawyer of being a “radical leftist” [prosecutor] “She was put into the state working for Letitia James and then put into the district attorney’s office to try the case against Trump.” This comment comes as New York v. Trump Chief Judge Juan Marchand says he will block Trump. This was announced before the gag order was imposed. Prohibits public discussion of witnesses or prosecution team.
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“District Attorney Bragg’s politicized prosecution of President Trump has serious consequences for federal interests,” Jordan continued in his letter to James on Wednesday. “A former Biden Justice Department official — whose previous job was leading a wave of state lawsuits against Trump administration policies” is now leading the prosecution of President Biden’s biggest political rival. The fact that Judge Biden is corrupt only furthers the perception that the department is politicized and weaponized.
Chairman Jim Jordan listens as Attorney General Merrick Garland appears before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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The New York v. Trump lawsuit seeks to prove that Trump falsified business records 34 times to conceal claims that former porn star Stormy Daniels had an affair with Trump prior to the 2016 election. The focus is on the prosecution team working on it.
Former President Trump leaves Trump Tower to attend a trial in New York on April 22, 2024. (Charlie Tribaleu/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump has maintained his innocence and maintained his innocence in the case.
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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, considered a key witness for the prosecution team, continued his testimony this week, including that he used personal funds to make payments to Daniels through a mortgage line in 2016. Also includes testimony. Cohen testified that he did so because President Trump told him to “deal with it” because the story could be damaging to his campaign.
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Cohen said the payment was “refunded in the amount of $420,000,” said the amount was “grossly increased” to prevent loss to taxes, and claimed President Trump knew the details of the payment. did. The check itself said “retainer,” but Cohen said this was a false statement.
James’ office and the Manhattan prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment Thursday morning.
