House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has threatened to issue a subpoena to New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) for information about the top prosecutor in former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan.
in Letter to James Last month, Jordan requested information about her former employee, Matthew Colangelo, who now works for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and gave an opening statement at President Trump’s trial in New York.
Jordan sent the letter to all of Colangelo’s most recent employers, a group that also includes the Department of Justice, James’ office and the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D).
In both his roles in New York, Colangelo was part of the prosecutorial team investigating Trump’s businesses and related charities.
“Mr. Colangelo’s recent employment history indicates that he is more obsessed with investigating people than prosecuting crimes,” Jordan wrote in May.
Tuesday’s letter asks for the same set of documents relating to Colangelo’s employment, but adds that if James fails to meet the July 2 deadline, “the commission is prepared to resort to compulsory procedures to compel compliance with our demands.”
James’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Colangelo is scheduled to testify alongside Bragg before the House Judiciary Committee on July 12.
Trump is due to be sentenced the day before after being found guilty on all 34 charges brought by prosecutors that he falsified business records to hide hush money payments to porn actors before the 2016 election.
This will be the first time Congress has heard testimony from officials responsible for the prosecution of President Trump.
The request to James seeks a trove of documents, including all communications Colangelo had with officials at the Trump Organization or related entities during his time in office.
While working for the New York Attorney General’s Office in 2018, Colangelo was part of the team that sued President Trump’s charity, proving it had misused funds and leading to its dissolution.
And in the final days of the Trump administration, he was involved in an investigation into the Trump Organization itself that later became the basis of James’ fraud lawsuit and led to Trump being fined $450 million this year.
Colangelo left James’ office for a senior position at the Justice Department, but returned to New York two years later to join Bragg’s team.
