The House Judiciary Committee asked the Department of Justice on Tuesday to provide information about its former employee Matthew Colangelo, one of the prosecutors leading the hush money case against former President Donald Trump in New York.
Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner to Attorney General Merrick Garland that Colangelo’s recent work in the Biden administration’s DOJ and in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office heightened concerns that the prosecution of Trump in Manhattan is politically motivated.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, charged Trump last year with falsifying business records, alleging he hid payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to help his 2016 election prospects. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is in the midst of a trial
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