{"id":2257768,"date":"2024-06-02T07:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T11:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scrutiny-of-prosecutor-matthew-colangelo-intensifies-after-trump-conviction\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T07:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T11:18:06","slug":"scrutiny-of-prosecutor-matthew-colangelo-intensifies-after-trump-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scrutiny-of-prosecutor-matthew-colangelo-intensifies-after-trump-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased Focus on Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo Following Trump&#8217;s Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscrutiny-of-prosecutor-matthew-colangelo-intensifies-after-trump-conviction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2257768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Manhattan DA&#8217;s prosecutor, Matthew Colangelo, faces criticism for his role in convicting former President Donald Trump. Colangelo, previously a senior DOJ official, was enlisted by DA Alvin Bragg\u200b to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspicions-arise-after-trumps-georgia-trial-date-proposed-look-whats-scheduled-for-the-next-day\/\" title=\"Trump's Georgia trial date raises suspicions - intriguing events follow.\">bring charges related<\/a> to a 2016\u2064 hush money payment. Trump supporters allege political bias\u200d in the prosecution, prompting calls for public testimony on\u200d the case.\u2064 The Manhattan\u200c DA&#8217;s prosecutor, Matthew Colangelo,\u200c is \u200cunder scrutiny for convicting ex-President Donald \u200bTrump. Previously a senior DOJ official, Colangelo joined DA Alvin Bragg to prosecute a 2016 hush money case. Allegations of political bias from Trump&#8217;s \u200dsupporters\u200d led to demands for\u2064 public testimony\u2064 on the matter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office is attracting waves of criticism after he successfully helped secure a felony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3024031\/watch-live-trump-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>conviction<\/a> against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Colangelo, once the No. 3 official in the Biden administration Department of Justice, was one of a handful of prosecutors District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alvin-bragg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Alvin Bragg\">Alvin Bragg<\/a> enlisted to bring charges against Trump over a 2016 hush money payment.<\/p>\n<p>Colangelo delivered the opening statement at the historic trial, telling jurors Trump \u201corchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election; then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, before Judge Juan Merchan imposed a gag order on Trump that prevented him from talking about prosecutors, Trump assailed Colangelo in remarks to the press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember this. Colangelo was a DOJ guy. He\u2019s a Biden DOJ guy,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2940381\/trump-spotlights-democrat-aligned-prosecutors-these-are-all-biden-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a>. \u201cWhy is he in the Manhattan DA\u2019s office trying the case? That in itself is a conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bragg plucked Colangelo from his top post at the DOJ to help with white-collar prosecutions in December 2022. Colangelo had little experience in that field, but he did have a wealth of knowledge about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Before working at the DOJ, Colangelo worked for Attorney General Letitia James, who investigated Trump for three years before bringing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-spotlights-democrat-aligned-prosecutors-these-are-all-biden-trials\/\" title=\"Trump highlights prosecutors aligned with Democrats, calling them \"Biden trials\">massive civil lawsuit<\/a> against him and the Trump Organization in the fall of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in James\u2019s office, Colangelo was involved in Trump\u2019s civil case and also led federal initiatives, which involved, at the time, filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, as well as investigating the Trump Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>He also previously worked in the Obama administration, and the Democratic National Committee paid him twice for \u201cpolitical consulting\u201d in 2018, federal records show.<\/p>\n<p>One source involved with Trump\u2019s legal proceedings described Colangelo as \u201cexhibit A\u201d of the perceived coordination between the Biden administration and Bragg\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the timeline is really important,\u201d the source told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cHe\u2019s in one of the premier legal posts in America, and he suddenly quits his job, goes to become a line prosecutor in the New York DA\u2019s office, and then almost immediately thereafter, the zombie case comes back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump allies have zeroed in on Colangelo as a means to showcase what they view as an unfairly politicized prosecution against Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), asked Bragg and Colangelo on Friday to appear for a public hearing to testify on the Trump case in June. It remains to be seen whether the pair will accept the invite, and Bragg\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment about it.<\/p>\n<p>Article III Project founder Mike Davis, an ardent Trump supporter, called Trump\u2019s prosecution \u201crigged,\u201d in part because of Colangelo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have \u2026 Matthew Colangelo getting deployed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-rudy-giulianis-home-and-office-searched-by-federal-investigators-executing-search-warrant-lawyer-slams-legal-thuggery\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani\u2019s Home And Office Searched By Federal Investigators, Executing Search Warrant. Lawyer Slams \u2018Legal Thuggery\u2019\">senior political appointee<\/a> in the Biden Justice Department to resurrect the zombie case that the prior Manhattan DA, Cy Vance, the Manhattan U.S. attorney, the Federal Election Commission, Bragg himself declined to bring until they brought this case to directly interfere in the 2024 presidential election,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>When Bragg took office in early 2022, he was reluctant to continue his predecessor Cy Vance\u2019s investigative work of Trump. However, after months of public pressure and the hiring of Colangelo, Bragg charged Trump in April 2023. The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Federal Election Commission both previously declined to charge Trump over the hush money payment.<\/p>\n<p>Many of Trump\u2019s critics have criticized the accusation that the prosecution was political rather than sincere. They have pointed to how common falsifying business records charges are in New York City and repeated the adage that prosecutors do not bring cases they do not believe they can win.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan is the \u201cfinancial capital of the world,\u201d defense attorney Joey Jackson, who once worked in the Manhattan DA\u2019s Office, told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson said the office has been \u201cinterested in white-collar crime since the beginning of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can call this, as has been said, a Biden prosecution, a corrupt judge, a corrupt DA,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cThis was about a crime that the DA office had a lot of interest in, and ultimately they pursued that interest and they got a guilty verdict, and I think that was a just and appropriate result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colangelo did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan DA&#8217;s prosecutor faces backlash for aiding in Trump&#8217;s felony conviction. 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