{"id":2260825,"date":"2024-06-05T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T23:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-official-took-pay-cut-to-work-on-alvin-braggs-trump-case-records-show\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T19:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T23:49:56","slug":"doj-official-took-pay-cut-to-work-on-alvin-braggs-trump-case-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-official-took-pay-cut-to-work-on-alvin-braggs-trump-case-records-show\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Official Took Pay Cut for Alvin Bragg&#8217;s Trump Case, Records Reveal"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdoj-official-took-pay-cut-to-work-on-alvin-braggs-trump-case-records-show%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=2260825&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>A DOJ official left the\u200b Biden administration to aid Alvin \u2064Bragg&#8217;s case\u2064 against\u2063 Trump, accepting a pay cut. Colangelo, once a top DOJ official, now \u200cearns $180,000 in NY. Critics link his move\u2064 to\u2063 the administration&#8217;s anti-Trump stance. Garland praised \u200cColangelo&#8217;s \u200dintegrity. \u200dControversy\u200b surrounds allegations of political influence \u200bin the case. A DOJ official left the Biden administration to assist Alvin Bragg&#8217;s case against Trump,\u200d taking a pay cut. Colangelo, previously\u200d a high-ranking DOJ official, now earns $180,000 \u2063in NY. Critics suggest his move \u200creflects the\u200b administration&#8217;s anti-Trump position. Garland\u200c commended Colangelo&#8217;s\u2062 integrity. The \u2063case\u2064 is marred by claims of political interference.  <\/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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Department of Justice official who left the Biden administration to work for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s case against former President Donald Trump took a small pay cut to make the move, records suggest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Matthew Colangelo was the third-highest official at the DOJ, earning an annual salary of $183,100, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedsdatacenter.com\/federal-pay-rates\/index.php?y=all&#038;n=colangelo%2C+matthew&#038;l=&#038;a=DEPARTMENT+OF+JUSTICE&#038;o=\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">public salary records<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He left the job to relocate to New York and be a senior counsel for Bragg, where he now earns a reduced salary of $180,000 a year, the city\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/widgets\/k397-673e?mobile_redirect=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">salary database<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His move from the prestigious post in Washington D.C. to a lower position in a district attorney office in New York has raised eyebrows from critics who say it is evidence that Biden\u2019s administration had a hand in prosecuting Trump. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The prosecution of the former president has faced widespread criticism for being politically motivated, and the key role of a Biden administration official in it has added fuel to the fire. The lack of any immediate financial benefit for Colangelo further gives the appearance that he joined the office to politically damage Trump, who has long made clear that he intended to challenge Biden in 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Colangelo <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/05\/nyregion\/alvin-bragg-trump-investigation.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  his move to the New York office in December 2022, it was explicitly to focus on the office\u2019s \u201cmost sensitive and <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\">high-profile white-collar investigation<\/a>.\u201d Bragg hailed Colangelo for having \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the sound judgment and integrity needed to pursue justice against powerful people and institutions when they abuse their power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He appears to have left with the blessing of Merrick Garland, who gave a statement to the New York Times praising him on his way out the door for his \u201cwise counsel and excellent judgment\u201d during his time at DOJ. Now Garland is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/garland-pushed-to-provide-all-correspondence-between-doj-and-trump-prosecutors\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">forced to deny<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  any coordination after being accused on Capitol Hill of \u201cdispatching Matthew Colangelo\u201d to Manhattan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat is false. I did not dispatch Matthew Colangelo,\u201d Garland said. \u201cThat is false.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garland said during his sworn testimony that he played no role in Colangelo getting the job, and furthermore that he has had no communication with Colangelo since he left. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Colangelo is an overtly political figure. In 2018, during Trump\u2019s first term, he was paid thousands of dollars by the Democratic National Committee for \u201cpolitical consulting,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ex-top-biden-doj-official-prosecuting-trump-once-paid-by-dnc-political-consulting\">reported<\/a> last month. His wife, Anne Small, contributed thousands of dollars to Biden\u2019s 2020 election campaign, Federal Election Commission <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?committee_id=C00703975&#038;contributor_name=anne+small\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">records show<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judge Juan Merchan, who had issued a controversial gag order on Trump, also donated to an anti-Trump political group. And Bragg, the lead prosecutor, campaigned for his office on \u201cgetting\u201d Trump. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-nations-second-largest-teachers-union-influenced-cdc-on-school-reopening-guidelines-delayed-return-to-classrooms\/\" title=\"Report: Nation\u2019s Second Largest Teachers Union Influenced CDC On School Reopening Guidelines, Delayed Return To Classrooms\">conservative watchdog group<\/a> has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-number-3-at-doj-left-to-prosecute-trump-in-ny-a-lawsuit-seeks-insight-into-the-move\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sued for all records<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  related to Trump while Colangelo was at the DOJ. The department failed to turn over the records for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-commuting-his-sentence-ca-gov-newsom-reverses-parole-for-convicted-double-murderer\/\" title=\"After Commuting His Sentence, CA Gov. Newsom Reverses Parole For Convicted Double Murderer\">public records request<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNo one leaves being the #3 at the Department of Justice to go work in a district attorney\u2019s office\u2013no matter which one it is,\u201d said Gene Hamilton, the executive director of America First Legal. \u201cThere is no plausible explanation other than engagement in a coordinated campaign to target one man \u2013 President Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though the move didn\u2019t immediately benefit Colangelo, he has managed to morph from an unknown Democrat operative to one of the prosecutors who won a conviction against the former president. It is unclear whether Colangelo will remain in Bragg\u2019s office after the case concludes.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former DOJ official, now assisting Alvin Bragg in the case against ex-President Trump, reportedly accepted a pay cut when making the transition. 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