{"id":2291269,"date":"2024-07-09T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bragg-prosecutor-touted-top-democrats-as-job-references-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:05:51","slug":"bragg-prosecutor-touted-top-democrats-as-job-references-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bragg-prosecutor-touted-top-democrats-as-job-references-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bragg prosecutor touted top Democrats as job references &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbragg-prosecutor-touted-top-democrats-as-job-references-washington-examiner%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=2291269&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 article \u2063discusses how a prosecutor who helped lead the hush money case against former President Donald Trump \u200bhad two key Democrats in the \u200cBiden White House as references for a job he took in \u200d2018. \u2064The\u2064 prosecutor, \u200bMatthew Colangelo, listed former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and President Joe Biden\u2019s chief \u200bof staff Jeff \u2064Zients as references for a role with the New\u2063 York attorney general\u2019s office.\u2062 This revelation raises concerns about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-mccarthy-defends-trump-over-jan-6-what-criminal-activity-did-he-do\/\" title=\"McCarthy defends Trump on Jan. 6: &#039;No criminal activity?&#039;\">potential political motives<\/a> behind Trump\u2019s\u200b prosecution and \u200bhighlights the close working\u200b relationship\u2063 between\u2063 Colangelo and individuals deeply invested in Biden\u2019s success. The article also mentions \u2064Colangelo&#8217;s involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-cuomo-set-to-make-5-1m-profit-from-book-about-covid-19-leadership\/\" title=\"Andrew Cuomo set to make .1M profit from book about COVID-19 leadership\">high-profile investigations<\/a> \u200cand his role in\u2064 Trump\u2019s trial, indicating potential political\u200b influence in the legal process.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Bragg prosecutor touted top Democrats as job references<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/ashley-oliver\/\">Ashley Oliver<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-09T14:34:16-04:00\">July 9, 2024 2:34 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1697960\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A prosecutor who helped lead the hush money case against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trum\">Donald Trump<\/a> once used two key Democrats in the Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trum\">White House<\/a> as resume references, according to documents made public Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Colangelo, who had a critical role in securing a conviction against Trump in New York, listed former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s chief of staff Jeff Zients, as references for a job Colangelo took in January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The references were part of an application for a role with the New York attorney general\u2019s office that involved working on social justice matters under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is now the attorney who brought criminal charges against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Colangelo noted on the reference sheet, which was published in part by the House Judiciary Committee and reviewed by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, that Perez was Colangelo\u2019s direct supervisor for several years when they worked in the Obama administration. Zients, Colangelo wrote, was his direct supervisor in the Obama administration for about a year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew Colangelo\u2019s, who played a role in convicting former President Donald Trump in New York, reference sheet. (Courtesy of the House Judiciary Committee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Perez became DNC chairman in 2017. After his organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/political-parties\/DNC\/2020\/summary?name=democratic-national-cmte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>raised<\/a> nearly half a billion dollars in the 2020 election cycle and helped deliver Biden a narrow presidential victory, Perez stepped down as chairman in 2021. He is now working as a senior adviser to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation of Colangelo\u2019s close working relationship with two men so deeply invested in Biden\u2019s success bolsters grievances raised by Trump and his Republican allies in Congress that Trump\u2019s prosecution was driven by politics rather than a sincere effort to tackle white-collar crime. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1810690387557724512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>shared<\/a> the resume references on X with the comment \u201cpolitical hit job\u201d in reference to the former president\u2019s felony conviction in New York of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-the-charges-brought-against-the-trump-organizations-cfo-part-of-a-witch-hunt-experts-weigh-in\/\" title=\"Are The Charges Brought Against The Trump Organization\u2019s CFO Part Of A Witch Hunt? Experts Weigh In\">falsifying business records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Prosecutors Matthew Colangelo, left, and Susan Hoffinger, right, leave a state office building , Thursday March 30, 2023, in New York. A lawyer for former President Donald Trump said Thursday he\u2019s been told that the former president has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. (AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colangelo, who delivered the opening statement at Trump\u2019s trial earlier this year, was enlisted by Bragg, his one-time supervisor, to work on the Manhattan district attorney\u2019s \u201cmost sensitive and high-profile white-collar investigations\u201d beginning in December 2022, according to a hiring announcement. Colangelo had been working as a senior official in the Biden administration\u2019s Department of Justice when he took the job with the Manhattan district attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Although widely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/21\/nyregion\/trump-bragg-stormy-daniels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported<\/a> that Bragg was targeting Trump by the end of 2022, an email the Judiciary Committee also released Tuesday confirmed Colangelo was brought on to bring charges against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatthew, glad to see you are back in NYC. Sounds like you and Mr. Trump\u2019s paths will continue to intersect,\u201d an employee in New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019s office wrote to Colangelo as soon as Bragg hired him.<\/p>\n<p>Colangelo had little experience in the field of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-justice-department-to-crack-down-on-repeat-corporate-offenders\/\" title=\"U.S. Justice Department to crack down on repeat corporate offenders\">white-collar prosecutions<\/a>, but he did have a wealth of knowledge about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Before working at the DOJ, Colangelo worked for James, who investigated Trump for three years before bringing a massive civil lawsuit against him and the Trump Organization in the fall of 2022.<\/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>During his time in James\u2019s office, Colangelo was involved in Trump\u2019s civil case and also led federal initiatives, which at the time involved filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, as well as investigating the Trump Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Colangelo did not respond to a request for comment about his ties to Perez and Zients.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1697960\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1697960\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prosecutor who played a significant role in the case against former President Donald Trump in New York had former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and President Joe Biden\u2019s chief of staff Jeff Zients listed as references for a job he took in January 2018. This information was revealed in documents made public on Tuesday. Perez and Zients were both supervisors of the prosecutor, Matthew Colangelo, during their time working in the Obama administration. This close working relationship with key Democrats has raised concerns among Trump and his Republican allies that the prosecution against him was politically motivated. Colangelo, who had little experience in white-collar prosecutions, was brought on by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to work on high-profile investigations, including the case against Trump. Colangelo had previously worked for New York Attorney General Letitia James, who had investigated Trump before bringing a civil lawsuit against him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2291270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alvin-Bragg.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22119,6215,33700],"class_list":["post-2291269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bragg","tag-prosecutor","tag-top-democrats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alvin-Bragg.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}