The Manhattan district attorney is hiring a former senior DOJ official with a history of taking on Donald Trump and his family business, as the office seeks to ramp up its investigation into the former president.
Matthew Colangelo worked on the New York attorney general's investigation of the Trump Organization before joining the U.S. Justice Department.
His work on the attorney general’s Trump inquiry may inform his work on the criminal investigation he is expected to join. Manhattan prosecutors have scrutinized whether the former president illegally inflated the value of his assets. In recent months, the prosecutors have also renewed their focus on a hush-money payment to a porn star who said she had an affair with Trump.
Bragg and Colangelo overlapped while working at the New York attorney general’s office, where Bragg rose to become chief deputy attorney general and Colangelo was chief counsel for federal initiatives. In that role, Colangelo led dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration, including a successful challenge to the inclusion of a question about citizenship to the census in 2020.
Colangelo, who also spent seven years working on housing and employment issues at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said in a statement that he was “honored to reunite with District Attorney Bragg.” While Colangelo has broad knowledge of the Trump Organization’s business practices and extensive litigation experience, he comes to the investigation having spent little time working on white-collar criminal prosecutions. He has never been a line prosecutor or worked as a criminal defense lawyer.
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