Powerful Democrat officials among Joe Biden’s closest political allies played a critical role placing Biden’s third-ranking Department of Justice official on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “get Trump” squad as leading prosecutor.
Revealed Tuesday in a document by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Matthew Colangelo listed Tom Perez, at the time Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Jeff Zients, now President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, as his top two references when seeking to join Bragg’s “get Trump” squad. Colangelo worked for both in his long career as a Democrat official.
At the time of his application to New York Attorney General Letitia James, Colangelo was Biden’s former Acting Associate Attorney General, one of the highest-ranking law enforcement officers in the country. His decision to leave one of the most coveted positions in the American legal profession to serve as an assistant prosecutor in Bragg’s office has led Republican lawmakers to question the political motives behind the highly unusual career move – and who was behind it.
The pieces of the puzzle are coming together