According to a report from Fox News, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) previously paid a lead Trump prosecutor for “political consulting.”
Matthew Colangelo recently delivered opening statements in the historic criminal trial of former President Trump and currently serves as a top prosecutor with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s Office on the case. Colangelo joined Bragg’s office in December 2022.
According to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News Digital, DNC Services Corp/Democratic National Committee paid Colangelo twice on Jan. 31, 2018. Colangelo was given two payments of $6,000, for a total of $12,000.
The “description” for the purpose of payment is labeled “Political Consulting.”
Months after Colangelo received the payments from the DNC, in June 2018, acting-New York AG Barbara Underwood, with Colangelo as executive deputy attorney general, filed a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation. The lawsuit claimed that Trump used the foundation’s charitable assets to pay off his legal obligations. The Trump Foundation ultimately agreed to dissolve the case in December 2018.
House Republicans are investigating Colangelo and his past work as he prosecutes Trump.
The House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland turn over records related to Colangelo’s employment at the Justice Department as it conducts “oversight of politically motivated prosecutions by state and local officials.”
Trump is being charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to make alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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