Ex-top Biden DOJ official now prosecuting Trump was once paid by DNC for ‘political consulting’

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Matthew Colangelo’s move from DOJ to the NY Trump prosecution has drawn allegations of politicization

EXCLUSIVE: The Democratic National Committee paid Trump prosecutor Matthew Colangelo thousands of dollars for “political consulting” in 2018, Fox News Digital has learned. 

Colangelo delivered opening statements in the unprecedented 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 Braggโ€™s office in December 2022 after the resignations of Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne โ€” prosecutors who were investigating Trump and resigned in protest of Braggโ€™s initial unwillingness to indict the former president. Colangelo left a senior role at the Biden Justice Department to join Bragg’s team. Bragg afterward brought charges against the former president in April 2023, raising questions among some in the GOP about alleged politicization of the case. 

House Republicans are investigating Colangelo and his past work as he prosecutes Trump.ย 

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.” 

Neither the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office nor the DNC immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

At the time, Colangelo was serving in then-New York Attorney General Eric Scheidermanโ€™s office as the deputy attorney general for social justice, assuming the role from Bragg. Bragg, at the time, was appointed as chief deputy attorney general. 

Schneiderman resigned in May 2018 amid allegations of sexual assault. Barbara Underwood replaced him as New York attorney general.ย 

Just months after Colangelo received the payments from the DNC, in June 2018, Underwood, with Colangelo as executive deputy attorney general,ย filed a lawsuitย against the Trump Foundation. The lawsuit claimed that Trump used the foundationโ€™s charitable assets to pay off his legal obligations. The Trump Foundation ultimately agreed to dissolve in December 2018. ย 

Colangelo stayed in the New York Attorney Generalโ€™s Office after Underwoodโ€™s tenure, and under the leadership of current Attorney General Letitia James, who took over in 2018, when he continued to work on Trump lawsuits and investigations. 

However, on Jan. 20, 2021, the first day of the Biden administration, Colangelo began serving as acting associate attorney general in the Justice Department. 

Colangelo then became the principal deputy associate attorney general at the Biden Justice Department. Colangelo helped to oversee multiple departments, including the Civil, Civil Rights, Antitrust and Tax Divisions. 

Colangelo joined Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Braggโ€™s office in December 2022.

Byย Brooke Singman

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