House Judiciary Expands Investigation Into Manhattan DA Bragg

The extraordinary indictment of former President Donald Trump last week has prompted the House Judiciary Committee to expand its analysis into the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s’s work.

Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary, requested a transcribed discussion from Manhattan DA Senior Counsel Matthew Colangelo in email sent to him on Friday, according to The Federalist. Colangelo was hired four months ago to” jump start” Bragg’s’s Trump investigations, according to the New York Times in December, after spending years pursuing the former president at the Department of Justice and the office of the state attorney general.

Jordan wrote,” We ask for your cooperation with our oversight in your personal capacity given your history working for law enforcement organizations that are pursuing President Trump and the public reporting surrounding your decision to work for the New York County District Attorney’s’s Office.”

At the historical arraignment on Tuesday against a 34-count felony indictment that carries the utmost 136-year prison sentence, Trump pleaded not guilty. In a way that prosecutors had formerly declined to follow, movie actress Stormy Daniels received hush-money payments in 2016. Twelve democratic law professors and Trump opponents have declared the trial to be over due to the case’s’s weakness.

After Bragg has spent weeks defying lawmakers’ monitoring demands, the chairman of the House Judiciary reminded Colangelo that Congress has the right to look into the Manhattan DA’s’s work. According to Fox News, the Committee is considering issuing official subpoenas for Bragg’s’s work as a result of the back-and-forth. The lawsuit for Mark Pomerantz, a former Bragg prosecutor who resigned earlier years due to sluggish success in his attempts to hold Trump, was executed by politicians on Thursday.

Jordan admitted to lawmakers on Fox News Monday that his office had used federal money to look into Trump’s’s case against the Manhattan DA.

In his letter to Colangelo, Jordan stated that” The Committee may therefore consider legislation to enhance reporting requirements regarding the use of federal forfeiture funds and / or to prohibit the usage of such funds to investigate a current or former President or presidential candidate.”

Colangelo is being asked to turn over paperwork pertaining to his training and attend a formal meeting by the committee. Colangelo was given until April 21 to give politicians a routine of his presence.

Users of Bragg’s’s people deleted their online information as the Manhattan DA work braces for harsh oversight from House Republicans. Additionally removed from Bragg’s’s page was the” Meet Our Team” page.

House Republicans and the former president’s’s rivals in the 2024 primary immediately condemned Trump after his indictment last year, but Senate GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has remained silent.

House Judiciary Committee l… by The Federalist

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