Posted on 06/06/2024 10:41:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Department of Justice official who left the Biden administration to work for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump took a small pay cut to make the move, records suggest.
Matthew Colangelo was the third-highest official at the DOJ, earning an annual salary of $183,100, according to public salary records. He left the job to relocate to New York and be a senior counsel for Bragg, where he now earns a reduced salary of $180,000 a year, the city’s salary database shows.
His move from the prestigious post in Washington D.C. to a lower position in a district attorney office in New York has raised eyebrows from critics who say it is evidence that Biden’s administration had a hand in prosecuting Trump.
The prosecution of the former president has faced widespread criticism for being politically motivated, and the key role of a Biden administration official in it has added fuel to the fire. The lack of any immediate financial benefit for Colangelo further gives the appearance that he joined the office to politically damage Trump, who has long made clear that he intended to challenge Biden in 2024.
When Colangelo announced his move to the New York office in December 2022, it was explicitly to focus on the office’s “most sensitive and high-profile white-collar investigation.” Bragg hailed Colangelo for having “the sound judgment and integrity needed to pursue justice against powerful people and institutions when they abuse their power.”
He appears to have left with the blessing of Merrick Garland, who gave a statement to the New York Times praising him on his way out the door for his “wise counsel and excellent judgment” during his time at DOJ. Now Garland is forced to deny any coordination after being accused on Capitol Hill...
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Hannity says what’s important is that the Dems have no fear this could happen to them. Absolutely none.
Money is nice, but if you’ve ever been to a cocktail party in Washington DC, you will quickly realize that power, position and “being involved in big things” is the currency of the capital of the empire.
The corruption is off the charts!
Third highest FEDERAL DOJ official takes a pay cut to move to a COUNTY office as a mere DA.
Whatever could have motivated him to make that move?
How long before he’s back on the DOJ payroll?
I’d like to see proof that the only pay Colangelo gets is ALL from NY state and that he is not a federal employee anymore and is not being paid a cent by the federal government
Please....It’s a $3100.00 pay cut out of $168,000.
“The lack of any immediate financial benefit for Colangelo...”
Sure. Sic House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on him. He’d probably find the multimillion dollar payoff from The Big Guy hidden behind six shell companies owned by Colangelo’s relatives.
Collusion and lawfare at it’s finest.
The ‘tell’ will be how soon he resigns from the Manhattan DA office and goes back to DOJ or is made a partner at some highbrow firm, making bank as a reward.
Oh yeah. Took a pay cut for the good of the country. Sure thing. Like what are the back stair deals for lucrative positions at law firms or other payoffs, a plain democratic cloth coat for the wife and girlfriends maybe. Vacations on Long Island or ….
What makes you think he really left being compensated by the DOJ?
No offense, but no one should mention his name unless they’re pointing out what a POS, Graham sycophant, bullsh*t artist, that is horrible at interviewing people and that he fell off a boat on an deep sea fishing trip and he’s lost.
Hell.... he’s prolly the new owner of Epstein... er... Cog’s island.
Here’s a good, concise, minimally-prejudiced, explanation of the Trump case. Dr. Phil and two experts. 16 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStVK29ewIg
If they're doing this to Donald Trump, the former President of the United States of America and a billionaire, imagine what they can do to the rest of us.
So basically, we have no rights at all
Trust me, there was NO pay cut.
Full partners at the big law-lobbying firms make several million dollars per year. Well worth a few years slaving for a mere few hundred thousand.
wouldn’t surprise me.
Odd, over 80,000 illegal alien kids and counting have vanished. Lip service from Congress, then silence.
Hannity has always been a mental midget with a questionable agenda.
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