The (Legal) Closer from the (DOJ) Bullpen
Matt Colangelo channeled his inner Lavrentiy Beria.
To put it simply: Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg showed his prosecutor Matt Colangelo the man (DJT), & Colangelo showed [read: created] Bragg the "crime." Colangelo was called in from Merrick Garland's DOJ to lead the prosecution against Trump. Even the New York Times understood his role & was completely upfront about it:
Today, Colangelo delivered for his superiors—and got a good seat to take it in. Here is Colangelo at the prosecutors' table (fittingly) on the far-left:
A word about this piece's subtitle … Michael Henry wrote the following in The Oxford Eagle: "Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in Russia and Eastern Europe, bragged that he could prove criminal conduct on anyone, even the innocent. 'Show me the man and I'll show you the crime' was Beria's infamous boast. He served as deputy premier from 1941 until Stalin's death in 1953, supervising the expansion of the gulags and other secret detention facilities for political prisoners. … Beria targeted 'the man' first, then proceeded to find or fabricate a crime. Beria's modus operandi was to presume the man guilty, and fill in the blanks later. By contrast, under the United States Constitution, there's a presumption of innocence that emanates from the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments, as set forth in Coffin vs. U.S. (1895)."
A quick primer:
Name: Matthew "Matt" Byron Colangelo
DOB: July 28, 1974
Education: State Area College High School (PA), Harvard College, & Harvard Law School (2002)
Work history: Management Consultant at Bain & Company in Boston, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the DOJ, Chief of Staff to Department of Labor Secretary Tom Perez, Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice under disgraced NY AG Eric Schneiderman, & Associate Attorney General at the DOJ (acting), among others
NY State Bar #: 4228797
Work email (which U.S. federal taxpayers foot the bill for, in part): colangelom@dany.nyc.gov
Wife: Anne Kimball Small (Anniversary: September 16, 2011) is the former General Counsel of the Securities & Exchange Commission and former member of the White House Counsel's office under Obama; graduated from Yale (1996) & Harvard Law School (2001)
We will likely have more to say about the other apparatchik from Bragg's office (Meg Reiss) & her husband (Simon Freakley).
--Garrett Ziegler
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Colangelo looks like a wet rat in the Dave Sanders photo
Thank you! Good backgrounder.