Justice Department denounces Republican plot to control New York trial | Wilnesh News

The U.S. Department of Justice has accused House Republicans of spreading “completely baseless” claims that federal agencies were behind former President Trump’s hush-money trial in New York.

Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte told House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio): “The recent jury verdicts in New York state courts are in part a result of judicial review. Ministry-controlled conspiracy theories are not only false, they are irresponsible. In a letter obtained by CNBC.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s fiery reply to the senior congressman was just one step in a multi-pronged effort to refute the conspiracy that led to a Manhattan Supreme Court jury’s historic conviction of Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

The Republican presidential nominee is actively fanning the narrative that his rival, President Joe Biden, is leading the state case and dozens of other criminal charges he faces in three different courts.

But Uriarte said there was no evidence of any coordination between the federal government and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the hush-money case against Trump.

Uriarte said the Justice Department is reviewing communications between its leaders and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office regarding any investigation or prosecution of Trump from January 20, 2021, until his conviction in New York on May 30, 2021. A “comprehensive” search was performed.

“We found nothing,” Uriarte said. “That’s not surprising.”

“The District Attorney’s Office is a separate entity from the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice does not oversee the work of the District Attorney’s Office, approve its charging decisions, and does not hear its cases,” he said. “The department has no more control over the district attorney than the district attorney has control over the department.”

Uriarte added that the judicial panel “knows this.”

In an April 30 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Jordan requested information about former Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo, who was tapped to help lead the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prosecuted Trump in the hush-money case.

Jordan said Colangelo’s involvement in the case “will only increase the perception that the Biden Justice Department is politicized and weaponized.”

But Uriarte countered that Colangelo’s email account showed he had no communications with the DA’s office during his tenure at the Justice Department.

“The committee’s purported self-justifying ‘view’ is completely baseless, yet the committee continues to disseminate it widely,” he wrote.

“Our extraordinary efforts to respond to your speculation should put that speculation to rest.”

Jordan’s spokesman and Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on Uriarte’s letter.

Garland also sought to counter the conspiracies, which he said helped create an environment in which the Justice Department was “under unprecedented attack.”

Garland said in a statement that the attacks included “conspiracy theories orchestrated and spread to undermine public trust in the judicial process itself.” Washington Post Column Published Tuesday.

“These include false accusations that cases filed by local district attorneys and settled by jury verdict In some way controlled by the Department of Justice in state trials.

The op-ed echoed what Garland told members of the judiciary face-to-face during a recent hearing: false conspiracy theories about the Trump trial are “an attack on the judicial process itself.”

A Punchbowl News reporter said Tuesday morning that Bragg and Colangelo will testify before a judicial panel on July 12.