The House Judiciary Committee asked the Department of Justice on Tuesday to provide information about its former employee Matthew Colangelo, one of the prosecutors leading the hush money case against former President Donald Trump in New York.

Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner to Attorney General Merrick Garland that Colangelo’s recent work in the Biden administration’s DOJ and in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office heightened concerns that the prosecution of Trump in Manhattan is politically motivated.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, charged Trump last year with falsifying business records, alleging he hid payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to help his 2016 election prospects. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is in the midst of a trial for the case.

“Given the perception that the Justice Department is assisting in Bragg’s politicized prosecution, we write to request information and documents related to Mr. Colangelo’s employment,” Jordan wrote to Garland.

The chairman asked Garland to respond by May 14 with any records of Colangelo communicating with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office while he was at the DOJ, as well as records related to Colangelo’s hiring and termination.

Bragg hired Colangelo to help with white-collar prosecutions in December 2022 despite Colangelo’s lack of experience in that field. Bragg valued Colangelo’s “broad knowledge” of the Trump Organization, according to a New York Times report published at the time of his hiring. Bragg plucked Colangelo from the DOJ, in which he served for two years in several leadership roles.

Before his most recent stint at the DOJ, Colangelo worked for James, another elected Democrat who investigated Trump for three years before bringing a massive civil lawsuit against Trump and the Trump Organization in the fall of 2022.

During his time in James’s office, Colangelo was involved in Trump’s civil case and also led federal initiatives, which involved, at the time, filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, as well as investigating the Trump Foundation.

Jordan wrote that Colangelo’s employment history “demonstrates his obsession with investigating a person rather than prosecuting a crime.”

“That a former senior Biden Justice Department official is now leading the prosecution of President Biden’s chief political rival only adds to the perception that the Biden Justice Department is politicized and weaponized,” Jordan wrote.

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Jordan has had his sights set on Colangelo for at least a year. The chairman first pursued him last April, days after Trump was indicted. Jordan, at the time, asked Colangelo to appear before the committee to testify about Bragg’s case, but those efforts fizzled out.

The Washington Examiner reached out to the DOJ for comment.