THE TIGHTENING NOOSE:

The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, is hiring a former senior Justice Department official with a history of taking on Donald Trump and his family business as the office seeks to ramp up its investigation into the former president.

The official, Matthew Colangelo, who before he became a top official at the Justice Department led the New York attorney general's civil inquiry into Trump, is likely to become one of the leaders of the district attorney's criminal inquiry into the former president.

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