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The President of the United States ordered his Department of Justice to be weaponized against his political enemies. We see it happening in real time against critics.
New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on mortgage fraud today by the interim U.S. District Attorney of Eastern Virginia. This district attorney is extremely inept and is likely to be disbarred.
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Since 2019, there has not been any liability against James. But leave it up to President Donald J. Trump to concoct an allegation against the woman who convicted him for fraud.
In April 2025, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) referred James to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for possible criminal prosecution, alleging that she had misrepresented facts in three separate instances in order to gain government assistance and more favorable loan terms, by having misrepresented an investment property as her primary residence; by having misrepresented the number of units in an investment property; and by having misrepresented her father as her husband.
James denied the allegations, calling them "baseless" retaliation by President Trump.
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| Lindsey Halligan got a MAGA makeover. |
In May 2025, the FBI opened a formal criminal probe into the mortgage fraud claims. In response to the accusation that James had improperly claimed a property as her primary residence, her lawyer stated that "she made a mistake on one line [that] had no significance", and presented alternative property deeds containing the correct information, accusing prosecutors of cherry picking information.
In early August, the DOJ escalated its probe, opening a civil rights investigation into her office to examine whether it had violated Trump's civil rights during its New York business fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization, as well as appointing a special prosecutor to examine her real estate transactions. Former Stop The Steal organizer, US Pardon Attorney and director of the DOJ Weaponization Working Group Ed Martin made a written request for her resignation, posed for a photograph in front of her home, and declared he intended to "stick the landing". Kara Scannell wrote for CNN that this "fall[s] outside the norms of prosecutorial conduct".
In September, federal prosecutors in Virginia said they could not find evidence to bring charges. Trump administration officials then informed Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, that they intended to fire him; Siebert immediately resigned. In October, Elizabeth Yusi, a top prosecutor for the same district, reportedly planned to inform Lindsey Halligan, the district's interim U.S. attorney, that she likewise found no probable cause to seek charges of mortgage fraud.
Nonetheless, James was indicted on October 9 by a federal grand jury in Virginia on one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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