York
Attorney
General
Letitia
James
(Photo
by
Michael
M.
Santiago/Getty
Images)
Two
separate
career
prosecutors
did
not
believe
there
was
enough
evidence
to
support
mortgage
fraud
charges
against
New
York
Attorney
General
Letitia
James.
But
James
was
the
driving
force
behind
the
civil
fraud
case
against
the
Trump
organization,
and
a
major
thorn
in
Donald
Trump’s
side.
So...
here
we
are.
Today,
James
became
the
second
Trump
political
enemy
to
be
indicted.
Yes,
U.S.
Attorney
for
the
Eastern
District
of
Virginia
Erik
Siebert was
forced
out
of
a
job for
refusing
to
bring
these
very
charges
against
James.
And
Elizabeth
Yusi,
head
of
major
criminal
prosecutions
in
the
Norfolk
office,
prepared
for
the
same
fate
for
refusing
to
bring
the
charges.
But
Trump
has
installed
his
former
personal
attorney
Lindsey
Halligan
(with
zero
prosecutorial
experience)
into
Siebert’s
former
role,
and
well,
she
does
not
have
the
same
qualms.
The
charges
against
James
have
not
been
made
public,
but
multiple
sources
are
reporting
at
least
one
fraud
charge
has
been
returned
by
a
grand
jury.
James
has
been
under
investigation
for
mortgage
fraud
since
2023
for
a
loan
she
took
out
to
help
her
niece
obtain
a
home.
One
document
in
the
loan
application
allegedly
reported
that
the
home
in
question
was
going
to
be
James’s
primary
residence,
something
her
team
claims
was
an
error.
Other
loan
documents
state
the
property
was
not
going
to
be
James’s
primary
residence
and,
in
an email
to
her
loan
originator,
James
wrote
“this
property
WILL
NOT
be
my
primary
residence.”
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