FBI opens investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James, several news outlets reported.
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department convened a major ju judge to summon New York Attorney General Leticia James to investigate whether she violated President Donald Trump’s civil rights, news reports say he indicted fraud.
According to a report by the Associated Press and Reuters, the subpoena seeks records relating to the success of the lawsuit James filed against Trump on alleged fraud in his personal dealings.
The DOJ is seeking records that include lawsuits against the National Rifle Association by James, the top New York prosecutor and longtime Trump and Democrats who have been in public, both news outlets reported.
News reports urged James’ office to accuse the Trump administration of politicizing the legal system.
“Weaponization of the judicial system should hinder all Americans,” James’ office said in a statement reported by the press. “We stand strong behind successful lawsuits against the Trump organization and the NRA and continue to support New Yorkers’ rights.”
In the case of the NRA, the ju apprentice discovered that gun rights groups were responsible for years of financial mismanagement and that former leaders could engage in luxurious spending. The group’s lawyers alleged that the group was targeted for the political advocacy.
Separately, the Justice Department has appointed conservative legal activist Ed Martin as a special lawyer to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud by James and California Democrat James and Sen. Adam Schiff.
The Department of Justice could not immediately confirm USA Today.
Schiff and James denied any misconduct. Neither could be contacted immediately for comment through their spokesman.
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The DOJ under Attorney General Pam Bondy has garnered acute criticism for chasing Trump’s enemy. James has been at or near the top of Trump’s enemy list since winning a $454 million ruling against Trump in 2024 to fraudulent lenders by inflated his assets.
Trump is pleading for judgment and continues to criticize James. He should call her a “completely corrupt politician” and “a quirky con man,” and immediately resign in an April post about his true social platform.
In May, the Justice Department began another investigation into James over real estate transactions, several media outlets reported.
The FBIPRED probe is linked to loans and property purchases in New York City and Virginia, the Albany Times Union, Guardian and the Washington Post reported on May 8.
In a criminal introduction filed in April, the director appointed by Trump of the US Federal Housing Finance Agency accused James of forgerying bank documents and property records in multiple cases, obtaining government-supported support loans and more favorable loan terms.
FHFA Head William Plute claimed in her introduction that James may have misrepresented the account of the property, and claimed her main residential status as Norfolk. He cited “media coverage” as the basis.
On April 24th, James’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, sent a letter to the DOJ claiming that the charges against James were worthless and that they were motivated by Trump’s personal animus against James.
“These unfounded, long discriminatory allegations rested by my April 24 letter to the Department of Justice on April 24, suddenly returned to the news a few days after President Trump publicly attacked Attorney General James,” Lowell said in a May 8 statement on James’ behalf. “This seemed like political retaliation, President Trump threatened exactly that Ag Bondi ensured that the Senate would not occur in her surveillance. If prosecutors are genuinely interested in the truth, we are ready to meet false claims with facts.”
James is currently appealing for cuts to the Trump administration to the Health and Human Services Department and enforcement actions related to the election that she calls unconstitutional.
“Special Counsel” to investigate James, Schiff and other Trump enemies.
With mortgage fraud probes, Martin is not a special advisor or independent prosecutor appointed to handle politically sensitive investigations, Reuters said. So, Department of Justice officials cited sources knowledgeable about his appointment and said they must work with the US lawyers’ office to file the charges.
Since the failed bid for US lawyers, conservative legal activists have served as officials for the Special Justice Department, which is to identify efforts to politicize and weaponize the Department of Justice, allegedly made by the previous Biden administration.
A big ju judge sitting in the Eastern District of Virginia will investigate James’ mortgage fraud allegations, while a big ju judge in Maryland will investigate the allegations against Schiff, an NBC news report says.
NBC News said Martin met with Pulte on the morning of August 8th, and that the director of the federal Housing and Finance Agency sent a criminal introduction to the California Senator to the Department of Justice in May.
