When Letitia James campaigned to become Attorney General of New York State, she made one very clear campaign promise: prosecute Donald Trump.
Prosecute him for what? Well, she’d figure that out later.
Never mind that, in America, prosecutors are supposed to investigate crimes to find suspects, not investigate people to find crimes.
But hey, you have to give her credit— Letitia James was one of the few politicians to make good on her campaign promises.
She looked into Trump until she found a “crime”.
Ms. James brought a civil fraud case against Trump, accusing him of overstating the value of his real estate holdings to secure favorable loans.
There were no victims— we know this because the banks that gave Trump the loans testified in his defense.
They said they were not defrauded, that they conducted their own due diligence, and that they profited from the loans. They said they would be happy to do business with him again.
But that didn’t matter. James got her case, she got her headlines, and eventually she got a half-billion dollar penalty handed down by an activist New York judge.
In fact, Trump’s “crime” is so commonplace that the Governor of New York had to assure other real estate developers (who were panicking and fleeing the state) that no one else would be prosecuted for those same charges. Only Trump.
Throughout the whole process, on many occasions, Letitia James declared, “No one is above the law.”
Turns out, this was a case of the pot calling the kettle black; Letitia James has now been accused of far more serious crimes.
According to a criminal referral from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Letitia James allegedly committed mortgage fraud by deliberately falsifying records to obtain favorable loan terms on multiple properties.
James purchased a property in Norfolk, Virginia in August 2023, and on her mortgage applications, she declared the Virginia property as her primary residence. Primary residences qualify for lower interest rates, better loan terms, and other programs not available to investors or non-primary homeowners.
The only problem— she was serving as the Attorney General of New York, a role that legally requires her to maintain primary residence in New York State.
You’d think the top legal official in the State of New York would know that. Duh. You’d also think she wouldn’t be so stupid as to commit the same fraud that she had put Trump on trial for.
But apparently she is that stupid. And her transgressions don’t stop there.
Ya wanna bet?????? She is more than that stupid.