Letitia James criminally charged in Trump's latest effort to punish rivals [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Thu 9 Oct 2025 16.28 EDT
First published on Thu 9 Oct 2025 16.07 EDT
A federal grand jury indicted Letitia James, the New York attorney general, for bank fraud on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, personally presented the case to the grand jury on Thursday, the person said. US attorneys do not typically present to a grand jury. Representatives for James did not immediately return a request for comment.
Halligan was installed in the role last month after Donald Trump became frustrated with the pace of investigations against his rivals. The move is the president’s latest effort to weaponize the Department of Justice to punish political rivals. It comes two weeks after Halligan secured charges against James Comey, the former FBI director. Career prosecutors prepared a memo in that case outlining why charges were not warranted. Comey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
The facts of the charges were not immediately clear. A grand jury empaneled earlier this year had been investigating allegations that James may have committed fraud when she helped her niece buy a home in Virginia.
On a document that was part of that transaction, there was a box checked indicating James intended to use it as her primary residence, which would make better mortgage rates available. But in other documents and emails with her mortgage broker, James clearly indicated she did not intend to use the home as her primary residence.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/criminal-charges-letitia-james-new-york-attorney-general
Hopefully laughed out of court.
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First published on Thu 9 Oct 2025 16.07 EDT
A federal grand jury indicted Letitia James, the New York attorney general, for bank fraud on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, personally presented the case to the grand jury on Thursday, the person said. US attorneys do not typically present to a grand jury.
Halligan was installed in the role last month after Donald Trump became frustrated with the pace of investigations against his rivals.
The move is the president's latest effort to weaponize the Department of Justice to punish political rivals. It comes two weeks after Halligan secured charges against James Comey, the former FBI director. Career prosecutors prepared a memo in that case outlining why charges were not warranted. Comey pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
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First published on Thu 9 Oct 2025 16.07 EDT
A federal grand jury indicted Letitia James on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, personally presented the case to the grand jury on Thursday, the person said. US attorneys do not typically present to a grand jury.
Lindsey Halligan Halligan was installed in the role last month after Donald Trump became frustrated with the pace of investigations against his rivals.
The move is Trump's latest effort to weaponize the Department of Justice to punish political rivals. It comes two weeks after Halligan secured charges against James Comey, the former FBI director. Career prosecutors prepared a memo in that case outlining why charges were not warranted. Comey pled not guilty on Wednesday.
More details soon...
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