{"id":290441,"date":"2025-10-09T23:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290441\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:13:19","slug":"federal-grand-jury-indicts-n-y-ag-letitia-james-on-bank-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290441\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal grand jury indicts N.Y. AG Letitia James on bank fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct. 9 (UPI) — A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/a> on charges that accuse her of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.<\/p>\n

A grand jury in the U.S.District Court of Eastern Virginia indicted James<\/a> on the criminal charges after the Justice Department accused her of falsely claiming a Norfolk, Va., property that she bought in 2023 would be her primary residence to obtain more favorable mortgage terms.\n<\/p>\n

The charges arose after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte earlier wrote Attorney General Pam Bondi<\/a> regarding the matter and suggested James committed fraud, CBS News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan presented evidence to the grand jury on Thursday, which resulted in the indictment against James, according to ABC News<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

James afterward accused the Trump administration of using the DOJ to punish her.<\/p>\n

“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system,” James said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n

“He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York state attorney general.”\n<\/p>\n

James said the charges against her are “baseless” and said the president’s public comments affirm “that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.”<\/p>\n

She called the matter a “grave violation of our constitutional order” and said Republican and Democratic Party leaders should “speak out against this blatant perversion of our system of justice.”<\/p>\n

While James called the indictments against her a “perversion” of justice, she previously campaigned for her current office partly on charging Trump with alleged crimes during his first term in the White House.<\/p>\n

James in 2018 successfully ran to become New York’s attorney general and while campaigning said she would investigate and bring charges against Trump.<\/p>\n

In a 2022 civil lawsuit<\/a>, James accused the president and the Trump Organization of lying about property values to secure a loan that was repaid in full.<\/p>\n

A New York judge imposed a $350 million fine<\/a>, plus interest, and barred Trump from doing business in New York for three years after the court found him guilty.<\/p>\n

The president appealed the financial penalty, which totaled nearly $500 million when interest was added, and a New York appellate court in August threw out the fine.<\/p>\n

James is appealing the appellate court’s ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 9 (UPI) — A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,74900,24980,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,11335,52,1439,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-290441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-law-and-crime","10":"tag-letitia-james","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-pam-bondi","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-u-s","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115346750032903200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}