{"id":456445,"date":"2025-12-18T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/456445\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:25:16","slug":"doj-wanted-third-charge-against-new-york-ag-letitia-james-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/456445\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ wanted third charge against New York AG Letitia James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing battle between the New York state attorney general and the Trump administration is taking a new twist.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the U.S. Justice Department attempted to add a third mortgage fraud related felony charge against AG Letitia James last week.<\/p>\n<p>As first reported by Politico, this other criminal count would have been another charge against the attorney general in relation to allegedly making false statements to a financial institution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2025\/12\/11\/justice-department-again-fails-to-re-indict-new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james--ap-source-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A federal grand jury in Virginia declined to bring that indictment,<\/a> which would have included this charge, last week.<\/p>\n<p>A judge threw out the first indictment against James, saying the prosecutor who presented the case was illegally appointed.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has been pushing allegations that James improperly filled out mortgage paperwork for a Viriginia home.<\/p>\n<p>James has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ongoing battle between the New York state attorney general and the Trump administration is taking a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,17547,17549,405,403,17050,50,5226,5225,5228,17545,5227,80,13570,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-456445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","11":"tag-central-ny","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115742921448364279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456445","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=456445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}