Washington, DC…(AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James was charged Thursday as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration, becoming the latest foe of the president to be prosecuted by his Justice Department.
James, who infuriated President Donald Trump by suing him and his company for fraud in a case that played out as he was running for office, was indicted on charges of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution following a presentation to a grand jury in Virginia by a prosecutor who was hastily appointed last month amid Trump administration pressure to deliver criminal cases against his adversaries.
The indictment, two weeks after a separate criminal case charging former FBI Director James Comey with lying to Congress, is the latest indication of the Trump administration’s norm-busting determination to use the law enforcement powers of the Justice Department to pursue the president’s political foes and public figures who once investigated him.
Both the Comey and James cases followed a strikingly unconventional paths toward indictment, with the Trump administration last month pushing out Erik Siebert, the veteran prosecutor who had overseen both investigations for months and had resisted pressure to file charges and replaced him with Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide who was once Trump’s personal lawyer but who had never previously worked as a federal prosecutor.
Halligan presented the case to the grand jury herself, as she did in the case against Comey, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
Lindsey Halligan, outside of the White House, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Lindsey Halligan, outside of the White House, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
In a lengthy statement, James decried the indictment as “nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.”
“These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost. The president’s actions are a grave violation of our Constitutional order and have drawn sharp criticism from members of both parties,” she added.
She called the decision to fire Siebert and replace him with a prosecutor who is “blindly loyal” to the president as “antithetical to the bedrock principles of our country,” and she said she stood by her investigation of Trump and his company as having been “based on the facts and evidence — not politics.”
Abbe Lowell, James’ lawyer and a prominent attorney representing multiple Trump targets, said James “flatly and forcefully denies these charges.” James is scheduled to make an initial appearance in the federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, on Oct. 24.
“We are deeply concerned that this case is driven by President Trump’s desire for revenge,” Lowell said in a statement. “When a President can publicly direct charges to be filed against someone — when it was reported that career attorneys concluded none were warranted — it marks a serious attack on the rule of law. We will fight these charges in every process allowed in the law.”
The indictment pertains to James’ purchase of a house in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020. During the sale, she signed a standard document called a “second home rider” in which she agreed to various rules, including a requirement that she keep the property primarily for her “personal use and enjoyment for at least one year,” unless the lender agreed otherwise in writing.
Rather than using the home as a second residence, the indictment alleges, James rented it out to a family of three. According to the indictment, the misrepresentation allowed James to obtain favorable loan terms not available for investment properties.
In a post on X shortly after the indictment was handed up, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote, “One tier of justice for all Americans.”
“No one is above the law,” Halligan, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a statement. “The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust. The facts and the law in this case are clear, and we will continue following them to ensure that justice is served.”
Trump has been advocating charging James for months, posting on social media without citing any evidence that she’s “guilty as hell” and telling reporters at the White House, “It looks to me like she’s really guilty of something, but I really don’t know.”
Her lawyer has accused the Justice Department of concocting a bogus criminal case to settle Trump’s personal vendetta against James, who last year won a staggering judgment against Trump and his companies in a lawsuit alleging he lied to banks and others about the value of his assets.
The Justice Department has also been investigating mortgage-related allegations against Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, using the probe to demand her ouster, and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., whose lawyer called the allegations against him “transparently false, stale, and long debunked.”
But James is a particularly personal target. As attorney general, she sued the Republican president and his administration dozens of times and oversaw a lawsuit accusing him of defrauding banks by dramatically overstating the value of his real estate holdings on financial statements.
An appeals court overturned the fine, which had ballooned to more than $500 million with interest, but upheld a lower court’s finding that Trump had committed fraud.
The indictment comes a day after Comey made the first court appearance in his case accusing him of lying to Congress in 2020. Comey’s lawyer told the judge that the defense plans to push to have the case dismissed ahead of trial, arguing that it is a vindictive prosecution brought at the direction of the president.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHA, CRIMINALS FACING THE REAL DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
IS ADAM SCHIFF NEXT?
The “real” department of justice is now just ONE wildly unqualified attorney.
I guess Joe Biden is lucky he pardoned his entire family and half of his administration.
I guess all the criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol, without any National Guard deployment, are glad that they were pardoned, despite their convictions. The current justice department represents a vindictive child.
Speaking of the mentally ill bigots of the left…
A Florida democrat man accused of setting the massive Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had a long trail of anti-Trump and climate change posts on social media, where he blamed global warming for wildfires and mocked conservatives.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is accused of starting the blaze on Jan. 1, allegedly hiking into the hills above Los Angeles to ignite a brushfire. Prosecutors say the flames weren’t fully extinguished and reignited six days later, destroy more than 7,000 homes and businesses, killing 12 people, and scorching 24,000 acres across the region, the New York Post reports. Damages are estimated at $150 billion.
Authorities allege Rinderknecht recorded video of the fire, called police to report it, and later returned to watch firefighters battle the flames. He reportedly moved back to Florida soon after the incident.
On Facebook, Rinderknecht regularly shared political and environmental content. He posted memes mocking Trump supporters, linked to a Harris-Biden fundraiser, and frequently shared headlines about climate change and veganism. One article he posted, “Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration” from ProPublica, showed wildfires tearing through a California neighborhood.
Other posts included titles “Senator Kamala Harris Says Meat Is Destroying the Planet” and “Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Have Lost Millions of Metric Tons of Ice.” Prosecutors say he also created AI-generated images depicting burning cities and panicked crowds fleeing destruction.
In one of the few photos he shared of himself, Rinderknecht appeared with his face painted like a skull, mouth open, and covered in blood.
We must follow Dear Leader! He is a shining example of intellect and masculinity !
Hail Dear Leader! Hail!
HEADLINES NEWS THAT THE LEGACY MEDIA AND BIGOTED LIBERAL DEMOCRATS CRY OVER
Obama applauds Trump’s Gaza peace deal: ‘We should all be encouraged and relieved’
By Victor Nava
Published Oct. 9, 2025, 6:13 p.m. ET
Where is that Damn Epstein File!
Your DEAR LEADER is a thrice married adulterer that raw dogs porn stars and IS a convicted felon The man has the morals of a baboon. The only thing that will be waiting for him in the end will be basement duty in the far recesses of hell with John Wayne Gacey!
Get over it!
Waaaaaaa, waaaaaaaa, I can just cry because Kamala really won the election fair and square. She won all of the swing states too, but Elon Musk and Putin got together and hacked the election.
WaaaaaaaaaaWaaaaaaaa
Get over on my sack Trumpanzie scum !!
What are you a Faggot?
Haaaahoooooo!!!!Haaaaaaaa!!
Bail out all the farmers that can’t sell their crops because of Slumps tariffs.
Did you notice everything is more expensive??? That’s your money paying for Slumps tariffs . That’s right it’s your money he brags about to pay down this that or the other thing . Pure graft
Haaaaahooooooo!!!!!!!!
Bahhhhhh!!!
Sheep
Get over it!
Of course everything is more expensive after Biden created the worst inflation in 5 decades!!! Did you think a magic wand could be used and *poof* 4 years of inflation caused by the worst POTUS in modern history would disappear? Man you’re as dumb as the imbeciles who voted for Harris and Tampon Tim.
You should learn about what a tariff is, and why they raise the prices of goods. You can’t blame Tim for this!!!
Attorney General Pam Bondi was caught off guard Thursday when President Donald Trump’s handpicked US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, secured New York Attorney General Letitia James’ indictment from a grand jury, two sources familiar with what happened told CNN.
Halligan, who has been running the Eastern District of Virginia for just over two weeks, did not coordinate with Bondi or other leaders at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, or inform them about timing before presenting the case to a grand jury
I’d let Letitia James sit on my face, Adam Fairy on live oak ct..
We would let her maybe then you would shut the fu€k up!
John John I can’t take it from Anti. Hahahahahahahahaha
Get over the fact we the American pure paying for Slumps tariffs???
Fu€k yourself Trump scum!!
What does the American pure even mean?
Are you you hhhahaahavinging a Joe Biden mmmmoment?
AMERICA FIRST to give Argentina $20 billion and Qatar an airbase.
Today is mental health day, and the mentally ill left, are having their usual TDS blow up.
They never had a comment on here praising the last administration (because everything they did was a FAILURE) all they ever did was rant and rave about Trump.
Well enjoy your TDS meltdown on ThePineTree dumbascraps, you’ve got a long road ahead of you watching your President Trump triumph day after day after day. It sure beats watching Joe Biden wondering where Jackie is, or Joe wondering how to get back inside the WH on National News, and then seeing the Easter bunny to the rescue, leading him back inside. Of course that was after the Drag Queen on Easter stripped in front of the kids and parents showing HIS new breast. Yup, what a great administration that was. The worst administration in Modern History.
I love that your example of the “worst president in history” is one socially awkward Easter event.
Imagine, just imagine, if Biden had sent troops to Red states. Or if him and his family were raking in billions of dollars in crypto. Just Imagine!!
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER DEDICATES AWARD TO PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP
Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has dedicated the award to President Donald Trump “for his decisive support of our cause.”
“This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom,” Machado wrote. “We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.”
President Trump just keeps on WINNING
IT’S SO GREAT TO HAVE THE ADULTS BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE
“Adults” who can’t even keep their own government operating
HEADLINE NEWS FROM AROUND THE NEWS ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP STOPPING A WAR THAT BIDEN FUNDED.
“WORLD LEADERS PRAISE ‘LANDMARK’ ISRAEL-HAMAS PEACE DEAL MEDIATED BY US: ‘NEW HORIZON OF HOPE'”
It all started by Biden declaring Hamas is not a terrorist organization, and unfreezing BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO IRAN, who later funded Hamas to attack Israel.
Does Fox show the lines of service members at food banks? Since trump shit down the government, they aren’t getting paid.
No, but Fox News and Newsmax have articles showing your President Trump having found a way to pay our Men and Women who serve in our country’s Military.
We and those service members know democrats hate them, thats why your party is disintegrating before your very eyes.
Have a Happy Republican Party Celebration Weekend. It will be going on every weekend for a few DECADES!!! YEEEHAWWWW!!!!
Remember, NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW LORETTA.
ADAM SCHITT, YOUR NEXT, COMEY, BOULTON.
LINE THEM UP AND MAKE THEM PAY DEPT OF JUSTICE….BECAUSE NO ONE IS ABOVE THE AWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Remember. Letting 1,600 convicted felons out of prison. That were convicted by a judge and jury. Might be the most ignorant and un American thing this criminal convicted felon has done. But giving Qatar and Air base in America. In exchange for a jetliner. Go ahead MAGA’s … DEFIND THAT FUC-ED SHI- ….
You mean besides Obama and Hillary trying to overthrow the election with the Russian Collusion Hoax or the Biden administration trying to hide Joe’s blithering incompetent and the Autopen scandal. At least we knew Joe was a dementia patient and a joke, and you thought he was a great leader, turns out he and Kamala were the worst President and vp in modern history. Funny how you idiots point your fingers calling everyone else an idiot. Put on your dunce cap and go sit in the corner numb nuts.
PS, Enjoy your President and VP while they Make America Great Again and the Peace hes bringing to one of Joe’s wars he started
Sure glad dickhead got a clean medical report. BREAKING NEWS OR SHOULD WE SAY BREAKING FAKE NEWS …
They did this. THAY DID THAT. ONE SMALL QUESTION. WHO THE FUCK IS THEY … REPUBLICAN STUPIDITY 2.0. BREAKING NEWS … EVERYONE ON THE PLANET KNOWS. TRUMP IS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FOOL
Do you guys think Donald sucked Jeffrey Epstein’s cock … just asking. Anti likes to jerk off to that possibility
Trump says Biden’s FBI placed agents around Jan 6.
Challenge question: who was President on January 6, 2021?
All you get with maga, the don is lies many big lies, such as the stolen election, and Biden FBI was at the Jan 6 maga riot trashing our Capital.
Believing the lies of the don – duped over and over.
Millions are hoping for you to DIE DONALD DIE.
Myself, I hope it is slow, painful, and in public.
Can’t happen too soon.
Fuk each and everyone of you trump sheep to deth.
FOREVER.