New York Attorney General Letitia James is about to get a taste of her own bitter medicine, and I have a feeling she’s not going to like it. The Justice Department has officially opened a criminal investigation into James, recent reports have revealed.
In a seperate report, The Washington Post said that a grand jury located in the Eastern District of Virginia sent out several subpoenas connected to accusations that the attorney general misrepresented a single-family home in the state, claiming it was her primary residence to gain favorable loan terms. Tsk, tsk.
Sounds a lot like corruption, wouldn’t you agree? Time to pay the piper, James.
“News of the federal probe follows a criminal referral from the Trump administration’s Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte, who requested the DOJ investigate James over that matter and another incident in which she allegedly misrepresented the number of livable units in a multifamily Brooklyn house to once again obtain better loan terms,” Fox News reported.
“These baseless and long-discredited allegations, put to rest by my April 24 letter to the Department of Justice, are suddenly back in the news just days after President Trump publicly attacked Attorney General James,” James’ attorney, Abbe Lowell, remarked on Thursday. “This appears to be the political retribution President Trump threatened to exact that AG Bondi assured the Senate would not occur on her watch. If prosecutors are genuinely interested in the truth, we are prepared to meet false claims with facts.”
After Pulte’s criminal referral was sent to the Justice Department, specifically U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Lowell followed up with his own letter to Bondi and the Justice Department, accusing the president of seeking “political retribution.” James has been part of a group of Democratic attorneys general who have sued to halt many of Trump’s orders during his first few months in the Oval Office.
Additionally, James was the lead prosecutor in a case she brought against Trump and the Trump Organization that alleged the president, while he was a candidate, falsified business records to obtain more favorable loan terms. He was ultimately ordered by a judge to pay hundreds of millions, but is still appealing the ruling.
“The stunning hypocrisy of President Trump’s complaint that the Justice Department had been ‘politicized’ and ‘weaponized’ against him is laid bare as he and others in his administration are now asking you to undertake the very same practice,” Lowell said in the letter to Bondi. He then pointed out specific instances when the president called for revenge against those who were politicizing the DOJ against him and when he personally attacked James.
Lowell went on to respond to the allegations, which include a claim that James listed a house in Virginia as her primary residence while she was serving as a state official in New York. He explained that James had no intention of using the property as her main residence, and “her indication of this in a power-of-attorney letter was a mistake. Lowell pointed out there were other documents in which James indicated to her lender that the Virginia home would not be her primary residence.”
“James is also accused of fraud for allegedly misrepresenting the number of livable units in a multifamily Brooklyn home to receive better interest rates. Lowell accuses Pulte of disregarding updated documentation listing the residence as a four-unit multifamily residence and instead pointing to a certificate of occupancy from 2001,” the Fox report concluded.
🚨New York AG Letitia James has been served a grand jury subpoena and Amy Robbins just cooked her on live television.
Bad day for Big Tish:
“Big wake up call to Democrats who have skeletons in their closet.. Someone's coming for you.” pic.twitter.com/TxwyAt6cTt
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 9, 2025
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