A Trump administration official sent a letter to the Justice Department referring her for criminal prosecution.
New York Attorney General Letitia James responded to a letter sent by a Trump administration official referring her for prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud, saying the claims “are baseless.”
“Let me just say to all New Yorkers and to all Americans: The allegations are baseless. The allegations are nothing more than a revenge tour,” she said.
“I will not be silenced. I will not be bullied. I will not bend. I will not break. And I will not bow to anyone. No one is above the law, including the president of these United States.”
James told the outlet that her office will officially respond to Pulte’s letter “at the appropriate time and in the appropriate way.”
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“I am more focused, again, on standing up for the freedoms, the liberties and the rule of law in the state of New York,” she said.
“This has potentially included 1) falsifying residence status for a Norfolk, Virginia-based home in order to secure a lower mortgage rate and 2) misrepresenting property descriptions to meet stringent requirements for government backed loans and government assistance,“ he wrote, citing ”media reports” for his claims.
In the Virginia matter, James was accused of allegedly co-signing a mortgage with her niece, Shamice Thompson-Hairston, to jointly purchase a home in Norfolk. Pulte said that the terms of her mortgage mandated that she live in the home as her primary residence for at least a year, starting in October 2023, but she had to live in New York state in order to serve as the attorney general.
James was also accused by Pulte of not accurately representing a description of a piece of property that she owns in Brooklyn in order to meet the requirements for securing a federal loan.
“For both properties listed above, [she] appears to have falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms,” Pulte alleged.
And in 1983, according to the criminal referral, James and her father said they were husband and wife in order to obtain a home mortgage, and they did so again in documents dated in May of 2000.
In response to Pulte’s referral, Bondi told Fox News on Wednesday that her office is now “reviewing” the matter but noted that no one in her office has read it yet. A spokesperson for James echoed statements made by the attorney general to Spectrum 1, telling The Epoch Times on Thursday that her office believes the referral is a weaponization of the “federal government against the rule of law and the Constitution.”
Last year, a judge found that the Trump Organization, Trump, and his two sons had committed fraud and ordered them to pay $454 million. The judgment, which Trump has criticized as politically biased in nature, has since been appealed.
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