OAN Staff Addie Davis
4:48 PM – Thursday, March 26, 2026
Two new criminal referrals have been made against New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged home insurance fraud.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency director, Bill Pulte, sent a referral to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, media outlets reported.
According to MS Now, the referrals claimed that James made misrepresentations about how the properties would be used in the home insurance filings.
In the referrals, Pulte reportedly referenced insurance documents in X posts by Mike Davis, who is described as an ally of President Donald Trump and founder of the Article III Project.
“It appears Ms. James made representations that the house would be occupied by a single adult, with no children. Instead, according to the post, she knew the house was actually occupied by four people — three children and her niece,” Pulte wrote in the Illinois criminal referral, per MS Now.
In the Florida referral, he wrote that it “appears Ms. James made false representations that her property would be unoccupied five months out of the year,” but he noted, according to Davis’ post, “The house was, in fact, occupied year-round by her niece.”
The Department of Justice confirmed that the U.S. attorneys received the referrals, sources report.
The office of the New York attorney general released a statement to MS Now, issued by Abbe Lowell, James’ lawyer.
“Frustrated by repeated failures, where judges and grand juries have rejected their attempts to charge Attorney General James, Trump and his political enablers keep abusing their power to pursue a vendetta against her by trying to rename, refile, and repeat baseless allegations. They continue this improper revenge campaign instead of helping bring down the rising cost of living in this country. These desperate tactics will fail – just as every previous attempt has failed – and exposes an Administration that has abandoned its responsibility to the American people in favor of petty political payback.”
James was indicted by a grand jury in October on fraud charges, but a U.S. District Judge ruled that the then-U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was improperly appointed and had “no lawful authority” to bring the charges and dismissed the indictment. Another grand jury later declined to reindict her.
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