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Trump attacker Letitia James now under FBI investigation

by | May 8, 2025 | Top Ten

Suspicions against New York AG include mortgage fraud that could result in long prison term

WND By Bob Unruh

New York Attorney General Letitia James (Video screenshot)
New York Attorney General Letitia James

Prominent Trump attacker Letitia James now is under investigation by the FBI.

She campaigned for the office of attorney general in New York on the claim she would “get” Trump. In office, she assembled a long list of cases and claims that she brought to court against him.

Leading the way was her wild claim that Trump committed fraud because of the way he valued his companies while taking out and repaying loans.

In fact, in court, those from whom he borrowed money confirmed the loans were repaid in full and on time, and they’d like to do more business with Trump.

However, the case was presented only to a leftist judge, not a jury, and he ended up with the extreme claim that Trump owed a penalty of nearly half a billion dollars, a claim that now is on appeal.


Perhaps it’s ironic that now James is facing claims of fraud.

Over her own properties.

A report in the Times Union said U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the investigation be handled by the Northern District of New York in Albany.

It is James’ real estate transactions that appear to have been manipulated, the report said.

Among the claims is that she is listed as the spouse of her own father on one mortgage document. And there’s concern she listed a home as her primary residence when it was out of state and could not be. Further, she apparently listed one of the apartment buildings she owns as having four units, instead of the five it is documented to have.

All of the machinations appear to have been in pursuit of better interest rates on home loans.

The report said, “One of the mortgage documents filed in connection with James’ purchase of the single-family residence — a notarized power-of-attorney document — was signed as a witness by Jennifer Levy, who is the first deputy attorney general. A spokesman for James did not immediately respond to a question about why Levy would have been asked to sign a document related to the attorney general’s purchase of a private residence.”

“This is being handled at this time by main (Department of) Justice and the Albany FBI field office,” said U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III, who oversees the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York’s Northern District. “We stand prepared to act in the capacity that we need to when and if we are informed there’s a charge to be made. Unlike Letitia James, who unethically ran around the state campaigning on getting Donald Trump… my office conducts itself in a manner that is proper and professional.”

James has claimed the evidence against her is “baseless.” And she’s hired a prominent criminal defense lawyer for her case, which likely will be funded by the taxpayers of the state. That’s because Democrats in New York have added a $10 million fund to the state budget for James or others to pay legal fees.

It was William J. Pulte, chief of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, who sent a referral letter last month to Bondi alleging that James may have “”falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms.”

A report at the Gateway Pundit, which long has documented suspicious behavior by James, said one of the key disputes is that James claimed her five-unit apartment building was only four units “in order to get a more favorable loan.”

The report explained, “This is not a minor discrepancy. Lying to the bank about the unit count enabled Letitia James to secure more favorable loans, including a 2011 Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) loan that saved her tens of thousands of dollars annually. Letitia James was able to secure a conforming loan through Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac since they are only available on properties up to 4 units.”

“This is a person who prosecuted Trump for everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, and among the charges that were brought in New York, in just the civil but the criminal case, was making false or misleading statements to financial institutions,” constitutional expert Jonathan Turley said on Fox News. “As for James, if we apply the Letitia James standard that she created, there’d be little question here. This seems pretty straightforward.”

Another document evidences that James claimed she was the spouse of her father, in “falsified loan documents back in 1983,” the report said.

The publication, in a further special report by Joel Gilbert, explained his own “review of public records and court filings” documented a “range of troubling issues that could pose serious legal and ethical consequences” for James.

“One of the most striking revelations emerges from a 1983 real estate transaction in which Letitia James and her father, Robert James, obtained a mortgage as ‘husband and wife,'” he wrote.

“The loan application to Kadilac Funding Corporation listed them as a married couple, despite the fact that Letitia is his daughter. Such a misrepresentation of a relationship to qualify for a loan could constitute mortgage fraud under both federal and New York State law,” the report said.

The penalty for that could be up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

By claiming her building had four units, not five, she was able to apply for and obtain a 2.7% rate loan, paying off a loan at 10%, the report said.

The report said she also claimed financial hardship to obtain the loan, despite her income being around $14,000 a month.

“These discrepancies could trigger legal liability for James under the False Claims Act, which allows the federal government to impose treble damages and fines for false statements made in order to obtain government funds,” the report said.

Other claims could include campaign finance violations and misrepresentations.

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