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New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday for alleged mortgage fraud, following President Donald Trump’s months-long campaign to remove her staunch critic from office.
Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan for the Eastern District of Virginia reportedly personally presented the government’s flimsy case alleging that James committed mortgage fraud. Halligan, who previously served as Trump’s personal attorney before becoming a special assistant to the president, recently replaced Eric Siebert, who had been pressured by Trump officials to seek an indictment against James.
James was charged with one count of bank fraud, according to MSNBC.
Multiple sources told ABC News last month that investigators have yet to produce any evidence that James falsified bank documents to obtain favorable terms on a mortgage for his Virginia home. Two Trump stooges, Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Ed Martin, head of the DOJ’s Working Weaponization Group, claimed that James committed mortgage fraud on a single document claiming that the house she purchased in 2023 would be her primary residence.
But investigators were unable to prove that she knowingly lied, or that the document was even considered by loan officers. The lawyers who drafted the document said the error was the result of a model that had not been corrected, sources told ABC News. All other documents submitted for James’ mortgage specifically stated that she would not reside in the house.
Pulte and Martin reportedly urged Siebert to seek an indictment against James at Trump’s direction. When Siebert refused, Pulte allegedly encouraged Trump to fire Siebert and replace him with someone else.
In a bizarre post on Truth Social last month, which turned out to be an errant DM from Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump wrote: “Lindsey is a very good lawyer and she likes you very much. » He later reposted that speech, clarifying that he was writing about Halligan, and Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney suggested that Trump was hoping to replace Siebert with Halligan to pursue his so-called “BIG case” against James.
This story has been updated.
