James had been under investigation since May over a 2023 mortgage. The investigation looked into a loan she took out to help her niece buy a home in Norfolk.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump<\/strong>‘s former personal lawyer, Lindsey Halligan<\/strong>\u2014who is now the U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia\u2014was able to secure an indictment earlier this month from a grand jury after presenting the evidence.<\/p>\n James, the top prosecutor in New York, who led the civil fraud case against President <\/strong>Trump, is accused of committing bank fraud and lying to a financial institution to secure a favorable mortgage rate.<\/p>\n The NY Post obtained the document signed by James. It’s the “second home rider” for her mortgage, which “attested that the property would be a second home occupied primarily by her.”<\/p>\n Federal prosecutors say this allowed her to get a better mortgage rate from Old Virginia\/Annie Mac, which netted her nearly $19,000 in mortgage savings.<\/p>\n If convicted on the two federal charges, James could face up to 60 years in prison.<\/p>\n Less than a week after her indictment, James came under scrutiny as to whom she was allowing to stay in her home.<\/p>\n James allegedly allowed her grandniece,\u00a0Nakia Thompson<\/strong> to stay at her\u00a0Norfolk home for five years\u2014despite Thompson being wanted by authorities in\u00a0North Carolina, according to the\u00a0New York Post.<\/p>\n Thompson, who lived at the Virginia property with her three children, has been officially labeled an \u201cabsconder\u201d by the North Carolina Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n Court records confirm she failed to complete her probation for previous misdemeanor convictions related to assault, battery, and trespassing.<\/p>\n Thompson ranted on Facebook that the charges against her were “OLD AS HELL and fabricated.”<\/p>\n “For all inquiring minds no Im not in trouble havent been in years at all. Very much a active mother to my children everyday, work everyday, and very much in college about to graduate with my B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Criminal Justice,” she wrote.<\/p>\n James hasn’t avoided the spotlight despite her indictment. On Oct. 13, she made her first public appearance since the charges were filed.<\/p>\n Speaking at a rally in Washington Heights, NY, for mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani<\/strong>, James delivered a fiery speech that doubled down on her innocence and framed the indictment as politically motivated.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see powerful voices trying to silence truth and punish dissent,\u201d James told the crowd. \u201cWe are witnessing the fraying of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump has long called for legal action against his political adversaries. James\u2019 indictment follows the federal indictment of former FBI Director James Comey<\/strong>, who pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation. <\/p>\n Most recently, former national security adviser John Bolton<\/strong> was indicted for allegedly mishandling classified information.<\/p>\n And the Justice Department has launched inquiries California Congressman Adam Schiff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Last spring, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte<\/strong> announced a tip line, saying “anyone and everyone can submit tips on anyone fraudulently filling out mortgage [applications]” by emailing FraudTips@fhfa.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NY Attorney General Letitia James Set To Be Arraigned on Federal Fraud Charges: New York Attorney General Letitia James is set to be arraigned in Norfolk, VA, t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_title":"NY Attorney General Letitia James Set To Be Arraigned on Federal Fraud Charges | Brickellsold","rank_math_description":"New York Attorney General Letitia James is set to be arraigned in Norfolk, VA, this morning after being charged with felony fraud and making false statements to","rank_math_focus_keyword":"NY Attorney General Letitia","rank_math_canonical_url":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/ny-attorney-general-letitia-james-set-to-be-arraigned-on-federal-fraud-charges\/","rank_math_robots":"index,follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[1719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miami-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickellsold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Family matters<\/h2>\n
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