The mortgage fraud investigation began after William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, wrote a letter to Bondi alleging that James "has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms."

Pulte claimed James received deals on mortgage terms by falsifying information related to multiple properties over the course of decades. The allegations include listing a home in Norfolk, Virginia, as her "principal residence" despite living and working in New York, buying a five-family property in Brooklyn with a loan that is only available for homes with four units or less, and an accusation that in 1983, James' father signed mortgage documents stating they were husband and wife.

James has denied the allegations, calling them "baseless."

In April, Abbe Lowell — an attorney for James whose firm frequently represents clients that it believes have been unfairly targeted by the Trump administration — sent a letter to the Department of Justice refuting the allegations laid out in Pulte's letter. Lowell called the allegations "long-disproven" and referred to the investigation as "the latest act of improper political retribution — this time directed at Ms. James — publicly instigated and endorsed by President Trump."

Lowell said that James had helped her niece buy a house in Norfolk, and a power-of-attorney form had "mistakenly" listed it as the state attorney general's primary residence. But James had made clear that it actually wouldn't be her primary residence in both an email to her mortgage broker and a loan application, according to Lowell.

"Director Pulte points to a two-page power of attorney that was clearly mistaken and failed to reference Ms. James' clear and repeated accurate statements," Lowell wrote.

DOJ charges another longtime Trump foe

Mr. Trump has sparred with James since she was elected New York attorney general in 2018 and began pursuing cases against the president, his businesses and his administration.

In the civil lawsuit against Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization, James' office accused the company of fraudulently inflating the value of its real estate assets to gain more favorable lending terms in what she called "the art of the steal," a play on the name of Mr. Trump's book, "The Art of the Deal." The president denied wrongdoing, and he and his attorneys lashed out at James, characterizing the case as politically motivated.

After a trial that delved deeply into Mr. Trump's business empire, a judge ordered the president and his company to pay a judgment in excess of $350 million — which ballooned to over a half-billion dollars including interest. Judges on New York's appellate court later tossed out the judgment over the summer, calling it "excessive."

Since returning to office, Mr. Trump has taken the unprecedented step of encouraging the Justice Department to look into people who he believes wronged him during his first term or his four years out of office — including Comey and James.

The moves have been met with some internal backlash. The acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, resigned last month, amid concern from prosecutors in the office that the Trump administration could fire him for failing to prosecute James.

Siebert was replaced as interim U.S. attorney by Lindsey Halligan, a former Trump attorney and White House aide. Just days after she was sworn in, the office asked a grand jury to indict Comey for allegedly lying during a Senate hearing five years ago.

Meanwhile, Trump-aligned attorney Ed Martin — who leads the Justice Department's new Weaponization Working Group — pressed James to resign as state attorney general in an August letter obtained by the Associated Press.

>>1446249
Considering the Trump DOJ staff is full of incompetence, I doubt this'll go anywhere. They already gave the defense a perfect excuse when he accidentally sent his marching orders to Bondi as a tweet instead of a DM

>>1446255
I'm not sure how much the law matters anymore.

The shoes on the other foot now lmao

>>1446258
What a shame, right?

>>1446258
No, Trump actually did what James accused him of, but not the other way around.

>>1446258
>They said that one document in the mortgage application “mistakenly” said the property would be James’ primary residence. But they submitted other documents to argue there was no fraud.

>In one document, James writes in an email to her loan originator, “**this property WILL NOT be my primary residence**.”

>James also checked a box on another document that indicated the property would **not** be her primary residence”

Hes simply trying to smear his opponents name. This is blatant fascism

>>1446267
>Hes simply trying to smear his opponents name.
This is exactly the response you should have expected when they indicted Trump for mortgage fraud and then he won election again. This is karma.

>>1446267
>Hes simply trying to smear his opponents name. This is blatant fascism
'member that unprecedented case against dRumpf out of New York?
Go fuck off then.

>>1446274
>karma
esl

>>1446276
The one where the main defense was, 'but the people who were defrauded were happy they were defrauded?'
Where Trump was objectively guilty?

>>1446274
You can indict a ham sandwich. Trump was convicted. She will not be. Even the prosecutor is a joke. This is not about a crime, it's to smear her name and throw bait at his base so dim people like you can assume it's the same thing when it is not remotely close. This will keep going so dont forget this post when the next political opponent is indicted. Justice Department's amazing track record is about to turn to shit over the next few years.

>>1446274
No, it’s Trump being a vindictive asshole. Because he actually didcommit mortgage fraud, while what he’s prosecuting his prosecution for is blatantly not true.

>>1446278
I mean in the scope of the misapplication of the law sure.
Considering the party NY was supposedly prosecuting dRumpf for filed no complaint, there should have been no case, and a similar situation was never recorded, thus it was explicitly an unprecedented politically motivated prosecution.
You can't expect anyone else to care now IF dRumpf persecutes those who attack him in the same way, can you?
Of course you do, but whatever, go seppuku, faggot.

>>1446283
do you think trump is going to give you some of his money if you act this obsequious

>>1446284
At least I never gave Biden sloppy toppy, and acted like he wasn't a dementia ridden geezer.
Literally everything out of the mouths of lieberals and Democrooks this past decade has been a lie.

>>1446285
Not everything. They cheered for Charlie Kirk's death.

>>1446286
Yeah, and I fairly certain they were terrified there'd be riots over it too because, I suppose, they're willing to riot at the drop of a hat for everything.
Some dickweeds are out there attacking ICE for people who don't give a shit about them and who wouldn't do the same in their own countries.

>>1446285
>>1446286
>>1446287
jesus esl shill, enough with the samefagging

>>1446288
Never right. not even once, crippled fuck.

>>1446290
always right, and your projection is my proof

>>1446291
Sigh, this faggot again. I'm just not going to reply to your bullshit ever again.

i'm assuming esl shill thinks i get paid a few cents when people respond like he does. lmao

>>1446285
You talk like a fucking child, jesus christ.

My theory after much advanced theoretical calculations shows that he's doing this to draw attention away from the Epstein file

>>1446249
So
>Letita James allegedly tries to gets like 20k off a loan: crime
>Tom Homan literally accepts a 50k bribe: nothing to see here

>>1446318
I'm guessing that Epstein files will be out by the end of the month to fizzle the Dems October surprise buildup.
As you know, no one in DC can keep their fucking mouths shut even when it's illegal to speak and threatens their jobs, so if dRumpf was in the Epstein Files, there'd be non-stop coverage of it.

>>1446323
>Guys the Epstein Files are actually being kept to show the massive surprise that Trump isn't in them!
>You know, the Epstein Files we denied existed
>And that we keep refusing to release

>>1446324
Yeah you see, you're on board with pushing the angle too. I'm pretty sure I'm on to something here.

>>1446249
>Courts are only legit when they prosecute politicians I don't like. All the courts that prosecuted my guys are bad.
Welcome to 21st century conservatism.

>>1446353
To be fair, Democrats started the lawfare game. I'm not sure why you'd blame "conservatives".

>>1446357
better post receipts because im about to own your face.

>>1446357
you guys sure do project hard

>>1446357
Did Trump not have a ton of classified documents in his bathroom all of a sudden that he not only refused to give back, but also actively tried to lie about giving over all of them?

>>1446357
Did you ever stop to consider that Trump actually did the things he was accused of?

>>1446357
>Commit a bunch of crimes
>Direct your own party to ignore them
>Cry lawfare when only the other party prosecutes you
>Use this as excuse to start making opposing you illegal

>>1446359
>>1446360
>>1446361
>>1446362
This is the world you asked for.

>>1446361
I do believe they were documents he declassified then Biden's controllers reclassified.
But Biden had shit in his garage or something and so did Obama. And what were any of them going to do, unread the shit?

>>1446366
Half the replies don't even know what side they're replying to. Peak 4chin.

>>1446388
>And what were any of them going to do, unread the shit?
Why did trump have them in a room with a copy machine, and why [conspiracy] did Jared then get 2b?
Obama and Biden turned them over right away, Trump had to have his place raided. None of them read anything. It was boxes upon boxes of paper. Having them was thinking they could, fine, but giving them back told the whole story.

>>1446395
It was one the bathrooms at Mar-a-lago

>>1446274
>This is exactly the response you should have expected when they indicted Trump for mortgage fraud
What are you talking about? Everyone said the claims of it being a witchhunt was Trump trying to smear his opponents then.

By the way, he was convicted. Good luck getting a conviction here when former US attorneys are going to be testifying for the defense. This shit's never making it to a jury if we aren't counting the civil suit after this shit's over.

>>1446413
Ah yes, the bathroom with the shower curtain behind a chandelier. They were not elsewhere on the property at all!

>>1446388
Trump was trying to claim he could declassify documents after he was president. It's ridiculous to everyone who isn't in the cult.

>>1446416
>What are you talking about?
For dems it was about trying to prevent him from being president.
For republicans it's about sending a message.
The process is the punishment. Even if Letitia James is exonerated, she will always be known as a corrupt, attention-seeking whore who tried to make a name for herself by convicting the president of a fake crime.
You don't get to hurt other people and get away with it.

>>1446452
No, the claim was that the documents were declassified. The Democrat claim was that there was no record of declassification.
And the crux of the situation was that Trump as the executive 100% owned the power of classification and declassification.
Any classification or declassification procedural or not invokes the power of the executive.
The argument was that he, as the executive, declassified the documents.
Prove him wrong, faggot.

>>1446468
The procedure is the declassification. Him merely thinking it doesn't work. He can go declassify them by following the procedure. No procedure, no declassification.

>>1446472
No, he's right.
On his deathbed, Andrew Jackson confessed that at one point he declassified every government document that had or will ever exist.
Classification is the real scam. Everything's supposed to be public.

>>1446472
The procedure is determined by the executive. If the executive determined him thinking the documents were declassified, that was literally the procedure.

This is true because the executive 100% owns complete and total power over classification and declassification. Any rules related to classification and declassification belong to the executive and can be changed at will.
And we've discussed this at length on this board multiple times. This is the way it is. If you don't like it, I don't know what to tell you.

>>1446477
>muh plenary authority
lmao ok Steve

>>1446479
I mean, if you look at the rules, it's quite literally true.

>>1446479
>>1446477
>The president’s authority to declassify documents comes primarily from executive authority — not from a specific law passed by Congress — because classification and declassification are functions of the president’s constitutional role as Commander in Chief and head of the executive branch.
>The current rules for classification and declassification are set by Executive Order 13526 (issued by President Obama in 2009).
>Under this order:
>>The president (and vice president) have original classification authority — meaning they can classify or declassify anything.
>>Agencies and officials can only classify/declassify information by delegation from the president.
>Section 3.1(d) explicitly states:
>>“Information shall be declassified or downgraded by… the official who authorized the original classification, if that official is still serving, or a successor, a supervisory official, or anyone delegated declassification authority by the President.”
>In short: the president can declassify any information at any time — and does not need to follow the usual agency procedures.
Thanks Obama

>>1446482
Yeah, but if the president says he declassified something and no one was around to hear it, would it still be declassified?

>>1446479
>Nooooooo
>My dreams of getting dRumpf were dashed again!!!
>And we would've gotten him this time too, if we weren't retards that couldn't read the fucking law.

>>1446482
Except if there's no documentation, then he has no proof he did it while president. And if he didn't do it while president, it doesn't count.

>>1446485
President isn't an infallible god. Trying to treat it as one is gonna backfire horrifically on Republicans when they lose again; either they have to acknowledge they were going against the constitution, or suffer under the Democrat president with unlimited power being told by their party to make their lives hell.

>>1446487
Biden seemed pretty infallible from the Democrat viewpoint to me.
And Internet Democrats are becoming increasingly insufferable and full of lies I think people don't want to play with you anymore. Keep dreaming of the blue wave though. I'm sure you want another chance to fuck up the country even more than last time you queers achieved a modicum of power via being insufferable faggottic liars.

>>1446486
>In short: the president can declassify any information at any time — and does not need to follow the usual agency procedures.
Burden of proof is on you.