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Irony, audacity, brazenness, chutzpah- the news that New York State Attorney General Letitia James may have falsified information when making a real-estate purchase in Virginia in order to get better mortgage rates had many giddy supporters of Donald Trump reaching for a thesaurus. James, who declared “no one is above the law” when the verdict against the 47th President came down last year, could now face prosecution on charges similar to those that she used to successfully prosecute Trump. The claims of misinformation came to light in a letter authored by the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and sent to US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Ari Hoffman is the associate editor of The New York Sun; he appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to outline what the letter claims James did and where she probably goes from here.
The letter refers to several transactions, but Hoffman told host Larry Mendte that it’s one item in particular that should concern New York’s attorney general: “Really the meat of this concerns 2023, and misrepresenting her residence at a property in Virginia when, in fact, she was obligated to live in New York, per New York law as New York’s top law enforcement official… It’s almost an irony worthy of Shakespeare… that just as Letitia James was putting together the final touches on her case against Trump, which is now on appeal, she was allegedly also fudging the information and had her eye on a property in Norfolk, Virginia rather than one here in New York.”
Hoffman added that the allegation actually burns James twice: “I think that the difficulty for Letitia James at this point is she could now face losses on two fronts, a reversal of her crown jewel verdict and the prospect of a criminal investigation of her own. One thing to look out for though is, if the DOJ is going to investigate it, you’d have to find some Federal hook to these alleged violations… (so) we are looking at a New York-Federal government clash, I think.”
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