A federal grand jury will not indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud. A separate grand jury declined to indict her last week.
James’ attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement to ABC News, “This unprecedented rejection makes even clearer that this case should never have seen the light of day.”
“Career prosecutors who knew better refused to bring it, and now two different grand juries in two different cities have refused to allow these baseless charges to be brought,” he said. “Any further attempt to revive these discredited charges would be a mockery of our system of justice.”
A federal judge dismissed the indictments of James in November, arguing that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s appointment was unlawful.
Halligan filed indictments against James, former FBI Director James Comey, and State Department adviser Ashley Tellis in October. American Faith reported that James faced bank fraud and false statement charges involving a Virginia mortgage, as well as allegedly falsifying property documents. Comey was accused of making false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding tied to his 2020 Senate testimony Tellis was indicted for unlawfully retaining more than 1,000 pages of classified materials at his home in Virginia.
Prosecutors allege James “represented and affirmed in uniform residential loan applications and related documents that the Peronne Property would be used as a secondary residence, when in truth and fact, as [James] then knew, the property was intended and used as an investment property.” The scheme allegedly saved her “approximately $18,933 over the life of the loan.”
