In absolutely huge news announced on Fox News Channel on the night of Tuesday, April 15, FNC personality Laura Ingraham dropped a bombshell and revealed that she has learned the Trump Administration is considering bringing new charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is now accused of mortgage fraud.
As background, President Trump has an axe to grind with James because she was one of the key figures in the lawfare campaign against him, having tried to fine him nearly half a billion dollars for what she claimed were lies about his assets’ estimated value when requesting loans, which were paid back in full. Since his election, US Attorney General Pam Bondi has brought charges against James, and it appears that now a different agency is ready to do the same.
Such is what Ingraham revealed in the bombshell segment of her “The Ingraham Angle,” exposing that the Federal Housing Finance Administration is investigating NY AG James and has issued a criminal referral to the Department of Justice in the hopes that AG Bondi will hit her with new charges.
Beginning, Ingraham said, “The Federal Housing Finance Agency has sent a criminal referral to the DOJ accusing James of mortgage fraud, and in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Director Bill Pulte says James appears to have falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms.”
Continuing, Ingraham explained what it is that James is accused of in a bit more detail, saying, “He cited a property in Virginia that she’s allegedly claimed as her principal residence and a property in New York that she claimed as a four-unit structure instead of the required, instead of a five, which Pulte says means she was able to get a different type and more favorable loan.”
Speaking to her about the situation, legal expert Jonathan Turley explained that the charges have teeth and are quite ironic, saying, “Well, obviously, the irony is perfectly crushing. This is a person who prosecuted Trump for everything short of ripping a label off a mattress. And among the charges that were brought in New York in not just the civil but the criminal case, was making false or misleading statements the financial institutions and one of these sections, Section 1014, of the Federal Code is prosecuted. It took me about 60 seconds of a search to find cases that the Department of Justice brought against people who falsely claimed that property was their principal residence in order to get loans. So this is well tread areas for the Justice Department, as for James, if we apply the Letitia James standard that she created, there’d be little question here. This seems pretty straightforward.”
Turley further noted that NY AG James appears to have told a great many lies, telling Ingraham, “What the administration is saying is this was not her principal residence. In fact, as a New York elected official, she had to say that her principal residence was in New York. This was an out of state residence. But also they claimed that in some of these forms, she actually states that her father is her husband in order to file as a married couple. So there’s a lot of those questions.”
Later on, Turley noted that the evidence against James appears to be “damning,” saying, “And this has been prosecuted in the past. We have not heard her side of this, but these documents themselves are quite damning. It’s hard to see how the residences listed were her principal residence, the business about her father is just bizarre.”
