Grand jury rejects indicting Letitia James
After a judge dismissed a mortgage fraud case against Letitia James, the Justice Department opted to take the case to a grand jury. The grand jury decided to not indict James for mortgage fraud. James claimed that she didn’t do anything wrong and that “unchecked weaponization of the justice system” needed to be stopped.
From AP News:
James was initially charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020. Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide and Trump lawyer, personally presented the case to the grand jury in October after being installed as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia amid pressure from Trump to charge Comey and James.
James has denied any wrongdoing and accused the administration of using the justice system to seek revenge against Trump’s political opponents. In a statement Thursday, James said: “It is time for this unchecked weaponization of our justice system to stop.”
“This should be the end of this case,” her attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement. “If they continue, undeterred by a court ruling and a grand jury’s rejection of the charges, it will be a shocking assault on the rule of law and a devastating blow to the integrity of our justice system.”
The allegations related to James’ purchase of a modest house in Norfolk, where she has family. During the sale, she signed a standard document called a “second home rider” in which she agreed to keep the property primarily for her “personal use and enjoyment for at least one year,” unless the lender agreed otherwise.
Rather than using the home as a second residence, James rented it out to a family of three, allowing her to obtain favorable loan terms not available for investment properties, prosecutors alleged.
It’s the latest example of pushback by grand jurors since the beginning of the second Trump administration. It’s so unusual for grand jurors to refuse to return an indictment that it was once said that prosecutors could persuade a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.” But the Justice Department has faced setbacks in front of grand juries in several recent cases.
Even if the charges against James are resurrected, the Justice Department could face obstacles in securing a conviction against James.
Additional Reading:
Richer, A. D., & Diaz, O. (2025, December 4). Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James. AP News. Link.
Category: Crime, Liberals suck, Society
Does the state or lending institution have any options in this matter? I would think the lender would want reimbursement for the interest lost. It’s theft, anyway you look at it.
The only option would be to sue. That would be a hard row to hoe given that the lender wrote the contract. In short, what they did not know is too bad, so sad as long as the debtor paid the loan on time.
Wouldn’t the borrower be in breach of that contract if they turned the mortgaged property into a rental instead of a primary or secondary residence? The county tax assessor is gonna want his cut too, the property tax rate is different.
“unchecked weaponization of the justice system”
Translation: being used against us/DildoCrats/LibTards – vs – being used against them/RepubliTards/conservatives.
I hope she goes the OJ route…..for those not getting the reference. (My take) He got away with murder…then assumed he was untouchable…and then commenced later to commit and was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping, for the shit that went down in Vegas years later. He then went to the grey bar motel…for a LONG time…well 9 years out of 33 but still…..and then he got out, had cancer in 2023 and died in 2024. I wish Letitia James more equal justice from the Universe.
Life is a bitch, her stripper name is Karma and she never loses an address.
Let’s hope so….big ole serving of Shit Sandwich/Nutra/Prison loaf on a metal tray.
“James said: “It is time for this unchecked weaponization of our justice system to stop.””
You bitches started it!
She should talk.
No surprises here. The U.S. Attorneys Office in Virginia needs to get it’s shit together though.
The federal district judge sucks too. He’s no friend of justice.
Paneling a grand jury in Norfolk to indight a Democrat politician isn’t ever going to happen.
First the Comey case got tossed out, now this.
Blue State Sh*thole Town explar? Fugghetaboutit!
Agreed. This was an expected outcome.
The good thing is that two can play that game.
I’m hoping for some life sentences for the Trantifa retards who decided to FAFO in the Northern District of Texas back in July.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/antifa-cell-members-indicted-prairieland-shooting
Reading that article made my day!
Perhaps someday we’ll read a similar one announcing charges against the resident former Army O4, defunct police officer and Berkeley moron who became a medic for Antifa, providing aid and assistance to a known domestic terrorist organization.
And all SHE had to do was say;
“He a bad whit—I mean ornge man, an’ he said his house was worth a sheet load mo money, mo money, mo money den it wuz, an’ ain nobody nohow beliebed dat boolship.”