New York Attorney General Letitia James, who campaigned on the promise to “get” President Trump and later secured a half a billion dollar judgment against him and his companies, only to see it thrown out as unconstitutional, has escaped a new indictment on allegations of mortgage misbehavior.
The Justice Department failed to secure a new indictment, according to a report at The Center Square.
DOJ prosecutors had reintroduced previously dismissed charges of mortgage fraud, but the grand jury in Norfolk, Va., declined to issue an indictment.
A federal judge earlier dismissed an indictment against James, claiming that Lindsey Halligan, the federal prosecutor appointed to the post, hadn’t been properly appointed.
Her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, claimed, “This should be the end of this case. 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.”
Actually, it was under the Barack Obama and Joe Biden administrations that the federal government’s law enforcement agencies were weaponized against Trump and those associated with him.
Prosecutor Jack Smith, named then by Biden’s team to bring multiple lawfare cases against Trump, also had been ruled by a federal judge to have failed being appointed properly.
Under federal law, DOJ prosecutors can re-present the charges to another grand jury if they choose.
She had been indicted on a count of bank fraud and a count of making false statements to a financial institution. She claimed she did nothing wrong.
But the evidence explained James falsely claimed on an application for a federally backed mortgage that she would be living in a Norfolk, Va., home she bought in 2020 for about $137,000 as a secondary residence but allegedly used it as an investment property, the report said.
That gave James a benefit of nearly $20,000 because of a better interest rate.
A post at the Gateway Pundit by Joel Gilbert, who has investigated James’ actions. He explained, “This sequence underscores the difficulty in prosecuting Democrat officials for wrongdoing. Biases have been built into the system by Democrat presidents for years with the appointment of radical judges who disregard the law. This combines with the phenomenon of juries comprised of largely Democrat voters who often seek to protect Democrat officials.”
Gilbert said his own investigations have revealed “a much broader and far more severe portrait of decades-long mortgage fraud by Letitia James stretching back to 1983.
He outlined:
James first engaged in mortgage fraud in 1983 when she and her father, Robert James, obtained a loan from Kadilac Funding Ltd. for a townhome property in Queens. The loan documents listed Robert James as the husband of Letitia James, effectively a fake “marriage” to qualify for a loan that Letitia likely wouldn’t have qualified for. That was no clerical error, but a deliberate fraud and just the beginning of a multi-decade pattern.
Over the years, James misrepresented important facts in multiple real-estate and mortgage-loan applications to secure favorable rates and benefits she was not entitled to.
He cited her listing a five-family building she owns as four units, in order to access better interest rates.
He said, “The pattern is unmistakable. Letitia James, even when confronted with federal charges supported by documented false statements and a 43-year track record of mortgage deception, receives the very same institutional protection.”
A federal grand jury in Norfolk, VA has declined to indict Letitia James over the mortgage fraud scandal. This is another reminder that the justice system is running on double standards. Also, pretending your father is your husband for a better rate? You cannot make it up. pic.twitter.com/aiMpDHSWUV
— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) December 4, 2025
BREAKING: A federal grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia has just REFUSED to indict disgraced NY AG Letitia James for her blatant mortgage fraud
TOTAL BS!
Democrats have successfully HIJACKED and DESTROYED our judicial system.
James even pretended like she was married to her OWN… pic.twitter.com/3fWiifM5MN
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 4, 2025
