Trump's Ministry of Justice starts criminal investigations in Letitia James, say several sources

More than a year later New York Attorney General Letitia James The Ministry of Justice under Mr. Trump has won half a billion dollar against President Trump.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation leads the investigation.

The US lawyer of the Northern District of New York John A. Sarcone III told The Albany Times Union that the investigation was “completed by Main at that time [Department of] Justice and the FBI field office of Albany. “

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice rejected a statement.

After William Pulto, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, wrote a letter to the US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi, in which James “in several cases falsified the documents and real estate records in order to acquire state support and loan and cheaper loan conditions”.

Pente claimed that James had received business on mortgage conditions over the decades by fake information over the decades. The allegations include the listing of a house in Norfolk, Virginia, as her “main apartment”, although she lives and worked in New York, a five-family property in Brooklyn with a loan that is only available for houses with four units or less, and an accusations that James 'father of James' father has signed mortgages that she was husband and wife.

James denied the allegations and described them “unfounded”. James' office rejected a comment on Thursday.

Abbe Lowell – A lawyer of James, whose law firm often represents customers who believe that they were wrongly addressed by the Trump administration, also mocked the investigation.

In a statement on CBS News, Lowell described the allegations as “unfounded and long -critical” and said that the investigation seems to be “political retaliation that President Trump threatened that AG Bondi assures that the Senate would not appear on her guard. If the public prosecutors are really interested in the truth, we are willing to meet false claims with facts.”

Last month, Lowell sent a letter to the Ministry of Justice, in which he refuted the allegations set out in Pente. In a letter to Bondi, Lowell referred to the allegations as “Long-Disproven” and the investigation “, the recent act of an improper political retaliation die against Ms. James-publicly and approved by President Trump.”

In February 2024, a New York judge Mr. Trump, his company and two of his adult sons ordered the state of New York to pay around 364 million dollars. The number that has accumulated more than a decade is currently over 500 million US dollars. Trump has appealed against the judgment.

The verdict was carried out after a lengthy civil proceedings in which James' office had accused Mr. Trump, the efforts to use the use of fraudulent ratings and estimates of the net assets of Mr. Trump in order to obtain cheap loan rates and insurance transactions that he would not otherwise have received.

The number to pay Mr. Trump reflected the calculation of the judge how much Mr. Trump and his company benefited from the system.

Mr. Trump has long against the case and James – even raged they sue The state could be submitted in an attempt to stop your fraud examination before a lawsuit.

Mr. Trump was forced to comment in November 2023 during the trial, while he complied with James during his hourly testimony against James and described the fraud as a “terrible, terrible thing”.