The federal criminal referral against Letitia James is a meritless, hypocritical salvo in President Trump’s “revenge tour” against his nemesis, the state attorney general’s lawyer charged Thursday.
In a fiery five-page letter to US Attorney General Pam Bondi, James’ lawyer Abbe David Lowell picked apart the accusations that the prominent Democrat committed mortgage fraud but admitted to a mistake in the paperwork.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte’s bombshell criminal referral was based off shoddy media reports and a selective reading of public records, Lowell argued.
“Director Pulte cherry-picked an August 17, 2023 power of attorney that mistakenly stated the property to be Ms. James’ principal residence and at the same time absolutely ignored her very clear and all caps statement two weeks earlier to the mortgage loan broker that ‘[t]his property WILL NOT be my primary residence,’” the letter cites as one piece of evidence contradicting the accusations.
The letter contends the accusations are Trump’s promised “retribution” against his political enemies.
James in particular has been the subject of Trump’s fire after she marshaled a civil fraud trial against him and his Trump Organization that ended with a $454 million judgment.
“Look at the entire file of each event, the haste in which one document has one line filled out in error, and the clear fact that, with the exception of attending school, Attorney General James has only lived in Brooklyn, and the ‘criminal referral’ becomes three pages of stale, threadbare allegations with no reason to proceed other than they are ‘[b]ased on media reports’ and are the next salvo in President Trump’s revenge tour against Attorney General James,” Lowell wrote in the letter.
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