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Does Tish James Live In Her Two Houses 500 Miles From Albany? We Knocked On Doors To Find Out.
Daily Caller ^ | April 17, 2025 | Nick Pope and Myles Morell

Posted on 04/17/2025 7:34:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

NORFOLK, Virginia — The Daily Caller News Foundation visited two southern Virginia properties at the center of fraud and misconduct claims made against Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James and found that James does not appear to be a resident of either home.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) referred James to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for potential investigation of alleged mortgage fraud on Monday, referring to a White Collar Fraud report presenting evidence that James may have committed mortgage fraud with one property while filing inconsistent disclosure reports about loans on the other. The DCNF visited both homes in question on Wednesday, discovering that both residences are apparently inhabited by multiple people, but apparently not James.

One of the properties is a modest two-story home located in a quiet residential Norfolk neighborhood. James is alleged to have characterized the home as her “principal residence” in paperwork filed August 2023 — possibly to secure more favorable loan terms — despite serving at the time as New York’s attorney general, a position that requires primary residence in New York state while it is held.

When the DCNF arrived at the house on Wednesday afternoon, all of the blinds were drawn, and a female yelled out from within the home — before the DCNF identified itself or asked any questions — that she did not have any comment to share. The voice from inside the home did not sound at all like James’ voice as heard in press conferences.

The DCNF interviewed neighbors who reside in the immediate vicinity of the home to learn more about who may or may not be living in the house. Notably, there was only one vehicle in the driveway upon the DCNF’s first pass by the home, but a second vehicle had parked in the driveway at some point in the 30 or so minutes that elapsed before the DCNF passed by the home again.

One neighbor told the DCNF that he believes a black woman and children inhabit the home, which had a basketball hoop in the driveway, but did not recognize James when shown a photo. A second neighbor commented only to say that “it’s not the lady from New York,” presumably James, living in the residence.

Notably, James submitted the August 2023 paperwork for this particular home just weeks before she began her trial against President Donald Trump, which concluded with Trump being ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines as the 2024 presidential race took shape.

When the DCNF arrived at the second home, a two-story house in a different Norfolk neighborhood, two of its residents were on the porch outside the front door. One of the residents ordered the DCNF to leave without answering questions as to whether she knew James or had any relationship with her. The resident said that whether or not she or the property is connected to James “doesn’t matter.” )

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None of the residents of neighboring homes knew much about the inhabitants of the second property.

James purchased the second residence in 2020, according to White Collar Fraud. James financed the purchase with a mortgage that remains active today, though she did not disclose the loan on her financial disclosures between 2020 and 2023.

James reported several thousand dollars of rental income at the property in 2020, and then did not list any rental income in her disclosures between 2021 and 2023, according to White Collar Fraud. In her financial disclosure for 2023, James added two more lenders for the home to her paperwork, but White Collar Fraud could not identify any evidence of either loan in the residence’s chain of title.

White Collar Fraud also did not find any liens on record from either of the two new lenders, raising suspicions about why the home is so over-leveraged. The outlet speculated that the unusual mortgage situation possibly indicates that the two loans first reported in 2023 may not have ever existed, may have been misrepresented or may have been included in filings to “present a fictitious liability profile while avoiding mandatory disclosure.”

Beyond the two Norfolk properties, James is also alleged to have consistently misclassified a multi-family property she owns in Brooklyn, New York, as a four-family unit instead of a five-family unit, according to White Collar Fraud. The outlet suggested that the repeated misidentification could have enabled James to secure more favorable loan terms because relevant law defines any property that holds five or more families as a commercial property, a classification that is typically subject to more stringent loan terms.

James’ office did not respond to a request for comment.


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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’ve been a fan of Jack Elam for decades, but just saw (a very young version of) him in a season 2 episode of “Death Valley Days”... tempus fugit!


41 posted on 04/17/2025 8:34:03 AM PDT by pingman ("Step right up! Get your free helicopter ride, courtesy of Pinochet Air!")
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To: pingman

One of my favorites. The guy could jump from “bad guy” to “good guy” in a hearbeat.


42 posted on 04/17/2025 8:38:35 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Universities in this country are nothing but Houses of Prostitution for the wealthy.)
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To: 1Old Pro
James reported several thousand dollars of rental income at the property in 2020, and then did not list any rental income in her disclosures between 2021 and 2023, according to White Collar Fraud. In her financial disclosure for 2023, James added two more lenders for the home to her paperwork, but White Collar Fraud could not identify any evidence of either loan in the residence’s chain of title.

I smell TAX FRAUD.

43 posted on 04/17/2025 8:46:38 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: cpdiii
I smell TAX FRAUD.

Her tenants must just put cash in the house safe, I hear Blacks do that.

44 posted on 04/17/2025 8:48:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

Well they could only find the criminal types to do they they tried to do to Trump


45 posted on 04/17/2025 9:04:08 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

It looks like it may be possible that Fat Alvin (Hey! Hey! Hey) might have to bring the impeachment against President Trump. Tishy is going to be picking out the colors of the cell bars on her doors and windows.


46 posted on 04/17/2025 9:15:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Universities in this country are nothing but Houses of Prostitution for the wealthy.)
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To: Red Badger

“One neighbor told the DCNF that he believes a black woman and children inhabit the home,....which had a basketball hoop in the driveway”

That proves it then!


47 posted on 04/17/2025 9:17:07 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Red Badger

48 posted on 04/17/2025 9:18:11 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: V_TWIN
Good thing she’s a black female

Good thing she is a democRAT black female.

Just imagine the same accusations against a conservative black female. The Drive-By Media would be on her 24/7

49 posted on 04/17/2025 9:18:28 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like she’s got her female lover living at that house.


50 posted on 04/17/2025 9:49:18 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Red Badger

bkmk


51 posted on 04/17/2025 9:53:04 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: gundog

Agreed. The law was better until she came along.


52 posted on 04/17/2025 10:02:46 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Red Badger

Latrina James = General Ursus of Planet of the Apes fame.


53 posted on 04/17/2025 10:03:59 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

imagine the same accusations against a conservative White republican man.....we’d never hear the end of it.


54 posted on 04/17/2025 10:06:55 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Political Junkie Too
... Defrauding the government, and by extension the taxpayers, is taken as a much more serious crime than an alleged fraud between two private parties. If found guilty of defrauding the government, the punishmnts are more severe than a simple disgorgement of the ill-gotten gains from her several rental properties....

And that belies the charges Miss Tisch launched against President trump, aiming for massive penalties, including Time Behind Bars, far and away beyond money restitution. It was sick.

56 posted on 04/17/2025 11:57:12 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Pete Dovgan

Something may be developing; the matter has been referred to the DOJ. These things take time, so hold your horses.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-admin-alleges-letitia-james-committed-multiple-instances-of-mortgage-fraud-including-claim-she-and-her-father-signed-docs-stating-they-were-husband-and-wife/


57 posted on 04/17/2025 12:16:33 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: 1Old Pro

Fraudulent conveyance, anyone?


58 posted on 04/17/2025 12:21:26 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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