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Missing Heirs and Mental Illness: The Bizarre Case of Letitia James’s Father’s Estate
Gateway Pundit ^ | 5-9-25 | Joel Gilbert

Posted on 05/09/2025 7:03:27 AM PDT by dynachrome

New York Attorney General Letitia James has long portrayed herself as a crusader for justice, particularly when it comes to holding powerful figures accountable for financial misconduct.

But a closer examination of the estate of her late father, Robert James, reveals a disturbing and ironic tale of legal manipulation, family dysfunction, and possible fraud – with Letitia James herself at the center.

In 1983, three years before Robert James’s death in 1986, Letitia James was just 24 years old and living at her family’s two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with seven siblings. She had not yet entered law school.

That’s when she and her father, Robert James, applied for a mortgage loan to purchase a small home at 114-04 Inwood Street in Queens as “husband and wife.”

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This level of self-representation is rare in estate matters, especially when the filer is a licensed attorney and public official.

It also meant that Letitia, being both heir and administrator, faced no legal cross-examination about the estate’s inconsistencies.

The Robert James estate filings reveal a fractured family dynamic. Letitia James stated that two of her siblings – Alberta and Marsha James – were “missing”. The two missing sisters were listed with their whereabouts as “unknown”.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fraud; letitiajames; litigiousjames; mentalillness
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To: dynachrome
This was in NYS...there are deadlines for filing..

We're missing some information.

What you're saying about 10 years of checks is correct. I assume it was a Trust account.

21 posted on 05/09/2025 8:21:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: dynachrome

Ahhhhhh. Good point. Who was the wife as per social security?

Someone should look to see when the death was reported to Social Security


22 posted on 05/09/2025 8:39:42 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: spincaster

Most likely.


23 posted on 05/09/2025 9:13:03 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: CFW

“The sentences you quote are in different sections of the article.”

It is possible the poster rearranged the article, but what I quoted is literally the first five lines of the article as posted in FR.

I’m curious on whether how old L. James’ father was at the time of his death, and in 1999 when she filed to be the administrvtor of his estate. Was some social security fraud, voting fraud, etc. going on here? Hmm...


24 posted on 05/09/2025 10:09:42 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: dynachrome
I've never owned a home, but know people have to pay city taxes on their properties. Who was paying the mortgage if there was one, and the yearly taxes while her brother was living at the Inwood Street address after the mother died? Who was paying for the utilities, water, etc? Was he getting social services. Was he on Social Security disability? 16 years is a long time to wait to file Letters of Administration for her father's estate. Was that because she was trying to verify the whereabouts of her missing siblings? When you file for Letters of Administration, you have to list every possible living relative, even nieces and nephews when you submit them. There are a lot of unknowns here, and there may be more fraud than just mortgage fraud.

Regarding her father's tax returns for the year he died. Were they ever filed? And if so, who filed them? Perhaps her mother on a joint return? I don't know how that works when your spouse has passed...what documents you need to do that.

When my sister died, she owned, and owed nothing. She had a Will, but her lawyer told me that it wasn't worth probating it. Saved me $500. He told me to file Letters of Administration in the Surrogate Court in the county she had died, so I could complete her tax returns, and receive her refunds in my name as her estate representative. She died in September, 2011. I applied for the Letters of Administration in January 2012, and completed her tax returns once I got the Court documents necessary to include with the returns. The only thing I had to do after I received the refunds, was fill out a form for the court to account for where the refunds had gone. I had to include the receipts for the costs of my sister's funeral, hospital co-pay, etc., which added up to be more than the actual refunds themselves.

25 posted on 05/09/2025 10:30:46 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Chewbarkah

She wasn’t a licensed lawyer who represented herself until she filed the Letters of Administration on her father’s estate in 1999.


26 posted on 05/09/2025 10:32:14 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: bgill
"Get a load of the mortgage company - Kadilak. What, they can’t spell Cadillac? And they used a P.O. Box address instead of a street address. Red flags all over this thing."

Wouldn't you have to show birth certificates and a marriage license to file jointly for a home mortgage. I've never owned a house, but would assume the company would want to make sure you were who you said you were.

27 posted on 05/09/2025 10:38:13 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: thinden

I have a felling that the statute of limitations has expired on that one.


28 posted on 05/09/2025 11:00:56 AM PDT by Revel
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To: dynachrome

A sad example of justice in America 2025. Bizarre


29 posted on 05/09/2025 12:08:53 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: dynachrome

Mental illnesses and schizophrenia not an excuse for her actions it takes someone with reasonable thinking to pull the cons she pulls off.


30 posted on 05/09/2025 12:41:00 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: dynachrome

Gonna need a biologist to figure out all this.


31 posted on 05/09/2025 3:10:26 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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