Missing Heirs and Mental Illness: The Bizarre Case of Letitia James’s Father’s Estate

Gateway Pundit ^ | 5-9-25 | Joel Gilbert

[Sacajaweau]

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.

[RummyChick]

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

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

[No name given]

Most likely.

[Chewbarkah]

“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...

[mass55th]

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.

[mass55th]

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

[mass55th]

"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.

[Revel]

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

[PGalt]

A sad example of justice in America 2025. Bizarre

[Vaduz]

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

[Libloather]

Gonna need a biologist to figure out all this.