Posted on 11/01/2025 3:04:54 AM PDT by Libloather
The judge overseeing Letitia James’ mortgage fraud case on Friday denied a motion from the New York attorney general attempting to force federal prosecutors to keep a log of all their communications with the media.
Defense attorney Abbe Lowell filed the motion last week, when James was arraigned on bank fraud and false statements charges, in response to a report that US Attorney Lindsey Halligan sent a flurry of encrypted Signal messages about the case to a reporter.
“[T]he defendant does not demonstrate that it is necessary for the Court to order the government to track communications with the media in any particular form,” US District Judge Jamar Walker wrote in his six-page order.
“The defendant’s request that the government be required to keep a communication log is DENIED,” the Biden-appointed judge ruled.
Walker noted that Halligan’s Signal chat with Lawfare senior editor Anna Bower earlier this month was “unusual” but he declined to offer an opinion “on whether they were improper in any sense, either legal or ethical.”
The judge ordered federal prosecutors to comply with all court rules, but didn’t suggest any had been broken.
He also ordered a “litigation hold preventing the deletion or destruction of any records or communications having to do with the investigation or prosecution of this case.”
Halligan’s Signal messages to the Bower were set to disappear after eight hours.
The judge, however, did not rule on whether Halligan’s message — which cast doubt on a New York Times report disclosing that James’ grandniece testified to a grand jury that she never paid rent on the Norfolk, Va., property at the center of the case — amounted to material subject to discovery rules.
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pretty bad when a poofter Biden stooge cain’t protect Fatitia the ghettopotamus...
Small potatoes.
The judge should have told her. “Sure - when you provide every last word you spoke with the press, Boasberg, and others when you tried to railroad Trump”...
“No one is above the law!”
“Small” isn’t a word often heard in reference to Ms. James.
“Fat slob political oaf” is.
Yes unless it’s about her brain.
Time to knock off the judicial hand jive. Put her thieving keister in prison.
ABBE LOWELL NEEDS TO GO TOES UP....
Judge is obviously a racist./s
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