Posted on 08/30/2026 3:39:28 PM PDT by Libloather
A veteran prosecutor in state Attorney General Letitia James’ office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups “affiliated with Donald Trump,” according to a bombshell report.
Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who now works in James’ Investor Protection Bureau, said his boss instructed him “to find and pursue crimes” committed by Trump allies, according to a since-deleted email obtained by the Times-Union.
Wiesenfeld alleged in his email that Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe specifically directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)… without having a credible reason for targeting the organizations and individuals,” the outlet reported.
The feds recently approved a $14 billion merger between Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks.
“If you believe Trump is using the [Department of Justice] attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing,” Wiesenfeld allegedly wrote in the message, which went to some 2,000 staffers before being yanked.
“I ask you that you not serve as Tish’s personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies,” he allegedly wrote. “Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable, rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes.”
Weisenfeld asked that colleagues focus on prosecuting “rampant nonprofit homeless shelter fraud and antisemitic crimes in and around synagogues,” and accused James of wasting “significant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies,” Times-Union reported.
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it should be illegal to first pick the target and then attempt to find a crime.
RE: It is fundamentally unconstitutional for a prosecutor to target and charge individuals without evidence of a crime. Under the U.S. Constitution, several safeguards strictly prohibit the government from bringing arbitrary or baseless criminal charges against a citizen.
From Daily Wire:
New York Attorney General Letitia James staked her entire career on taking down President Donald Trump through highly controversial and unprecedented legal warfare — but now everything is falling apart.
James, who expressly campaigned on “leading the resistance” to “take on” the president, took another blow on Thursday, when an appeals court panel struck down the absurd penalty handed to Trump in a James-backed civil fraud case.
...Indeed, James ran on trying to destroy Trump, a venture she’s so far failed.
While running for AG in 2017, James asked New Yorkers to vote for her since she would go after Trump. “I’ve been leading the resistance against Donald Trump in NYC and will only continue to do so in every way possible,” she posted.
ABC News in 2025:
“I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president,” James said in a video after winning the Democratic primary that year.
Ibn Khaldun knew
https://economiccollapse.report/ibn-khaldun-warned-new-york-about-mamdani-grocery-stores-in-1377/
Currently she’s fighting the NYS Supreme Court that ruled it is illegal to force housing providers to take subsidized renters (Section 8 et al). We MYS Landlords are in mortal fear if we do not want to take the bureaucratic nightmare of housing subsidies and the sub par tenants that are on it.
Alina Habba
@AlinaHabba
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I stood on those courthouse steps every day and told you exactly what Letitia James was doing.
She didn’t find a crime and follow the evidence. She picked President Trump and went shopping for one.
They called me a liar.
Now the truth is coming from inside her own office.
I told you so, Tish.
The witch hunt just found its whistleblower.
Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe
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Where is this slimy criminal from? Is she even a US citizen?
She “says” she’s a citizen.....descended from Zimbabwe....
but who knows.....these types lie like Hades.
“these types lie like Hades.”
Just curious - why hades instead of hell.
“man i hope more ANd more whistleblowers come out exposing the corruption of their bosses.”
And some of the “bosses” could be republicans (likely in name only).
Thanks Liz. Citizens of the Republic are aware of our Laws in general, but it’s sometimes useful to be taught details of the Law we are not familiar with. So I his a valuable service you are shedding on the dark schemes of America’s enemies.
Thx.....have at it full force, p/p.
wordplay
Letitia James belongs to the Democratic Party
Who knew
Update: Investor Protection Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe is reportedly facing scrutiny from federal investigators following whistleblower accusations that she directed staff to target individuals and organizations without a credible legal basis.
The controversy emerged in late August 2026 after an Assistant Attorney General within New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office, Daniel Wiesenfeld, sent an office-wide email to over 2,000 colleagues. Wiesenfeld alleged that Shamiso Maswoswe specifically instructed him to find and pursue crimes against high-profile political targets—including Donald Trump, Truth Social, and Hewlett-Packard—despite lacking a credible baseline reason to investigate them.
In his leaked message, Wiesenfeld criticized the practice, stating that prosecutors should not “target individuals and then find crimes”.
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