Posted on 04/11/2025 7:03:39 AM PDT by bitt
Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, has built her career on exposing deception. But a quiet real estate transaction in Norfolk, Virginia—carried out just weeks before the Trump fraud trial she championed—now raises serious questions about her own compliance with New York law.
A declaration buried in legal filings states her intent to make a Virginia house her principal residence:
“I HEREBY DECLARE that I intend to occupy this property as my principal residence.”
Those words appear in black and white in a Specific Power of Attorney, signed by James and filed in Norfolk on August 17, 2023, authorizing her relative Shamice Thompson-Hairston to act on her behalf in a transaction that included the declaration. They were not written by a lawyer acting on James’ behalf. They were her words. Her intent. Her signature.
This signed power of attorney is a smoking gun on its own, completely separate from how the mortgage might be interpreted. It stands as a clear declaration of intent from a sitting New York Attorney General to establish principal residency in another state.
While joint ownership arrangements sometimes involve owners with different primary residences, this case is different. The declaration in the power of attorney specifically states James’s intention to make the property her principal residence, and the mortgage requires both borrowers to establish residency. This raises questions about whether such a declaration was made primarily to secure preferential mortgage terms.
Importantly, this is not an isolated incident—discrepancies in James’s mortgage filings appear to follow a longer-term pattern, raising broader questions about disclosure consistency.
If James never intended to make the Norfolk property her principal residence despite signing a document explicitly stating that intention, the declaration may constitute misrepresentation under federal fraud statutes. This would be particularly problematic for someone who has prosecuted others for similar misrepresentations in property matters.
And this declaration came at a remarkable moment. Because on October 2—less than seven weeks later—James would take to the courtroom steps in Manhattan to announce the start of her landmark civil fraud case against Donald Trump. The trial would span months and dominate headlines. James would be in New York nearly every day.
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I would be sweet justice if somehow she could be prosecuted for this.
Perhaps a bunch of us need to write some letters to Bondi and secure justice vs just wishing?
Closer to her masters.
That made me laugh.
Letitia James screaming “RACISM” in 3..2..1...
Bondi may require at least 3, maybe 4 years before her preliminary fact checking has been completed.
So, she isn’t an elected official because her residence is in Virginia?
Her persecution, er, prosecution of President Trump is null and void?
Significantly less if she secures a loyal executive team and properly delegates.
But point taken.
Laws don’t apply to Democrats, silly.
I doubt if any Federal laws are broken when one declares one’s principal residence. Does the state of NY require its Attorney General to be a resident of the state. One would think so, but NY has a reputation of electing people from out of state.
https://elections.ny.gov/requirements-hold-office
Bondi has come in at my worst expectations. We needed a pit bull and we got a window cat.
Resident of state 5 years immediately preceding election
Two words: STAR Program eligibility.
We need to see her paperwork.
She said she intended to make it her principle residence.
She did not make it her principle residence.
Mere the fact of her obvious deception should have political consequences.
I don’t think it will. Democrats who obviously lie merely burnish their resume. Remember how the Left loved Clinton, because he was an “exceptionally good liar”?
If NYS’s AG is cheating on her property taxes...
Sounds like she plans to be a slum lord in the future. Norfolk…Yuck.
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