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Revealed: NY Attorney General Letitia James Declares Virginia Home Her ‘Principal Residence’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Apr. 11, 2025 | Sam Antar

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: james; letitia; letitiajames; principalresidence; virginia
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1 posted on 04/11/2025 7:03:39 AM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 04/11/2025 7:03:53 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Shamice.........................


3 posted on 04/11/2025 7:05:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: bitt

I would be sweet justice if somehow she could be prosecuted for this.


4 posted on 04/11/2025 7:06:17 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Perhaps a bunch of us need to write some letters to Bondi and secure justice vs just wishing?


5 posted on 04/11/2025 7:09:45 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: bitt

Closer to her masters.


6 posted on 04/11/2025 7:10:07 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: bitt
Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, has built her career on exposing deception.

That made me laugh.

7 posted on 04/11/2025 7:10:44 AM PDT by KevinB (I don’t really care, Margaret.)
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To: bitt

Letitia James screaming “RACISM” in 3..2..1...


8 posted on 04/11/2025 7:11:16 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: logi_cal869

Bondi may require at least 3, maybe 4 years before her preliminary fact checking has been completed.


9 posted on 04/11/2025 7:15:45 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: bitt

So, she isn’t an elected official because her residence is in Virginia?

Her persecution, er, prosecution of President Trump is null and void?


10 posted on 04/11/2025 7:18:18 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: lee martell

Significantly less if she secures a loyal executive team and properly delegates.

But point taken.


11 posted on 04/11/2025 7:19:41 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: bitt

Laws don’t apply to Democrats, silly.


12 posted on 04/11/2025 7:21:06 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: lee martell

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.


13 posted on 04/11/2025 7:42:39 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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Resident of state 5 years immediately preceding election

https://elections.ny.gov/requirements-hold-office


14 posted on 04/11/2025 7:50:48 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: lee martell

Bondi has come in at my worst expectations. We needed a pit bull and we got a window cat.


15 posted on 04/11/2025 7:54:49 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: ripnbang

Resident of state 5 years immediately preceding election


Thank you. But does the law say she has to be a resident after election? And when it comes to it, who has the power or will to remove her, “a strong black woman unafraid to prosecute Trump, his family and all his works’?


16 posted on 04/11/2025 8:01:34 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: bitt

Two words: STAR Program eligibility.

We need to see her paperwork.


17 posted on 04/11/2025 8:10:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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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”?


18 posted on 04/11/2025 8:10:23 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: mewzilla

If NYS’s AG is cheating on her property taxes...


19 posted on 04/11/2025 8:10:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: OpusatFR

Sounds like she plans to be a slum lord in the future. Norfolk…Yuck.


20 posted on 04/11/2025 8:17:32 AM PDT by cnsmom
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