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Senate GOP Could Bring Down Adam Schiff and Letitia James with the LETITIA Act
PJ Media ^ | 08/04/2025 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 08/04/2025 8:43:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

It looks like Senate Republicans aren’t just talking tough on corruption—they’re laying the groundwork for real accountability, and Democrats like Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James may finally have reason to worry.

Sen. John Cornyn has introduced the Law Enforcement Tools to Interdict Troubling Investments in Abodes—or the LETITIA Act, pointedly named after the New York AG herself. But this isn’t just a symbolic jab. The bill represents a serious move to expand criminal liability and, more importantly, stiffen penalties for public officials who abuse their positions for personal gain—specifically through shady dealings like mortgage or tax fraud.

There’s no mistaking the intent behind this legislation. Letitia James is famous for her partisan pursuit of President Trump, yet she herself now entangled in a federal investigation over mortgage fraud. But the real intrigue emerges with the bill’s potential impact on Adam Schiff—the very same Schiff who for years cloaked himself in the language of integrity while leading partisan witch hunts against Trump and his allies. The tables may be turning.

Details in the public record are damning. Housing authority Bill Pulte has accused Schiff of falsifying bank documents and misrepresenting primary residences across multiple states to secure more favorable mortgage terms. These aren’t garden-variety clerical mistakes—they’re deliberate moves that, under Cornyn’s proposal, would be subject to mandatory prison terms. If signed into law, the LETITIA Act would slap public officials convicted of bank fraud, loan or mortgage fraud, or tax fraud with minimum sentences—one year for bank or loan fraud, six months for tax fraud—ratcheting up to five years for repeated patterns of abuse. No more tepid reprimands or backroom wrist-slaps for insiders who get caught.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; letitiajames; senate
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1 posted on 08/04/2025 8:43:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

If Cornyn thinks this is going to save his skin in Texas he is quite mistaken.


2 posted on 08/04/2025 8:46:20 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lets hope the GOP doesn’t write it as a bill of attainder like the left tried.
100% unconstitutional


3 posted on 08/04/2025 8:49:51 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: SeekAndFind

Fraud is already against the law. More excuses for not prosecuting these scumbags.


4 posted on 08/04/2025 9:03:57 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Carry_Okie
You are correct.

While Cornyn is pretending to be a Republican just in time for re-election season, Paxton is about to get more face time in the State chasing down and prosecuting runaway democrats derelict in their duties as representatives in the State House.

Ken Paxton remembers that ‘All Politics Are Local’ and he’s about to flood the airwaves over this redistricting plan. Cornyn apparently has forgotten this most valuable of political realities in his bid for an attention grabbing reason that we should want him to stay in DC.

Well, his dog won’t hunt this time and Leticia James is not from Texas.

5 posted on 08/04/2025 9:05:49 PM PDT by thingumbob (INTUITION - is your brain trying to tell you what your mind hasn’t pieced together yet.)
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To: SeekAndFind

EX POST FACTO.....


6 posted on 08/04/2025 9:17:51 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: SeekAndFind

They have already broken existing laws. A new one isn’t needed.


7 posted on 08/04/2025 9:19:29 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind

A great idea if it could happen.


8 posted on 08/04/2025 9:32:52 PM PDT by gildafarrell (e)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well what is the hold up? Or this GOP fluff?


9 posted on 08/04/2025 9:35:31 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: dpetty121263

The cutesy acronyms for laws show the frivolousness of our legislators


10 posted on 08/04/2025 10:48:01 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"The bill represents a serious move to expand criminal liability and, more importantly, stiffen penalties for public officials who abuse their positions for personal gain—specifically through shady dealings like mortgage or tax fraud."

BOOM! WE CAUGHT THEM ALL!! TRUST THE PLAN!

Not a single mid to high level "public official" will face any charges nor will any be prosecuted for this type of behavior. Whether Left or Right, most of our "public officials" abuse their positions for personal gain of one sort or another. It's just how parasites, sociopaths and psychopaths roll. This "legislation" is yet another attempt to gaslight the public into thinking that justice is coming for these pricks. At least in this world, it isn't.

Hey Lucy, grab your football! The rubes are ready to play again!

11 posted on 08/05/2025 12:26:03 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: j.havenfarm

Agreed. These parasites think they’re real cute.


12 posted on 08/05/2025 12:26:49 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!

I PRAY FOR YOUR SUCCESS, JOHN!

13 posted on 08/05/2025 1:56:29 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Can we please stop with the acronyms for all these laws?


14 posted on 08/05/2025 2:59:15 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow Surrender Monkeys you’d better start screeching! This could be a serious blow to your mission to dampen Republican enthusiasm.


15 posted on 08/05/2025 3:17:21 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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Sen. John Cornyn has introduced the “Law Enforcement Tools
to Interdict Troubling Investments in Abodes” (the LETITIA Act),
<><>to expand criminal liability
<><>and, more importantly, stiffen penalties
<><>aimed at public officials who abuse their positions for personal gain
<><>specifically through shady dealings like mortgage or tax fraud.


16 posted on 08/05/2025 3:57:15 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: SeekAndFind

Whatever it takes to end our misery...after all, Capone (a vicious killer) could only be taken down with tax law.


17 posted on 08/05/2025 5:30:24 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: SeekAndFind

NYS has something called the STAR Program which provides relief for school tax.

I wonder how many NYS pols and bureaucrats are cheating on their applications...


18 posted on 08/05/2025 5:36:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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And not just NYS pols and bureaucrats now that I think about it...


19 posted on 08/05/2025 5:37:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: SeekAndFind

LETITIA=CC…Cornyn Cosplay


20 posted on 08/05/2025 5:39:29 AM PDT by Jumpmaster (U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
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