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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This is the second case where she is facing criminal charges. The other one involved her application for a mortgage on a five-unit multi family home in NYC where she claimed it was only four units. That’s a big deal because a four-family property is eligible for a residential mortgage with very favorable terms. While anything with more than four units is considered a commercial property and can’t be financed with a conventional home loan.
In fairness, she’s fat enough to live in two states simultaneously.
-PJ
Stayin’ close to her defenders in the District of Corruption.
Certainly ironic since she sued Trump for borrowing and repaying a real estate loan to everyone’s satisfaction but hers. But who is willing or able to prosecute her?
The case against Trump was predicated on him falsifying data about his real estate ( inflating value) to get preferential loan terms…
Aint this a kicker?
was this the house she bought with her father that is on the deed and mortgage as her husband?
It is worse than that; She should be removed from office and all cases she carried out considered null and void (she was not a NY resident and not legally able to hold the office of attorney general), forcing NY state to decide if it wants to retry them.
Good analogy. Probably a Siamese. They love attention, but pretend like they don’t.
That’s all it said and it’s probably written that way on purpose.
Mortgage fraud is a federal crime.
Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, has built her career on exposing deception.That made me laugh.
Letitia James, New York’s Attorney General, has built her career onexposingdeception.
I saw this story quite a ways back. I have never heard James respond to it.
ohhhhh, good info
Who would you have preferred, what would they be doing different and how do you know this?
I have the utmost confidence in Bondi.
Just because she hasn't brought about total world peace and put an end to crime in the US in the 60 days she's held the job isn't any reason to grouse about her......Sheesh!
Ok we’ll see.
Any chance she paid state income taxes to both states? Hmmmm?
Not surprising, that's all you and the other Bondi and Patel haters have......
I'll give you credit for that, at least you admitted it...
"If This Is What It Looks Like, NY AG Letitia James Is In a World of Trouble"
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2025/04/11/if-this-is-what-it-looks-like-nyag-letitia-james-is-in-a-world-of-trouble-n4938806
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