"Big Tish" indicted. (Page 1/1)
Raydar OCT 09, 09:49 PM
New York state Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges of bank fraud and making false claims to a financial institution that netted her nearly $19,000 in savings on a loan for a second home, according to the Department of Justice.

The indictment was handed up in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Sept. 25 on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice

“No one is above the law. The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust,” US Attorney Lindsey Halligan said in a statement. “The facts and the law in this case are clear, and we will continue following them to ensure that justice is served.”
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If convicted on both counts, James faces up to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $2 million.

Complete article at the link.

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Doug85GT OCT 09, 10:46 PM
Let those to live by lawfare, fall to lawfare.
82-T/A [At Work] OCT 10, 08:05 AM
I could not be more happy about this. I mean that...

When I worked for the government, I moved every 2-3 years. I bought a few houses... but by the nature of how quickly I was required to make my move, I never had the opportunity to sell and buy at the same time. So... while living in one home, I had to buy another house, move into it, while my wife stayed in the other house so my daughter could finish the school year. This meant that every single place I moved, I was never able to claim "primary residence," even though the place I was moving from was also not considered a primary residence. That's because you can only homestead one home, and that's the one you're living in, so it becomes your primary residence, even if your mortgage was not considered as one.

Logically, anyone looking at this would be able to say that I should have been allowed to get "primary residence" status on the new home I was building due to my intention for either renting out the one I was leaving, or selling it after the school year. But the law doesn't have a grey area, so I went through the proper legal process, and knowingly screwed myself.

But Letita James, and apparently, dozens of other Democrats... they lied. They lied and knowingly committed mortgage fraud. Their situation wasn't like mine either. They actually have two homes that they live in, and wanted to claim BOTH as primary residence AND get the mortgage discounts on both of them. I bet if you actually check too, they're probably also homesteaded on both of them too, which would then be a state crime also. It's doubly-bad, because not only do they not even notionally deserve the primary residence mortgage discount, they are intentionally claiming it on two homes at the same time.


It really, really, infuriates me. Especially an Attorney General, who's supposed to uphold the law, and yet... here she is... "Laws for thee, not for me."
Doug85GT OCT 10, 10:41 PM
Valkrie9 OCT 11, 12:15 AM

Letitia having a happy day !
Raydar OCT 11, 09:18 AM

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You beat me to it.
Raydar OCT 11, 10:55 AM
The FAFO DOJ Comes for NY AG Letitia James - Nate Jackson

“No one is above the law,” a self-righteous Letitia James and every other Democrat on the planet declared last year as they doggedly pursued Donald Trump via lawfare with all the blind obsession of Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick.

Well, turnabout is fair play, right? Right?

Allegations first came to light in April, but yesterday, New York’s attorney general was indicted on charges of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution. And if any Democrats have a problem with that, they should acquaint themselves with 18 U.S.C. Section 1344 and 18 U.S.C. Section 1014, respectively.

James allegedly misrepresented the use of her Virginia home to save money via a lower interest rate. According to CBS News, “The indictment says James purchased the home for $137,000 and borrowed $109,600 — and by getting more favorable lending terms and a larger seller credit, she allegedly saved herself $18,933 over the life of the loan.”

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, where the charges were filed, “If convicted, Letitia James faces penalties including up to 30 years in prison per count, up to a $1 million fine on each count, and forfeiture.”

“No one is above the law,” said U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, employing the phrase that’s coming back to haunt the Lawfare Left. “The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust. The facts and the law in this case are clear, and we will continue following them to ensure that justice is served.”

A few hours before those charges came down, I wrote about Democrat hysterics over how Trump is supposedly weaponizing the Justice Department in an unprecedented way. As usual, “unprecedented” means something they’ve already been doing for years.

Democrats opened Pandora’s Box.

They impeached Trump twice over grossly exaggerated charges of supposed wrongdoing. The first time, it was for what Joe Biden actually did. The second time, it was by so thoroughly redefining the word “insurrection” as to render it farcical.

After Democrats used COVID to rig the 2020 election, they indicted Trump on criminal charges — not once, not twice, not thrice, but four times with a grand total of 88 charges. In Georgia, it was for supposedly trying to overturn the election via an ill-advised but terribly misinterpreted call with the state secretary of state. In New York, it was over how he recorded alleged hush-money payments to a former alleged mistress. (That’s the only case that led to a conviction on all 34 “felony” counts.) At the federal level, the DOJ outsourced its persecution to Special Counsel Jack Smith, who pursued two cases — one about classified documents, and the other about conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.

On top of that, Letitia James filed a civil case against Trump over real estate valuation. That case initially hit Trump with a cruel-and-unusual $454 million bond for a victimless “crime.” That bond was eventually tossed, but James is appealing.

Predictably, James lacked any self-awareness about her hypocrisy, saying in a video response to the indictment, “This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State attorney general.”

Other Democrats are lining up to parrot the same line.

For an objective look at history, let’s turn to … The New York Times:

When Letitia James ran for New York attorney general in 2018, one of her promises was to sue Donald Trump. She called him an “illegitimate president.” She suggested that he could be criminally charged with obstruction of justice.

She said that her decision to seek office was largely “about that man in the White House who can’t go a day without threatening our fundamental rights.”

So, she found the “criminal” first and the charges later. And now she complains about weaponizing law enforcement?

Charges are not a conviction. Barring a plea deal, James will still face trial, and she may be acquitted. In fact, that may be the likeliest outcome.

There’s also the not-small matter that this is arguably a small matter. James does not stand accused of defaulting on the loan, and the grand total she would have saved over the life of the loan isn’t even enough to buy the cheapest new car on the market. Is it really consequential that she got a better deal on a house?

If she is the chief law enforcement officer of New York, yes. Especially after she once lectured on social media, “When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hardworking people.” Especially after she was elected on a promise to get Trump and then prosecuted him for virtually the same supposed crime.

Still, maybe the law doesn’t make much sense. In this case and countless others, it’s not that people are necessarily doing bad things or victimizing anyone; it’s that the law is kind of dumb. My guess is also that many, many people with multiple homes do this same thing rather than pay higher interest rates for … reasons.

In James’s aforementioned prior post, she asserted, “Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them.”

In a way, maybe that’s Trump’s point. He and virtually all of his supporters are tired of the two-tiered justice system that allows powerful Democrats to get away with all sorts of things that no Republican or regular American can.
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82-T/A [At Work] OCT 11, 02:59 PM

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My guess is also that many, many people with multiple homes do this same thing rather than pay higher interest rates for … reasons.

In James’s aforementioned prior post, she asserted, “Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them.”

In a way, maybe that’s Trump’s point. He and virtually all of his supporters are tired of the two-tiered justice system that allows powerful Democrats to get away with all sorts of things that no Republican or regular American can.




Quoting this part because it's the part that pisses me off the most.

Letita James lied about her residential status. That's a clear "boolean" statement that is either true or false.

Trump (allegedly) lied about the value of one of his properties... which is NOT boolean, but a hypothetical. This means that unless it's so outrageous, that the value of a property is what someone is willing to buy it for. He didn't get a better loan, the value was to determine collateral SO he could get a loan.

It is not virtually the same thing (as the article mentions), but I disagree with the first sentence I quoted there... I don't know how many people are doing this, I would hope not many. Like the last sentence, I don't think I could even do it if I tried... but in fact, I was honest about it. Letita James was not.


It goes to show, once again (I say this constantly)... Democrats are actually doing the very things they allege that Republicans are doing. EVERY SINGLE TIME.