New York Attorney General
Letitia James (D) was hit with two federal criminal referrals Wednesday alleging she may have committed homeowners insurance fraud. [Imagine that, a politician making money the old fashioned illegal way.]
[H/T The New York Post]
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director
William Pulte alleged in the missives, obtained by The Post, that James may have falsified information in filings with Illinois-based
Allstate Insurance Company and Florida-based
Universal Property Insurance.
The referrals were sent to US Attorney for Northern District of Illinois
Andrew Boutros and US Attorney for Southern District of Florida
Jason Reding Quinones.
They come four months after a federal judge in Virginia dismissed a criminal indictment against James accusing the Empire State’s top prosecutor of mortgage fraud.
Both of Pulte’s referrals cite insurance documents posted on social media by
Mike Davis, a close ally of President Trump and founder of the conservative judicial advocacy group
Article III Project.
The documents appear to suggest James represented to the Illinois-based insurer that a Norfolk, Virginia, property she purchased in 2020 “would be occupied by a single adult, with no children,” Pulte wrote.
“Instead, according to the post, she knew the house was actually occupied by four people, three children and her niece,” the Housing chief continued. “As such, it appears Ms. James may have defrauded the Illinois-based insurance company.”
In the Florida referral, Pulte alleged James “made false representations” to Universal Property Insurance that the same Norfolk home “would be unoccupied five months out of the year.”
“Frustrated by repeated failures, where judges and grand juries have rejected their attempts to charge Attorney General James, Trump and his political enablers keep abusing their power to pursue a vendetta against her by trying to rename, refile, and repeat baseless allegations,”
attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement.
“They continue this improper revenge campaign instead of helping bring down the rising cost of living in this country,” Lowell added. “These desperate tactics will fail, just as every previous attempt has failed, and exposes an Administration that has abandoned its responsibility to the American people in favor of petty political payback.”
US District Judge Cameron Currie dismissed the
DOJ’s mortgage fraud case against James last November after finding then interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed to her position and “had no lawful authority” to secure indictments.
Oh look at that, folks. Letitia James, the same Democrat Attorney General who has spent years turning the New York legal system into her own personal Trump hunting ground, now finds herself staring down not one, but two fresh federal criminal referrals for what sure smells like good old-fashioned homeowners insurance fraud. Shocking, yes, but karma too.
The woman who weaponized her office against political enemies suddenly gets a taste of actual accountability?
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte dropped these truth bombs, alleging that James may have falsified information in filings with Allstate Insurance out of Illinois and Universal Property Insurance down in Florida. Because apparently, when you are a powerful Democrat prosecutor, the rules on telling the truth to insurance companies just do not apply the same way they do to the rest of us peasants and President Trump.
These referrals went straight to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew Boutros, and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Reding Quinones. And get this, they dropped just four months after a federal judge in Virginia already tossed out a previous criminal indictment against James for mortgage fraud. One fraud case down, but don't worry, the hits just keep on coming.
Both referrals point back to insurance documents that Mike Davis, a solid Trump ally and founder of the Article III Project, posted on social media. Turns out those docs suggest James told the Illinois insurer that her Norfolk, Virginia property, which she bought in 2020, “would be occupied by a single adult, with no children.” Classic.
“Instead, according to the post, she knew the house was actually occupied by four people, three children and her niece,” the Housing chief continued. “As such, it appears Ms. James may have defrauded the Illinois-based insurance company.”
Meanwhile over in the Florida referral, Pulte says James “made false representations” to Universal Property Insurance, claiming the same Norfolk home “would be unoccupied five months out of the year.”
So which is it, Letitia? Single adult with no kids, or empty half the year? You can't have it both ways, unless of course you're a Democrat who thinks the law is just a suggestion for thee but not for me.
Of course, her lawyer Abbe Lowell came out swinging with the usual Democrat script, aka Trump Derangement Syndrome, (TDS).
“Frustrated by repeated failures, where judges and grand juries have rejected their attempts to charge Attorney General James, Trump and his political enablers keep abusing their power to pursue a vendetta against her by trying to rename, refile, and repeat baseless allegations.”
“They continue this improper revenge campaign instead of helping bring down the rising cost of living in this country,” Lowell added. “These desperate tactics will fail, just as every previous attempt has failed, and exposes an Administration that has abandoned its responsibility to the American people in favor of petty political payback.”
Blah, blah, blah. The same tired talking points every time one of their own gets caught in the crosshairs. It is never their fault. It is always a “vendetta,” never actual evidence of wrongdoing. Meanwhile, the rest of America is just supposed to ignore the pattern of a top law enforcement official allegedly playing fast and loose with the truth on official documents. Yeah, sure.
And lest we forget, US District Judge Cameron Currie already dismissed the DOJ’s mortgage fraud case against James last November after ruling that the interim U.S. Attorney at the time had no lawful authority to bring the charges. Procedural dismissal, not an exoneration on the merits, but you know the left will spin it as total innocence anyway.
Here is the bottom line, guys. If Letitia James has been committing insurance fraud and mortgage fraud, she should face the music just like anybody else. No special treatment for blue-state Attorneys General who spent years trying to bankrupt political opponents through the courts.
Equal justice under the law is the American way. Or at least it used to be, before the two-tiered system became the new normal under Democrats.
This is a woman who promised to go after Trump even before she went into office, and even before she had anything to charge him with, the very definition of lawfare.
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