New York Attorney General Letitia James’ reputation has taken some serious hits in recent months.
She’s been put under investigation for allegedly submitting fraudulent documents to the government to obtain better mortgage loan rates.
Those allegations include lying about her primary residence, lying about her relationship with her father on a loan application, and lying about how many living units are in one of her buildings.
This was the candidate for state office in New York who campaigned on the promise to “get” President Donald Trump and she did, in part, by obtaining a mortgage fraud judgment against him in front of a leftist judge and a leftist jury that returned a penalty of about half a billion dollars, a figure that astonished commentators.
That was even though those alleged victims in the “fraud” lost no money, were happy with their business deals with the Trump companies and, in fact, said they would like to do more business with him. The case is on appeal.
But now, for James, it’s gotten worse.
U.S. House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York, is calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to open a full federal investigation into Standard Chartered Bank, and to review James’ alleged “complicity” in what a report at the Gateway Pundit calls “a billion-dollar terrorist financing scandal.”
Stefanik’s letter cites a “sanctions evasion case” involving Standard Chartered Bank that now is pending before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which involves “at least $9.6 billion in illegal payments by the bank to Iranian and Hezbollah entities—payments that directly violate U.S. Treasury sanctions and undermine national security.”
James’ troubles were reported to have escalated just recently when she came under the investigation from the FBI.
FBI opens formal criminal probe into New York AG Letitia James over alleged mortgage fraud https://t.co/Vpcsk3tyhC pic.twitter.com/dzXhUS5aJB
— New York Post (@nypost) May 8, 2025
BREAKING: The FBI has officially opened an investigation into New York AG Letitia James.
No one is above the law. pic.twitter.com/pQXyvqgq7y
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 8, 2025
NY AG Letitia James, who pursued a $454M lawsuit against Trump for asset inflation fraud, is accused of mortgage fraud.
The FHFA alleges Tish James falsified records by listing her father as her husband on a 1983 loan, misrepresented her Brooklyn property as four units… pic.twitter.com/gfLfouG9qk
— DigiGal (@DigitalGal_) May 7, 2025
WHITE HOUSE: LETITIA JAMES IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT PUBLIC OFFICIALS EVER
“She’s guilty of countless crimes, using and abusing public office to persecute an innocent man, depriving him of his rights, engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct our election, and attempting to… https://t.co/lqHdW4vG6c pic.twitter.com/Qq95RJoTdi
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 18, 2025
It was William J. Pulte, chief of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, who sent a referral letter to Bondi alleging that James may have ““falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms.”
Now the Gateway Pundit explains the bank case, allegedly involving James, involves authorities allegedly ignoring “illicit transactions” as well as “failing to enforce sanctions already designated by the Treasury Department.”
“At least $9.6 billion of specifically identified illicit payments were made by SCB from its NYC branch to OFAC and known terrorist names. The $9.6 billion was found in internal trade reports turned over by bank whistleblowers and represents the first batch from SCB Dubai office that cleared through SCB NYC. There are estimated over $100 billion more of illegal payments that are more recent and from SCB China where it has 53 mainland branches that facilitate dollar trade payments for oil and war-making materials,” the report explained.
It states, “In early 2024, NYAG was briefed by terrorist financing experts and the whistleblowers in detail on the illicit payments yet did nothing about it other than reapprove SCB annual license. NYAG was briefed in two meetings in February and March 2024 about the $9,6 billion of illegal payments and did nothing but approve the annual renewal of SCB State banking license.”
Among other developments involving James, Bondi recently appointed DOJ official Ed Martin as special prosecutor to investigate James, along with Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff of California, who also faces accusations of mortgage deceptions.
FIRST ON FOX: Attorney General Bondi has authorized a special prosecutor, Ed Martin, to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud involving Sen. Adam Schiff and Letitia James, @pdoocy reports pic.twitter.com/EHYp8JEluR
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 8, 2025
