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A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back against a criminal complaint alleging mortgage fraud, calling the allegations “preposterous” and politically motivated.
The complaint, filed by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte with the Justice Department, accuses Letitia James of submitting misleading information on property and mortgage documents.
The allegations include a loan application stating that a Virginia property was James’ primary residence, a Brooklyn building with five units instead of four, and a mortgage application mistakenly identifying James as her father’s spouse. In response, James has hired prominent attorney Abbe Lowell, who said any errors were minor and taken out of context.
Lowell argued that the FHFA director “cherry-picked” isolated issues while ignoring accurate and complete filings. He asked U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to dismiss the case, noting that James has lived in Brooklyn consistently, except during her time in school.
“The ‘criminal referral’ becomes three pages of stale, threadbare allegations… the next salvo in President Trump’s revenge tour against Attorney General James,” Lowell wrote.
he filing comes against a backdrop of long-standing tensions. Letitia James’ office previously investigated the Trump Organization, ultimately helping secure a criminal tax fraud conviction and later filing civil fraud charges against Trump and his business
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