Letitia James Claimed “Insufficient Evidence.” Then Her Lawyers Revealed 115,000 Pages of It. In the span of nine days, Letitia James filed her motion to dismiss and four amicus briefs were filed in support, all making the same central claim: experienced career prosecutors reviewed the evidence against New York’s Attorney General and found it insufficient to prosecute. James’s own motion […]
Four amicus briefs filed in the past week all make the same claim: Career prosecutors found insufficient evidence, and Erik Siebert declined to prosecute Letitia James for mortgage fraud. That claim is provably false. Between February and June 2025, I published independent forensic investigations documenting 40 years of systematic financial fraud in verifiable public records: phantom mortgages that don’t exist
Yesterday, federal prosecutors subpoenaed the New York State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government seeking Letitia James’s financial disclosure statements for the last five years, due December 5—the same financial disclosures documented in our February 8 and February 13 investigations showing phantom (unrecorded) mortgages totaling up to $400,000 while hiding real debt of $109,600 on the Peronne Avenue property,
A forensic accountant’s guide to media misdirection The Clever Little Trick The Wall Street Journal’s Gina Heeb, Brian Schwartz, and C. Ryan Barber just ran 800 words about “improper access” at Fannie Mae without mentioning the New York State Financial Disclosure Statements that started this investigation. Not once. Those statements—showing phantom mortgages and mathematical impossibilities—are posted on a public website.
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Corruption, Crime, Media PlaybookWHAT LOWELL’S MOTION REVEALS His 50-page motion to dismiss the federal indictment against Letitia James, filed last Friday, makes a sophisticated legal argument about vindictive prosecution. But buried in the legal analysis are factual misrepresentations about the evidence. Here’s what’s at stake for Jamar K. Walker: If powerful officials can cry “vindictive prosecution” and escape accountability whenever a political opponent
How 330,000 Views Bought a Defense That Confused Two States, Missed the Indictment’s Most Damaging Evidence, and Accidentally Proved the Crime Attorney Andrew Torrez and legal commentator Liz Dye published a Substack article and created a 21-minute video on LegalEagle’s channel defending Letitia James from federal fraud charges. 330,000 people watched them argue the case is weak, politically motivated, and
The One Year POLITICO Forgot to Check Three words in Letitia James’s mortgage contract could doom the fraud case against her, according to POLITICO. Three legal experts agreed: the phrase “including short-term rentals” meant James was permitted to rent the Norfolk property to her grandniece Thompson. The indictment is doomed. There was just one problem. Nobody checked what happened during
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Corruption, Crime, Media PlaybookThe Investigation When six organizations receiving $40.9 million from George Soros networks all endorse the same candidate for NYC mayor—Zohran Mamdani—all deploy thousands of volunteers in ground operations presented as independent grassroots mobilization, all conceal their coordination on federal tax forms while admitting it publicly, it proves systematic coordination designed to manipulate an election while hiding the truth from voters.
When You Can’t Refute the Evidence, Attack the Messenger: Lawfare’s Failed Defense of Letitia James THE TELL: WHEN LEGAL EXPERTS RESORT TO CHARACTER ASSASSINATION One day after New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on federal bank fraud charges, Lawfare—a publication that bills itself as providing rigorous legal analysis—published their take on the case. They called it “dangerously weak.”
A Real-Time Investigation as the Media Defense Creates an Unsolvable Trap HOW IT STARTED: THE MATHEMATICAL IMPOSSIBILITY In February 2025, I was reading New York Attorney General Letitia James’s financial disclosure forms—the kind of work forensic accountants do that most people find incredibly boring. That’s when I found it. 3121 Peronne Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia James listed this property with a
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