Abbe Lowell Archives

Six for Six: ABC’s Katherine Faulders and the Letitia James Leak Pipeline

December 21, 2025 / 8 minutes of reading

Every major development in the Letitia James case broke through one reporter. Every leak of non-public information helped the defense. Yesterday, I published “96 Minutes: The Letitia James Grand Jury Leaks Were Worse Than Reported.” I documented how two grand juries – one that chose secrecy, one that chose transparency – both had their decisions leaked to the same ABC […]

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Abbe Lowell, ABC News, Carol Leonnig, Katherine Faulders, Letitia James, MSNBCCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

96 Minutes: The Letitia James Grand Jury Leaks Were Worse Than Reported

December 20, 2025 / 10 minutes of reading

Two grand juries. Two different choices about disclosure. Neither controlled their own narrative. The leakers did. Last week, I published “The Letitia James Grand Jury Leak: 33 Minutes Early. A Federal Judge Put It in Writing.” I documented how Judge Porter cited a 4:06 PM ABC News article – authored by Katherine Faulders – that published the December 11 grand

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Abbe Lowell, ABC News, Anna Bower, Carol Leonnig, CBS News, CNN, Judge William Porter, Kaitlan Collins, Katherine Faulders, Lawfare, Letitia James, MSNBC, Scott MacFarlaneCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Letitia James Prosecution: How the New York Times Missed the Biggest DOJ Scandal in Modern History

December 15, 2025 / 23 minutes of reading

Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer wrote a ‘Trump fails’ story. The facts they reported tell a story they missed—deliberate sabotage at the highest levels of DOJ. On December 12, 2025, Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer of the New York Times published what they thought was a victory lap about the failed prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Instead,

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Abbe Lowell, Alan Feuer, Charles Schumer, Christine Bish, Christopher Sarma, Donald Trump, Ed Martin, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Yusi, Erik Siebert, Glenn Thrush, Hakeem Jeffries, Jamie Raskin, Letitia James, New York Times, Pamela Bondi, Reuters, Robert Garcia, Roger Keller, Sarah Lynch, Todd Blanche, William PulteCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Grand Juries Come and Go. The Documents Don’t. Letitia James Can’t Escape Them

December 5, 2025 / 14 minutes of reading

A second grand jury declined to indict. The DOJ says they’ll try again. Meanwhile, 42 years of public records sit waiting for someone willing to present them. I committed crime for 16 years at Crazy Eddie. I’ve spent the last 30 years tracking white-collar criminals. I know what fraud looks like. I know what it smells like. And I know

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Abbe Lowell, Ben Penn, Carol Leonnig, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Eric Trump, Josh Gerstein, Kathy Hochul, Ken Dilanian, Kyle Cheney, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, Pamela Bondi, Patrick Byrne, Robert Garcia, Roger Keller, Sarah N. Lynch, Todd BlancheCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Obstruction of Justice: How 47 DOJ Leaks and 9 Complicit Newsrooms Targeted the Letitia James Prosecution

December 1, 2025 / 58 minutes of reading

The Laundering Pipeline: DOJ Insiders → Reporters → Headlines → Defense Motions → Amicus Briefs → Congressional Letters → Federal Judge’s Ruling Prologue: The Real Misconduct Forty-seven federal crimes. Nine newsrooms. One coordinated operation to obstruct justice. They screamed “prosecutorial misconduct” until a federal judge cited it as fact. But who really obstructed justice in the Letitia James case? Not

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Abbe Lowell, ABC News, Alan Feuer, Alexander Mallin, Andrew Goudsward, Anna Bower, Carol Leonnig, CBS News, Charles Schumer, CNN, Doanld Trump, Donald Trump, Ed Martin, Elizabeth Yusi, Eric Trump, Erik Siebert, Fallon Gallagher, Garrett Haake, Glenn Thrush, Hakeem Jeffries, Hannah Rabinowitz, Jacob Rosen, Jeff Mason, Jeremy Roebuck, Joel Gilbert, Jonah E. Bromwich, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, Judge Jamar K. Walker, Kara Scannell, Katherine Faulders, Kelly O'Donnell, Ken Dilanian, Kristen Holmes, Kristin Bird, Kwame Raoul, Lawfare, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, Luc Cohen, Luke Barr, Maggie Haberman, Melissa Quinn, Molly Roberts, MSNBC, Nakia Thompson, NBC News, New York Times, Olivia Rubin, Pamela Bondi, Perry Stein, Peter Charalambous, Pierre Thomas, Rachel Siegel, Reuters, Robert Garcia, Salvador Rizzo, Sarah N. Lynch, Scott MacFarlane, Steven Portnoy, Todd Blanche, Vaughn Hillyard, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, William K. Rashbaum, William PulteCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Judge Currie Dismissed the Indictment—But Not Because the Evidence Was Weak

November 24, 2025 / 12 minutes of reading

Abbe Lowell filed 50 pages attacking “fringe bloggers” and alleging vindictive prosecution. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed on the Appointments Clause instead—and the dismissal is without prejudice. The evidence remains. DOJ can re-indict tomorrow. The Dismissal That Wasn’t a Victory On November 24, 2025, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed the federal indictment against Letitia James. The case is assigned to

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Abbe Lowell, Donald Trump, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, Judge Jamar K. Walker, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, William J. PulteCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

Congressman Robert Garcia Named Me in Congress. I Challenged Him. He Went Silent.

November 21, 2025 / 19 minutes of reading

An Open Letter in Response to Congressman Robert Garcia’s November 19, 2025 Letter to FHFA Director William Pulte Congressman Garcia, you put my name in an official letter entered into the Congressional Record. Letitia James put my name in her motion to dismiss a federal indictment. I responded yesterday morning with a direct challenge: invite me to testify publicly, under

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Abbe Lowell, Joel Gilbert, Letitia James, Robert Garcia, Sam E. Antar, William PulteCorruption, Crime

Letitia James’s Motion to Dismiss Backfires: Her Own Exhibit Proves the Fraud She Claims Doesn’t Exist

November 18, 2025 / 26 minutes of reading

Her “Outrageous Government Conduct” Motion Demands Discovery That Will Prove Systematic Fraud On November 7, 2025, Letitia James filed a motion to dismiss her federal indictment claiming “insufficient evidence,” “no probable cause,” and “absence of evidence.” Four amicus briefs followed, all repeating the same claim: career prosecutors properly reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to prosecute. One week later,

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Abbe Lowell, Donald Trump, Joe Allen, Judge Jamar K. Walker, Letitia James, Sean Soward, William J. PulteCorruption, Crime

115,000 Pages of “Insufficient Evidence”: Letitia James’s Own Court Filing Destroys the Defense Strategy

November 17, 2025 / 14 minutes of reading

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

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Abbe Lowell, Charles Schumer, Erik Siebert, Hakeem Jeffries, Joel Gilbert, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, William J. PulteCorruption, Crime

Erik Siebert Had 40 Years of Documentary Evidence. He Chose Not to Prosecute Letitia James.

November 16, 2025 / 21 minutes of reading

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

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Abbe Lowell, Charles Schumer, Erik Siebert, Hakeem Jeffries, Jamar K. Walker, Jamar Walker, Joel Gilbert, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, William J. PulteCorruption, Crime