Letitia James

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

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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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Federal Subpoena Targets NY Attorney General Letitia James’s Financial Disclosures: Evidence of Superseding Indictments

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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,

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When The Wall Street Journal Tries to Make Letitia James’ Public Records Disappear

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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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When Defense Lawyers Rewrite History: A Forensic Deconstruction of Every Factual Misrepresentation in Letitia James’s Motion to Dismiss

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WHAT 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

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Andrew Torrez & Liz Dye’s LegalEagle Analysis of Letitia James: Confused Two Mortgages in Two States”

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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

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How POLITICO’s Defense of Letitia James Accidentally Proved the Case Against Her

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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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The NY Times Created an Unsolvable Trap: How Media Defense Proved Letitia James’s Fraud

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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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The Leak Before the Briefing: An Investigation into DOJ Obstruction in the Letitia James Case

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Two DOJ employees disclosed an internal “no probable cause” finding before their supervisor could brief the U.S. Attorney—raising potential violations of DOJ policy and obstruction concerns. WHAT WE FOUND • Two DOJ employees in Norfolk, Virginia leaked their supervisor Elizabeth Yusi’s internal prosecutorial determination to MSNBC • The leak revealed Yusi’s “no probable cause” conclusion about charging New York Attorney

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The Anatomy of a Cover-Up: How MSNBC and Lawfare Whitewash Letitia James’s 20-Year Mortgage Fraud Pattern

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A Line-by-Line Forensic Examination of Media Coordination Within 24 hours, two major media outlets published articles defending New York Attorney General Letitia James against federal mortgage fraud allegations. Lawfare published yesterday a 2,000-word article by Molly Roberts claiming James was merely “helping her niece buy a starter home.” MSNBC reported today that federal prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi sees “no probable cause”

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Federal Prosecutors Have Everything They Need to Convict Letitia James – So Why Won’t Erik Siebert Act? The Evidence ABC News Won’t Report

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ABC News reported yesterday that U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert may be fired after declining to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud. According to their sources, despite a five-month investigation that found evidence, Siebert chose not to bring charges. Whether or not that reporting proves accurate, the evidence itself is overwhelming and deserves to be examined on

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