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Lawfare Just Admitted the Leaks Worked in the Letitia James Case

December 19, 2025 / 11 minutes of reading

Molly Roberts says grand jurors were “reading the news.” She’s right. That news was built by 53 federal crimes – and a federal judge just documented the latest one with timestamps. On Friday, Lawfare published Molly Roberts’s analysis of the failed Letitia James indictments. Buried in her conclusion was an admission she didn’t realize she was making: “Grand jurors have […]

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Abee Lowell, Andrew McCarthy, Judge William Porter, Lawfare, Letitia James, Lindsey Halligan, Molly Roberts, National Review, Roger KellerCorruption, 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

When Legal Experts Get the Law Wrong: A Forensic Deconstruction of Lawfare’s Defense of Letitia James

October 13, 2025 / 14 minutes of reading

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.”

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Lawfare, Letitia James, Molly RobertsCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook

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

October 6, 2025 / 24 minutes of reading

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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Carol Leonnig, Donald Trump, Ken Dilanian, Lawfare, Letitia James, Molly Roberts, MSNBC, William J. PulteCorruption, Crime, Media Playbook