(Washington) The US Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation against the New York State General Prosecutor, Letitia James, who had Donald Trump condemned in 2024 to a monster fine for financial fraud, the media reports on Thursday.
Posted at 7:32 p.m.
The opening of this survey follows a report in April from the Federal Housing Financing Agency (FHFA) in the Department of Justice, mentioning suspicion of real estate scam on the part of Letitia James, one of the targets of the verbal attacks of the republican billionaire.
This is the first criminal investigation targeting a legal official involved in proceedings against Donald Trump, according to the Washington Post.
Elected from the left wing of the Democratic Party, Letitia James was targeted by many insults from Donald Trump and his supporters throughout the investigation and the civil trial against the republican billionaire.
Civil proceedings led by his services led to the conviction in February 2024 by a Civil Court in Manhattan at 454 million dollars in fines with his sons Eric and Donald Jr., for financial fraud within their real estate empire Trump Organization.
They had been found guilty of having inflated the assets of their heritage by several billion dollars, such as the Trump Tower and the 40 Wall Street building in the 2010s, in order to be granted better bank loans.
Donald Trump, who appealed, said on several occasions that Letitia James should be prosecuted. He had described this elected African American elected as “corrupt” and “racist”.
The report on Letitia James relates to two properties in the states of Virginia and New York.
She is notably suspected of having wrongly declared her property in Virginie as her main residence in order to obtain better mortgage conditions.
In a letter to the General Prosecutor of the United States Pam Bondi in April, his lawyer had denounced a “political vendetta”.
