Recommend New York Attorney General Letitia James accused of possible mortgage f

[Texacon]

https://democraticunderground.com/100220243337

Tickle (3,975 posts)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:07 PM

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New York Attorney General Letitia James accused of possible mortgage fraud



Wasn't success going to be tRump's revenge?

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been referred for federal criminal prosecution for alleged mortgage fraud.

William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), wrote a letter obtained by CBS News New York to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi alleging that James "has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms."

in2herbs (3,694 posts)

1. In another article I read that Bondi, et al, is claiming fraud because title to one or more mortgages

Reply to Tickle (Original post)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:14 PM

were "joint tenancy" when James wasn't living in the house.

Joint tenancy does not require an owner to live in the house.

MichMan (14,846 posts)

10. Mortgage interest rates are usually higher if the owner isn't living on the property

Reply to in2herbs (Reply #1)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:56 PM

Misrepresenting that on the loan application would be fraudulent if that is what happened

Torchlight (4,527 posts)

3. Fishing expeditions will trawl huge nets

Reply to Tickle (Original post)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:21 PM

find a juicy, non-existent non-sequitur to run with, and pretend it's critical to the nation's well-being.

Subsequent herds of idiots will rally to formation to protect this absurdity from the consequence of reality, followed shortly by rafts of sea-lions going on with a variation of the classic "it makes us look bad" opening followed immediately with the "she should have known better" gambit.



(the tricks are as old as speech, but given really hip labels in the here and now)

Tickle (3,975 posts)

5. They had to dig far and deep

Reply to Torchlight (Reply #3)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:25 PM

to find something like this.

I wonder how long it will be before they realize this is the same thing she went after Trump for ...

FBaggins (28,077 posts)

8. And IF there's some "there" there... she should bear the consequences

Reply to Tickle (Reply #7)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:32 PM

But the point here is that there's no chance that someone just stumbled upon this 25+ years later (when the mortgages have certainly been paid off and/or refinanced multiple times). Someone went digging for dirt on her specifically.

MichMan (14,846 posts)

12. In Trump's case, seems like it made no difference whether or not they were paid off

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #8)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 03:00 PM

It wasn't relevant to findings of fraud for misrepresentation on the loan application to obtain more favorable interest rates which was what he was found guilty of. IIRC, that the loans were paid off and the banks were not part of the suit was the basis for his defense. According to the prosecutor, that had no bearing on the specifics of their case.

No one is touching that reply.

Baitball Blogger (49,772 posts)
14. Is there a statute of limitations, if true?

Uh ... does that matter?!

MichMan (14,846 posts)

17. In some of the mortgage documents, but not all

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #14)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 03:12 PM

The allegations that she misrepresented her father as her husband in both 1983 and 2000 are likely past the SOL.

The other allegations, dated from 2023 in the case of the house in Norfolk, Virginia, and from 2021 for the building in Brooklyn would still be within the statute of limitations.

Again, does that matter?!

Maeve (43,195 posts)

15. Is there a statute of limitations set for this?

Reply to Tickle (Reply #7)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 03:06 PM

Seems to be beyond a reasonable time period

They seem awfully aware of the SOL now.  I won(D)er why that is??

MichMan (14,846 posts)

18. Not for the ones from 2021 and 2023

Reply to Maeve (Reply #15)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 03:16 PM

The ones from 1983 and 2000 would be.

Not an expert, but I'm guessing the Statute of Limitations clock doesn't start until the loan is paid off, not when it was originated

Jit423 (1,196 posts)

19. Oh, so James is being accused of a Trump-like crime?

Reply to Tickle (Original post)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 03:26 PM

We all knew they were going to go after her but I believe she will survive this unless the fix is in. Trump doesn't really care but it's the ALLEGATION that is the thing. Remember him trying to get the President of Ukraine to ACCUSE Biden of something, anything?

Bondi should be disbarred for several actions she has already taken or alluded to.

KC

[Texacon]

I wonder how many felonies they can slice this into when they drag her ass into court ...

KC

[DefiantSix]

I wonder how many felonies they can slice this into when they drag her ass into court ...

KC

I'm betting the mortgage on at least 34. Maybe 35, just to show her who's in charge.

[jukin]

Fresh off being super DUper finance experts, the DUmbass DUchebags are now real estate loan and fraud experts. How do such 99th percentile people end up being such losers in life? Must be racism, male patriarchy, something cause it sure ain't these brainiac's fault. Nope. No siree.

[FlippyDoo]

Their hypocrisy is almost comical. No matter what one of their overlords have done, the standard response of the minions is usually “but that’s different” or “but that’s not the same”. I remember in the run up to the election I said something positive about Trump and one of my lunatic left “friends” chastised me for supporting a rapist. I asked him if he was talking about that case in NY where they had to change laws just to get it to trial. He said he was. Then I told him that he was supporting a rapist also. When he asked what I was talking about I told him to look up Tara Reade’s claim against SloJo. His response was “that’s different”. I just said, “yeah, it’s always different with y’all”, but for shits and giggles let’s just compare. Both happened years ago. The only evidence for both is the woman’s word. The only real difference was that one guy had a (d) behind his name while the other had a (r). I seem to despise them more each day.

Has the PCIdiot or the AirplaneProstitute piped in on this yet? They both seem to be pretend experts in most everything.

[Old n Grumpy]

Her famous last words “no one is Above the Law” so suck it up bitch

[SVPete]

Claiming on a mortgage application that a property in North Carolina would be her principal residence while holding offices in New York that required she be a resident in New York was fraud that got her a better interest rate than she would have gotten had she said it was an investment or vacation property.

Claiming on a mortgage application that her father was her husband was fraud that gave her an appearance of stability that could influence both acceptance of her application and possibly get her a lower interest rate.

There's nothing convoluted here, just simple straightforward fraud. State's Attorney for Baltimore Marilyn Mosby got sentenced for very similar mortgage fraud to a year of "home confinement", 100 hours of community service, and 3 years of "supervised release". Mosby might also be disbarred. She could - and should, IMO* - have gotten prison.

* IMO, lawyers and government officials should be held to higher standards, of conduct, and in sentencing for criminal acts. They know better and abused their social standing and/or authority.

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Don't forget Juanita Broaddrick, Flips. Progs' standards are double.

[Texacon]

$100 bucks says she pulls out the race card and says she had to do all that to get a loan because black people are held to a different standard.

KC

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

How much you wanna bet she also filed federal taxes - year after year - based on these fraudulent misrepresentations?

[SVPete]

$100 bucks says she pulls out the race card and says she had to do all that to get a loan because black people are held to a different standard.

KC

It's questions of when and how often, not if.

As for DUmmie nonsense-howling about "revenge" and "fishing expeditions" and "digging far and deep", "She shouldn't have got caught," is a particularly unpersuasive argument to me.

[Carl]

This is what you get when you elect ghetto,entitled people to be your heroes.

Her and Willis in Georgia thought they were going to be superstars of the lunatic left so would be untouchable.

[Texacon]

This woman ran and was elected on, prosectuting DJT.  She was loud and proud about it and she figured out a way to make it happen.

Now this is happening to her and the DUmmies want to cry.  I don't recall Trump telling us on the campaign trail that he was going after Letitia and even if he did, that's not really what I voted for him to do ... it's just a bonus of taking out the trash.

KC

[Karin]

There's a video of her on X.  She's spiraling out of control, going all Ghetto Jasmine, her arms and hands flailing around. 

That Virginia house is a problem.  To hold her job, she needs to be a NY resident. 

[Old n Grumpy]

There's a video of her on X.  She's spiraling out of control, going all Ghetto Jasmine, her arms and hands flailing around. 

That Virginia house is a problem.  To hold her job, she needs to be a NY resident.

Glad to hear she’s spiraling out of control. I can’t wait to see when she crash lands loses her job maybe spends a few days in the pokey. Does a perp walk. Bring her down a few notches. She’s just a privileged bitch.

[Texacon]

There's a video of her on X.  She's spiraling out of control, going all Ghetto Jasmine, her arms and hands flailing around. 

That Virginia house is a problem.  To hold her job, she needs to be a NY resident.

The videos I’ve seen of her you can tell she’s concerned. She doesn’t have much of a poker face.

KC

[67 Rover]

Well!  This did not age well.

NY AG James
@NewYorkStateAG
"When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hardworking people.

Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them.

There simply cannot be different rules for different people."
3:30 PM · Feb 16, 2024

 

[DLR Pyro]

This is what you get when you elect ghetto,entitled people to be your heroes.

Her and Willis in Georgia thought they were going to be superstars of the lunatic left so would be untouchable.

You come at the King, you best not miss.


She missed

[Old n Grumpy]

She kept running her big mouth about no one is above the law, blah blah blah blah blah but she forgot about the skeletons in her own closet and her own misconduct and indiscretions now it’s coming to haunt  her thank God for karma.

[DefiantSix]

She kept running her big mouth about no one is above the law, blah blah blah blah blah but she forgot about the skeletons in her own closet and her own misconduct and indiscretions now it’s coming to haunt  her thank God for karma.

She didn't forget about them. She thought the rest of us were just as stupid as the <70 I.Q. mouth breathers that elected her chubby ass. That we wouldn't see what she didn't want us to see, and that we'd be just as hypocritical as she is.

Apparently, she guessed wrong.

[jukin]

Well!  This did not age well.

NY AG James
@NewYorkStateAG
"When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hardworking people.

Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them.

There simply cannot be different rules for different people."
3:30 PM · Feb 16, 2024

HI5!!

Yes but she is a black "female" democrat so most likely nuffin will happen.

[Old n Grumpy]

Tickle (3,975 posts)

5. They had to dig far and deep

Reply to Torchlight (Reply #3)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 02:25 PM

to find something like this.

That’s exactly what she did, and if not mistaken, she had to bend the law and the statute of limitations to do what she did to Trump. She deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and be fired from her job

[BannedFromDU]

That’s exactly what she did, and if not mistaken, she had to bend the law and the statute of limitations to do what she did to Trump. She deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and be fired from her job

     And she needs to feel absolute and utter terror every second of every day as they uncover all the greasy shit she's done. You think this is the ONLY fraud she's done? This could get real good, real fast.