President Trump’s Division of Justice Friday issued a subpoena to New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James’ workplace associated to a brand new investigation over the civil fraud case she received towards him, the identical day prosecutors stepped up a separate mortgage fraud probe towards her.
A subpoena from the performing U.S. Lawyer in Albany demanded details about James’ profitable uit towards Trump and his household actual property agency for overvaluing property to achieve favorable financing phrases. The DOJ is pursuing the matter as a civil rights violation.
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi additionally individually appointed a “special attorney” to probe unspecified mortgage fraud allegations towards James, a number of media retailers reported Friday.
Ed Martin, an ultra-conservative authorized activist and onetime interim U.S. lawyer for Washington, D.C., was tapped to research the mortgage allegations towards James, together with related claims towards Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California), one other vocal Trump critic.
The authorized broadsides towards James escalate Trump’s ongoing efforts to take revenge towards his perceived adversaries, together with these like James who had investigated him after he misplaced the 2020 election and earlier than his return to the White Home.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White Home on Aug. 1, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)
A spokesman for the state lawyer common’s workplace declined to substantiate the subpoenas however issued a press release denouncing “any weaponization of the justice system.”
“We stand strongly behind our successful litigation against the Trump Organization and we will continue to stand up for New Yorkers’ rights,” stated Geoff Burgan, the spokesman.
James’ private lawyer, Abbe D. Lowell, slammed the feds.
“(It) has to be the most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign,” Lowell stated.
Trump repeatedly railed towards James earlier than, throughout and after the trial, calling her a Trump-hating Democratic stooge, a corrupt failed candidate for governor and worse.
Jan. 6, 2024: AG Workplace: ‘Inescapable’ proof of… Fraud
New York Each day Information
Entrance web page of the New York Each day Information for Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024: AG Workplace: ‘Inescapable’ proof of… Fraud- James pushes to ban Trump from doing enterprise in New York; Ex-Prez and associates ought to need to pay again $370 million plus curiosity. State Lawyer Normal Letitia James wrapped up her case towards the Trump Group on Friday, hoping to place former President Donald Trump out of enterprise within the state.
The president is interesting the $454 million judgment James received within the lawsuit, by which a choose discovered he defrauded banks by inflating the worth of his properties, together with his golf golf equipment and penthouse in Trump Tower.
Together with the Trump civil fraud case, a second subpoena to James’ workplace sought data associated to her profitable civil swimsuit towards the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation, which centered on extravagant spending by Wayne LaPierre, the longtime head of the gun-rights group.
James requested for the dissolution of the NRA in that case, however a choose stated the proof didn’t again such an excessive punishment.
Initially Revealed: August 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM EDT
