The Federal Bureau of Prisons had better start fashioning an XXL women’s jumpsuit very soon. The ballooning real estate scandal involving New York Attorney General Letitia “Big Tish” James just got a whole lot worse.
Last week, James was referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution over real estate fraud. This we already knew. The Daily Caller News Foundation has discovered that James actually owns two homes in Virginia, both of which are listed as her “primary residence” on mortgage documents. A reporter stopped by and Letitia was not at home.
James was referred for criminal prosecution based on potential fraud on a property she owned in New York, as well as a single-family home in Norfolk, VA. She listed the Virginia home as her primary residence to secure a better interest rate on the mortgage, despite living in New York.
She took the news of the criminal referral very well, as you can see:
BREAKING: ? Letitia James melts down on stage after criminal referral for mortgage fraud.pic.twitter.com/8V50xyOorM https://t.co/fOXzeqR4Qf
— E X X ?A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) April 16, 2025
Yikes! No wonder she’s never been married. Can you imagine her chasing you around the house with a frying pan and bellowing like that?
Anyway, the Daily Caller News Foundation engaged in some good journalism and started checking the property records in Norfolk. Letitia James didn’t just buy the one house that she listed as her primary residence. She bought two. And she listed both of them as her “primary residence” to get better interest rates on the loans.
That’s a clear case of fraud. You can’t chalk it up as a simple paperwork error when you do it multiple times on different properties.
This problem is even worse for Letitia “No One Is Above The Law” James, however. You can’t hold an elected office in New York and claim residence in another state. The state laws are very clear about that. If either one of those homes was in fact Letitia James’s primary residence, it would mean that she had vacated the office of New York Attorney General before she started her prosecution of Donald Trump. If the Virginia homes were not her primary residence, then she lied and committed fraud on mortgage documents.
You can’t have two primary residences, so logic tells us that Big Tish committed fraud on at least one of the documents. But it was fraud on both homes. Allegedly!
A Daily Caller reporter paid a visit to both homes in Norfolk to see whether they could get a comment from the owner, Letitia James. It turns out that she wasn’t home at either one of her alleged primary residences.
There were, however, renters living in both of the homes. They both yelled the same thing at the reporter:
“No trespassin’!”
It was almost as if they had been coached by their landlord to say that.
You can see both exchanges here:
The Daily Caller visited two Virginia properties tied to fraud claims against NY AG Letitia James.
Shocker. She doesn’t live at either one.
Yet they’re listed as her residence.
She’s cooked.
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 17, 2025
Kyle Welch is a professor at the George Washington University School of Business. He specializes in financial fraud. Welch says that Letitia James’s actions on these mortgage documents could “carry jail time” and would almost certainly result in her disbarment.
If James does end up facing criminal charges for this, she will claim that it’s a “racist” attack from Donald Trump and that these were simple paperwork errors. The paperwork excuse doesn’t fly when you’re a lawyer, however.
And Letitia James is not just some garden-variety lawyer. She’s the Attorney General of our largest state, and the highest law enforcement officer in that state. No judge is going to believe her when she tries to claim it was a mistake to claim two out-of-state homes as her “primary residence” at the same time. Not to mention the time in the 1980s when she claimed that her father was actually her husband to secure her first mortgage.
This will be a big test for Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has been a massive disappointment so far. This is a big prosecution that’s basically been handed to her on a silver platter. Reporters have done all the legwork and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) made the criminal referral.
If Pam Bondi won’t grab that low-hanging fruit, her time as US Attorney General will be as worthless as Bill Barr’s. We want to see Letitia James get the “Roger Stone treatment” right now. Or will Pam Bondi give James a pass because she has a (D) next to her name, which is what always seems to happen in these cases?
We’ll be watching.
