Norfolk, Virginia – New York Attorney General, Letitia James, listed a house of Virginia at 300 miles from her office in New York City as her main residence in official public documents, the position can confirm, but the neighbors Sene saw it.
The modest house of three bedrooms and two bathrooms now houses a woman and her daughter, who moved only a few months ago, according to the people in the neighborhood.
Before that, a “husband and wife” live in the house of $ 240,000 for approximately four years, said a neighbor, who has lived near the property for 18 years and asked not to be identified.
“I’m just with [the new resident] As perhaps two or three times. It seemed really pleasant, “added the neighbor of the new residents.
“I could have a leg, maybe a little more than three months, he moved because it was just before,” said the neighbor too. “It is definitely not a year.”
The 1,450 square -foot house is at the center of a federal criminal referral for the mortgage alleging that James “counterfeit records” obtains a more favorable loan rate when she is her purchase of the residence in 2023 with her niece.
The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Williamuffa, detailed these and other accusations of James playing fast and loose with the residence requirements in a letter to the attorney general Pam Bondi and the attached attorney general Todddbe.
The reference also accused James, whose salary is $ 220,000, or repairs the number of apartments for a building in Brooklyn, saying that it has four units, when the records of the New York Department of Buildings say it has five. That is a key distinction because buildings with four or feer quality units for mortgages with better terms.
“Mrs. James was the attorney general of New York and is bound by law that has her main residence in the state of New York, despite the fact that her mortgage requests list her intention of having the property of Norfolk, she goes, as her main home”, the letter.
“The property of James is parked. Property and bad representations related to the mortgage may have continued with its recently 2023 Norfolk, it goes to buy properties for a lower interest and more favorable loan terms,” miserable.
Antote said this could be equivalent to criminal charges, which include cable fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution, among others.
On Wednesday, James’s office said he bought Norfolk’s property with his niece. “His niece lives at home as a main residence and the aging leg is clear that he does not use Virginia’s house as his main residence, because he lives in New York,” the statement said.
The statement also lashed out at the Trump administration, saying that “Donald Trump’s weapon of the federal government continues without control, and are now using selected information to attack the attorney general. Focus on protecting New Yorkers every day.”
The Attorney General in conflict dodged the questions of the reporters outside his Brooklyn house on Wednesday morning.
When asked about the case in Fox News “” America’s Newsroom “on Wednesday, Bondi said his office had just recovered the reference.” We look at it, or the course we will review it. You just told me more than I have heard so far, “he told the presenter Bill Hemmer.
Outside Norfolk’s property, a neighbor said that his grandmother had lived in the community all his life but had never seen James.
James, who infamously proclaimed “no one is above the law” by accusing President Trump to inflate the value of his properties for financial gain in 2019, he is now involved in a scandal that involves the house of Virginia, as well as his residence in Brooklyn.
James granted the power of the lawyer to Shamice Thompson-Hairson to sign a document of August 17, 2023, which authorizes the purchase of the property of Virginia, for which they obtained a mortgage of $ 219,780, chord to legal presentations.
The document was witnessed by the first general attached Jennifer Levy and a Secretary of the State of New York, and notaries.
The pulte letter also raises questions about whether James Song about the number of units in a three -story reddish stone that he owns in Brooklyn.
The occupation certificate of the New York Buildings Department says that the building has five units, but James said both in the DED and in the mortgage that only has four.
A house with five or more units can only qualify for commercial loans under federal financing standards, which means that it would probably have a better mortgage rate when representing the house, since it only contains four.
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Speaking about “José Díaz-Balart of MSNBC, she reports Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams said” it depends on the investigation bodies to make an impartial investigation, “call James” a friend for a long time and wish her the best.
When asked if he believes that the investigation is being launched for political reasons, he said that James himself should address that, pointing out that he believed that the department of justice of former President Biden was “politicized”, what Biden acknowledged and Trump.
“It is imperative that our criminal justice agencies do the right thing,” he said.
The speaker of the City Council and Democratic candidate for mayor, Adrienne Adams, was more forceful in her evaluation of motivation behind the criminal reference.
“Letitia James has spent the career facing powerful interests and fighting for everyday New Yorkers. He is now being attacked by a president who abuses the power of the federal government to persecute his enemies,” he told The Post.
The conservatives cheered that James had to “eat their own words” after the news of the investigation was broken, including former political rivals.
Michael Henry, the Republican candidate who tried to discourage James as attorney general in 2022, delivered his past statements against him in a statement to the position.
“No one is above the law. James has not denied the legitimacy of the documents. It must be investigated to the maximum extension of the law,” said Henry, who worked prior to the mortgage industry becoming a lawyer.
“There are clearly some problems here.”
In the best case, he said that “there was something badly communicated on behalf of the name on numerous occasions,” noting that even if James had a notarial power, he should have read all the documents in the properties records, especially general.
Henry said that the whole matter is “certainly ironic” since James prosecuted Trump in his commercial history.
– Additional reports from Carl Campanile and Haley Brown