State Attorney General Letitia James was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday afternoon on charges of mortgage fraud.
According to a copy of the federal indictment , James is charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution. She has been summoned to appear in a federal courthouse in Norfolk, Virginia on Oct. 24.
“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system,” James said in a statement. “He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.”
“These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is politica