By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James was charged Thursday as part of a mortgage fraud investigation aggressively pushed by the Trump administration, becoming the latest foe of the president to be prosecuted by his Justice Department, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

James, who infuriated President Donald Trump by suing him and his company for fraud in a case that played out as he was running for office, was indicted on a single count of bank fraud following a presentation to a grand jury in Virginia by a prosecutor who was hastily appointed last month amid Trump administration pressure to deliver criminal cases against his adversaries, the person said. The person s

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