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New York Attorney General Letitia James has been criminally indicted by a grand jury for bank fraud, kicking off another politically charged case brought by the same Virginia federal prosecutor who went after former FBI Director James Comey two weeks ago.
James was charged with one count of bank fraud and another count of making false statements to a financial institution. But the nature of the charges was a near mirror image of the case she once led against Trump.
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