Updated October 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM MDT

A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statement to a financial institution — charges that come after steady pressure from President Trump to prosecute one of his longtime political foes.

James, a Democrat who pledged to investigate Trump during her campaign, eventually sued Trump and his company for inflating the value of some of its properties, winning more than $450 million in the civil business fraud case.

At one of his own campaign rallies last year, Trump called for both James and the judge in that case to "be arrested and punished accordingly."

Thursday's indictment accuses James of lying on her application for a $109,000 mortgage to buy

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