At a Thursday evening rally, New York Governor Kathy Hochul says the mortgage fraud investigation against Letitia James is an attack on the system of justice.

"He is destroying our system of justice to take her down," Hochul told the attendance.

New York mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani also spoke in support of the attorney general saying "we know that Donald Trump is coming after her because she did the right thing: she held him to account."

Before leading the crowd in chants in support of James, Mamdani added "we know that in this moment, it portends danger, not just for this city or this state, but also for this country at large."

Earlier this month, James was charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution stemming from a house she bought in Norfolk, Virginia, for $137,000 in 2020.

Federal prosecutors say the mortgage James obtained for the purchase required the house to be primarily for her personal use for one year. They say James broke that rule by renting the house out to a family of three.

James and her lawyers haven’t answered questions about the home purchase, but in a video statement last week she dismissed the charges as “baseless.” She also decried the federal indictment as “nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.”

James is expected to make her initial appearance in a federal court in Virginia on Oct. 24. If convicted of the felony charges, she would automatically relinquish her office under New York law.

Still, James has been fundraising off the indictment as she looks to reelection next year.

As attorney general, James sued Trump and his administration dozens of times. She won a large judgment against Trump and his companies last year in a suit alleging he defrauded banks by overstating the value of his real estate holdings on financial statements. An appeals court overturned the fine but upheld a lower court’s finding that Trump had committed fraud.