New York Attorney General Tish James pleaded not guilty in a fraud case brought by one of President Trump’s handpicked Justice Department officials at a hearing in Virginia on Friday.

James entered a plea of not guilty to counts of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution before Federal Judge Jamar Walker in the federal court in Norfolk, Va., a spokesman for her office confirmed to the Daily News.

She was expected to address the media shortly after the proceedings. Walker, a Biden appointee, set a tentative trial date for Jan. 26.

The charges against James allege she rented a Norfolk property she purchased in 2020 to a family after claiming in mortgage papers she’d use it as a secondary residence. The case alleges the AG could have netted $18,933 in ill-gott

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