New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday pleaded not guilty to two charges of felony bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.

Prosecutors claimed that, in order to obtain more favorable loan conditions, James misled a bank about the intended use of a residence she purchased. The indictment against the New York attorney general states that she said a home in Norfolk, Virginia, which she bought in 2020, would be her secondary residence, but that she instead rented it out to family.

“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system,” James said in a statement after she was indicted.

“These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political re

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