The criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James is nothing more than a "garden variety mortgage fraud prosecution," federal prosecutors told a judge in support of their case Friday. Government attorneys urged the federal judge overseeing the case to allow the prosecution to go forward, after lawyers for James called for its dismissal by arguing that the case was only brought to punish one of President Donald Trump's fiercest critics. Trump's handpicked U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan, brought the case against James just weeks after Trump called for criminal charges against his political foes, despite concerns about the case from career prosecutors in Halligan's office. "Federal courts must not allow defendants to escape a facially valid indictment supported by evidence be

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