The U.S. Department of Justice failed to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday after a judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump, people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.

Prosecutors went back to a grand jury in Virginia after a judge’s ruling halting the prosecution of James and former FBI Director James Comey, on the grounds that the U.S. attorney who presented the cases was illegally appointed. But grand jurors rejected prosecutors’ request to bring charges, the AP reported.

James was initially charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020. Lindsey Halligan, a former W

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