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ARTICLE VIEW:
DOJ struggles to build mortgage fraud case against Trump adversary
Letitia James, sources tell CNN
By Kristen Holmes, Hannah Rabinowitz, Kara Scannell, CNN
Updated:
4:13 PM EDT, Wed September 17, 2025
Source: CNN
Justice Department prosecutors in Virginia believe they have not
gathered enough evidence to indict Letitia James, the New York Attorney
General and long term adversary of President Donald Trump, for mortgage
fraud, according to a source familiar with the matter and another
person briefed on the matter.
The five-month investigation has featured interviews with dozens of
witnesses, the source said, cautioning that the investigation is still
ongoing.
The US Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia
declined to comment.
Trump has urged DOJ officials to investigate James aggressively. The
president has privately and angrily complained about James even months
into taking office, multiple sources familiar with the conversations
told CNN.
first reported this story.
If James were to be indicted, it would mark a major escalation by the
Justice Department in its to bring cases against those who investigated
Trump between his two terms as president. James won a civil case last
year against the Trump Organization and the president himself over
allegations of faulty business practices. A New York appeals court
panel upheld the finding that Trump is liable for fraud but the nearly
half-billion dollar penalty finding it excessive. The decision is being
appealed
Since May, prosecutors have whether James knowingly made false
statements on a loan application by indicating a property in Virginia
is her primary residence.
But other document collected in the case provided by James’ attorneys
to the Justice Department and reviewed by CNN show James repeatedly
stating the opposite. In one email to a mortgage broker, James wrote
that “this property WILL NOT be my primary residence.” And on other
forms that asked whether the home would be her primary residence, James
checked off “NO.”
Nonetheless, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has
faced pressure to indict James from Ed Martin, the head of the Justice
Department’s Weaponization Working Group, and Bill Pulte, the
director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, two sources tell CNN.
Martin and Pulte have also accused Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud (both have denied
those allegations).
Martin did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
In a statement to CNN, James’ attorney Abbe Lowell slammed the
administration’s “revenge tour,” saying that “it’s no
surprise they are having trouble finding an objective and law-abiding
prosecutor who would ignore the facts and the evidence to manufacture
sham charges.”
A grand jury investigation into accusations against James has also
convened in Albany, New York, CNN previously reported. That probe is
said to be looking into which means violating someone’s
constitutional rights, against Trump.
Martin also overseeing an investigation involving a property James owns
in New York. He personally visited the property last month and outside
of it.
Martin told Fox News he needed to “lay eyes” on it.
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