According to a tranche of exhibits revealed Thursday night by Lindsey Halligan, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, James knowingly lied on numerous documents and applications in an effort to game the system for a second home purchased in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020.
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“Lindsey Halligan’s prosecution of Letitia James is a righteous, garden-variety mortgage fraud prosecution,” Davis wrote on social media. “As her filing shows, prosecutions are routinely brought in the Eastern District of Virginia for fraud over similar amounts of cash.”
“No one’s above the law, Tish,” he added, referencing James’ persistent claims that politicians at all levels should be prosecuted for committing crimes. Ironically, she tried and failed to falsely tag President Donald Trump with charges similar to her own in a nationwide get-Trump lawfare scheme run by Democrats during the Biden administration.
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One document revealed Thursday shows that in an Affidavit of Occupancy (in which the information given is sworn to be true under oath), James stated the Virginia home would be bought as a “second home,” meaning it could be kept as a vacation home or something similar while maintaining a second property somewhere else.
According to the court filings, however, James never lived in the home, which, judging from the filings, was on Peronne Ave. Her niece did.
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“Furthermore, in October 2020, the relative attempted to use the Peronne address to register to vote,” the filings continue.
This information puts a massive hole in the next thing James allegedly lied about — her homeowner’s insurance application with Universal Property. On that application she claimed that the Virginia home was not occupied for five months out of the year.
It was apparently occupied by her niece year-round, and James was collecting rent from her, according to the court filings. Another insurance document shows James claimed that the only occupant was a single adult, herself.
While James never lived there, her niece did, but not alone. Her niece lived there with three children, none of whom were claimed in the insurance document. There does not seem to be any way these claims were mistakes, as she must have known the reality when she filled out the forms.
In the insurance document in which she neglected to claim the children and falsely claimed that she lived at the property, James said she moved in October 2020. However, the utilities for the property were registered under James’ niece’s name in September 2020, according to the court filings. Filings also state that James claimed that the home was an investment property when filing her taxes, despite “having claimed it as a secondary home on her mortgage application,” as Davis described.
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She claimed it was an investment property “at least twice,” “taking the investment property deductions for several years,” according to the court documents, “but never took steps to amend the material falsehoods on her mortgage documents.”
James has pleaded not guilty.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/21/documents-letitia-james-lied-to-bank-insurer-in-alleged-mortgage-fraud-scheme/?utm_source=rss
