NEW YORK (PNN) - October 15, 2025 - Looks like New York Attorney General Letitia James might need a good defense attorney herself. The woman who spent years trying to dismantle President Trump’s businesses and reputation by fabricating charges against him through a weaponized legal system is suddenly in the hot seat for her own shady real estate deal, and it is not a good look.
According to recently unsealed evidence in the federal case against her, James could be staring down the barrel of a 60-year prison sentence; not for jaywalking or misfiling paperwork, but for falsifying documents to score a sweetheart mortgage deal on a Virginia house where she never actually lived. The same woman screaming from every podium about “no one being above the law” is now accused of doing exactly what she claimed to be fighting against: manipulating the system for personal gain.
Here is the short version of what is being alleged: back in 2020, James signed off on a mortgage deal for a home in Virginia, promising to live in the property as her primary residence. The document she signed even used that exact language; there is no room for misinterpretation there. She received nearly $19,000 in savings on her mortgage thanks to this falsification, but according to federal prosecutors, she never spent a single night in the place. Not one.
Instead, her niece, Nakia Thompson, a woman with a rap sheet that reads like a crime drama, moved in and lived there rent-free. Rent-free might not raise eyebrows if it was a legitimate family arrangement, but this is where it gets legally messy. That mortgage James signed explicitly bans renting, subletting or letting someone else take over occupancy; and if she lied then the deal is void, the loan is terminated, and fraud charges start stacking up like campaign donations at a Democrat fundraiser.
Thompson, who is allegedly dodging authorities in North Carolina for assaulting a police officer, and has a buffet of other charges in Virginia, admitted to a grand jury that she paid no rent. That is a smoking gun in the government’s case, because it proves there was no formal lease, no shared ownership, just a flat-out violation of the mortgage agreement.
However, the real kicker is James’ reaction. Instead of answering the accusations, she grabbed a megaphone at a far-Left political rally and claimed she is being “silenced” and “targeted”. Oh please. Coming from the same person who weaponized her office to wage a years-long political vendetta against President Trump, that is rich.
If this was a Republican attorney general caught in a such a mess, CNN would have live cameras parked outside the person’s house 24/7 and MSNBC would be drafting a resignation letter for the person. But since it is a Democrat and a loud anti-Trumper, suddenly it is all about “protecting democracy” and “truth to power”. Give us a break.
At the end of the day, it is not about political theater anymore. This is about whether or not Letitia James lied on a federally binding mortgage agreement, financially benefited from it, and let a fugitive family member shack up in a home she claimed as her own. That is fraud, plain and simple.
You cannot demand legal accountability for others while expecting a hall pass for yourself. If the evidence holds, James shouldn’t just lose her job - she should face the full weight of the law she claims to uphold.