We sure didn't see this one coming. Tish James is in legal hot water and anyone who witnessed the injustice of her anti-Trump lawfare leading up to the 2024 election is feeling a major case of schadenfreude coming on today. What is that old saying about living in fraudulently mortgaged glass houses, again?
News broke Tuesday night about Letitia (Tish to her detractors) James being targeted by the feds for mortgage fraud and all kinds of other mortgage-y problems in the purchase of several homes, one of which is in Virginia—an entirely different state from New York. She calls it her main residence.
Our colleague Paula Bolyard wrote our breaking news story Tuesday night entitled, "BOOM: Feds Refer Letitia James to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution," which means the George Soros-branded New York attorney general’s legal career might end up in the wood chipper. A girl can hope.
Paula reported that New York's top law enforcement officer appears to be in serious trouble for lying like a rug on mortgage papers:
"In a FannieMae/Freddie Mac Form 3047 and in mortgage documents, she reaffirmed [the Norfok, Va., home] would be her primary residence, despite being a statewide public office holder in the state of New York at that same time and primarily residing in the state of New York," the referral letter explains.
Here's why that's a problem: The state of New York requires the attorney general to live in the state. She allegedly lied on the application forms, claiming the Norfolk home would be her primary residence. In addition, Pulte alleged, James may have listed a property in Brooklyn, N.Y., as "four units instead of five units in order to meet the conforming loan requirements, and thus receive better interest rates."
Gosh, it's almost as if she "engaged in this massive amount of fraud."
As you may have guessed, these were words she used in her bespoke case against Trump when she alleged that he engaged in fraud. At the time she said, "It wasn't just a simple mistake, a slight oversight, the variations are wildly exaggerated, and the fraud was persistent and long-running.”
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Persistent and long-running. Tish has been doing this house collecting for years. Ooh, that can't be good, Tish.
But the most eye-popping part of Tish's travails is that her dad is allegedly identified as her spouse on mortgage papers in order to get a mortgage on her first property in New York.
I could swear I heard Tish's state of New York swear that Donald Trump "engaged in numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” to "inflate the value of assets and obtain favorable loans and insurance terms," when her people said Trump's billion dollar Mar-a-Lago estate was worth only $18 million. Well, at least he didn't say that he was married to his father to get a better rate, so Trump's got that going for him.
Ingraham Angle EXCLUSIVE:
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 16, 2025
Bombshell criminal referral on NY AG & Trump prosecutor Letitia James from Federal Housing Authority. Document contains serious claims of mortgage fraud and includes several pages of documentary evidence. pic.twitter.com/w8bFH6G3u6
George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley told Laura Ingraham on Fox News Tuesday that it's a day of ironies.
This is a person who prosecuted Trump for everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, and among the charges that were brought in New York, in just the civil but the criminal case, was making false or misleading statements to financial institutions. As for James, if we apply the Letitia James standard that she created, there’d be little question here. This seems pretty straightforward.
Turley said that James's alleged lies on her bunch of mortgage documents fit well with a new standard argued before the Supreme Court just stated earlier in March in a case called Thompson. "These are misleading statements," he told Ingraham. "Either they say this is your principal residence or they're not. Either you're married to your father or he's your father." Ew.
There are many ironies in this story, but one of the best, second only to the tables being completely turned on this unethical wench, is the fact that the referral letter was sent to Pam Bondi, the AG, and Todd Blanche, the deputy AG. Blanche was Trump's defense attorney at both of his New York trials and knows exactly how Tish misused the law to go on her personal and promised vendetta to Get Trump.
Hey, Todd: Get Tish.
Unlike Tish, however, you'll have to do it within legal and ethical lines.
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So let's raise our cup of irony and toast old Battle Ax Tish:
To Tish who taught us that the law is not just a sword, but sometimes a boomerang.
It sure sucks to be you.
