🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION: Did Letitia James Improperly Use Her State Press Office to Defend Her Personal Mortgage Case?
— Sam E. Antar (@SamAntar) May 22, 2026
Letitia James got referred to the DOJ for mortgage fraud.
Then New York's Attorney General used her own taxpayer-funded press office to fight it — running a… pic.twitter.com/xIj3rDxN43
NEW INVESTIGATION: Did Letitia James Improperly Use Her State Press Office to Defend Her Personal Mortgage Case?
Letitia James got referred to the DOJ for mortgage fraud.
Then New York's Attorney General used her own taxpayer-funded press office to fight it — running a private legal defense and a misinformation campaign on the public dime.
I have the receipts. 106 pages, from her own office.
This isn't a story about mortgages. It's a story about how a government office uses public resources to defend its boss's personal legal problem — and pushes out misleading information to do it.
And it isn't one house. The federal referral spans a pattern across her real estate: a Virginia property she swore was her "principal residence" while serving as New York's AG; a Brooklyn building she's called four units for two decades despite a city certificate of occupancy — issued after inspection — listing five; and a Queens property tied to filings that listed her and her late father as "husband and wife."
When the questions came, her office didn't send them to her personal lawyer.
It answered them itself.
Here's the machine, documented in her office's own emails:
The Associated Press literally offered to route the inquiry to her personal counsel — "if Ms. James is routing questions to outside counsel… please redirect me."
Her state press office said no. It ran her personal criminal defense in-house. State staff. Official
@ag
.ny.gov accounts. Public payroll.Then it didn't just spin. It pushed out a claim its own documents destroy.
To clear her on the Virginia house, the office circulated a loan form where James answered "NO" to living there — sold to reporters as proof she was honest.
What they left out: fourteen days later she swore the OPPOSITE under oath, on a notarized document.
The "proof of honesty" they fed the press is contradicted by her own sworn signature.
And her office still hasn't answered this:
That document showed up in the New York Times — attributed to "the attorney general's office" — a full week BEFORE her own lawyer formally filed it. How did her personal defense exhibit reach the national press through her government office before her actual attorney released it?
Now the part that should enrage every taxpayer and every honest reporter:
The press got the white-glove treatment. Drafted statements. Background briefings. Phone calls.
I got a smear.
The same taxpayer-funded office branded my work part of Donald Trump's "weaponization of the federal government" — and fed that line to THREE separate newsrooms.
They had time to draft talking points, brief reporters, take their calls, and trash me by name.
They somehow had no time to explain a sworn document that contradicts itself.
That's not a press office. That's a state-funded war room protecting one person — the one who signs its checks.
Before I published, I gave seven people the chance to rebut a single fact. I asked:
• The AP reporter
• The AG's communications director
• Her press secretary
• Her lawyer, Abbe Lowell
• Fox News
• The Daily Mail
• 1010 WINSOne answered.
Six went dark.
If a word of it were false, they had every chance to say so. Silence.
I follow documents, not parties — a registered Democrat who spent 30 years teaching the FBI, the SEC, and the DOJ how to catch exactly this. Every page is public: property records, sworn filings, and her office's own emails, pried loose under the Freedom of Information Law.
So here's the question, and it has nothing to do with left or right:
A sitting Attorney General turned her government press office into a personal defense and misinformation machine — on your dime — and got caught in her office's own records.
If the people sworn to enforce the law are the ones bending it, and everyone just looks away…
who's left to stop her?
I'll testify under oath. The only question is whether anyone will make her do the same.
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