When did lying on a mortgage application to defraud become legal? Apparently, it’s legal if Leticia James does it. That is what many in the media are telling their audiences.
In one case of possible fraud, James bought a house for her niece, Nikia Thompson, to live in. The home is in Virginia and James claimed on the forms that it was her primary residence while she was an attorney general in New York. To complete the picture, she appeared to be harboring a fugitive. Her niece was wanted by the law.
When Leticia James went after Donald Trump civilly, she claimed Mar a Lago was worth $18 million to 27.6 million. It was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. All the while, James was guilty of mortgage fraud.
Lying on a mortgage application is illegal and can be classified as mortgage fraud, which carries serious legal and civil consequences. It’s a federal offense.
It’s unethical and illegal, seemingly there is an exception. It’s not a crime when Democrats do it.
No. Most of us do not lie on our mortgage applications. It’s a crime. https://t.co/AsnKjcc3dj
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 10, 2025
How does Erin Burnett go on air and lie like this? She has no core.
Mortgage fraud is either really serious or not a big deal, it all depends on if it's Trump people being charged or Letitia James.
This is CNN. pic.twitter.com/UtV0GQrU9M
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 10, 2025
The media is shocked, I say shocked that the DOJ would indict a person as important as James for something as silly as mortgage fraud. After, mortgage fraud is not a crime if Democrats do it, and especially a black woman.
The onus is on James to self-report. Don’t say everyone does. I didn’t!
Nor did I on the two homes my wife and I bought first in 1972 and then the second in 2002, and I an sure tens of millions of other honest Americans can say the same thing. Now perhaps CNN and other left media personalities cheat on their mortgages and assume everyone else …
They do cheat and are great projectionists…