NY AG’s Primary Residence Is in Virginia? Did She Commit Real Estate Fraud?

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Weeks before the Trump fraud trial for allegedly overvaluing his properties, Letitia James declared in legal filings her intent to make one of her four Virginia homes her principal residence.

“I HEREBY DECLARE that I intend to occupy this property as my principal residence.”

Those words appear in a Specific Power of Attorney, signed by James and filed in Norfolk on August 17, 2023, authorizing her relative Shamice Thompson-Hairston to act on her behalf in a transaction that included the declaration.

Importantly, this is not an isolated incident—discrepancies in James’s mortgage filings appear to follow a longer-term pattern, raising broader questions about disclosure consistency.

If James never intended to make the Norfolk property her principal residence despite signing a document explicitly stating that intention, the declaration may constitute misrepresentation under federal fraud statutes.

Oh No, She Has to Resign

This isn’t simply a matter of having multiple homes. New York Public Officers Law § 3(1) is unambiguous: “No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not… have resided in this state” for the required period. The State Constitution Article XIII, Section 13(a) specifically requires the Attorney General to be “a resident of the state for five years immediately preceding election.”

Furthermore, Public Officers Law § 30(1)(d) mandates that an office becomes vacant when the officeholder ceases “to be an inhabitant of the state.”

James also never declared two of her four properties in Virginia.

White Collar Fraud staff are investigating her. They say she has a repeated pattern of paperwork that benefits the filer but doesn’t match the facts. This pattern stretches across multiple properties, unfolds over more than four decades, and cuts through a wide range of government filings—from building violations to mortgage applications to sworn financial disclosures. It’s a timeline of discrepancies that would trigger serious consequences for any ordinary property owner.

You can’t make this stuff up.


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Canadian Friend
Canadian Friend
1 month ago

She also bought a house with her father decades ago and she signed two legal documents as being his wife. I saw screen shots of those documents…..

Unless she really married her father ( unlikely but not impossible, in some African nations they do stuff like that ) then she did something illegal….. it is a federal offense to claim to be someone you are not when buying a property and obtaining a mortgage…..

That is not all,
She also lied about another 5 family building she owns that she registered as a 4 family unit to obtain financial help and a lower mortgage rate…..

That too is illegal…..

So far there are at least half a dozen things she did that are illegal…..

Her crimes are all related to mortgage fraud yet that sociopath-democrat made Trump pay a fine of close to half a Billion for a non-offense about mortgage….

And by sociopath I really mean sociopath.

Frank S
Frank S
1 month ago

This could develop into one of the greatest political ironies of all time, with her being booted from office, while Trump sits in the White House at the top of his game. Love it.

The Prisoner
The Prisoner
1 month ago

Is she trying to hobnob with the DC folks down there?

Chitragupta
Chitragupta
1 month ago

I would like to see her financial disclosure statement she has filed as a public official with the State of NY.

Sua Sponte
Sua Sponte
1 month ago

There’s only one rule to go by when it concerns a democrat. If they are a democrat, then yes, they are involved in something illegal, shady, and self-enriching. Not all democrats are criminals, but all criminals are democrats.

Peter B. Prange,
Peter B. Prange,
1 month ago
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