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Showing Original Post only (View all)'A Huge Problem': DOJ May Have Withheld Evidence Suggesting Letitia James' Innocence [View all]
A Huge Problem: DOJ May Have Withheld Evidence Suggesting Letitia James Innocence
by Adam Lynch | October 12, 2025 - 5:33am
from Alternet
The New York Times reports U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan may have left out important information in her indictment against New York AG Letitia James that might have derailed some charges.
In the indictment, Halligan accuses Ms. James of having misrepresented the purpose of the house when she purchased it in August 2020 for $137,000, reports the Times. The indictment says that while Ms. James indicated to her mortgage broker that she expected to use the house as a second home, she had instead used it as a rental investment property, renting the property to a family.
Only it does not look like she rented it at all.
The Times reports occupant Nakia Thompson Letitia James grandniece testified to a grand jury in Norfolk, VA. that she had lived in the house for years (with her children) and that she did not pay rent, according to a person familiar with her testimony.
Additionally, The Times reports prosecutors did not ask Nakia Thompson to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Letitia James was not seated in Norfolk, where this information was revealed, but in Alexandria.
Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower posted on X that she suspected prosecutors used the other grand jury for testimony, then moved things over to Alexandria to seek indictment.
But the big problem in the testimony, according to legal analyst Jeffrey Evan Gold, is that Halligan may have excluded this evidence to pad her case against James, which if proven true would not go well for her in court.
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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/adam-lynch/115132/a-huge-problem-doj-may-have-withheld-evidence-suggesting-letitia-james-innocence
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babylonsister
Yesterday
OP
There's so many criminals committing so many crimes, he's bound to forget a few pardons.
W_HAMILTON
Yesterday
#8
He cannot, but he cannot do a number of things that he is either trying or doing.
OldBaldy1701E
Yesterday
#11
Because, of course they did....We're going to have our own form of the Nuremberg Trials
Joinfortmill
Yesterday
#13
The legal profession needs to get its shit together. Far too many unethical
travelingthrulife
Yesterday
#20
She should be disbarred and join Trump's under the bus club with Giuliani, Eastman, Cohen etc .....
ChicagoTeamster
Yesterday
#19
"excluded this evidence to pad her case " ... that's called **LYING!!**, Why isn't she going to jail ?!?!?!
uponit7771
Yesterday
#31
I'm not a lawyer, but that smacks of a conspiracy to manipulate the evidence. n/t
Greybnk48
20 hrs ago
#34