AG Letitia James’ evil eye on Trump and blind eye – Latest News
We know Trump-deranged New York Attorney General Letitia James campaigned on jailing the president, however an explosive all-staff electronic mail from one of her star prosecutors Friday claims her workplace explicitly directed him to “find and pursue crimes” to pin on Donald Trump and his allies, in response to the Albany Times- Union.
In a bridge-burning electronic mail to 2,000 colleagues at 10 a.m. Friday, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld claimed that he had been instructed by his supervisor “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump.”
“The best part of having f–k you money is being able to tell the truth, without fear of consequences so here we go,” his electronic mail started, earlier than itemizing James’ efforts to border Trump, in response to a readout supplied to The Post.
Wiesenfeld, 34, alleged his boss, bureau chief Shamiso Maswoswe, directed him to focus on “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ accepted merger) . . . with out having a credible cause for concentrating on these organizations and people . . .
“Presumably she acted on the behest of Tish [James] . . .
“Tish’s personal grudges with Trump sets the agenda. Find a crime and any crime of his would do.”
He identified that James is utilizing “significant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies” whereas ignoring “rampant non-profit homeless shelter fraud, Medicaid fraud, and crimes in and around synagogues,” he wrote.
“Tish is prioritizing political theater and getting re-elected in November over really bettering the standard of life of New Yorkers.
“Going after Trump, even unsuccessfully, wins elections in New York. Tracking down inconspicuous and very real crimes does not.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James seems to be on as then-former President Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial in Manhattan on Oct. 25, 2023. REUTERS
Within an hour of Wiesenfeld urgent ship, his electronic mail was remotely deleted from the inboxes of all staff in a main damage-control operation, and vanished from the division’s servers so shortly that some staff didn’t have a probability to learn it.
Soon after, an agency-wide electronic mail was despatched by James’ basic counsel, Kumiki Gibson, telling staff to not fear about Wiesenfeld’s communications, which had been an “internal” matter. Gibson added that no one within the workplace was “in danger,” a curious remark reported by the Times- Union.
Wiesenfeld, a prosecutor within the Investor Protection Bureau part of the AG’s Financial District headquarters on Liberty Street, has been positioned on paid administrative go away.
He was unavailable for remark. Reached by telephone on Sunday, his father, additionally Daniel Wiesenfeld, mentioned his son was not speaking to the media at this stage. He wouldn’t elaborate on what his son meant by having “f–k you money,” however mentioned he’s a “very good person.”
Wrong priorities
Wiesenfeld, 34, was a J.D. candidate, Class of 2018, at NYU Law School and editor of Quorum, NYU’s online-only Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. He moved from the Brooklyn DA’s Office, the place he earned a wage of $115,000 working on home violence and different legal instances, to hitch the state AG’s workplace in June 2024 in order that he may very well be of higher service to New Yorkers.
“He’s a very, very good solid guy, very dedicated,” says his father.
Wiesenfeld is spot on in his criticism of James’ abuse of her workplace. Since coming to workplace in 2019, she has wasted tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} on selective prosecutions and political video games that do nothing to keep New Yorkers secure.
When it involves the antisemitism that has engulfed this metropolis for the previous three years, she has been AWOL. She ignored the plight of New York Jews harassed on the street and blocked from coming into synagogues by pro-Hamas mobs. Yet she discovered the time to go after Betar, a small Zionist group that used to stage counterprotests to defend Jews, with James accusing them of waging a “campaign of violence, harassment, and intimidation against Arab, Muslim, and Jewish New Yorkers.” Under the menace of a $50,000 effective, her workplace pressured Betar to close down its New York operations.
Medicaid fraud convictions have plummeted on James’ watch to 1 or two a 12 months, however no one believes that the $100 billion a 12 months program is squeaky clean, least of all of the Department of Health and Human Services, which has frozen federal grant money over allegations of uninvestigated fraud. The Department of Justice is suing New York over a $10 billion home-care program.
It’s the identical with homeless-shelter fraud in New York, with nepotism, no-bid contracts and astronomical government pay going unchecked.
The double requirements are staggering. It’s solely stunning that more prosecutors haven’t give up.
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While turning a blind eye to fraud and violence, James has spent years pursuing Trump, his company, his CFO and his grownup sons, alleging they’d dedicated fraud by exaggerating the value of his property to get favorable bank loans, though he repaid all of the loans and the banks had been pleased.
Trump-deranged Justice Arthur Engoron discovered for James, however New York’s Appellate Division threw out the half-billion-dollar penalty as extreme final 12 months, with some judges questioning whether or not the case ought to have been introduced. The entire mess presently sits with the Court of Appeals.
Hypocrisy
Wiesenfeld’s reference to Hewlett Packard’s $14 billion merger with Silicon Valley wi-fi company Juniper Networks is one other pet “Get Trump” project of James and her Democrat colleagues. The deal was initially blocked by the Trump DOJ earlier than getting the inexperienced gentle final 12 months on national security grounds over objections from blue state AGs, together with James, who challenged the deal in courtroom.
“If you believe Trump is using [Department of Justice] attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing,” Wiesenfeld wrote.
The hypocrisy was not misplaced on Sam Antar, a forensic accountant who uncovered mortgage fraud allegedly dedicated by James for which she was indicted by the Trump DOJ in controversial litigation that’s nonetheless ongoing.
Antar, who was convicted of securities fraud within the Eighties earlier than turning over a new leaf as an SEC whistleblower, was maligned in courtroom by James’ lawyer Abbe Lowell as a “right-wing ‘investigator’ [and] fringe blogger” aiding Trump efforts to weaponize the DOJ by concentrating on James as “retribution.”
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But regardless of the political tit for tat, Antar, 69, says he found James’ mortgage paperwork by probability when he was trying into her exorbitant expense claims at Martha’s Vineyard.
“Nobody directs me,” he says. “I’m a Democrat, and I’ve been doing this forensic accounting for 20 years. I don’t even like Trump.
“This was a legitimate case. [James’] fingerprints were all over documents for 30 years in black and white . . . Deeds. Mortgages. Loan applications. Tax records. Her own filings.”
Now one of James’ own prosecutors alleges that her workplace began with a goal and went on the lookout for a crime.
“That’s called projecting,” says Antar.
It’s additionally deeply unethical, if not unlawful.
Regardless of what you assume of the president, it’s simple that the AG’s Trump derangement has broken New York, and she doesn’t deserve one other time period.
