Letters to the Editor — April 18, 2025 – Latest News
The Issue: Letitia James’ potential prosecution for falsely itemizing a Virginia home as a principal residence.
I’m sure people are leaping for pleasure to see the tables turned on New York’s unqualified Attorney General Letitia James (“Virginia is for liars,” April 17).
It’s no secret that she was on a witch-hunt (solely becoming for a witch) to politicize the prosecution of something that President Trump did. Now that she is the one in the scorching seat, let’s see how many liberals come out in opposition to her.
No one is above the law, as was said by the left. Now I’m sure there will probably be an excuse or protection they arrive up with, making an attempt to clarify her alleged mortgage fraud.
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Lock her up, positive her and fire her. Why ought to anybody’s tax {dollars} be paying for a fraud?
Pete Vardakis
Morris Plains, NJ
Tish James might now need non-public legal professionals to defend herself personally for alleged financial crimes in opposition to US taxpayers. It will probably be fascinating to see how she weathers the storm of accusations, investigations, possible indictments, trials and potential disbarment.
In her case in opposition to President Trump she stated that “no one is above the law.” I hope she meant herself as effectively.
Paul Burgdorf
Latham
We’ve identified now for some time that Letitia James hates outdated people, males and notably white males, by way of her description of Trump as too male, too pale and too stale. Now it seems she subscribes to the “do as I say and not as I do” philosophy.
As a lawyer and notably an legal professional common, if the allegations alleging fraud are confirmed true, not solely ought to she be instantly faraway from workplace however jailed.
Hopefully the wheels of justice will flip shortly.
Steven Cassidy
Franklin Square
Another day, one other criminal; who’s subsequent?
Letitia James is in bother for potential mortgage fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud and false statements to a financial establishment.
I believed all these mortgage scams had been a factor back in the ’70s and ’80s. Nothing new right here: simply one other corrupt politician.
Harve Kaye
Brooklyn
Letitia James, who went after Trump wanting to prosecute him to the fullest, is now on the different aspect of the coin with the federal authorities investigating her for potential prosecution involving mortgage fraud. If that is true, she actually has her hand caught in the cookie jar.
This is a severe allegation; so severe she might lose her place and face jail time. After all of her grandstanding in opposition to the present president, her home wasn’t so as. If something, she ought to step down as state legal professional common.
First the prior governor, then the present mayor and now the legal professional common of New York have tainted information.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
It looks like the chickens have come home to roost, if James certainly dedicated fraud and desires to be subject to felony sanctions.
In numerous authorities paperwork, so as to secure a higher mortgage charge, she listed her father as her husband and listed a Virginia home her principal residence. She additionally listed a Brooklyn building she owns as a four-unit condominium, when it apparently had 5 models. All these false statements entitled her to the decrease charges that she in any other case wouldn’t have been entitled to.
As she famously stated to Trump: “No one is above the law.” Well, Tish, now you’ll have to use your own funds to legally defend your self.
Harold Fishman
Manhattan
It’s very ironic that James now finds herself in the identical bind she so zealously used to harass Trump about.
Her alleged falsification of mortgage paperwork reveals her to be both a hypocrite or clueless; neither of which is a good search for somebody in her place.
Peter Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
How can James afford to buy a number of properties, together with a Brooklyn brownstone, on a public servant’s wage? The hole is positively Bidenesque.
Mike Cavanaugh
Long Beach
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