A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of fraud Thursday, roughly two weeks after the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
A source close to the matter confirmed the indictment to the Associated Press Thursday.
“James was indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia on one count after a mortgage fraud investigation, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter,” reported the AP.
The case has been kept under seal as of this writing, so the exact evidence presented to the grand jury remains unknown.
Neither Letitia James nor her office have issued a comment on the indictment, though she previously denied any wrongdoing while asserting that an error was made when “filling out a form related to the home purchase but quickly rectified it and didn’t deceive the lender,” per the AP.
In late September, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. The charges were brought after the Trump administration replaced the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, with White House aide Lindsey Halligan, who sought an immediate indictment from the grand jury before the statute of limitations could expire.
According to NBC News, the charges likely “stem from testimony Comey gave on Sept. 30, 2020, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
“Asked by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about testimony he gave in 2017 asserting that he did not authorize leaking information regarding the FBI’s investigations into President Donald Trump or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Comey said, ‘I stand by the testimony,’” noted NBC News.
“Comey’s deputy, Andrew McCabe, has said that Comey authorized him to leak information to the press, according to a 2018 Justice Department inspector general’s report. But the report also found that McCabe made multiple false or misleading statements,” it added.
In July, the FBI launched an investigation into former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey over their roles in the investigation surrounding President Donald Trump and Russia’s alleged collusion.
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