Letitia James attends Trump trial, May 2024. (Credit: public domain)
New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with subpoenas as part of a grand jury probe by the Albany US Attorney’s Office into her office’s $454 million civil fraud case against President Trump, a source familiar with the investigation told The Post.
John Sarcone (Credit: public domain)
Northern District of New York acting US Attorney John Sarcone convened the grand jury after coordinating with the FBI to launch an investigation into James in May.
One of the subpoenas related to the civil fraud judgment won by the Empire State Attorney General’s Office against Trump, which is still under review by the First Department Appellate Division.
A second subpoena reportedly dealt with the AG’s own probe into the NRA, the New York Times first reported. Other records were also requested.
“Any weaponization of the justice system should disturb every American,” a spokesperson for the NY AG said in a statement. “We stand strongly behind our successful litigation against the Trump Organization and the National Rifle Association, and we will continue to stand up for New Yorkers’ rights.”
(…) “If average New Yorkers went into a bank and submitted false documents, the government would throw the book at them, and the same should be true for former presidents,” the attorney general had said.
The well-placed source did not indicate whether the current US Department of Justice probe included recent claims of mortgage fraud by the AG on properties in Brooklyn and Virginia, which James denied as “baseless.” (Read more: New York Post, 8/8/2025) (Archive)
DOJ has referred Leticia James to a Grand Jury in Albany for a “Deprivation of Rights” investigation by the newly formed Strike Force at DOJ.
This stems from the Trump case regarding the valuation of Mar A Lago.
This seems like Fani Willis could be headed for the same fate… pic.twitter.com/BL9Cilgjk5
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