New York AG Letitia James and her niece Shamice Thompson-Hairston (Credit: Gateway Pundit)
(…) My interest in Shamice Thompson-Hairston stemmed from Letitia James’s unusually large financial involvement in the lives of her niece and her two children. James had purchased two homes in Norfolk, Virginia for them, both with problematic legal issues as regards their mortgages.
In 2020, James purchased a property at 3121 Perone Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia, signing a document claiming it would serve as her primary or secondary residence, rather than a rental property, which allowed her to obtain a lower mortgage interest rate. That misrepresentation recently became part of the criminal indictment against James for mortgage and bank fraud, carrying a potential 30-year prison sentence. James was arraigned yesterday in Norfolk, Virginia in that case.
In 2023, James bought a home at 604 Sterling Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia with Shamice Thompson-Hairston as co-borrower. Per Sam Antar, Letitia qualified for the loan only after certifying in an updated application that it would be her “primary residence”, even though she lived in Brooklyn. I believe this could soon be the subject of a superseding indictment against James.
Speaking before the Association for a Better New York, James claimed her motives for the home purchases were purely familial, they were in order to provide a home for her niece Shamice’s “kids”.
Watch New York AG Letitia James try to explain away her real estate fraud by saying “My niece has children, and because I am a good Aunt, I wanted her to have a home”. In fact, Letitia’s niece’s children are adult jailbirds with extensive criminal records! pic.twitter.com/TrhkQVkoaX
— Joel Gilbert (@JoelSGilbert) May 30, 2025
But as I detailed in The Gateway Pundit in Crime Runs in the Family! Letitia James Buys Home for Niece’s Jailbird Adult Kids, James’s explanation, that she was a “good aunt” merely helping her niece and her children, was misleading.
The “children” whom James’s statement implied were minors, were both adult felons with long rap sheets, including Nakia Monique Thompson who today is a wanted fugitive with an active arrest warrant in North Carolina.
Nakia Monique Thompson (Credit: Facebook)
In fact, Nakia Monique Thompson has a criminal record spanning 20 years in the states of Virginia and North Carolina, and include multiple convictions for contributing to delinquency of a minor, abuse of child, possession of burglary tools, third degree larceny, assault and battery, trespassing, shoplifting, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, possession of marijuana, driving with a suspended license, and even malicious conduct while incarcerated.
Now, in a striking turn of events, Nakia Monique Thompson has again found herself before a judge in Norfolk, Virginia, the same city where Letitia James’s mortgage-fraud case is being heard.
According to The New York Post, Thompson was arraigned after allegedly threatening an elementary school assistant principal, shouting, “I’m still gonna punch you in the f—ing face, bald-headed bitch!” A protective order has since been issued, prohibiting her from contacting the victim or engaging in further acts of violence.
What makes the timing remarkable is that Thompson’s courtroom appearance coincided almost exactly with Letitia James’s own federal arraignment in the Eastern District of Virginia. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/24/2025) (Archive)