Halligan again, same attorney who indicted Comey. What a hack. Press Release: New York State Attorney General Indicted. Here’s the Indictment - like Comey’s indictment, only Halligan’s signature. The basic accusation is in Aug 2020 James lied to get a better mortgage rate of 3.00% instead of 3.85% on a $100k’ish loan. This deprived the lender $18k’ish over the life of the loan.
Per NY Times:
As in the case against Comey, career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia had looked askance at the case against Letitia James, and sought to convince top officials at the Justice Department that there was not enough evidence to charge her. But President Trump pushed out the head of that office, replacing him with Lindsey Halligan, who has now secured the indictment of James.
And it’s not just the prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virgina who have raised questions about the case: Many current and former federal prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers who handle white collar cases and who have reviewed the loan documents have said convicting James would at best be an uphill climb.
It’s for harassment because that’s just how petty that fucker is.. She’ll have to appear and hire a lawyer, so time and money for her and taxpayer dollars to prosecute. He’s likely also aiming to tarnish her reputation, and when the case falls through he’ll say that the whole thing was rigged by a liberal judge. Same shit, different day.
NY State, in anticipation of this, has a $10 million dollar fund to cover defense attorney fees for her. Comey is wealthy and very well-connected. It’s not good by any measure for them to be indicted like this, but these people can properly defend themselves against the Gov’t. Just like Trump could.
Once these indictments start getting a step lower than a Letitia James/set aside taxpayer money, then the truth matters less and the US Gov’t can just crush you with its weight.
I’m curious about the grand jury vote.In the Comey case there were 3 charges. You need 12/23 votes to indict and the vote was only 14 for indictment on two charges and less than 12 on the third. The standard of proof is also much lower than in an actual trial showing how weak that case really is. I suspect that the James case isn’t much better.
Probably not, due to prosecutorial immunity, I am guessing (IANAL). Generally speaking, she would be immune to a lawsuit for any prosecutorial acts she makes; it’s considered to be absolute immunity. On the other hand, that immunity isn’t as absolute for administrative or investigative acts, so there’s the remote possibility for a lawsuit for this case under those conditions.
