New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime foe of US President Donald Trump, has been indicted for bank fraud.<\/p>\n
Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said Ms James had been indicted on one count of bank fraud and one count of making a false statement to a lending institution.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Justice Department has been probing mortgage fraud allegations against her.<\/p>\n
“The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust,” Ms Halligan said.<\/p>\n
Each count is punishable by up to 30 years in prison, but should Ms James be convicted, any sentence would be determined by a judge.<\/p>\n
Ms James said in a statement that the criminal charges returned in her indictment on Thursday local time were “baseless”.<\/p>\n
“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president\u2019s desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State attorney general,” she said in the statement.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump, a Republican who campaigned for re-election in part on a vow of retribution after facing a slew of legal woes since his first term in the White House ended in 2021, has repeatedly assailed Ms James on social media and at political rallies as a partisan enemy.<\/p>\n
Reuters<\/p>\n
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