{"id":343001,"date":"2025-12-11T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343001\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:18:08","slug":"grand-jury-declines-to-indict-letitia-james-for-second-time-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343001\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand jury declines to indict Letitia James for second time in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A federal grand jury in Virginia has declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, one week after another grand jury chose not to charge her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The decision against charges, which is rare for a grand jury, marks another blow to President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to prosecute his political foes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Last month, a judge dismissed the federal case James after finding the prosecutor appointed by Trump was not in the post legally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">James, who had successfully brought charges against Trump before he won re-election, had said the federal case &#8211; which alleged she committed bank fraud and made false statements to a financial institution &#8211; was politically-motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal grand jury in Virginia has declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, one week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-343001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}