Trump housing chief seeks new DOJ probe of New York AG Letitia James

Source: MS NOW

After the Department of Justice failed to convict New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of mortgage fraud last year, the Trump administration’s federal housing chief, Bill Pulte, has filed a new criminal referral to the Justice Department — this time, asking prosecutors to investigate James for insurance fraud, according to criminal referrals obtained by MS NOW.

Pulte sent the two criminal referrals to two Trump-nominated U.S. attorneys — Jason Reding Quinones of the Southern District of Florida and Andrew Boutros of the Northern District of Illinois. The referrals claim James made misrepresentations in home insurance filings with Universal Property Insurance and Allstate Insurance Company — in Florida and Illinois, respectively — about how two properties associated with her would be used.

In both referrals, Pulte references public social media posts made by Mike Davis, an influential, hardline pro-Trump attorney.

Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, writes in the Illinois criminal referral, “It appears Ms. James made representations that the house would be occupied by a single adult, with no children. Instead, according to the post, she knew the house was actually occupied by four people – three children and her niece.”

In the Florida referral, Pulte writes that it “appears Ms. James made false representations that her property would be unoccupied five months out of the year.” He notes, however, that according to Davis, that assertion is “false.”

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