US President Donald Trump and New York Prosecutor General Letitia James.
Brian Snyder | David Dee Delgado | Reuters
One of the main federal prosecutors in Virginia is the pressure of President Donald Trump to request a criminal indictment from the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, a Trump long -standing antagonist, MSNBC reported on Monday.
The prosecutor, Elizabeth Yusi, works in the office of the American prosecutor, the Oriental District of Virginia, which recently obtained an indictment of another target of the anger of Trump, the former director of the FBI James Comey.
“Yusi, who oversees the main criminal proceedings at the Norfolk office of the Virginia Oriental District, told colleagues that she saw no likely reason to believe that James has engaged mortgage fraud, the two sources in MSNBC,” according to the MSNBC report.
“Yusi plans to present its conclusion to the new interim lawyer of the American president, Lindsey Halligan, in the coming weeks, they said,” said MSNBC.
Halligan was installed in this work by Trump after his predecessor, Erik Siebert, resigned under pressure from Trump after opposing the deposits against Comey.
Halligan has little time after a large jury to charge Comey to lie during the testimony of the Senate’s judicial committee on September 30, 2020.
Comey denies allegations.
Trump during the weekend called James “Scum” in a social media position which urged his withdrawal as a attorney general.
In a previous position on social networks, on September 20, Trump called US prosecutor Pam Bondi to continue James, Comey, and Senator Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
Bill Pulte, whom Trump appointed to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency, suggested that James had committed mortgage fraud as part of a home in Norfolk, Virginia, where his niece lives.
James’ lawyer Abbe Lowell denied the suggestion that James said the house was his main residence to get a more favorable loan rate.
“Lowell noted that a power form of the Attorne power had wrongly registered the house as a main residence, but that James herself checked” no “on the loan request when asked if the house was his main house,” said MSNBC. “In addition, according to Lowell, James also sent an email to his mortgage broker indicating that the house” will not be my main residence. “”
James, in early September, appealed a decision of an intermediate court of appeal for rejected a penalty of $ 500 million on Trump and his business as part of commercial fraud. The Court of Appeal said that the fine had violated the American constitution of excessive fines.
The court confirmed the trial court judge that Trump and others had committed commercial fraud.
He denied reprehensible acts in this case, which arise from a prosecution that James brought against him.
