{"id":40985,"date":"2025-05-08T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/federal-prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-new-york-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:21:30","slug":"federal-prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-new-york-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/federal-prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-new-york-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors open criminal investigation into New York attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Prosecutors impanel federal grand jury in Virginia to hear evidence after Trump official\u2019s referral against Letitia James<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/may\/08\/donald-trump-trade-deal-us-politics-live-news-latest\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York<\/a>\u2019s attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/letitia-james\">Letitia James<\/a>, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> alleged last month in a referral that she may have falsified paperwork for properties she owns in Virginia and New York, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation marks a swift and notable escalation against James, a major political enemy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, who was ordered to pay more than $450m in penalties as a result of a lawsuit brought by James\u2019s office that accused him of inflating his net worth to secure financial benefits.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/08\/trump-fbi-investigation-letitia-james\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Prosecutors impanel federal grand jury in Virginia to hear evidence after Trump official\u2019s referral against Letitia James US politics live \u2013 latest updates Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into New York\u2019s attorney general, Letitia James, after the Trump administration alleged last month in a referral that she may have falsified paperwork for &#8230; <a title=\"Federal prosecutors open criminal investigation into New York attorney general\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/federal-prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-new-york-attorney-general\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal prosecutors open criminal investigation into New York attorney general\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}