{"id":70016,"date":"2026-03-25T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/trump-housing-chief-requests-new-criminal-investigation-into-letitia-james\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:00:20","slug":"trump-housing-chief-requests-new-criminal-investigation-into-letitia-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/trump-housing-chief-requests-new-criminal-investigation-into-letitia-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump housing chief requests new criminal investigation into Letitia James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Pulte reportedly urges examination of alleged fraud as New York attorney general\u2019s lawyer attacks \u2018vendetta\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s federal housing director Bill Pulte is asking prosecutors to investigate New York attorney general Letitia James for insurance fraud, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/trump-housing-chief-doj-new-york-letitia-james-pulte\">criminal referrals reported by MS Now<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/letitia-james-referred-prosecution-ny-florida-illinois\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=923239332\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The referrals to prosecutors in Florida and Illinois allege that James may have committed mortgage insurance fraud. The allegations center on applications made to Universal Property Insurance company, which is based in Florida, and Allstate in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/25\/trump-letitia-james-mortgage-fraud-investigation-referral\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Pulte reportedly urges examination of alleged fraud as New York attorney general\u2019s lawyer attacks \u2018vendetta\u2019 The Trump administration\u2019s federal housing director Bill Pulte is asking prosecutors to investigate New York attorney general Letitia James for insurance fraud, according to criminal referrals reported by MS Now and CBS News. The referrals to prosecutors in Florida &#8230; <a title=\"Trump housing chief requests new criminal investigation into Letitia James\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/trump-housing-chief-requests-new-criminal-investigation-into-letitia-james\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump housing chief requests new criminal investigation into Letitia James\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70016","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=70016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}