"The federal government's pursuit of legal action against President Donald Trump's political enemies hit a significant stumbling block last month as a federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's indictments against New York attorney general Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey following the disqualification of its leading prosecutor, with the agency vowing to continue its quixotic quest. Those efforts continue to fail."
"Two separate federal grand juries in Virginia have now declined to reindict James on allegations of mortgage fraud in the span of one week. These represent - by non-Trump-era standards - a huge public blow to the Justice Department, which is historically known for its high success rate in securing indictments. An Alexandria grand jury declined to bring new charges against James on Thursday, sources tell the New York Times."
""This unprecedented rejection makes even clearer that this case should never have seen the light of day," James's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement. "Career prosecutors who knew better refused to bring it, and now two different grand juries in two different cities have refused to allow these baseless charges to be brought. Any further attempt to revive these discredited charges would be a mockery of our system of justice.""
A federal judge dismissed Justice Department indictments against Letitia James and James Comey after the disqualification of a leading prosecutor, yet the Department vowed to continue prosecutions. Two separate federal grand juries in Virginia declined to reindict Letitia James on mortgage-fraud allegations within one week, marking an unusual public reversal for the Justice Department. An Alexandria grand jury recently declined to bring new charges, following a Norfolk grand jury's similar decision. James pleaded not guilty to bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution after an October indictment alleging she rented a purchased Norfolk home while listing it as a second residence.
Read at Intelligencer
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]