Overview

• The Department of Justice convened a grand jury in Albany to investigate actions by Attorney General Letitia James’s office.
• Prosecutors are examining whether her high-profile civil fraud lawsuits led to deprivation of legal rights under color of law.
• The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York issued two subpoenas for records tied to her cases against President Trump and the National Rifle Association.
• The inquiry follows an April Federal Housing Finance Agency referral into her mortgage filings but remains focused on allegations connected to her civil litigation.
• James’s office and her attorney Abbe Lowell have condemned the investigation as a politically motivated weaponization of the Justice Department.