Overview

• On August 8, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York convened a grand jury and issued two subpoenas seeking documents from James’s office related to her civil suits against the Trump Organization and the NRA.
• Investigators are exploring whether James’s office deprived President Trump and the National Rifle Association of due process “under color of law” in pursuing those high-profile fraud actions.
• The subpoenas target records from James’s 2022 lawsuit that yielded a roughly $450 million judgment against the Trump Organization and her 2023 case that banned Wayne LaPierre from NRA leadership.
• James and her attorney, Abbe Lowell, criticize the inquiry as a politically motivated retribution campaign and an improper weaponization of the Justice Department.
• The Justice Department has declined to comment on the subpoenas or the grand jury investigation and James says she will vigorously defend her office’s record.