Overview
- Federal prosecutors have begun an early-stage review of financial transactions involving Attorney General Letitia James and her longtime hairdresser, Iyesata Marsh, according to multiple reports.
- Investigators are seeking to question Marsh, who was indicted in December in the Western District of Louisiana on bank fraud and aggravated identity theft tied to a 2019 Land Rover purchase.
- On Thursday, a federal judge in New York ruled an acting U.S. attorney was not lawfully serving, disqualified him from two separate investigations into James, and quashed related subpoenas linked to probes of her office’s Trump and NRA matters.
- The new review follows prior failed efforts to bring charges in Virginia, where a judge dismissed an indictment after finding the U.S. attorney was unlawfully appointed and grand juries later returned two no-bills, with DOJ appealing the disqualification ruling.
- James’ attorney Abbe Lowell condemned the latest step as politically driven and predicted prosecutors’ efforts would fail.