Overview

• Elizabeth Yusi, a senior supervisor in the Norfolk office, has told colleagues she sees no probable cause for mortgage-fraud charges against the New York attorney general, according to two people familiar with her discussions.
• Yusi intends to present her decision to acting U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan, who replaced Erik Siebert after he resigned when told he would be removed for resisting politically sensitive cases.
• Prosecutors in the Eastern District say they fear Yusi could be fired for resisting pressure to prosecute, after the president publicly urged criminal action against Letitia James.
• Halligan, a former Trump defense lawyer with no prosecutorial experience, quickly sought and obtained an indictment of former FBI Director James Comey in a case career staff had deemed too weak.
• The James inquiry stems from an FHFA referral by Director Bill Pulte, while her attorney Abbe Lowell says contemporaneous documents show she did not claim the Virginia property as her primary residence.