President Donald Trump is expected to take the United States prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office could not find incriminating evidence of fraud Against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to Fuentes.
Federal prosecutors in Virginia had not discovered clear evidence to demonstrate that James had committed mortgage fraud to knowing when he bought a house in the state in 2023, ABC News reported earlier this week, but Trump’s officials promoted us to the United States prosecutor, Erik Siebert, brought criminal charges against her, according to sources.
Administration officials told Siebert Trump’s intention to fire him, sources familiar with the matter said. It is expected that Siebert’s last day at work is Friday.
The decision to fire Siebert could throw one of the most prominent American prosecutors to the crisis, which manages a most cases of espionage and terrorism in the country, and increases concerns about the alleged use of Trump of the Department of Justice to aim at their political adversaries.
Trump nominated Siebert for the position in May. The sources familiar with the matter said the administration now plans to install an American prosecutor who would investigate James more aggressively.
The movement to fire Siebert because he refused to accuse one of Trump’s political rivals would mark an escalation in what the president’s critics have called a remuneration campaign, with ongoing investigations that also direct Senator Adam Schiff and the governor of the Federal Lisa Cook Federal Reserve.
Trump has repeatedly accused James, who successfully brought a Civil Fraud Case Against him last year and leads multiple demands challenging the policies of his administration, of attacking him for political reasons, calling it “biased and corrupt.”
The attorney general Letitia James is in the Court Chamber during the civil fraud of former President Donald Trump in the Supreme Court of New York, on January 11, 2024, in New York.
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James is “a horror show that ran on the basis that he was going to get Trump before she knew something about me,” Trump said during his civil fraud judgment in 2023. “This has to do with the electoral, simple and simple interference. We have a corrupt attorney general in this state.”
After a three -month trial, a New York judge concluded that Trump and his family had committed a Decade of business fraud By exaggerating the value of its properties to obtain favorable loan terms, multiplying Trump and their children almost half a billion dollars. Subsequently, an appeals court launched the financial sanction, but confirmed the discovery that Trump committed fraud.
The Trump administration officials have argued that James committed mortgage fraud because one of the documents related to the purchase of their 2023 house, they say, falsely indicated that the property would be their main residence. The investigation began after Bill Ablicte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent to the Department of Justice a criminal derivation about James in April.
“I think this is full of mortgage fraud and, frankly, I think that is why she knew so much about the law in terms of how to chase President Trump,” Abox News told Fox News last month. “She was the scammer, not President Trump.”
However, the researchers have determined so far that the document, a limited notarial power form used by James’s niece to sign documents in his name when James closed in the house, was never considered by the loan officials who approved the mortgage, the sources said.
Siebert, a former Washington Police officer, the DC Metropolitan Police Department graduated from the Law Faculty in 2009 and has worked as an assistant to the United States Prosecutor in the Eastern District in the Eastern District of Virginia since 2010. In addition to serving as a line prosecutor, Siebert led the Office’s Drug Crime Task Force and supervised the division of the Richmond office of 2019 to 2024.
Siebert began serving as an interim prosecutor of the United States on January 21 after the late Jessica Aber, who directed the office since 2021-25, resigned after the inauguration of President Trump. Both of the Democratic senators of Virginia, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, recommended Trump to Trump in April, and Trump nominated him for the position in May.
“Mr. Siebert has dedicated his career to protect public safety, since his work with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, DC, until its management of violent crimes and traffic of firearms as a line assistant of the United States in the Eastern District of Virginia. With his experience and dedication to the service, Mr. Siebert is equipped to handle the challenges and the important obligations associated with this position. His experience in May, which is made an experience in May de Mayer in May. nomination.
After his 120 -day term as the United States interim prosecutor, the United States District Court for the East district of Virginia unanimously agreed to extend Siebert’s possession in the position.
One of the federal prosecutors offices in the country, the United States Prosecutor’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, serves more than six million people with a staff of 300 prosecutors. Among the courts of first instance of faster movement of the nation, the east district of Virginia often handles significant terrorism and cases related to intelligence due to its proximity to Washington and the multiple government offices in its jurisdiction.
