A federal appeals court has thrown out a $700 million judgment against Donald Trump in the Trump v. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez case. But what about Letitia James? Was she also involved in mortgage fraud? And why did she get away with it for so long?
00:02:02.840You can go to Wikipedia and correct the various things they say about you that are incorrect.
00:02:08.200And then wait a few days, you go back, and they have been returned to the sea of falsehoods that is Wikipedia.
00:02:15.620I want to focus on Letitia James because I guess this kind of proves that what goes around comes around.
00:02:24.240Letitia James led a tsunami of lawfare along with her cohort, Alvin Bragg, the district attorney in New York County, which is Manhattan.
00:02:34.300So far, there are a number of convictions of Donald Trump in those proceedings.
00:02:41.260But this victory today is a very large one.
00:02:45.520A federal appeals court basically throwing out a several hundred million dollar judgment against Donald Trump.
00:02:52.680And then you and Sam Antar over at WhiteCollarFraud.com have done an incredible job of exposing Letitia James' crime spree of 22 years of mortgage fraud.
00:03:08.460For those who aren't familiar with it, Sam Antar, who has a very interesting past himself, he was once convicted, one of the greatest security frauds in U.S. history, the whole Crazy Eddie saga.
00:03:25.460But Joel did his time, paid his debt, pardon me, Sam did his time, paid his debt to society, came out and reinvented himself as a fraud investigator extraordinaire.
00:03:52.320So, Joel, before we get into the Ayatollah Zoran Mamdami and the way he has illegally weaponized nonprofit organizations to cheat in the recent New York mayoral primary, you've written a great piece about this.
00:04:06.760I want to focus for a little bit here on Letitia James.
00:04:10.260When you examined her record when it came to mortgage fraud, what did you find?
00:04:17.380Well, New York is a public record state, so I just went online.
00:04:20.660Anybody could have done it at any time.
00:04:22.900And I found that she had a 43-year history of fraudulent mortgages.
00:04:27.840She did not do one mortgage purchase or refinance in New York that did not involve fraud.
00:04:34.020It began when she was only 24 years old.
00:04:37.120She pretended that she was married to her father in the document in three places.
00:04:55.420Lo and behold, as you go through time, the biggest fraud is her purchase of a four-story, five-unit apartment building in Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn.
00:05:05.720And there it showed a series of mortgages and refinances where she consistently claimed that the building only had four apartment units, even though the official certificate of occupancy said it had five.
00:05:17.940And the biggest fraud that I focused on in my first article back in March was her – she had an adjustable-rate mortgage.
00:05:27.360It was 10 percent in 2011 with a private bank, and she decided to refinance it on the back of the American taxpayer through the HAMP program out of Washington.
00:05:37.740And to get that loan, which is only eligible if your building was four units or less, she lied and said she had only four units when it really had five.
00:05:47.240She also lied and said she had a financial hardship, which you were required to have, even though she was making about $14,000 a month.
00:05:54.480So I chronicled this in The Gateway Pundit, and I wasn't surprised a couple months later to see Bill Pulte from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, I believe, used a lot of my material to refer her to the Department of Justice for an investigation.
00:06:10.860Since then, Ed Martin has been appointed a special prosecutor.
00:06:13.840As you noted with today's news, the pendulum has completely swung against this fraud that was Letitia James, who ran for office on the disgusting proclamation that she would target an American citizen if elected and find a crime to charge him with, something that even in the Soviet bloc and third-world countries, they don't even say that out loud when they want to do that.
00:06:36.680So the pendulum has swung, and Trump has been completely exonerated in his appeal, and Ed Martin, if you look at his Twitter every day, the special prosecutor, it looks like Letitia is going to be charged.
00:06:50.180He's already asked her attorney, Abby Lowell, to have Letitia resign.
00:07:38.220First of all, I saw you and Sam Antar.
00:07:40.240You guys are like the Batman and Robin of fighting mortgage fraud crime.
00:07:45.640I saw you visited the facility where she had five units but claimed she had four in order to qualify for a particular type of mortgage, an advantageous type of mortgage.
00:07:59.700And then I saw very recently that Ed Martin, the deputy assistant attorney general, now special counsel investigating mortgage fraud, showed up to inspect the same building.
00:08:15.060I'm not sure if he's more Inspector Clouseau or whether it's Columbo, but I have to admit I kind of liked the look.
00:08:22.720And I feel a lot better that this is now being looked at from the point of view of the law enforcement, taking a hard look at crimes by people who previously thought somehow they were above the law.
00:08:37.000I made reference earlier to the standard charter banking case.
00:08:42.200This is an extraordinary case in which the bank already got caught violating the Iranian sanctions, paid a fine for it, and then went right back to the same code of conduct and did over $100 million in prohibited transactions and transfers to sanctioned institutions, including those in China as well as Iran.
00:09:08.700And there is hard evidence that Letitia James and the Biden Justice Department were fully aware of these violations but did nothing whatsoever about it.
00:09:22.800It ended up in the hands of Hezbollah.
00:09:25.040It also financed illegal purchases by China of Iranian oil, yet another violation of sanctions.
00:09:33.120Letitia James, I think, has some serious explaining to do.
00:09:36.820According to Bloomberg, Kash Patel's FBI is now investigating Standard Charter Bank and these series of crimes, which I think I would say even more serious than this mortgage fraud crime spree.
00:09:51.300It is amazing the way the pendulum has turned.
00:09:54.580I ultimately believe that the other judgment against Donald Trump in Manhattan, the so-called hush money case, where Donald Trump entered into a confidential settlement in a harassment lawsuit, but Alvin Bragg decided to charge Trump without ever identifying a crime.
00:10:14.120Of course, of course, you had the Soviet-style show trial there in Manhattan, finding the president guilty on 39 counts.
00:10:23.680I'm confident that that, too, will ultimately be overturned and the president will be entirely vindicated.
00:10:30.400Let's shift, if we may now, to a great piece you have in the Gateway Pundit, in which you question the outcome of the recent Democrat primary in New York City, which was won in an upset by Zoran Mamdani.
00:10:47.540Your piece, also relying on the excellent work done by Sam Antar at WhiteCollaredFraud.com, says,
00:10:57.880What if the grassroots of political movements reshaping America's cities aren't really grassroots at all, but rather illegal, tax-exempt, charity-funded operations disguised as community activism?
00:11:09.440As you point out, Sam Antar, in his July 2025 article, How Elite Money Flows Through the Working Families Party Network,
00:11:18.340Forensic Investigator Sam Antar, who was with us yesterday, exposes a hidden financial web that he calls grassroots laundering.
00:11:28.000It's a case study you wrote in the rise of Zoran Mamdani in New York City politics.
00:11:33.380You go on to say, What Antar uncovered is a political machine, powered not by working-class donations, but by a $2 billion network of tax-exempt non-profits that illegally converts taxpayer money and billion-eared philanthropy into political power.
00:11:53.700Okay, Sam Antar basically exposed something that's been going on for many years.
00:11:58.680He says that the entire leftist campaign infrastructure is actually illegal under the tax code, and he goes through all these ways that it's done, and here's how he explains it.
00:12:10.820He talks about how, first, you have tax-deductible funding, and that's when billionaires and the U.S. government gives hundreds of millions of dollars to these charities, these 501c3 charities that are not allowed to engage in political activities.
00:12:26.000These charities then transfer their money to their affiliates that are 501c4s, and they are allowed to engage in political indoctrination.
00:12:37.900They often have very similar names, like Make the Road New York gave all this money to Make the Road Action, which was a political entity.
00:12:45.820So then the 501c4s funnel the money they got from the charities into these PACs and super PACs, and they fund political campaigns like Zoran Mandami's.
00:12:56.880Then someone like Mandami gets elected, and he expands the government funding to the very charities that helped elect him in the first place.
00:13:04.520Now, you may have seen that Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, just came out with a big expose yesterday that the entire Inflation Reduction Act was just a way to fund all these climate and other Democrat NGOs and charities to then launder it back into the political system.
00:13:22.320So Sam Mantar pretty much exposed the whole thing with a massive study that really could be the groundwork for a tax IRS case against Mandami and all these NGOs because the entire operation is tax fraud.
00:13:43.140You can go to whitecollarfraud.com, whitecollarfraud.com, or go to the Gateway Pundit.
00:13:49.440Look up Joel Gilbert, excellent coverage of what is an extraordinary scheme which blurs the line between charity and politics.
00:13:59.160I think it undermines the very foundation of our campaign finance law, and it's very clever,
00:14:05.120but it really cuts against the entire fake narrative that Mandami's campaign is some kind of people-powered revolution,
00:14:15.000that this is a grassroots revolt against dark money and special interests when, based on what I'm reading here in your article, Joel, the exact opposite is true.
00:14:25.180Right. All they did is they moved government funding for charities to political arms without anybody noticing and then used it to fund these far-left politicians.
00:14:38.020And then Mandami runs around saying, this is a people's movement.
00:14:41.860This is a grassroots revolution. Join us.
00:14:44.560But in fact, most of the money comes from this scheme of laundering charity money, especially through the U.S. taxpayer.
00:14:52.180You and I have been paying for Mandami's campaign because the government funds these NGOs.
00:14:57.940So I think Sam Antar just did a great job.
00:15:01.580I've never seen it laid out so expertly.
00:15:04.720And with the revelations from Lee Zeldin, I think the Trump administration and the IRS are going to have to take a look at this whole leftist campaign infrastructure.
00:15:17.820It's just been going on for years and years.
00:15:20.580And I think this is the first time that anybody really laid it out and put it all together so succinctly.
00:15:26.760So definitely go to whitecollarfraud.com.
00:15:29.100You've got to read this piece by Sam Antar.
00:15:31.140Yeah, the president has called for an investigation of Act Blue, which is the Democrat payment processing website.
00:15:39.060And I have already seen some of the initial research, which indicates that of those Letitia James donors who have been able to be contacted,
00:15:50.500almost 70 percent of them deny ever having made a contribution to her, deny having made multiple contributions.
00:15:58.220I think there is yet another case here.
00:16:01.740She's one of the number one recipients in the country of small, multi-dollar donations through Act Blue.
00:16:09.260This is, I think, going to be yet another legal case she's going to have to fight through.