There is a major fight brewing in the District of Columbia over President Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney, Ed Martin. Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina is withholding his support for the nominee, which could result in radical leftist judge James Boasberg actually choosing the person who would fill this role. President Trump has finally put to rest speculation that he is planning to run for re-election in 2028.
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00:00:12.700There's a major fight brewing in the District of Columbia over President Donald Trump's nominee, Ed Martin,
00:00:20.360who is currently serving as the interim U.S. attorney.
00:00:25.980Martin has championed the president's agenda.
00:00:29.340He's already investigating the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:00:37.660He's dismissed the January 6th Capitol riot cases that were improperly brought.
00:00:43.200He is investigating the weaponization of the criminal justice system against President Trump and his allies.
00:00:50.600He also has strongly supported Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, which has uncovered not millions, not billions, but trillions in waste, fraud and corruption.
00:01:03.480But Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina is withholding his support for President Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney,
00:01:12.100a move that could result in radical leftist judge James Boasberg actually choosing the person who would fill this role.
00:01:21.560Boasberg is, of course, the federal judge who ruled that President Trump doesn't have the executive authority to deport violent criminals who are here illegally.
00:01:32.400In fact, Boasberg could actually appoint former special counsel Jack Smith to the position currently temporarily held by Martin.
00:01:42.660Trump, who announced in December that Martin would serve initially as chief of staff of the Office of Management and Budget,
00:01:49.780then installed Martin as an interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on January 20th,
00:01:55.440later formally nominating him to take over that position.
00:01:58.260But Martin's interim term was on May 19th, 2025, and due to D.C.'s unusual status within the federal government,
00:02:07.740the choice of who would fill that position could actually fall to Judge Boasberg.
00:02:12.380The powerful U.S. attorney's office in D.C. has two roles, which make it one of the most powerful perches in the American legal system.
00:02:19.540It is a seat from which much of the lawfare directed at Trump and his supporters originated during Biden and the Obama presidency.
00:02:28.460Due to D.C.'s special status, the office serves a role similar to a local district attorney.
00:02:34.360But after taking over, Martin wasted no time turning the office's resources towards prosecuting violent crime
00:02:40.500after an unprecedented period of lawlessness under President Joe Biden saw local crime zore.
00:02:47.520But the office's secondary role is the reason Martin was installed and why his installation has struck fear in the Hart's establishment.
00:02:56.180Martin has shifted the focus of the office, the most powerful U.S. attorney's office in the country,
00:03:01.660to corruption within the federal government itself.
00:03:04.460So instead of spending millions of dollars targeting everyday Americans like pro-life advocates who want to pray outside of abortion clinics
00:03:12.300or practicing Catholics who want to go to the Latin mass or parents who go to school board meetings to object to the curriculum being forced on their children,
00:03:23.400Martin is pursuing criminals who've enriched themselves off of taxpayers or committed voter fraud and other serious crimes.
00:03:30.480There is talk that the president's daughter-in-law, Laura Trump, who served very ably as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee during the last election,
00:03:40.060but who is a North Carolina native, could challenge Tillis for re-election if Tillis stands in the way of the president's crucial nomination.
00:03:50.820You heard it first right here in the Stone Zone.
00:03:53.420In the meantime, President Donald Trump has finally put to rest speculation that he is planning to run for another term in 2028.
00:04:03.320Now, Steve Bannon has very effectively trolled this idea when he was asked by Chris Cuomo how that would be possible,
00:04:11.540giving the fact that the U.S. Constitution very clearly says that no person shall be elected to more than two four-year terms.
00:04:20.460Bannon glibly said, well, we're working on it.
00:04:24.060I don't think there's anything to work on.
00:04:26.380There is a constitutional prohibition, but it's very clear the president has enjoyed the speculation.
00:04:32.080He finally, however, put it to rest in his meet the press interview.
00:04:37.540Are you seriously considering, Mr. President, even though it's prohibited by the Constitution, or is this about staying politically viable?
00:05:22.600Now, for those who thought that President Trump would just anoint Vice President J.D. Vance, well, that does not appear to be the case.
00:05:31.300Also, there's great historical precedent here.
00:05:34.600Ronald Reagan waited till the very last minute to anoint his eight-year Vice President, George H.W. Bush.
00:05:41.400In 1967, former President Eisenhower, when asked who the 1968 nominee would be, well, he named possibilities of California Governor Ronald Reagan, Michigan Governor George Romney, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton.
00:05:58.900But he forgot to mention his own long-suffering Vice President Richard Nixon, who, of course, ended up being the nominee in 1968, and the greatest single political comeback, well, until the comeback of Donald Trump in 2024.
00:06:12.940But Trump made it very clear that the race to be his successor would be wide open.
00:06:18.500Let's listen to him again from Meet the Press.
00:16:42.960So much for the idea that Sam Antar, our guest today, is politically motivated.
00:16:49.380Let's remember it was Letitia James who said, no one, no person is above the law.
00:16:54.380Well, that unfortunately also for her applies to her.
00:16:59.000Because of Sam Antar's discoveries and the publication of the facts, the head of the Federal Home Finance Administration has sent a criminal referral to the U.S. Justice Department.
00:17:13.260Whether the Justice Department is going to take action, that remains to be seen.
00:17:16.920But when we come back, I want to get into this with Sam Antar.
00:17:21.620Once again, you find him at whitecollarfraud.com.
00:17:25.420What I like about your website, Sam, is that you have all of the actual documents linked to make your overwhelming case that Letitia James,
00:17:35.520the chief law enforcement officer of the state of New York, has engaged in serial mortgage fraud.
00:17:41.240And also, I think she did the taxpayers of New York when it comes to her expenses, and it's all on your website.
00:17:47.800Folks, if you're just tuning in, this is The Stone Zone.
00:19:08.760First of all, my overview will include work of Joel Gilbert, who's also done some fantastic work.
00:19:15.440So that people understand that I did not do this entirely myself.
00:19:19.120There are other people that found other aspects of this fraud.
00:19:22.740Starting around 1983 until 2021, there's a series of mortgages that Letitia James entered into, first on a Queens property and later on a Brooklyn property, that every single mortgage that was filed contained false information.
00:19:39.940In 83, when she was much, much younger, she bought a property with her dad as father and daughter, but she took a mortgage as husband and wife.
00:19:50.260In 2001, she purchased a property in Brooklyn by herself, and every mortgage from 2001 to 2021 shows the building as having one to four units.
00:20:06.980The problem with that is that the certificate of occupancy lists five units, and that's the paramount document that underwriters go by.
00:20:17.500And by misrepresenting the number of units as four or less compared to five, which is certificate of occupancy states, she saves money on her mortgages as well.
00:20:27.440Interest, she can put lower down payments on subsequent refinancing, she saves money on insurance, et cetera.
00:20:34.460So there's a whole host of financial benefits that have accrued to her, starting in 1983 with the father-daughter, her husband-wife, and subsequently with the number of units where she's accrued a substantial financial benefit.
00:20:51.020She tries to claim that all of this was a mistake, but, you know, it's not a one-off-off.
00:20:58.020But every single mortgage, you're talking about at least 11 mortgages and refinancings that contain false information that accrued to her benefit.
00:21:11.060In 2023, she purchased a property in Virginia with her niece.
00:21:15.880She was supposed to occupy that property because she'd made a representation to the bank that she intended to make in her primary residence.
00:21:25.440The problem here is why would she intend to make that property a primary residence when it's only a week or two before the Donald Trump trial and the mortgage required is to occupy the property within 60 days, which she did not.
00:21:40.940So there you have a situation whereby she falsified information in order to get better mortgage terms because mortgages where the parties occupy as a primary residence means that she saves a lot of money on interest and underwriting and insurance, etc., etc., etc.
00:22:00.960than when you're not occupying a property.
00:22:04.520Then you have another property in Virginia that she purchased in 2020 where there are two mortgages that are disclosed on her financial disclosures with New York State but can't be found in the property records.
00:22:17.520And one mortgage that's in the property records and one mortgage that's in the property records that's not disclosed to New York State.
00:22:23.320Altogether, those three mortgages, whether they're disclosed or not and whether they're in their property records or not, total over $500,000 for a property that she values at most at $150,000.
00:22:35.020So the question is, how was she able to get mortgages totaling over 300% of the value of her property?
00:22:41.600Also, why are these mortgages unrecorded?
00:22:45.500She also has another mortgage with Citizens Bank in Brooklyn where she puts it on a financial disclosures with New York State.
00:22:52.740It can't be found in the property records.
00:22:54.960Now, the motivation for not recording a mortgage in New York City I get because you want to save 2% on the mortgage tax, but that's a benefit that only accrued to her.
00:23:05.580The responsibility for filing mortgages in New York are with the lender.
00:23:10.240Why would the lender put themselves in such a vulnerable position by not filing a mortgage in New York?
00:23:16.520Likewise, in Virginia, why would a lender give her two mortgages that are on a financial disclosure but not recorded whereby they're basically – they're no longer really a secured creditor.
00:23:28.160They're just like an unsecured creditor.
00:23:31.080So there's a lot of questionable behavior here, but each and every one of these questionable behaviors, whether it involves her two Virginia properties, her Brooklyn property, the Queens property she bought with her father, every single questionable transaction created a financial benefit for her.
00:23:49.140Now, her defense, the attorney general's defense, is that she signed a power of attorney specifically telling her broker that she would not be a resident of the property in Virginia.
00:24:03.920She also claimed that the mortgage that she got did not require her to be.
00:24:13.040First of all, she told her broker that she did not intend to make it her resident two weeks before she filed the power of attorney intending to make it her resident.
00:24:33.920She corrected it before the fact – not really corrected it before the fact.
00:24:38.360She made a contradictory statement early on, which she clarified that she intended to make it her primary residence.
00:24:45.980Now, her lawyer tried to play a game whereby he said that there was another document subsequent to the power of attorney where she told the broker that she intended to make it – that she did not intend to occupy the property as a primary residence.
00:25:00.700The problem is when you read the documentation carefully, and I put it out on my blog today, the document that he refers to as happening after she filed the power of attorney actually happened before she filed the power of attorney.
00:25:15.260He claimed that she filled out a mortgage application after she filed the power of attorney.
00:25:27.020So her own lawyer undermined her own defense.
00:25:30.220In other words, on August 3rd, she says that she doesn't intend to occupy Virginia as a primary residence.
00:25:37.320On August 17th, she says, I do intend to occupy as my primary residence.
00:25:42.360By August 31st or September 1st, the mortgage is closed, and the mortgage is underwritten on the fact that she and her co-borrower both intended to occupy the property as their primary residence within 16 days,
00:25:56.000which at least Letitia James never did, which is a violation of the mortgage, and also based upon her prior conduct, constitutes fraud in the inducement.
00:26:07.840I mean, I think it is abundantly clear.
00:26:09.620If she did move into the property in Virginia, making that her principal residence, then under New York state law, she would not be eligible to be a New York attorney general.
00:26:21.240As soon as she moves, the office would be automatically vacated.
00:26:25.180And, of course, if she didn't move but said she was going to, as she says in this sworn document, well, then she is guilty of mortgage fraud.
00:26:33.540Based on your reports, the head of the Federal Home Finance Administration has sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
00:26:42.860What the Department of Justice is going to do remains to be seen, although there are public reports that a number of these mortgage companies and others have been subpoenaed in their investigation.
00:26:55.460I note, however, that the New York Daily News, the Albany Times Union, perhaps the worst newspaper in America, and the New York One journalist Errol Lewis all insist that there's nothing to see here, that these are minor clerical errors, and this is all some kind of a political retribution play.
00:28:58.800I haven't seen anything that verifies that she's taken money from the state for her defense.
00:29:04.920There are ways I monitor it because New York State does disclose every single disbursement that's made in almost real time,
00:29:13.080and I haven't seen any disbursement that relates to them paying for the legal fees.
00:29:18.080However, what she's trying to do, let's say that they haven't paid the legal fees, and they might have, I don't know.
00:29:24.760I haven't found it, let's put it that way.
00:29:27.000What she's trying to do is she's trying to make it like she's being villainized because of her role as Attorney General of New York
00:29:34.900so that she would have a legitimate reason to get reimbursement from the state.
00:29:41.140Because if her misconduct is unrelated to a job, she has to pay out of pocket.
00:29:47.900So she's trying to frame this as a retribution thing, not only to misdirect people away from her own wrongdoing,
00:29:55.880but also trying to make sure that if she gets state money or is getting state money, that people can't legally challenge it.
00:30:05.000This is yet another issue, which you have reported on, and that is her use of state resources to reimburse herself and to pay for her flights.
00:30:18.780Okay, I put out a flow request to New York State requesting any and all documents to and from invoice numbers, voucher numbers, flight logs, you name it.
00:30:31.380I asked for it to New York State just yesterday or the day before I get an answer from the New York State comptroller's office saying this is what we have.
00:30:41.080They give me an Excel spreadsheet with some document numbers, but they don't have the documents.
00:30:46.000I said, what the hell is going on here?
00:30:47.340You mean to say that New York State doesn't keep copies of invoice, doesn't keep copies of authorizations, doesn't keep copy of receipts, doesn't keep copies of the nature of a transaction?
00:30:58.220Come on. First of all, okay, first of all, okay, it's bad internal controls and it's bad business practice.
00:31:05.400But aside from that, it's telling me that possibly somebody is destroying documents and New York City is due for an FBI rate.
00:31:12.240I kid you not, I'm not trying to be dramatic, but there is no reason that New York State does not have the documents I requested.
00:31:18.740Invoices backing up payments for private jets, vouchers, they have nothing.
00:31:24.900They have zero paperwork to offer me other than a spreadsheet regurgitating information that I already know.
00:31:34.680The Justice Department did not issue a pardon to Mayor Eric Adams.
00:31:39.060They declined to prosecute him in a standing indictment.
00:31:44.040But there are three additional indictments against Adams that are still sealed that the public has never seen.
00:31:49.400All of them sealed, we're told, for purposes of national security.
00:31:53.900It's interesting to me that the one indictment we do know about pertains to campaign finance fraud.
00:32:01.980It is alleged in that indictment that Mayor Adams took $100,000 from Turkish nationals, laundered it through New York City residents,
00:32:11.620who then submitted it to the New York City's 8-to-1 campaign finance matching fund program.
00:32:19.420But the administration elected not to pursue those charges.
00:32:24.460The iron here, of course, is that I believe that an ongoing investigation into Letitia James' campaign financing will show that through the online payment processing app, ActBlue,
00:32:40.000that James has taken in millions of dollars from donors who either, when they are interviewed, deny having given the contribution,
00:32:49.580or in some cases, donors who literally don't exist.
00:32:53.660So there's a lot more to this story than just the pattern of mortgage fraud.
00:32:59.760If you're just tuning in, we're talking to Sam Antar, a very interesting character, once himself convicted in one of the largest security fraud schemes in the country,
00:33:09.560paid his debt to society and has reemerged using his expertise as a forensic accountant and investigator to ferret out fraud among public officials and those we elect to public office.
00:33:23.440We'll be right back with more of Sam Antar.
00:33:42.040He's the editor and publisher of WhiteCollarFraud.com.
00:33:46.760And he is one of two investigative journalists who have uncovered a pattern of mortgage fraud by New York State's highest elected law enforcement officer,