Why Isn’t the Department of Justice Prosecuting Letitia James for Mortgage Fraud?
Guest post by Joel Gilbert
Republican strategist Roger Stone asked bluntly on Twitter on Saturday, “Who at the DOJ is blocking the prosecution of the entire Russian Collusion cabal as well as crooks like Letitia James and Adam Schiff?”
President Donald Trump has echoed similar frustrations on Truth Social, demanding action against New York Attorney General Letitia James, who pursued the civil fraud case against himself and his organization in New York.
The question now reverberating through conservative circles is clear: why is the Department of Justice refusing to act?
One of Donald Trump’s most consequential missteps during his first term was his refusal to take control of the Department of Justice, the very branch he led as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
Trump seemed to be intimidated by the media and Democrats who screamed for the DOJ to remain “independent.”
As a result, the DOJ launched investigations and prosecutions targeting Trump and his allies, from Paul Manafort to Roger Stone, while ignoring mounting evidence of misconduct by government officials involved in the Russia hoax.
When Joe Biden took over, the DOJ became even more partisan, prosecuting January 6 protesters and Donald Trump himself.
For his second term, Trump vowed reform. His initial choice for Attorney General, Congressman Matt Gaetz, withdrew amid congressional backlash, leading to the appointment of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
But Bondi’s record of capitulating to the mob was largely unknown. In 2012 in Florida, she bowed to media and protesters led by Al Sharpton and Ben Crump by appointing a special prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case, despite the police having already ruled the shooting of Trayvon Martin as self-defense.
My 2019 film, The Trayvon Hoax, exposed the entire prosecution as a hoax based on a fake witness. Zimmerman’s acquittal was the reason for the founding of the Black Lives Matter group.
Bondi’s caving in was thus responsible for BLM’s formation and the mayhem that followed, including “hands up don’t shoot” and the George Floyd riots.
When questioned about decision-making for today’s DOJ, Trump has repeatedly said, “it’s up to Pam.” But this “hands off” deference may once again prove costly.
As documented in my investigative reports in The Gateway Pundit beginning in March 2025, Letitia James engaged in 24 years of mortgage fraud and housing regulation violations in connection with her 5-unit Brooklyn apartment building.
James obtained lower interest rates and closing costs by falsely representing her building as having less than five units, a key threshold for obtaining more favorable residential lending terms and avoiding more expensive commercial rates and closing costs.
James also failed to register her apartment building and tenant leases for rent stabilization as required, depriving New York City of regulatory oversight and tenants of lawful protections.
James even lied on her very first mortgage application, claiming to be married to her father to qualify for a loan.
My colleague Sam Antar reported that James falsely declared a property in Virginia she co-purchased in 2023 with her niece as her primary residence, thereby obtaining lower interest rates.
Even more troubling, James publicly stated that the property was purchased to provide shelter for her niece’s daughter, Nikia Monique Thompson, a fugitive absconder wanted on parole violations in North Carolina with an active arrest warrant.
I compiled all these allegations into a detailed Prosecution Memorandum, laying out potential criminal charges and penalties for federal and state prosecutors.
Yet, despite all the publicly available documentation, the Department of Justice has done nothing.
The DOJ is largely a partisan Democrat swamp organization with an institutional bias toward inaction whenever the accused is a Democrat.
Rather than dismissing hundreds or even thousands of DOJ employees and rebuilding it from the ground up, Trump decided that his path to reform would be only to replace its top leadership.
That leadership depends on the embedded Democrat structure for case preparation, grand jury coordination, and evidentiary analysis.
That dependence gives mid-level bureaucrats substantial power to stall or kill cases by claiming insufficient evidence or by forecasting unfavorable jury pools, as in, “Why should we bother if a jury probably won’t convict her?”
This is the very same reasoning James Comey used to avoid charging Hillary Clinton, and that Special Counsel Hur echoed in declining to prosecute Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents.
When political figures on one side are shielded from prosecution while their rivals face relentless legal pursuit, the justice system ceases to function as neutral arbiter and becomes a political weapon.
The perception that Democrats can commit fraud or perjury without consequence while Republicans face “lawfare” prosecutions undermines the very legitimacy of the Department of Justice.
In fact, each unprosecuted case against a Democrat sets precedent for the next. By refusing to charge Letitia James, despite detailed public evidence of a pattern of mortgage fraud, the DOJ effectively codifies selective enforcement.
The department teaches future officials that loyalty to a political faction, not adherence to the law, determines who is held accountable.
Ordinary Americans see the disparity. When a state attorney general accused of mortgage fraud remains untouched, while citizens who protested at the Capitol on January 6 are sent to prison, the message is unmistakable, that justice is conditional.
If Republicans continue to fear accusations of “politicizing the DOJ,” they will never regain control of the rule of law. A two-tiered justice system breeds resentment and ultimately, resistance against a constitutional republic.
Prosecuting Letitia James would not only serve justice but would signal to both parties that weaponizing the law carries consequences for everyone.
The Department of Justice stands at a crossroads. It can either uphold its oath by applying the law equally or continue its slide into partisan paralysis.
Letitia James’s misconduct is not an isolated scandal, rather it is a test case for whether political party now determines accountability in America.
Donald Trump must finally assert his authority over the Department of Justice and order that Letitia James be prosecuted before it’s too late.
Joel Gilbert is a Los Angeles-based film producer and president of Highway 61 Entertainment. He is the producer of the new film Roseanne Barr Is America. He is also the producer of: Dreams from My Real Father, The Trayvon Hoax, Trump: The Art of the Insult, and many other films on American politics and music icons. Gilbert is on Twitter: @JoelSGilbert.
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