DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: People in glass houses need to learn to keep their stones to themselves

Last week while in the Amazon jungle, the Letitia James mess was ramping up for a good little story of glass houses getting majorly shattered.

One person suggested to me that an Attorney General should be held to a higher standard.

I laughed and said, “No, not in New York.”

However, I suspect as we move into 2025 more glass houses built by politicians and such are also going to shatter on either side of the aisle.

Actually, I was embarrassed for the story I heard about James.

If you’re not familiar, she is the New York AG who was ranting about Donald Trumps’ attempt to get lower interest rates due to false asset evaluations for his business.

Why on Earth would she do that when she had done the same type thing (according to mainstream media) committing fraud to get lower interest rates.

Quite the ugly look.

And her being married to her daddy! I think she reported they were married twice on reports. I can’t even really say what kind of look that is because ugly doesn’t begin to describe it. And, isn’t that against the law?

There are other crimes New York Attorney General Letitia James is possibly going to be getting into trouble for too.

Terribly ironic, terribly embarrassing, terribly karmic.

If it’s true.

Rewind a bit. How did this James thing get its legs in the first place? Who was the karma enforcer?

I mean really, let’s be honest that if these allegations are true, I’m sure James had no idea she would be caught for her transgressions.

It seems the Department of Justice received a criminal referral from the US Housing and Finance Agency against James and that’s where my part of the story begins.

According to reports, James lied about her rental income, lied about the number of units in a townhouse she owns to get a lower interest rate, and she lied about being married to her daddy so she could get better benefits on a mortgage (again creepy).

There are also allegations against James that she flew private to campaign events compliments of taxpayer money.

Remember her rant about Trump’s alleged crimes: “White collar financial crime is not a victimless crime. When the well-connected break the law to take in more money than they are entitled to it reduces resources to working people, regular people and small businesses and all taxpayers.” 

Remember if you will too, Trump’s own bank, Deutsch Bank, which she said he defrauded even testified in his defense in the trial stating there was no victim.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said, “Letitia James is one of the most corrupt, shameless individuals ever to hold office. She is guilty of not only those crimes, but countless more crimes by using and abusing her public office to persecute an innocent man, by depriving him of his rights and by engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct our election and to overthrow democratic procedures. She is guilty of multiple, significant serial criminal violations.”

Oh, and here is another James quote for the history books: “I am not afraid of Donald Trump and you can come after me. I am not afraid of no president – Donald Trump we are ready for you, we are coming for you.”

Newsweek reported James could face jail time because of the fraud allegations (www.newsweek.com/letitia-james-mortgage-fraud-allegations-jail-2060848).

Here the story is more laid out as to how the DOJ ended up receiving the Federal Housing Finance Agency referral. It was from Director William J. Pulte, who reported James falsified records to obtain a mortgage on a 2023 application for the house in Norfolk, Virginia as her primary address.

Then, there was that Brooklyn property from a 2021 incident, and that allegedly involved wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution.

For her part, James has stated the mortgage fraud claims against her are “baseless” and a result of her being on President Trump’s “enemies list” because of that multi-million-dollar judgment ruling against him last year brought on by “Her’s truly.”

Newsweek also reported Sam Antar, the financial expert who actually accused James of mortgage fraud, had recently released new documents as part of his investigation: www.newsweek.com/letitia-james-fraud-accusations-documents-2063639.

Antar stated, “Even if the property physically contains only four units, representing it as such on mortgage documents directly contradicts the legal Certificate of Occupancy  –  creating a fundamental misrepresentation on loan applications.”

While James has not been formally charged and has denied all wrongdoing, some legal minds have posited she will be prosecuted and maybe even see jail time.

Meanwhile, over the weekend James was working tirelessly to bring down Trump’s inner circle now too. She is hunting for insider trading according to www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/letitia-james-is-hunting-for-insider-trading-in-trump-s-inner-circle-ex-prosecutors-call-her-tariff-inquiry-unprecedented/ar-AA1E8bUc?ocid=BingNewsSerp, and using the unprecedented century-old New York Martin Act to do it.

She is also planning to sue the Trump Administration over healthcare funding cuts.

All the while the list against her seems to be growing.

Last week there were ethics complaints against James that the New York state courts are being ask to investigate: www.foxnews.com/politics/ethics-complaint-against-letitia-james-calls-ny-state-courts-investigate-trump-admin-fraud-claims.

Does this all sound like a lot of wasted taxpayer’s money?

James has also hired Hunter Biden’s former criminal defense attorney Abbe Lowell to defend her.

The New York Post reported Lowell was attempting “to poke holes in the allegations in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.” He also argued that the accusations are nothing but “retribution” from Trump against James.

James is apparently needing cash now too, legal fees for Lowell. To that end, she recently held a fundraiser asking for up to $18,000 a person.

Oh, the twisted web we weave, and those glass houses… It would be safe to say the stones James threw at Trump’s glass house are possibly now being thrown back at her little kingdom.

Whatever the case may be, I still cannot work out why James would attempt to destroy another person doing the same thing she was doing if it all turns out to be true.

Then I’m reminded once while working on a cold case with a CID Lieutenant and trying to get inside the head of a criminal. The Lt. told me (and I will apply that logic here) you will never be able to get inside the head of a murderer/criminal unless you are one yourself.

Point taken detective – and to Ms. James, next time keep your stones to yourself.

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.