{"id":17511,"date":"2025-10-15T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=17511"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:07:19","slug":"indicted-letitia-james-reportedly-housing-fugitive-relative-in-va-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=17511","title":{"rendered":"Indicted Letitia James Reportedly Housing \u2018Fugitive\u2019 Relative In Va. Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Embattled New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is herself under indictment, is now facing fresh scrutiny after reports surfaced that she has been housing a fugitive relative in her Virginia home for the past five years.<\/p>\n

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According to the Daily Mail, James\u2019s grandniece, Nakia Thompson, has been living with her three children in the attorney general\u2019s three-bedroom property in Norfolk, Virginia, since 2020.<\/p>\n

Court documents reviewed by the outlet show that Thompson is officially listed as an \u201cabsconder\u201d and is wanted by authorities in Forsyth County, North Carolina, for violating probation and failing to complete her court-ordered sentence.<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Thompson was sentenced to probation for misdemeanor convictions for assault and battery and trespassing, and has willfully avoided probation supervision,\u201d Keith Acree from the North Carolina Department of Corrections told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAn absconder is considered a fugitive. Thompson faces arrest if she is located in North Carolina,\u201d Acree added, noting further that her crimes were considered low-level and thus, \u201cnon-extraditable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thompson told a grand jury in June that she has been living rent-free in James\u2019s $235,000 Virginia home since the property was purchased, and that she does not contribute to maintenance or basic upkeep, according to a previous report by The New York Times.<\/p>\n

Court records show that Thompson was convicted in October 2011 on one count of assault and battery and one count of second-degree trespass. She was subsequently sentenced to probation, which she later failed to complete, the New York Post\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She also has prior convictions for assault or threats against the government in 2006 and for simple assault and affray in 2005.<\/p>\n

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According to the North Carolina Department of Corrections, individuals classified as absconders may face serious consequences, including an extension or revocation of their probation or even a return to prison.<\/p>\n

James was indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution to obtain a mortgage for her Virginia home \u2014 allegations she has repeatedly and emphatically denied.<\/p>\n

On Monday, James dismissed the case as politically motivated, noting that it was brought by a Trump-appointed prosecutor, and vowed to vigorously fight the charges in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend,\u201d she said at a rally for left-wing socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that when James ran for attorney general in 2018, she did so on a platform to \u201cget Trump\u201d \u2013 a promise she kept after later charging him with mortgage fraud. She secured a $474 million judgment against him in what many legal observers described as a sham trial, an amount that was later tossed out by a New York appeals court.<\/p>\n

Two of the five judges agreed that Trump was property held liable for mortgage fraud, but two others disagreed, saying Trump was wrongly convicted and that the case should be retried. The fifth judge said James should have never brought the case to begin with.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s now on appeal to the state\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s ruling by the New York appeals court is a resounding victory for President Trump and his company,\u201d said Trump\u2019s former personal attorney Alina Habba, who helped represent him in the case and was later named interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court struck down the outrageous and unlawful $464 million penalty, confirming what we have said from the beginning: the Attorney General\u2019s case was politically motivated, legally baseless, and grossly excessive,\u201d\u00a0she added<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA $500 million day and an awesome victory for President Trump!\u201d noted Trump attorney Christopher Kise. \u201cThe reality here is that President Trump was always worth even more than what was reflected in the financial statements and the New York Attorney General simply disregarded well established principles of property valuation in an effort to justify her abusive and politically motivated case.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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