How Guilty Is Letitia James?

The New York Times has all but admitted Letitia James is in BIG trouble. They might obfuscate what their own reports indicate. But Sam Antar of White Collar Crime lays out very clearly.

White Collar Crime: The NY Times Created an Unsolvable Trap: How Media Defense Proved Letitia James's Fraud

On October 11, 2025—two days after the indictment—The New York Times published an article titled “In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.”

But they buried the most damaging evidence.

What the Times left out entirely: Paragraph 9 of the indictment, which reveals James told her insurance company the property was “owner-occupied non-seasonal use.”

This is devastating because “owner-occupied” contradicts everything:

James told the bank it was her “second home” (for lower interest rate)

James told the IRS it was “rental property with zero personal use days” (for maximum deductions)

James told NY State it was an “investment” property

James told insurance it was “owner-occupied” (likely for lower premiums)

But reality: Thompson and her children lived there full-time

You can’t claim “owner-occupied” to an insurance company while simultaneously telling the IRS you had “zero personal use days” and telling the bank it’s your “second home” while someone else actually lives there. This proves systematic fraud—telling each institution exactly what they wanted to hear.

But the Times said nothing about it. Not one word. The article had three bylines. Three reporters read the indictment. Three sets of eyes saw Paragraph 9. And all three somehow failed to mention that James told her insurance company the property was “owner-occupied” while telling the IRS she had “zero personal use days.”

Either they’re all remarkably incompetent, or they knew exactly how damaging Paragraph 9 was to their narrative. Instead, they focused entirely on their key evidence: Nakia Thompson, James’s great-niece, allegedly testified to a grand jury that she “did not pay rent” and lived there “rent-free.”

The entire piece is well worth the read and goes into great detail exactly why the DOJ has Letitia James dead to rights.

As always, I’ll be following this one closely.

– Producer Robbie