Mid-Day Update: December 11, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including legal developments involving New York Attorney General Letitia James, the controversial release of a gang member by a federal judge, the ongoing debate over funding for Ukraine, and the challenges faced by President Trump's administration in Congress.
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| 0:44.8 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update for Thursday, December 11th. |
| 0:50.7 | Happy Thursday, folks. I hope you're all having a great day. Just moments ago, a grand jury in Virginia, |
| 0:56.1 | once again declining to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud. |
| 1:00.5 | This is the second time federal prosecutors have failed to secure an indictment against Tish James. |
| 1:06.5 | ABC News is reporting that federal prosecutors failed to convince a majority of the grand jurors to approve those charges that James misled a bank to obtain favorable loans on a home mortgage. |
| 1:12.9 | Last week, a grand jury in Norfolk also refusing to indict Letitia James after the judge dismissed her case. |
| 1:20.6 | James was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia in September. |
| 1:25.0 | She was charged with two crimes, bank fraud under 18 USC, and false statements |
| 1:29.7 | to a financial institution also under 18 USC. |
| 1:33.9 | The charges are related to a mortgage loan and a property that James owns in Norfolk, Virginia |
| 1:37.8 | that she referred to as her primary residence. |
| 1:42.2 | According to the indictment, James was to use the property as her secondary |
| 1:45.3 | residence and prohibited from using it as time sharing or other shared ownership agreements |
| 1:50.7 | that requires her to either rent the property or give another person control over the occupancy |
| 1:56.4 | or use of the property. Of course, we know Letitia James was allowing her family to live in it |
| 2:01.6 | or other people to live in it and renting them out while she lied and claimed that she was the one |
| 2:07.8 | living in it. Speaking of radical judges, a federal judge this afternoon ordered the release of |
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