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Learn more at NEI Academy.org. A federal grand jury has indicted New York Attorney General

Letitia James on two fraud-related charges. The indictment returned in the Eastern District of Virginia

accuses James of one count of bank fraud and one count of false statements

to a financial institution. James said she will fight the charges.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice

system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job

as the New York State Attorney General.

The indictment comes two weeks after former FBI director James Comey was charged with lying to

Congress.

The James case was brought by the same prosecutor as Comey's, former Trump

personal attorney, Lindsey Halligan. It marks another escalation in President Trump's use of the

Justice Department to target political opponents and figures who previously investigated him.

For more, we're joined now by NPR Justice correspondent, Carrie Johnson.. So Carrie, what more should we know about

these charges? James says she's going to fight them in court. She's due in court on October 24th in

Virginia, and she says she's keeping her job. Jeff, this is a result of a month's long investigation

by federal prosecutors in Virginia. Earlier, we is a result of a months-long investigation by federal prosecutors in Virginia.

Earlier, a Republican career prosecutor had basically been forced out of his job after he

concluded there was not enough evidence to indict Tish James on fraud charges related to this

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