New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back hard against what her legal team calls a baseless and politically motivated criminal referral, labeling the mortgage fraud accusations from President Donald Trump’s administration as part of a broader “revenge tour,” the New York Post reported.

James is hitting back at allegations that she committed mortgage fraud, calling the federal criminal referral against her a hollow attack fueled by Trump’s ongoing campaign of political retribution.

In a sharply worded, five-page rebuttal sent Thursday to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, James’ attorney, Abbe David Lowell, dismantled the claims lodged by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte. The referral accuses James of falsifying residence information to obtain a favorable mortgage rate on a Norfolk, Virginia, property purchased in August 2023.

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