Forensic accountant Sam Antar is the person who uncovered the Letitia James mortgage fraud, despite the fact that most media fails to mention it. James was indicted by a grand jury last week, and the New York Times wrote an article meant to downplay the charges and support James’s narrative that the charges are “baseless.”
Antar wrote a new article, again detailing the fraud case against New York Attorney General Letitia James and how a Virginia property became the centerpiece of that fraud. Sam Antar shows how The New York Times, in trying to defend James, actually confirmed the contradictions that led to her federal indictment.
Antar uncovered a paper trail showing James made conflicting sworn statements about the same property:
- To her mortgage lender (OVM Financial): Claimed it was her second home to get a lower interest rate.
- To her insurance company: Claimed it was owner-occupied for better coverage.
- To the IRS: Reported it as rental property with zero personal use days to claim deductions.
- To New York State: Listed it as an investment property while reporting zero income after 2020.
As Antar points out, these statements can’t all be true. You can’t tell a bank you’ll occupy a second home, tell the IRS you never used it personally, and tell your insurance company it’s owner-occupied… especially when a relative was living there rent-free.
A New York Times article published on October 11 cited testimony from James’s niece, Nakia Thompson, that directly contradicts James’s own tax filings. The NY Times came to the conclusion that if the family member pays James no rent, and James occasionally visits the home and pays for maintenance, then the home is not a rental property and it’s really family help… therefore the fraud charges are bogus.
But the NY Times created what Antar calls an “unsolvable trap.” It has cited grand jury testimony that James’s niece lived rent-free, but ignored the Schedule E tax form filed by James that showed thousands of dollars of rent received.
This isn’t politics; it’s math and documentation. The evidence speaks for itself.
Read Sam Antar’s full investigation here: The NY Times Created an Unsolvable Trap: How Media Defense Proved Letitia James’s Fraud
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You must be a blast at parties……Do you just block everyone on LI that disagrees with you or dares to call out clear bias? I have one request that I hope you seriously consider. Conduct a basic forensic accounting analysis of Trump’s legal matters. Any one of them. But I would prefer you pick the case that DA James was directly involved in. Show some balance and actual professionalism and prove that its not anything about politics. Everything about that case should be similar to this one: public documents; court records etc.
I like a good discussion on a thread, but when the commenters start personally insulting me or veering off-topic, then it’s time to shut that down.
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