Morning Note

The Trump administration has made new criminal referrals targeting Letitia James, recommending the Justice Department consider prosecuting the New York attorney general over "suspected homeowners insurance fraud."

In one of the referrals, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte says James "may have falsified information on her homeowners insurance application" to a Fort Lauderdale-based company. Specifically, she allegedly "may have made false representations that her property would be unoccupied five months out of the year,” when her niece really lived there year round.

"As such, it appears Ms. James may have defrauded the Florida-based insurance company," Pulte wrote.

James has a history of housing strange people on her properties. Remember this report about her “fugitive” grand-niece living in one of her Virginia homes? Or this one about a second criminal relative residing in the other?

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