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Letitia James up against ‘by the book’ prosecutor ‘who means business,’ former Kentucky AG Cameron says
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Former Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron applauded the prosecutor handling Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James’ indictment on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution, celebrating that she is prosecuting the case «by the book» in a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate in two decades.
«Lindsey Halligan means business,» Cameron, who serves as CEO of nonprofit the 1792 Exchange, told Fox News Digital in a Tuesday Zoom interview. «And she has been tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that no one is above the law in the Eastern District of Virginia. And she certainly is heeding that call and commitment and that responsibility, which I applaud.»
A grand jury in Virginia indicted James Oct. 9, months after Federal Housing Finance Director Bill Pulte wrote in a criminal referral to the Department of Justice in April that James allegedly falsified mortgage records to obtain more favorable loans.
Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan is the top federal prosecutor overseeing the case, following her nomination to the role by President Donald Trump in September. Halligan previously served as special assistant to the president and White House senior associate staff secretary in the early months of the administration before moving to her new role.
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Former Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron applauded the prosecutor handling Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James’ indictment on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Halligan also landed on the political map while serving as one of Trump’s attorneys after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in 2022 in search of classified documents retained at the Trump residence.
The Trump-nominated federal prosecutor, who also was appointed to the job on an interm basis, has since secured separate indictments against James and former FBI Director James Comey, both of whom are longtime political foes of Trump’s.
Cameron applauded that Halligan was handling the cases «by the book,» pointing to how grand juries comprised of Virginia locals determined there was enough evidence to charge the pair in both cases.
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«Whether it’s this case or the Comey case, she has been taking them to the grand jury,» he said. «And I remind people that the grand jury process is a deliberative process. It appears within the community that sit on that grand jury to ultimately make a decision about whether there’s probable cause to move forward with an indictment. And that has happened in both of these instances.»
Lindsey Halligan, then-special assistant to the president, speaks with a reporter outside the White House, Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press )
Cameron, who also is running for the Senate in Kentucky in the 2026 cycle, noted that Virginia is by no means a conservative-leaning state, with many of its residents working as employees in Washington, D.C. Virginia previously voted for a Republican presidential candidate 20 years ago in the 2004 race, and is in the midst of a high-stakes gubernatorial election.
«Virginia is not a hotbed for conservatism,» he said. «This is a jury or grand jury of peers that ultimately makes this indictment. And when you look at the facts that are alleged, it seems pretty cut and dry in the context of General James and what was misrepresented on the loan documents and whether it was a primary residence versus a rental property.»
New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Oct. 9, 2025, by a grand jury in Virginia. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
«I applaud Lindsey Halligan for taking this by the book and, you know putting forth the case before the grand jury that ultimately gave them the information to make a judgment about indictment,» he continued.
Cameron is the CEO of the 1792 Exchange, which is a nonprofit focused on providing information to businesses, other nonprofits and philanthropy groups to shield against «woke» corporations.
It also educates «Congress and stakeholder organizations about the dangers of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) policies, and to help steer public companies in the United States back to neutral on ideological issues so they can best serve their shareholders and customers with excellence and integrity,» according to the group’s website.
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Cameron served as the Republican attorney general of Kentucky from 2020 to 2024, providing him unique insight on the James case as a top state prosecutor himself.
James came under investigation over a Norfolk, Virginia, home she purchased in 2020, which she identified on mortgage documents and a Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac form as a property that would serve as her primary residence. Federal officials claim that the home was listed as such to secure more favorable loans, while pointing to state law that requires the New York attorney general to reside in the Empire State.
Prosecutors of the case said James’ «ill-gotten gains» from the mortgage documents sit at «approximately $18,933 over the life of the loan.»
President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting at the 80th session of the UN’s General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 23, 2025, in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
James has denied wrongdoing, claiming that any errors were not intended to deceive a lender, but were mistakes. She, as well as Democrat allies, have instead claimed the indictment is an example of Trump «weaponizing» the Justice Department against political foes.
«I will not bow. I will not break. I will not bend,» James said earlier in October during a campaign stop for socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. «You come for me, you’ve got to come through all of us. Every single one of us. We’re all in this together.»
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«I know what it feels like to be attacked for just doing your job,» James said, while reprimanding those who «weaponize justice for political gain.»
Cameron noted that James’ office has prosecuted similar cases at the state level, which he said exposes the «hypocrisy» of claims the case is political weaponization at the hands of the Trump administration. James’ office previously has prosecuted cases involving mortgage fraud entwined with money laundering, deed theft cases, and mortgage fraud schemes, a review of previous press releases from James’ office show.
President Trump named lawyer Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. Attorney Eastern District of Virginia in September. (Marco Bello/AFP via Getty Images)
«This is not weaponization,» he said. «This is about no one being above the law. And again, whether it’s the Department of Justice or the individual U.S. attorneys across this country, there’s a responsibility to follow the law wherever it may lead. And I appreciate the work that’s been done on that front.»
James, herself, also personally railed against «powerful people» who «cheat to get better loans» in 2024, when reacting to the civil fraud verdict against Trump that year.
«When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hardworking people. Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them. There simply cannot be different rules for different people,» James wrote in a February 2024 post on X when she was attacking Trump on social media.
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James campaigned on aggressively pursing legal action against Trump during her successful 2018 run to serve as New York attorney general, and brought forth dozens of cases against his first administration, including more than 70 legal and regulatory actions in 2020 alone that specifically combated the administration’s environmental laws, according to James’ office in 2021.
«I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president,» James said in a video after her primary win in 2018.
«We here in New York — and I, in particular — we are not scared of you,» she added of Trump after her statewide win that same year, the New York Times reported. «And as the next attorney general of his home state, I will be shining a bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings, and every dealing, demanding truthfulness at every turn.»
James did bring forth the 2022 civil fraud case against Trump and the Trump Organization, accusing them of lying to lenders by inflating the values of Trump properties. James won the case, but the appeals court threw out a massive $500 million judgment against Trump in August. Trump slammed the case as lawfare, alongside a bevy of other criminal and civil cases he faced ahead of the 2024 election.
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at Manhattan Federal Courthouse on February 14, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago)
James faces up to 60 years, 30 years per count, if found guilty, as well as a $1 million fine on each count, and forfeiture, according to the Department of Justice’s press release on the indictment, which noted actual federal sentences are typically less severe than the maximum penalties.
Trump held a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel and other federal law enforcement officials at the Oval Office Wednesday, when United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche slammed any claims the Department of Justice has become «weaponized,» while rattling off the bevy of cases Trump faced in the lead-up to the general election in November 2024.
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«When people talk about this department weaponizing, it’s embarrassing because there’s no in which you can look at what we’re doing restoring justice, doing the right thing and every single case and say that that’s weaponization, and yet remain eerily silent about what happened for the past three years,» Blanche said.
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Trump admin unlawfully terminated legal status of migrants who used Biden-era app, judge rules
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A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated the legal status of thousands of migrants who had been allowed to temporarily live in the U.S. after using an app expanded by the Biden administration to schedule appointments with immigration officials.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston ordered the administration to reverse its move last year to revoke the legal status of migrants who used the CBP One app.
The app was used under former President Joe Biden starting in 2023 to address the crisis at the border by allowing some migrants to make appointments to seek asylum, with many paroled into the country for up to two years, but President Donald Trump moved to shut down the app when he returned to the White House last year.
Burroughs found that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully in April of last year when it sent mass emails to many of the roughly 900,000 people who entered the country using the app, informing them that it was «time for you to leave the United States.»
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U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ordered the Trump administration to reverse its move last year to revoke the legal status of migrants who used the CBP One app. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
«The regulations do not give the agency unfettered discretion to terminate parole,» Burroughs wrote.
«When Defendants terminated the impacted noncitizens’ parole without observing the process mandated by statute and by their own regulations, they took action that was ‘not in accordance with law,’» the judge added.
The Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts, one of the plaintiffs in the case, celebrated the ruling, saying it «brings long-awaited relief after months of fear and uncertainty.»
Democracy Forward, another group that helped bring the legal challenge, also praised the judge’s decision.
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The app was used under former President Joe Biden to address the crisis at the border by allowing some migrants to make an appointment to seek asylum, with many paroled into the country for up to two years. (Sandy Huffaker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«Today’s ruling is a clear rejection of an administration that has tried to erase lawful status for hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button,» the group’s president, Skye Perryman, said in a statement.
«Our clients followed the law: they waited, registered, were inspected, and were granted parole under the law. The Trump-Vance administration’s effort to tear that status away overnight was unlawful and cruel — and today, the court rejected that harmful and destabilizing policy,» the statement added.
A DHS spokesperson said the ruling was an example of «blatant judicial activism» that interfered with Trump’s authority to determine who remains in the country.
«Canceling these paroles is a promise kept to the American people to secure our borders and protect our national security,» the spokesperson said in a statement.
The judge found that DHS acted unlawfully in April of last year when it sent mass emails alerting many of the roughly 900,000 people who entered the country using the app that it was «time for you to leave the United States.» (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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The ruling came after a class-action lawsuit filed in August by three individuals from Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti who argued the Trump administration’s effort to remove them from the country represented an abrupt, unlawful move to pull parole status and work authorization from migrants.
The Trump administration had argued that Biden overstepped parole authority by broadly awarding the status instead of granting it on a case-by-case basis.
Burroughs said when DHS sent out termination notices to migrants, it failed to comply with requirements to provide a record showing an official had determined that the purposes of parole had been served.
«Accordingly, the parole terminations exceeded the agency’s statutory authority and contradicted the procedures set forth in its own regulations,» the judge wrote.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Trump arremetió contra los aliados de EE.UU.: «Proteger el estrecho de Ormuz no es asunto nuestro»
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EN VIVO: El Ejéricto de Israel llevó a cabo una “oleada de ataques a gran escala” en Teherán
La Casa Blanca anunció que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, dará este miércoles a las 21:00 (hora de Washington) una “importante actualización” sobre la guerra en Irán, en un mensaje institucional que se difundirá por los canales oficiales.
Trump declaró el martes desde la Oficina Oval que el retiro de las fuerzas estadounidenses de Irán se concretará “muy pronto, en dos o tres semanas”, en el marco de la ofensiva conjunta con Israel. “Estamos terminando el trabajo”, sostuvo. En paralelo, el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, aseguró que la operación militar continuará hasta desmantelar la estructura de poder de la república islámica. “La campaña no ha terminado. Seguiremos aplastando al régimen del terror”, afirmó.
Por su parte, el Jefe de Estado iraní, Masud Pezeshkian, señaló que su país tiene la “voluntad” de poner fin a la guerra con Estados Unidos e Israel, aunque exigió garantías para evitar una reanudación del conflicto en caso de un acuerdo de paz. En contraste con esa postura, Teherán lanzó ataques contra el aeropuerto de Kuwait, Arabia Saudita, una embarcación frente a las costas de Qatar, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Bahréin durante la madrugada.
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Un niño israelí de 11 años resultó herido tras los ataques de Irán a Israel
El servicio de emergencias médicas de Israel reportó que una niña de 11 años se encuentra en estado grave tras un ataque con misiles que el ejército atribuyó a Irán.
Las alertas por misiles se activaron en el centro y norte de Israel luego de que las fuerzas de defensa emitieran advertencias sobre el fuego entrante. Los rescatistas informaron, además, de al menos 12 heridos más como resultado del ataque.
Otras dos personas sufrieron heridas moderadas, entre ellas un niño de 13 años y una mujer de 36, según el servicio de emergencias médicas Magen David Adom.
Un ciudadano bangladeshí muere por metralla de dron en Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Un bangladeshí murió en Emiratos Árabes Unidos tras la caída de metralla resultante de la interceptación de un dron, informó este miércoles la agencia oficial de noticias WAM.
El incidente ocurrió en Fujairah, cerca del estrecho de Ormuz. “La caída de metralla tras la interceptación de un dron… provocó la muerte de una persona de nacionalidad bangladesí”, publicó WAM en X.
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Israel llevó a cabo una “oleada de ataques a gran escala” en Teherán
“Recientemente, las FDI completaron una extensa serie de ataques contra la infraestructura del régimen terrorista iraní en Teherán; próximamente se darán a conocer más detalles“, informó el Ejército israelí vía X.
Marco Rubio afirmó que Washington “va a tener que reexaminar” su relación con la OTAN una vez concluida la guerra contra Irán
“Cuando necesitamos que nos permitan usar sus bases militares, ¿su respuesta es ‘no’? Entonces, ¿para qué estamos en la OTAN? Hay que plantearse esa pregunta”, afirmó el secretario de Estado estadounidense en una entrevista con Fox News
El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, afirmó el martes que Washington “va a tener que reexaminar” su relación con la OTAN una vez concluida la guerra contra Irán, en medio de restricciones europeas al uso de bases militares por parte de fuerzas estadounidenses.
Las defensas de Israel respondieron a un misil procedente de Yemen
El Ejército israelí informó que sus defensas aéreas respondieron la madrugada del miércoles al lanzamiento de un misil desde Yemen, donde los hutíes, aliados de Irán, han reivindicado ataques contra Israel en los últimos días.
Un comunicado castrense señaló que las fuerzas israelíes “identificaron el lanzamiento de un misil desde Yemen hacia territorio israelí; los sistemas de defensa aérea están operativos para interceptar la amenaza”.
Posteriormente, el ejército anunció que se “permitía a los residentes abandonar las zonas protegidas en todas las áreas del país”.
Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel reportaron más de 10.000 operaciones en Irán
Israel lanzó más de 16.000 municiones en territorio iraní desde el inicio de la guerra, en más de 800 oleadas de ataques, según fuentes militares.
Las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) informaron que se realizaron más de 10.000 ataques distintos contra 4.000 objetivos, entre los que figuran sistemas de defensa aérea, lanzadores de misiles balísticos, centros de producción de armas, instalaciones nucleares, cuarteles generales y comandantes y líderes militares.
Trump afirmó que Estados Unidos dejará de asumir responsabilidades directas sobre la seguridad del estrecho de Ormuz
“Lo que pasa en el estrecho no será asunto nuestro. Francia, China y otras naciones podrán abastecer sus barcos y gestionar por sí mismos su seguridad”, afirmó el mandatario, en referencia a los países que dependen del flujo energético que atraviesa ese paso clave
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunció el martes que su país dejará de asumir responsabilidades directas sobre la seguridad del estrecho de Ormuz y que avanzará con la retirada de sus fuerzas de Irán en un plazo de dos o tres semanas, al considerar cumplidos sus objetivos en la región.
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