How Letitia James' Fake Marriage to Her Dad Sparked a Lifetime of Mortgage Fraud

Jim Hoft / Joel Gilbert-Opinion : Oct 20, 2025
The Gateway Pundit

However, it will depend on whether the evidence suggests James "should have known" or consciously disregarded the truth. Given James' 43-year pattern of mortgage fraud, combined with her extensive legal experience and her public record as a defender of property laws in New York state, prosecutors are quite likely to convince a jury that James knew exactly what she was doing.

[TheGatewayPundit.com] How did Letitia James's claim that she married her father in order to qualify for her first loan evolve into a lifetime of mortgage and bank fraud? (Screengrab image: via CBS News)

It all began in the spring of 1983, when a 24-year-old Letitia James and her father, Robert James, posing as "husband and wife," took out a real-estate loan for $30,300 from Kadilac Funding Ltd. for the purchase of a two-story townhome in Queens. The loan document, signed by both, listed "ROBERT JAMES AND LETITIA JAMES, HIS WIFE" in three separate places. This was no clerical error.

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This deception set a precedent for her. Once Letitia discovered that falsifying personal information could deliver tangible financial rewards without consequence, the act of misrepresentation for loans became a lifelong habit... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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