00:00A small three-bedroom home in Norfolk, Virginia, continues to cause trouble for New York State
00:04Attorney General Letitia James. Last week, James was indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia
00:10on charges of bank fraud and making false claims to a financial institution. Prosecutors allege
00:15the 66-year-old New York prosecutor bought the three-bedroom, one-bathroom Norfolk, Virginia
00:20home in August 2020 for roughly $137,000, most of which was financed with a $109,600 loan.
00:30that prohibited it from being used as a rental investment property. Her ill-gotten gains from
00:35the lower mortgage rate amounted to approximately $18,933 over the life of the loan, prosecutors
00:43allege. But now in a shocking addition to the federal charges brought against James, new reporting also
00:48alleges that at least one of the Norfolk home's inhabitants is wanted by police, James' own
00:54grandniece, Nakia Thompson. According to court documents seen by the Daily Mail, Thompson is
00:59officially listed as an abscondor who is wanted by authorities in Forsyth County, North Carolina
01:04for failing to finish her probation. Keith Acri from the North Carolina Department of Corrections
01:10told the Mail that the 36-year-old was sentenced to probation for misdemeanor convictions for
01:15assault and battery and trespassing and has willfully avoided probation supervision. Acri added that
01:21Thompson's crimes were considered low-level and thus non-extraditable. The underfire prosecutor's
01:27grandniece has reportedly been living with her three children in James' three-bedroom property
01:32in Norfolk since 2020. James has called the charges baseless and political retribution from
01:37President Trump. In her first public appearance since the indictment, James joined a rally for NYC
01:43mayoral frontrunner, Zoran Mamdani, and called on rally-goers to stand together to defend our rights.
01:49And I will not stand. I will not break. I will not stand.
02:01Firebrand New York rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even sent out an email urging her supporters to throw
02:07some bucks to James to fight back against her federal indictment. If convicted on both counts,
02:12James faces up to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $2 million.
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