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applegrove

(133,105 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 06:32 PM Aug 2025

DOJ Ed Martin +1 hang out outside Letitia James' house:

https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/us-news/special-attorney-ed-martin-checks-out-tish-james-mortgage-fraud-home/

DOJ Special Attorney Ed Martin checks out Tish James’ ‘mortgage fraud’ home after being tapped for probes

Do these guys think they’re in an 80’s cop comedy? They’re obviously stalking Letitia James’ house and they’re obviously feds.

Jesus.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) 2025-08-18T00:05:59.287Z
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DOJ Ed Martin +1 hang out outside Letitia James' house: (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2025 OP
call the cops popssible burglars casing the joint nt msongs Aug 2025 #1
I'm sure they are not thrilled to be Trump's Charlie's applegrove Aug 2025 #2
Excellent idea. Stinky The Clown Aug 2025 #4
Exactly. If they refuse to identify themselves or their agency then they have no legal authority. Midnight Writer Aug 2025 #6
"Do you call this a stoop?" rsdsharp Aug 2025 #3
They act like they're from the same talent pool as ICE goons. Stinky The Clown Aug 2025 #5
Operation Banana in the Tailpipe. Nt BadgerKid Aug 2025 #7
Linked below is the docket for the Civil fraud case AG Letitia James won against Trump Jarqui Aug 2025 #8
Thank you for the background. applegrove Aug 2025 #9
It's Trump's lawyer Ed Martin and some other guy chowder66 Aug 2025 #10

Stinky The Clown

(68,964 posts)
4. Excellent idea.
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 07:05 PM
Aug 2025

btw, I should think she has her own security. Shouldn't they have chased off the two flat noses.

Midnight Writer

(25,751 posts)
6. Exactly. If they refuse to identify themselves or their agency then they have no legal authority.
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 07:37 PM
Aug 2025

We should be calling 911 every time one of these bastards sneezes.

File police reports, files charges, get them and their identities on record, document their presence with pictures, file personal lawsuits against INDIVIDUALS who engage in this behavior.

The solution to this is to hold individuals accountable. We may not be able to haul Trump or the AG into Court, but we can sure as hell sue and press charges against their minions. Maybe when these goons realize they are going to end up trying to justify their BS in front of a Judge they will make better choices in the future.

Where is the ACLU?

rsdsharp

(12,094 posts)
3. "Do you call this a stoop?"
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 07:03 PM
Aug 2025

No, I call this stupid!

I know most police departments won’t hire candidates with IQs over 104, but you’d think the Feds would have higher standards.

Jarqui

(10,925 posts)
8. Linked below is the docket for the Civil fraud case AG Letitia James won against Trump
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 08:28 PM
Aug 2025

docket (1800 documents - mostly evidence against Trump):
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketId=FX5LeuzFvFRaeD3C6Ob/SA==&display=all&courtType=New%20York%20County%20Supreme%20Court&resultsPageNum=1

Read N.Y. judge's full Trump civil fraud summary judgment
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/full-text-trump-civil-fraud-ruling-new-york-pdf-rcna117499

The essence of the summary judgement was Trump's army of lawyers couldn't refute the evidence AG James had collected to establish her case well enough to make it an issue for trial. So there would be no trial over that. The trial was over bickering about how much the fraud damages were that was eventually decided at: ~$454 mil.
If it had not been for the statute of limitations, it probably would have been much higher.

"Preponderance of the evidence" is the legal standard used in civil cases - their version of the facts is more likely than not to be true. But if you read the docket as I did, you feel like AG James hit the criminal standard: "beyond a reasonable doubt" - a very high degree of certainty.

Look at the analysis:
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=AZZxPVLi3GbCD7i0pGls0Q==

AG James also made referrals to the IRS and SDNY for this behavior.

Trump employed 16 different fraudulent deceptive strategies on 23 assets committing about 500 fraudulent acts which she proved in a court of law. But according to Trump, Attorney General of NY Letitia James was wrong for doing her job to look into these fraudulent acts and prove they occurred and Trump is now sending the DoJ to go after her.

In a normal past world when the US media did real journalism, this wouldn't stand. The DoJ would not act on political retribution. But here we are ...

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