消息人士称，近日来，弗吉尼亚州的一个联邦大陪审团第二次拒绝起诉纽约司法部长莱蒂夏·詹姆斯涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈。
大陪审团拒绝了司法部在联邦法官之后重新立案的尝试驳回早先的案件基于弗吉尼亚东区美国检察官的非法任命。
据消息人士称，联邦检察官周四未能说服大多数大陪审团成员批准詹姆斯误导银行以获得房屋抵押贷款优惠条款的指控。
上周在弗吉尼亚州诺福克的大陪审团之后，这些指控被提交给弗吉尼亚州亚历山大分院东区的大陪审团驳回指控.
司法部发言人没有立即回应ABC新闻的置评请求。
詹姆斯的律师阿贝·洛厄尔在一份声明中说，“这一史无前例的拒绝让这个案子更加清晰地展现在世人面前。”。“更了解情况的职业检察官拒绝提起诉讼，现在两个不同城市的两个不同的大陪审团拒绝允许提出这些毫无根据的指控。任何重新提起这些不可信指控的企图都将是对我们司法制度的嘲弄。”
检察官声称詹姆斯，他成功地带来了民事欺诈案件去年反对现任总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)，虚假地将她在2020年购买的一套房子列为第二套房子，而不是投资房产，以便在贷款期限内以更优惠的抵押贷款利率节省19，000美元。
正如ABC新闻此前报道的那样，调查詹姆斯可能存在抵押贷款欺诈的检察官发现证据表明似乎降价了詹姆斯的起诉书中的一些指控于9月份生效，包括詹姆斯个人从她购买的房产中获利的程度。
詹姆斯否认有任何不当行为。
2nd grand jury refuses to indict New York AG Letitia James: Sources
For a second time in recent days, a federal grand jury in Virginia has refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud, sources said.
The grand jury rejected the Department of Justice's attempt to refile the case after a federal judgedismissed an earlier casebased on the unlawful appointment of the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday failed to convince a majority of grand jurors to approve charges that James misled a bank to obtain favorable loan terms on a home mortgage, according to sources.
The charges were presented to a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia's Alexandria branch after a grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, last weekrejected the charges.
A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
"This unprecedented rejection makes even clearer that this case should never have seen the light of day," James' attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement. "Career prosecutors who knew better refused to bring it, and now two different grand juries in two different cities have refused to allow these baseless charges to be brought. Any further attempt to revive these discredited charges would be a mockery of our system of justice."
Prosecutors have allegedthat James, who successfully brought acivil fraud caseagainst now-President Donald Trump last year, falsely listed a home she purchased in 2020 as a second home instead of an investment property in order to save potentially $19,000 over the life of the loan with a more favorable mortgage rate.
As ABC News previously reported, prosecutors who investigated James for possible mortgage fraud found evidence thatappeared to undercutsome of the allegations in the indictment of James secured in September -- including the degree to which James allegedly personally profited from her purchase of the property.
James has denied all wrongdoing.
