A top federal prosecutor in Virginia is resisting pressure from President Donald Trump to seek a criminal indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime antagonist of Trump, MSNBC reported Monday.
The prosecutor, Elizabeth Yusi, works in the U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia, which recently obtained an indictment of another target of Trump’s ire, former FBI Director James Comey.
“Yusi, who oversees major criminal prosecutions in the Norfolk office of the Eastern District of Virginia, has confided to co-workers that she sees no probable cause to believe James engaged in mortgage fraud, the two sources told MSNBC,” according to MSNBC’s report.
“Yusi plans to present her conclusion to the president’s new interim U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan, in the coming weeks, they said,” MSNBC reported.
Halligan was installed in that job by Trump after her predecessor, Erik Siebert, resigned under pressure from Trump after opposing the filing of charges against Comey.
