Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has rejected the Justice Department's bid to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to reports, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump's effort to prosecute political opponents.
The Norfolk, Va., grand jury decision comes less than two weeks after a federal judge threw out criminal cases against James and FBI Director James Comey.
"The grand jury's refusal to re-indict Attorney General James is a decisive rejection of a case that should never have existed in the first place," Abbe Lowell, James' lead defense attorney, told Politico in a statement.
James successfully sued Trump in a major civil case that found he had committed long-running financial fraud by overstating asset values in order to obtain favorable loans and insurance terms.
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