Federal prosecutors on Thursday for the second time failed to convince a grand jury in Virginia to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on criminal charges, according to multiple reports.
The Department of Justice tried to obtain a new indictment of James over the past two weeks, after a federal judge dismissed the original indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia, charging her with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a mortgage.
It is extremely unusual for a grand jury to refuse to issue an indictment after a prosecutor requests one.
James’ indictment and another one in the same district against former FBI Director James Comey were both tossed out after Judge Cameron Currie ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the interim top prosecutor in the Eastern District, had been invalidly appointed to the post.
Halligan has presented the evidence against James and Comey to separate grand juries.
