On May 21, New York Attorney General Letitia James attempted to deflect growing controversy over a criminal referral to the Department of Justice regarding her real estate dealings. Speaking before the Association for a Better New York, James claimed her motives were purely familial.

“In reality, the power of attorney was never used to determine my eligibility for a mortgage for my niece for a home in the state of Virginia,” James said. “My niece has children, and because I’m a good aunt, I wanted her to have a home.”

This statement was in reference to allegations raised by forensic fraud investigator Sam Antar and widely circulated by The Gateway Pundit. At issue is a 2023 mortgage James co-signed for a property at 604 Sterling Street in Norfolk, Virginia. She filed a notarized power of attorney on August 17, 2023, declaring under oath that she “intended to occupy this property as her principal residence.” Yet at the time, James was legally domiciled in Brooklyn, New York, serving as state Attorney General.

William Pulte, Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, cited this declaration in an April 14, 2025 letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, alleging that James may have falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government-backed assistance and loans with more favorable terms.

Pulte noted that mortgages for primary residences typically offer better rates and conditions than those for second homes or investment properties. James’s HAMP loan and her claim of marriage to her father were also cited by Pulte for investigation.

James’s explanation, that she is a “good aunt” merely helping her niece and her children – is now facing deeper scrutiny. While her words evoked images of needy young children, the facts paint a more troubling picture.

Letitia James’s niece, Shamice Thompson-Hairston, was 53 years old at the time of the home purchase. Two of her children – whom James’s statement implied were minors – are both adults, and both have significant criminal histories.

Shamice Hairston’s adult daughter, Cayla Hairston was born on August 20, 2004. She was 20 years old when Letitia James purchased 604 Sterling Street in Norfolk, Virginia and claimed it would be her primary residence.

Cayla Hairston has multiple arrests on her record, including a felony charge for violating Virginia’s law prohibiting firearm possession by convicted felons (Virginia Code §18.2-308.2) and felon in possession. This indicates that Cayla must have had a prior felony conviction, likely when she was under 18 because no records are available online.

Cayla was also charged with making a false statement on criminal history consent form when purchasing a firearm, and this is a serious offense. This form is required by Virginia law for individuals purchasing firearms from dealers. If a person willfully and intentionally makes a materially false statement on this form, they are guilty of a Class 5 felony, which can result in up to 10 years of imprisonment

Cayla was arrested again in June 2024 for grand larceny, a charge later reduced to petit larceny. She received a suspended jail sentence and was fined $539.

Even more concerning is Shamice’s 36 year old daughter, Nakia Monique Thompson, born in February 1989. Her crimes span 20 years in the states of Virginia and North Carolina, and include multiple prison sentences and convictions for: contributing to delinquency of a minor, abuse of child, possession of burglary tools, third degree larceny, grand larceny, assault and battery, petty larceny, trespassing, shoplifting, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, possession of marijuana, driving with a suspended license, and conspiracy to commit larceny.

Nakia Thompson was even convicted of crimes while serving prison time, including malicious conduct by prisoner.

The “good aunt” story was meant to humanize Letitia James. It was an attempt to frame herself as generous and family-oriented, but it collapses under the weight of facts. Her carefully worded public statement, designed to elicit sympathy, strategically obscured key details – namely, that the so-called “children” she referenced are adult felons with extensive criminal histories. One was rearrested just months after the mortgage deal, the other has a 20-year rap sheet.

At best, James’s statement was misleading. At worst, it may be part of a broader pattern of deception involving public filings, bank documents, and government-backed mortgages.

And the questions keep coming: Why would a sitting state official claim to live in another state? Why describe adult convicts as “children”? And, if crimes continue to be committed from the Norfolk address, could James face legal liability?

Now under investigation and lawyering up with Abbie Lowell, one of the Democratic Party’s top defense attorneys, James faces the possibility of disbarment, financial penalties, and even criminal prosecution if charges are filed and she is convicted of mortgage fraud.

Joel Gilbert, is a Los Angeles-based film producer, and president of Highway 61 Entertainment. He is on Twitter: @JoelSGilbert.

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Democrats and liberals, many of whom don’t even believe in God, are outraged that Christians in Congress could vote in favor of budget cuts. They’re accusing Mike Johnson and others of being fake Christians simply because they supported the Big Beautiful Bill. It’s a bizarre argument, and yet another example of liberals finding outrage in any action they disagree with while misinterpreting or misusing Scripture to criticize Christians.

Liberals and non-believers often accuse Christians of hypocrisy for opposing government welfare programs or voting in favor of tax cuts. According to this view, Christians are morally obligated to support state-run redistribution in the name of compassion. But this accusation has no foundation in Scripture or Christian theology. There is nothing in the Bible that commands the state to impose taxes on working people in order to fund government handouts to those who do not work.

Yes, Jesus taught us to care for the poor, and He commanded charity. But biblical charity must be voluntary to be a blessing. As Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 9:7, “Each one must give as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or under compulsion—for God loves a cheerful giver.” Giving under government coercion is not biblical charity, it’s taxation. And while Jesus said, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s” (Matthew 22:21), obligating Christians to pay their lawful taxes, it does not mean they are spiritually obligated to support every form or volume of government spending.

It’s also important to remember that tax money does not belong to Congress. It is taken from working individuals under the threat of penalty or imprisonment. Taking what belongs to one person and giving it to another is not charity in any biblical sense. The Bible does not command governments to run welfare programs, nor does it teach that Christians sin by opposing them. In fact, Scripture often warns against rulers who abuse power and impose unjust taxes. In 1 Samuel 8, God warned the Israelites that a king would “take the best of your fields and vineyards,” “a tenth of your grain,” and “make you his slaves.” However, God calls Christians to give voluntarily, and they do, contributing billions of dollars each year.

Catholic and Protestant organizations operate the largest and most active charitable networks in the world. As Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16), and James wrote, “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:17). These verses affirm that genuine faith results in good deeds, including charity. In the United States, practicing Christians are among the most generous donors: they are 40% more likely to give to charity than non-Christians, and churchgoers are 75% more likely to give than non-attendees.

The Catholic Church is widely recognized as the largest charitable organization globally. With a presence in nearly every country, it operates thousands of hospitals, schools, orphanages, and relief agencies. Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s global aid network, coordinates humanitarian efforts worldwide.

In the United States, Catholic Charities is one of the nation’s largest charitable organizations, providing services such as food assistance, housing, and disaster relief. Additionally, the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, donated $190 million and volunteered 47 million hours in charitable activities in 2024 alone.

Other Christian denominations also contribute significantly. The Salvation Army, rooted in Protestant Christianity, is the sixth-largest charity in the U.S., with a total revenue of $4.78 billion. Samaritan’s Purse, led by Franklin Graham, provides disaster relief and runs Operation Christmas Child, delivering aid and gospel materials to children worldwide. World Vision, one of the largest evangelical humanitarian groups, focuses on child sponsorship, education, clean water, and disaster relief. Compassion International works through local churches to help children escape poverty.

Food for the Hungry combats hunger and poverty through development and emergency aid. Lutheran World Relief provides sustainable development and disaster response in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Christian Aid Ministries, associated with conservative Anabaptists, delivers aid in crisis zones. MAP International supplies medicine and medical equipment to clinics in poor countries. Tearfund, a UK-based evangelical agency, addresses poverty and climate resilience through local churches. Finally, Free Burma Rangers, founded by a missionary and former U.S. Special Forces officer, named David Eubank, delivers frontline aid in war zones like Burma, Syria, and Iraq.

Christians are called by God, not by the government and not by liberals, to give. And in answering that call, faith-based groups provide an overwhelming share of food assistance in the United States: 63% of food pantries are run by Christian organizations, and nearly half of all congregations operate or support food distribution programs or soup kitchens. But it is not a sin to vote against a tax cut. And the people making these accusations, trying to shame Christians, should ask themselves what organization they belong to and how much aid they are personally giving.

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The European geopolitical chessboard keeps pitting the establishment Liberal-Globalists against the populist-rightwing patriots who refuse to surrender their national sovereignty.

Now, as we head into Sunday’s Polish Presidential Election runoff, voters face these exact options: the pro-European mayor allied with Prime Minister Donald Tusk against a conservative ally of current President Andrzej Duda.

US President Donald J. Trump, the reference for real Conservatives around the world, has endorsed the PiS candidate Karol Nawrocki, a support that included the prospect of closer military ties.

The polls predict a very close race between Nawrocki and liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski.

Associated Press reported:

“Trump met with Nawrocki earlier this month at the White House and sent his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to a meeting of the conservative pressure group CPAC in Poland, where she offered a strong endorsement.

Noem even dangled the prospect of closer U.S.-Polish military ties in the event of a Nawrocki win — with the implied warning that a Trzaskowski victory could jeopardize Poland’s security.”

The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem [@KristiNoem] said that Karol Nawrocki [@NawrockiKn] should be the next president of Poland. Speaking at the CPAC Conference in Rzeszów in Poland’s southeast, Noem also criticized his run-off rival and Warsaw mayor Rafał… pic.twitter.com/rx3hZ0VHKq

— TVP World (@TVPWorld_com) May 28, 2025

In fact, Nawrocki got the endorsements of many in the conservative world: Trump, Musk, Vance, Russia’s Medvedev, Romania’s Simion, France’s Le Pen, Germany’s Weidel, Hungary’s Orbán.

Needless to say, AP stands for Trzaskowski and the continuation of PM Tusk’s ‘rule of law’ government (i.e. acceptance Globalist policies).

“Nawrocki’s backers believe only conservative rule can safeguard national sovereignty and traditional Christian values, and they say Trump’s support would greatly enhance Poland’s security.”

Meanwhile, outgoing conservative Polish President Andrzej Duda is outraged that Ukraine denies and hides the WW2 Genocide of Poles During ‘Volyn Massacre’ by Ukrainian Nazis, and decries the cult of war criminal Stephan Bandera.

Slavyangrad reported:

“’It’s absurd when I come to Ukraine and people hug me and thank me, wearing armbands in the colors of the Bandera flag. I say that we cannot accept this, and they throw up their hands and ask: ´What do you mean?´’ – Duda said.

‘Poland will never agree with Ukrainian laws that glorify criminals responsible for the mass murder of Poles. We will never agree that you consider them heroes. We know that you consider them fighters for a free Ukraine.  For us, they are just ordinary war criminals, murderers, genocidaires, and that is how we will always call them and will never come to terms with it’, he added.”

Poland’s President Duda: “We will never accept Banderites as heroes. You believe they fought a free Ukraine, but for us they are war criminals, murderers, genocide perpetrators.”

In Europe these days an act of radical truth is to say the Nazis were actually the bad guys of WWII. pic.twitter.com/ujMnHyFOWZ

— Margarita Simonyan (@M_Simonyan) May 29, 2025

Read more:

US Lawmakers Warn EU Over Poland’s Globalist Regime’s Crackdown on Conservatives, Say “Censorship Regime” Threatens Free Speech in America

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A federal bureaucrat went to court to insist that, because President Donald Trump cannot fire her, the Trump administration should be halted from doing so.

However, Shira Perlmutter, former director of the U.S. Copyright Office, lost a round in court on Wednesday after U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said she failed to show irreparable harm from being fired, according to the Associated Press.

Kelly did not decide the merits of Perlmutter’s suit. He only rejected her demand for a temporary restraining order that would have let her keep her job while the legal wrangling goes on.

Perlmutter has been Register of Copyrights since October 2020. Trump has appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as Librarian of Congress, to replace Carla Hayden, who appointed Perlmutter.

The U.S. Copyright Office operates within the Library of Congress. The Librarian of Congress, who works for the legislative branch but is a presidential appointment subject to Senate confirmation, chooses its director.

The lawsuit is aimed at Blanche as well as the wider Trump administration, according to Politico.

Justice Department lawyers said in a court filing that Perlmutter is wrongly claiming she is an exception to the rules.

“The Constitution creates three branches of Government. There is Congress, the Executive, and the Judiciary. There is no fourth constitutional category reserved for an indeterminate-and-multiplying number of autonomous federal organizations. That simple principle suffices to deny Plaintiff’s motion,” the filing said.

The filing said Trump acted in an orderly manner.

“The President of the United States removed Carla Hayden from her position as Librarian of Congress and designated the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, as acting Librarian,” the filing said.

The President then removed Plaintiff, Shira Perlmutter, from service as the Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office — a decision that was ratified by Mr. Blanche in his role as acting Librarian, including through Mr. Blanche’s appointment of Paul Perkins to that role,” the filing said.

Judge declines to halt firing of Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter https://t.co/FXzUYn1Izk pic.twitter.com/XcFktsu7Sm

— Roll Call (@rollcall) May 28, 2025

“The President had the power to remove the Librarian and designate an acting replacement. The Library of Congress is not an autonomous organization free from political supervision. It is part of the Executive Branch and is subject to presidential control, according to the strictures of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act,” the filing said.

The filing said Perlmutter had no claim to retain her job, noting, “Plaintiff has no right to perpetual service as Register of Copyrights.”

“The other injuries Plaintiff postulates are not her injuries, but supposed institutional injuries to the Library or to Congress — injuries that cannot support her request for judicial reinstallation to office. And Plaintiff makes no claim that the U.S. Copyright Office is somehow in jeopardy,” the filing said.

After the ruling, the White House stood by its position, according to Roll Call.

“All organizations are more effective when leaders are rowing in the same direction,” White House representative Anna Kelly said in a statement. “President Trump reserves the right to remove employees within his own Executive Branch who exert his executive authority.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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We have a new Hero in our midst, and she is our new Attorney General, Jeanine Pirro. AG Pirro has come out swinging at the leftover Biden hacks who have continued to skirt the law and persecute their political enemies.

On January 20th, 2025, President Trump signed pardons for almost 1,600 Patriotic Americans who had been targeted by the corrupt Biden regime. Dan Wilson was one of those who received a pardon. However, Dan’s persecution did not stop after the pardon.

Wilson was ordered to self-surrender to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Beckley for charges he obtained during the raid on his home for January 6th. Activist Judge Dabney Friedrich, acting like a spoiled child, chose to make up her own way of reading the pardon and denied Wilson’s motion to have his case thrown out. At this time, the Justice Department was siding with Wilson and his counsel.

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Wilson’s attorney, George Pallas, with the assistance of attorney Carolyn Stewart and American Rights Alliance’s Treniss Evans, got to work on the appeal. The Gateway Pundit reported on the answer of the Appellate Court on April 3rd.

Disappointment was the result for Wilson’s team when two of the three judges, clearly suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, came back agreeing with TDS sufferer herself, Judge Freidrich. At this point, a big surprise no one saw coming…came. The government decided they would change their opinion and enter a motion now opposing Wilson’s release.

Fast forward to today. Only a few days after she was sworn into office by President Trump, Jeanine Pirro gave us hope that we would have Dan Wilson home.

Here is the letter that was submitted to the court by our new Attorney General-

When asked for a statement, George Pallas said,

“The President, through his United States Attorney, has made it crystal clear that Dan Wilson was pardoned. Every minute he spends in prison is a travesty.” He continued, “Justice delayed is Justice denied. The government is telling the appeals court that they refuse to defend the indefensible.”

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Fellow J6er, Treniss Evans from American Rights Alliance and founder of Condemned USA had this to say about today’s letter to the court.

“Attorney General Jeanine Pirro has proven in a short amount of time that the justice system in this country can and will be fair. The egregious prosecutions of all January 6th defendants were acknowledged by President Trump with our pardons, and she clearly sees that. Dan Wilson should be free. Elias Costianes should be free.”

Dan Wilson’s case is significant in that there are other J6ers who have cases that could be overturned if the court rules against Wilson. Elias Costianes, Benjamin Martin, and Jeremy Brown are just a few of those J6ers. Brown and Martin were released from prison after their judges found that their charges were J6 related and covered by their pardon. Costianes, like Wilson, is still in prison fighting for his release.

Today was a good day for Dan Wilson, George Pallas and all those working on his case. It will be an even greater day when Dan is walking out the doors of FCI Beckley.

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