Exclusive: The New York Attorney General, Letitia James, who became the nemesis of President Donald Trump after accusing him of mortgage fraud, is now fighting the same accusations, and his main tormentor is a legendary scam artist who knows he says.
Sam Antar, who kept the books for his cousin, “Crazy Eddie” Antar, while built an electronic consumption empire of the New York area, helped his relative cash described and inflated the value of his company before leaving investors. He says he knows each trick in the fraud book and smells like a rat in James’s real estate landfills.
“I don’t know how the wheels of justice will become and, to be honest, I don’t care while I am right,” said Antar, who has made his findings public. “If they do not condemn her, it is her humiliation and her shame.”
Antar declared himself guilty of multiple serious crimes, cooperating with prosecutors to help condemn his cousin, whose chain ads presented a manic pitcher promising: “Our prices are crazy!” While Eddie Antar fled to Israel, he was extradited back to the United States and fulfilled time before he died in 2016, Sam Antar reinvented himself as an expert in fraud for government agencies and law firms. He directs a website where he publishes his research variables.
An Eddie store without EDED in Coney Island (Anthony Pescatore/Ny Daily News Archive through Getty Images)
Sammy Antar, a Forensic Accountant researcher and the former financial director of the Crazy Eddie Consumer Electronics Company, discovered the documents that led to a criminal reference against the general state of New York State Letitia James. (Fox News)
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In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Antar said he worked alone and was the first to discover the documentation of the alleged mortgage fraud of James and published it on his website of white collar fraud weekly.
He said that the strength of his findings, backed by his famous reputation in the field of discovering white collar fraud for the Government, any of those who led to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) collecting the case and sending a criminal reference.
“It is not the Trump administration at war with Tish James, it is me who leads her to responsibility and justice,” Antar told Fox News Digital. “I am not the Trump administration. I was investigating Tish James because that’s what I do.”
“I taught all children or risk doing it, from reprisals, to Libbel, to the risk of reputation. But I keep everything.”
The State Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, is being accused or mortgage fraud. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Lightrocket through Getty Images)
Antar said that his findings were discovered independently by him and that he is not working for the government by investigating James. Fox News Digital asked the FHFA and the White House to corroborate their statements, but did not receive an answer.
“Everything I have done is completely documented,” said Antar, who said he is a Democrat. “This is not bullying. This is not Trump’s administration in the war. Trump has his own agenda. I don’t care. I’m not Donald Trump. Everything I did was that I made my forensic accounting and I documented in depth now that I did.”
Antar’s investigations discovered documents that date back until 1983, which said it indicates that James could have repaired their financial situation for decades to obtain loans for love to lenders.
The FHFA James battery of the counterfeit records to meet certain loan requirements and obtain favorable loan terms.
James, 66, denies the accusations and affirms that Trump is behind the move, qualifying him as a “revenge tour” for the demand for civil fraud of $ 454 million that he successfully successful last year. Trump and the Trump organization are currently attractive.
In the case of Trump civil fraud, the then presidential candidate, accused of financial misfortune and provides false statements about his real estate, the same types of crimes that James is being accused of the FHFA.
Antar told Fox News Digital that he began to dig in James’s records months after analyzing the costs of his private flight trip as attorney general.
President Donald Trump, Centro, is in the Court of the Court of the Supreme Court of New York on October 2, 2023 in New York, at the beginning of a civil trial claiming that he committed fraud in his businesses. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Property in Sterling Street, Norfolk, Va
In the Criminal reference Charter sent to the Department of Justice, the director of the FHFA, William Pult cited a property in Virginia that James allegedly affirmed as his main residence in 2023 despite being the head of the public office at the same time. She bought the property when Trump’s trial was starting.
The FHFA said that primary residence mortgages receive more favorable loan terms, including lower interest rates, compared to secondary residence mortgages.
In his mortgage documents, James reaffirmed that this would be his main residence, said Antar.
“She cools her relative notarial power and declared, in a notarized document, that she intended to make property her main residence,” said Antar. “If that is true, it would be disqualified from occupying a position in New York. Neither she nor the relative requested a farm exemption, however, the mortgage was issued under the condition that both would live there. This is how it has the favorite terms” “” “
One of the properties of Letitia James in Norfolk, Va. (Google Maps)
A construction permit issued in the property of James in New York on July 15, 2024, lists that property as the “James Residence” and the states “remain busy”, according to FHFA’s letter.
James’s office told Fox News Digital that it has been clear that he is not using Virginia’s house as his main residence because he lives in New York.
In a letter to the Department of Justice this week, James’s lawyers told the Attorney General Pam Bondi that, although the form of power of atrardy “erroneously declared that the property is the main residence of Mrs. James,” Pult “ignored” absolutely a residence of all the caps to the mortgage loan corridor two weeks before the property “is not my main residence” main residence of his snow.
James’s lawyer Abbe Lowell said the emails showed that the mortgage corridor understood this.
Property in Brooklyn, NY
In 2001, James bought a property in Brooklyn with his occupation certificate that lists the property as he has five units, but James, said the FHFA, constantly badly represented the same property as having four foxes and construction permit
This allowed James to obtain a lower mortgage interest rate, known as a loan in accordance with, since compliant loans are only available in four units or Ferwer structures.
Letitia James owned in Brooklyn, Centro (Google Maps)
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He also scored the mortgage assistance through the affordable modification program in the home, a program managed by the government that provides homes at risk of mortgage execution with monthly mortgage payments and the beneficiaries had to have four states.
James’s lawyers told Bondi that the residence “has four floors and, during the time that Mrs. James has lived there, the property has always worked as a residence of four people.”
The occupation certificate for the online properties list still shows the 2001 version, which appears as five units. The DOB told Fox News Digital that the document is the most recent occupation certificate they have in the file of that building.
James’s office told Fox News that James has been clear in his landfills that the property is a house of four units and that the previous owner listed the property as a unit of five before buying it in 2001.
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Mortgages with father who appears as her husband
Meanwhile, James, who never married, is also accused of saying that his father was a husband to obtain two mortgages in Queens as a married couple. The documents supposedly show that Property James bought with his father had both parties on the list as “husband and wife” in 1983 and 2000.
“While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of the representations of Mrs. James about mortgage requests,” Abternte wrote.
Lowell, who accused the FHFA or “Picking Cherry,” writes the Did lists his father “and Letitia James, her daughter.”
“As I have established, the nurse of the exhibition director included with his letter is remarkable because of the fact that he heard numerous other records (some of which we have included) what they refute the accusations of incorrectness, and make it clear that an error had.”
“If there is something that believes that I have not addressed in the real facts and the supplier documents, make it know. Otherwise, we would expect a quick response that confirms that the department has closed the issue of the reference.”
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Meanwhile, Antar continues to support his findings.
“I documented everything I did,” he said. “And I keep everything I did. I did this in my own time, my own penny.”
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