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關於一名曾經的頂尖金融犯罪犯揭露紐約總檢察長(New York Attorney General)可能涉入的貸款詐欺、用公款搭私人飛機,以及其他不當行為,同時諷刺地指出她起訴川普的罪名,竟然自己也疑似犯下。
White-collar financial crime is not a victimless crime.
When the well-connected break the law,
to take in more money that they are entitled to,
it reduces resources to working people, to regular people,
to small businesses, and to all taxpayers.
Everyday people cannot lie to a bank
about how much money they have in order to get a favorable loan to buy a home
or to send their kid to college.
And if they did, the government would throw the book at them.
We have a great guest tonight.
Sam Antar is a forensic accountant who has a very colorful past we'll dig into here in a bit.
He is the man that dug all of this up on Letitia James.
He's the source of all this information.
Sam, thank you so much for joining us here on the set.
Thank you for having me on, sir.
You're a New Yorker, you live right down the street,
and this is some fantastic work here.
I want to start and get into just the specifics first.
Starting with this Virginia property that she claimed as her primary residence while she was...
I mean, this is Norfolk, Virginia.
This is probably a five, six-hour drive.
Claiming it's her primary residence while she's the AG of New York.
From your report, you say James signed a specific power of attorney
declaring her intent to make 604 Sterling Street in Norfolk, Virginia
her principal residence, a legally binding statement
that may have automatically vacated her position
as New York Attorney General under Public Officer's Law 30,
a declaration that came just 45 days before she launched her case,
her civil fraud case, against Donald Trump.
Tell us more about what happened in Virginia here.
She purchased the property with a relative.
This is in 2023, a few weeks...
Two years ago.
Right.
She closed on it right before the Trump trial,
and in the file documents with the county clerk's office,
there was a power of attorney that she gave her cousin or niece
to close the mortgage,
and on the power of attorney she represented
I intend to use this property as my primary residence.
Now, there's two problems with that.
The first problem is she lied on a power of attorney.
Would anybody really believe that she was going to move to Virginia
in the middle of a Trump trial?
The second part is there's Section 6 of the mortgage
that states that the borrower, meaning her and her niece,
have to occupy the property as their primary residence within 60 days.
Not one or the other.
Both.
Wow.
She at least never occupied it.
Right.
And what was the motivation to do this?
Why lie?
Lower interest rates.
I'd call her a petty thief.
A petty thief.
I mean, when you look at the allegations she made against Trump,
is this act worse, better, same?
Well, no.
Listen.
Trump is not a real felon.
I'm a real felon.
Okay?
So Trump didn't do anything wrong.
Yeah.
You don't see anything wrong in the case you made against Trump?
I mean, obviously the jury here thought that he did something wrong.
Well, listen.
It seems like what every developer has ever done, right?
You should have listened to the appellate arguments,
because the appellate judges seem to be...
It seems like they're going to write an opinion that's going to vacate the entire case.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's because, I mean, it obviously was...
We were all astounded by what they charged him for that.
That penalty was ridiculous.
I want to move on here.
Let's talk about Brooklyn, New York.
This is her actual main residence.
She walked out of this house this morning, a townhouse she owns.
It's a multifamily home.
You discover James has been claiming that her townhouse is a four-unit dwelling
when it actually has five units.
Why would she do this?
To obtain lower mortgage rates.
Again, if one to four units has different underwriting guidelines,
and also insurance, too, by the way, insurance fraud,
whereas if it's five or more units, it's considered a commercial property
and also subject to different insurance guidelines.
Right.
She repeatedly lied because there's a certificate of occupancy
that states that it's five units.
And in New York, that rules.
And it's unbelievable that complaints were filed with the Department of Buildings
and they wrote it off as a minor problem, minor error.
Where every other landlord in New York, if you pull that stunt,
legal conversion, having a building that's different from the certificate of occupancy,
they will fine you.
They will make you alter the building.
She's flat out lying on these documents.
She didn't deny anything about it.
1983, she takes out a $30,000 loan with her dad.
She files it as a husband and wife.
She's married to a father.
Why?
First of all, that was discovered by Joel Gilbert, not me.
I don't want to take credit for anybody's work.
All right.
That was 1983.
What he found was that she bought the house as father and daughter,
and then when they did the mortgage, it was husband and wife.
Also, you get different underwriting as husband and wife
as you buy it as partners or two family members.
Now, this is different from the Brooklyn home.
This is a different property.
I think it was in Queens.
In Queens, yeah.
It was a long time ago.
This was 41 years ago, 42 years ago.
We have allegations of flying private on taxpayer money,
almost $42,000 to places like Martha's Vineyard, Puerto Rico.
We have luxury hotels with mischaracterized unofficial filings.
What can you tell us here?
Let's break it down.
Between 2021 and 2022, she used private jets to get around,
spent $42,000 of taxpayer money.
The vendor she spent the money on was called Venture Jets.
No other government agency, because the information is out there,
back to 2014 ever used Venture Jets for private jet travel, period.
Then in 2022, when the government stops paying for it,
her campaign starts paying for it.
Now, let's go back to this stuff that the taxpayer is paid for.
If you align the payments for Venture Jets and those trips,
because you don't pay jet travel net 30 days.
You pay COD, cash on delivery.
Some of those trips align with major campaign events that she was attending.
That's a problem.
That's a big problem.
She has a lot of problems here.
It's unbelievable reporting.
We've dug through, I think, the bulk of what you have found, I believe.
Real quick before I let you go, you have a past.
Yes.
And tell us how you got so good at what you just did.
I mean, you worked on this for seven months.
How did you get so good at this?
Because I was a criminal for 20 years, and I was very good at doing what I did as a criminal.
Morality aside.
Yeah.
The FBI saw a talent in me, and they helped me out going forward after the crazy Eddie case.
The FBI taught me things.
When I was being investigated, the FBI taught me how investigations are done.
All of the beatings that the FBI gave me when I was doing crime made me into a better human being.
That's amazing.
And you said you like to figure out puzzles.
I love puzzles.
I love numbers.
Listen.
Yeah.
I am not the Trump administration.
I don't work for the Trump administration.
I did this on my own time and my own dime.
And me, I don't give a damn what Trump does.
I will hold it personally accountable.
Sam Antar.
Thank you so much, sir.
We appreciate it.
Great reporting.
I was doing other New York City politicians, and she was just on the list.
And that's how it happened.
That's how it happened.
It didn't have anything to do with what she threw at Trump?
No, I had that.
You just like digging into these things.
No offense.
I'm a Democrat, OK?
Primary residence.
Principal residence.
This house has been my primary residence for over 10 years.
Vacate.
The tenants were asked to vacate the apartment by the end of the month.
Power of attorney.
He gave his daughter power of attorney to manage his finances.
Appellate.
The case was sent to the appellate court for review.
Astounded.
I was astounded by the amount of money he spent on the car.
Dwelling.
The city is planning to build more affordable dwellings.
Underwriting.
The loan is still going through the underwriting process.
In order to secure a lower mortgage rate,
she lied on the application by claiming that a house five hours away was her primary residence.
If this turns into a legal issue,
she may have to step down from her position as New York Attorney General.
Additionally, she falsely listed her father as her husband on another loan application to qualify for better terms.
It was also uncovered that she used taxpayer money to pay for private jet travel.
Because payments to the jet company were made COD cash on delivery instead of on net 30 terms,
it was easy to match those trips with her campaign events.
When someone reported her illegal conduct,
the case was written off by New York's building department.
What shocked people the most was that the very charges she brought against Trump were the same offenses she had committed herself.
In order to secure a lower mortgage rate,
she lied on the application by claiming that a house five hours away was her primary residence.
If this turns into a legal issue,
she may have to step down from her position as New York Attorney General.
Additionally, she falsely listed her father as her husband on another loan application to qualify for better terms.
It was also uncovered that she used taxpayer money to pay for private jet travel.
Because payments to the jet company were made COD cash on delivery instead of on net 30 terms,
it was easy to match those trips with her campaign events.
When someone reported her illegal conduct,
the case was written off by New York's building department.
What shocked people the most was that the very charges she brought against Trump were the same offenses she had committed herself.
