Legal Expert Says NY AG Letitia James Should Worry About DOJ Probe
MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos cautioned Friday that New York Attorney General Letitia James should be concerned about the Department of Justice’s reported investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump’s civil rights through her lawsuit against him.
According to The New York Times, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York has issued subpoenas related to James’ civil fraud case against Trump and his company, as well as her case against the National Rifle Association (NRA). Speaking on Chris Jansing Reports, Cevallos noted that investigators could uncover unrelated incriminating evidence against James in the course of their probe.
“There is nothing scarier for a citizen [than] to get a subpoena or find out that they’re being investigated by a federal criminal grand jury. It’s terrifying. And here’s why: Grand jury investigations sweep broadly,” Cevallos said.
“They gather terabytes of information. And they’re very efficient at going through it. And the problem there for people is that they may be investigating issue number one and then stumble across never before known issue number two when going through all those documents,” he continued.
“That is why if somebody is the subject, the target, of a grand jury investigation, that is not a good sign. So given that the federal government has such tremendous power to investigate, Letitia James should be very concerned,” Cevallos added.
“Not that she necessarily did anything wrong, but because that kind of scrutiny of financial records, of business records, everything going back probably years, might yield something that the government finds interesting,” he said.