DOJ fails again to get grand jury to indict New York AG Letitia James, a Trump target: Reports

Federal prosecutors connected Thursday again failed to person a expansive assemblage successful Virginia to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James connected transgression charges, according to aggregate reports.

The Department of Justice has tried astatine slightest doubly to get a caller indictment of James implicit the past 2 weeks, aft a national justice dismissed the archetypal indictment successful the Eastern District of Virginia, charging her with slope fraud and making mendacious statements to a fiscal instauration successful transportation with a mortgage.

It is highly antithetic for a expansive assemblage to garbage to contented an indictment aft a authoritative requests one.

James' indictment and different 1 successful the aforesaid territory against erstwhile FBI Director James Comey were some tossed retired aft Judge Cameron Currie ruled that Lindsey Halligan, the interim apical authoritative successful the Eastern District, had been invalidly appointed to the post.

Halligan has presented the grounds against James and Comey to abstracted expansive juries.

President Donald Trump had called for some James and Comey to beryllium prosecuted. Halligan is his erstwhile idiosyncratic lawyer.

The Department of Justice's manual says, "Once a expansive assemblage returns a no-bill oregon different acts connected the merits successful declining to instrumentality an indictment, the aforesaid substance ( i.e., the aforesaid transaction oregon lawsuit and the aforesaid putative defendant) should not beryllium presented to different expansive assemblage oregon resubmitted to the aforesaid expansive assemblage without archetypal securing the support of the liable United States Attorney."

CNBC has requested remark from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which had sought the indictment against James.

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