Federal prosecutors failed Thursday in their attempt to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, a setback for the Trump administration’s effort to revive a mortgage fraud case that was tossed less than two weeks ago after a judge found the original prosecutor had been unlawfully installed.
A Norfolk, Virginia, grand jury declined to return charges after hearing the case under a new team of prosecutors, a person familiar with the matter told several news outlets. The Department of Justice had hoped a fresh presentation, free from the procedural defects that sank the earlier indictment, would put the case back on track.
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