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An old social media post came back to haunt New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday after a federal grand jury in Virginia charged her with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.

"When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of hardworking people. Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them. There simply cannot be different rules for different people," James wrote in a February 2024 post on X when she was attacking President Donald Trump on social media.

The indictment against James centers on her purchase of a home in Norfolk. Prosecutors allege she falsely claimed it as a second

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