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Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani defended Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James following her grand jury indictment on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution, calling it a "shameless act of political retribution" from the Trump administration.

"This is not simply an attack on Attorney General Tish James," Mamdani said Friday during a press conference with local New York leaders speaking out in defense of James. "This is an attack on our city. And each one of us represents different parts of that same city, and we speak with one voice today."

A grand jury in Virginia indicted James Thursday months after Federal Housing Finance Director Bill Pulte sai

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