NORFOLK — It looks like any other house in the city’s Fairmount Park neighborhood: Plants in the front yard. A front porch decoration announcing “Hello fall.” Toys on the porch. A satellite dish.

But the two-story home on a residential street near Lafayette Boulevard is central to a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department brought at President Donald Trump’s urging against a prosecutor who sued him dozens of times.

On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges related to an August 2020 purchase of the Norfolk property.

According to court documents from Trump’s handpicked prosecutor and former Trump aide Lindsey Halligan, James signed a “second home rider” during the sale, agreeing to keep the property primarily for her “

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