Overview
- Prosecutors are conducting an early-stage review of financial dealings between Attorney General Letitia James and stylist Iyesata Marsh, with no charges announced against James.
- Investigators are examining payments from James' 2018 campaign to Marsh, including about $22,000 for a Brooklyn studio rental and roughly $14,000 tied to a musical performance in Albany, according to reports.
- Marsh was separately indicted in December in the Western District of Louisiana on bank fraud and aggravated identity theft charges linked to a 2019 Land Rover purchase.
- A federal judge in New York disqualified an acting U.S. attorney from two other investigations into James and quashed subpoenas after finding he was not lawfully serving.
- An earlier Virginia mortgage-fraud case against James was dismissed over an unlawful appointment, and the Justice Department twice failed to secure a new indictment before appealing.