Tish James Indictment Reverberates in Cuomo-Mamdani Fray
Less than a day after an indictment against Attorney General Letitia James ordered by the president, her case has widened a fault line through the race for mayor — with Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo both claiming the other is not equipped to stand up to President Donald Trump as he sets aim at New York.
James was indicted by a grand jury in Virginia Thursday for alleged bank fraud, after President Donald Trump publicly ordered her prosecution, calling her “guilty as hell” and pushing out a prosecutor who declined to bring the charges.
Numerous New York Democratic Party elected officials rushed to speak up for James, who is facing accusations that she declared a second home her primary residence for purposes of receiving a favorable mortgage rate.
But former governor Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary to Mamdani, put out a statement that mentioned neither James nor Trump — and suggested that abuse of prosecutorial power is a problem that goes beyond the president’s targeting of prominent opposition figures.
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