New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on Thursday.
James, 66, a Democrat, was indicted by a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, on one count of bank fraud and a second one of making false statements to a financial institution.
The charges against James were brought one day after former FBI director James Comey, pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
The cases against James and Comey were filed by US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, after the previous prosecutor resigned saying there was not enough evidence against them.
The case against James concerns allegedly false statements she made to obtain favorable loan terms for a property she purchased in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020.
In a statement, James rejected the charges as "baseless" and said they are "nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system."
"The president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution," she said.
Trump recently publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against James, Comey and others.
After Trump left the White House in 2021, James brought a major civil fraud case against him, alleging he and his real estate company had unlawfully inflated his wealth and manipulated the value of properties to obtain favorable bank loans or insurance terms.
A New York state judge ordered Trump to pay $464 million, but a higher court later removed the financial penalty while upholding the underlying judgment.
With AFP
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