Top NY attorney general aide resigns following inquiry into sexual harassment allegations

Misty Severi

December 02, 06:16 PM December 02, 06:16 PM

The chief of staff to New York Attorney General Letitia James resigned on Friday following a private investigation into sexual harassment allegations, James's office said in a statement.

Ibrahim Khan, who served as James's chief of staff for nearly a decade, was accused of inappropriate touching and unwanted kissing by at least one unnamed woman in October. An independent law firm was hired to investigate the accusations but found no official workplace misconduct.

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“The office of attorney general has protocols in place to thoroughly investigate any allegation of misconduct,” a spokeswoman for James told the New York Times. “The office takes these matters with the utmost seriousness, and this situation is no different. An independent, impartial investigation was conducted, and the employee has since resigned.”

Khan has denied that his resignation had to do with the investigation, claiming he was already going to resign at the end of James's first term as the state's lead law enforcement officer. James was recently reelected to a second four-year term during the midterm elections last month.

“After a successful four-year term, I’ve been slated to leave the office for the private sector at the end of this year,” Khan told Bloomberg. “This is unrelated to an investigation, which nevertheless found no official workplace misconduct. I’m proud of all we have achieved over these past four years in serving New Yorkers.”

At least one other sexual harassment allegation has been made against Khan, with both allegations filed anonymously. However, neither accuser was a current employee, Bloomberg reported.

Khan first began working as a spokesman for James in 2013 during her campaign for New York City public advocate and was promoted to her chief of staff when she took office. Khan also served as James's campaign manager when she ran for her first term as attorney general in 2018.

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Khan remained James's chief of staff during her investigation into sexual harassment allegations against then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year. The investigation determined at least 11 women had been sexually harassed by Cuomo during a seven-year period, and Cuomo resigned last August.

The Washington Examiner reached out to James's office for comment.

Trump files lawsuit to halt New York AG from appointing watchdog to review trust

Rachel Schilke

November 03, 10:21 AM November 03, 10:21 AM

Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against New York Attorney General Letitia James to prevent her from appointing a watchdog on a revocable trust, saying she is embarking on a "crusade" against him.

In the 41-page lawsuit filed in Florida's 15th Judicial Circuit Court, Trump argued that the watchdog would be "prying" because he uses the trust to manage his assets, he said in a statement on Wednesday, per the Hill.

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“Crooked and highly partisan James now thinks it is the business of the State of New York to go after my revocable trust and pry into my private estate plan, only to look for ways to recklessly injure me, my family, my businesses, and my tens of millions of supporters," Trump wrote.

He added that if he were "not elected President of the United States, and now leading in the polls by substantial margins against both Democrats and Republicans, this would not be happening."

Trump is also facing a tax fraud lawsuit unveiled by James in September that is investigating the former president and three of his adult children for fraudulent business practices, seeking a minimum punishment of $250 million.

James has accused Trump of falsely inflating and deflating his assets to pay lower taxes and get better insurance coverage. She also alleged that he overstated his net worth by billions of dollars. All of the defendants have denied wrongdoing.

The former president filed a similar lawsuit in Manhattan last week asking the court to stop James from appointing the watchdog, saying it would nationalize his company, which violates the Constitution.

Trump argued in the Florida lawsuit that the watchdog appointment and James's control of his trust would be a deprivation of privacy and property rights.

The lawsuit said James is “guided solely by political animus and a desire to harass, intimidate, and retaliate against President Trump.”

New York legal professional typical seeks to accelerate Trump fraud go well with

Misty Severi

September 30, 08:44 PM September 30, 08:44 PM

New York Attorney Normal Letitia James is trying to get to expedite her $250 million lawsuit against previous President Donald Trump and his business, in accordance to a court document.

James introduced her intention to start out a trial for the lawsuit before 2024, boasting the fraud is aspect of an "ongoing scheme" and must thus be dealt with immediately. James also questioned that Justice Arthur Engoron neglect the case, as he presided more than disputes in between James's and Trump's legal groups previously.

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"[The Office of the Attorney General] intends to search for an expedited preliminary convention to established a trial date prior to the stop of 2023," James claimed in a letter to New York's chief administrative choose on Thursday, according to ABC News. "Making it possible for for an expedited demo agenda on an enforcement continuing following comprehensive litigation above subpoena enforcement is specifically the circumstance that warrants holding this scenario ahead of Justice Engoron in the interests of judicial economic system."

Trump petitioned for a new decide in the scenario just after Engoron held him in contempt for not complying with a subpoena in the investigation. Having said that, James's workplace claimed that Engoron was currently acquainted with the case and that assigning a new choose would need a new particular person to look at 1000's of files relevant to the situation.

James declared the lawsuit past 7 days, alleging that Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, and two other company executives participated in a yearslong plan that falsely inflated the organization's net value by billions of bucks.

"Mr. Trump and the Trump Group continuously and persistently manipulated the value of belongings to induce financial institutions to lend money to the Trump Business on more favorable terms than [what] would if not have been readily available to the enterprise," James discussed in the course of a push celebration.

The lawsuit also seeks to revoke the organization's small business certificate, which would make it almost impossible to do company in the point out.

All defendants have denied any wrongdoing.