Guest post by Joel Gilbert
Letitia James has “Daddy issues”. The New York State Attorney General who hounded President Trump appears to have been acting out a vendetta against her own father. No rational explanation accounts for her reckless attacks on Trump, especially given her own checkered history of possibly illegal real estate transactions.
James’s father, Robert James, was born in South Carolina in 2016. He married Letitia’s mother, Nellie, and set out to build a future in New York City. They had eight children together, including Letitia. For many years, the sprawling family shared just 1,100 square feet of living space in a 2-bedroom 2-bath rental apartment at 44 Butler Place in Brooklyn.
When Letitia was a teen, her father abandoned the family and moved in with his girlfriend, Joyce Mosby.
Mother Nellie was left alone in their rental apartment to tend to her eight children, Letitia included. Nellie paid the bills from her job at AT&T where she would work for 25 years.
Although he never did not buy a home for his wife and his eight children, Robert James bought a two-story detached frame single family home in 1979 with girlfriend Joyce Mosby at 114-32 167th Street in the Jamaica section of Queens, New York.
The home was situated on a 2,500 square foot lot and featured 1,280 square feet of living space. One can only imagine how her father’s abandonment for a girlfriend and a suburban home of their own made teenager Letitia feel.
After graduating from Lehman College in the Bronx in 1982, with a major in social work, Letitia had had enough of living in a crowded two-bedroom family apartment. In 1983, she identified a small, 888-square-foot two-story townhome at 114-04 Inwood Street in Queens.
Letitia apparently recruited her father to pose as her husband in order to qualify for a loan to buy the home.
According to New York City Department of Finance records, on May 20, 1983, Letitia James and her father, Robert James, took out a real estate loan from Kadilac Funding Ltd for $30,300 as “husband and wife.”
The husband and wife borrowers can be seen in capital letters on the very top of the first page of the loan document and on the signature page, which reads “ROBERT JAMES AND LETITIA JAMES, HIS WIFE”.
It is illegal for a father and daughter to falsely represent themselves as husband and wife to obtain a mortgage loan. This would constitute mortgage fraud, which is a serious offense under federal and state laws.
Mortgage fraud can include “False Representation,” defined as “providing misleading or false information on a loan application” and “Misrepresentation of Relationship,” defined as “lying about marital status to qualify for better loan terms.” It does not appear to have troubled James to put her father in harm’s way.
Here’s another document with Letitia signing as his father’s wife.
Other than the fake paper marriage to her father, Letitia James has never been married. Even more curious, she has no obvious record of having dated anyone – boyfriend or girlfriend. There has been speculation about whether James is a lesbian, but there’s never been any evidence.
Children are significantly affected by the separation of their parents, experiencing a range of negative outcomes that can persist into adulthood.
A female child especially may experience a range of emotional, psychological, and behavioral effects when her father leaves home, especially for another woman.
Meanwhile, the disruption of a stable father-daughter bond can affect a woman’s ability to trust others, potentially influencing future relationships.
Women may struggle with forming secure attachments or fear abandonment in romantic relationships later in life. Some children may act out with defiance, aggression, and experience anger and rebellion.
Letitia James has a well-documented history of vitriolic rants against President Trump. Indeed, she ran for the office of attorney general promising to arrest and prosecute Trump, who then lived in Florida.
Once elected, Letitia pursued a civil lawsuit against Trump and the Trump Organization, alleging that they engaged in financial fraud by inflating asset values to secure favorable loans and insurance terms. Letitia attended court and reveled in the Trump conviction.
Ironically, by pretending to marry her father to obtain a home loan in 1983, along with her false representations in her mortgage application for a federal HAMP (TARP) refinance loan in 2011, Letitia James appears to have been engaged in mortgage fraud herself.
If there is no better explanation, Letitia enlisted her father in this fraud and later pursued Trump with a passion that transcended politics. She had to know that investigators would one day comb through her records and find behavior that resembled the misbehavior she accused Trump of doing. Was Letitia’s rage against Trump, in fact, a form of revenge against a father who had abandoned her? If so, her self-therapy unwittingly helped Daddy Trump get re-elected.
Joel Gilbert, is a Los Angeles-based film producer, and president of Highway 61 Entertainment. He is on Twitter: @JoelSGilbert.
