By Kaitlan Collins
更新于14分钟前
更新于2026年3月25日，美国东部时间晚上7:46
发布于2026年3月25日，美国东部时间晚上7:01
唐纳德·特朗普总统的高级住房官员比尔·普尔特周三向纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯发出两项新的刑事举报，试图重启政府对其政治对手的持续法律追究。
据一位知情人士透露，联邦住房金融局局长普尔特向司法部提交了两份举报，一份是给伊利诺伊州北区美国检察官办公室，另一份是给佛罗里达州南区美国检察官办公室。
两份举报均指控存在“涉嫌房主保险欺诈”行为。
一份举报称，詹姆斯在为其位于弗吉尼亚州诺福克的房产提交房主保险申请时，“可能欺诈了一家伊利诺伊州的公司——好事达保险公司”。另一份举报则称，她可能在向佛罗里达州劳德代尔堡的环球财产保险公司提交房主保险申请时实施了同样行为。
两份举报均引用了特朗普的长期法律顾问迈克·戴维斯在社交平台X上发布的帖子。
美国司法部发言人告诉CNN：“司法部可以确认，我们已收到美国检察官办公室的举报。”
詹姆斯的律师阿贝·洛厄尔指责政府继续进行“不当报复运动，而非帮助降低美国不断上涨的生活成本”。
洛厄尔在给CNN的声明中表示：“由于多次失败——法官和大陪审团驳回了他们对詹姆斯总检察长的指控尝试——特朗普及其政治支持者不断滥用职权，试图通过重新命名、重新提交和重复无根据的指控来对她进行报复。他们继续这种不当报复运动，而非帮助降低美国不断上涨的生活成本。这些绝望的策略将会失败——就像之前的每一次尝试一样——这暴露了一个政府为了 petty political payback（注：此处原文为petty political payback，指 petty政治报复，中文语境中保留“政治报复”更准确）而抛弃了对美国人民的责任。”
如果联邦检察官根据普尔特的建议提起新的指控，此案可能与去年特朗普司法部在弗吉尼亚州东区对詹姆斯提起的失败的欺诈案极为相似。
普尔特的新举报似乎涉及与弗吉尼亚州联邦案件核心相关的同一处房产，詹姆斯对此否认有罪，且法官认定美国检察官办公室未提出有效指控。不过，新的举报可能会在另一个联邦司法管辖区进行调查。
詹姆斯于2025年10月被起诉，罪名是向金融机构作虚假陈述和银行欺诈各一项。她对这两项指控均不认罪，但由于法官认定特朗普任命的弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市临时美国检察官林赛·哈利根无效，案件最终被驳回。
本文已更新补充更多细节。
CNN的凯特琳·波兰特对本文有贡献。
Top Trump housing official issues new criminal referral for New York AG Letitia James
By Kaitlan Collins
Updated 14 min ago
Updated Mar 25, 2026, 7:46 PM ET
PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2026, 7:01 PM ET
President Donald Trump’s top housing official Bill Pulte issued two new criminal referrals for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday, attempting to revive the administration’s ongoing legal pursuit of one of his political opponents.
According to a person familiar with the matter, Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, issued two referrals to the Justice Department, one to the US Attorney for Northern District of Illinois and another to the US Attorney for Southern District of Florida.
Both alleged “suspected homeowners insurance fraud.”
One referral alleges James “may have defrauded” an “Illinois-based company, Allstate” when she submitted a homeowners insurance application for her Norfolk, Virginia, property. The other alleges she may have done so on her homeowners insurance application to a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based company, Universal Property Insurance.
Both referrals cite posts on X by Mike Davis, a longtime Trump legal adviser.
A DOJ spokesperson told CNN, “The Department of Justice can confirm that referrals were received by our US Attorney Offices.”
An attorney for James, Abbe Lowell, accused the administration of continuing an “improper revenge campaign instead of helping bring down the rising cost of living in this country.”
“Frustrated by repeated failures, where judges and grand juries have rejected their attempts to charge Attorney General James, Trump and his political enablers keep abusing their power to pursue a vendetta against her by trying to rename, refile, and repeat baseless allegations,” Lowell said in a statement to CNN.
“They continue this improper revenge campaign instead of helping bring down the rising cost of living in this country. These desperate tactics will fail — just as every previous attempt has failed — and exposes an Administration that has abandoned its responsibility to the American people in favor of petty political payback.”
If federal prosecutors were to pursue a new set of charges based on Pulte’s recommendation now, the case may look substantially like the Trump Justice Department’s failed fraud case last year against James in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Pulte’s new referrals appear to be about the same house that was central to the Virginia-based federal case, to which James pleaded not guilty and a judge found wasn’t charged by a valid US Attorney. The new referrals, however, could potentially be investigated in another federal court district.
James was indicted in October 2025 on one count of making false statements to a financial institution and one count of bank fraud. She pleaded not guilty to the two charges, but the case was ultimately dismissed after the judge found that Trump’s appointment of interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan in Alexandria, Virginia, was invalid.
This story has been updated with additional details.
CNN’s Katelyn Polantz contributed to this report.
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