{"id":7728,"date":"2026-08-31T04:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2026-08-31T04:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:10:13","slug":"miranda-devine-ag-letitia-james-turns-evil-eye-on-trump-and-blind-eye-to-ny-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7728","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: AG Letitia James turns evil eye on Trump \u2014 and blind eye to NY crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We know Trump-deranged New York Attorney General Letitia James campaigned on jailing the president, but an explosive all-staff email from one of her star prosecutors Friday claims her office explicitly directed him to \u201cfind and pursue crimes\u201d to pin on Donald Trump and his allies, according to the Albany Times- Union.<\/p>\n

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In a bridge-burning email to 2,000 colleagues at 10 a.m. Friday, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld claimed that he had been instructed by his supervisor \u201cto find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best part of having f\u2013k you money is being able to tell the truth, without fear of consequences so here we go,\u201d his email began, before listing James\u2019 efforts to frame Trump, according to a readout provided to The Post.<\/p>\n

Wiesenfeld, 34, alleged his boss, bureau chief Shamiso Maswoswe, directed him to target \u201cTrump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger) .\u2009.\u2009. without having a credible reason for targeting these organizations and individuals .\u2009.\u2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresumably she acted at the behest of Tish [James] .\u2009.\u2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cTish\u2019s personal grudges with Trump sets the agenda. Find a crime and any crime of his would do.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed out that James is using \u201csignificant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies\u201d while ignoring \u201crampant non-profit homeless shelter fraud, Medicaid fraud, and crimes in and around synagogues,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cTish is prioritizing political theater and getting re-elected in November over actually improving the quality of life of New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing after Trump, even unsuccessfully, wins elections in New York. Tracking down inconspicuous and very real crimes does not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within an hour of Wiesenfeld pressing send, his email was remotely deleted from the inboxes of all employees in a major damage-control operation, and vanished from the department\u2019s servers so quickly that some employees did not have a chance to read it.<\/p>\n

Soon after, an agency-wide email was sent by James\u2019 general counsel, Kumiki Gibson, telling employees not to worry about Wiesenfeld\u2019s communications, which were an \u201cinternal\u201d matter. Gibson added that nobody in the office was \u201cin danger,\u201d a curious comment reported by the Times- Union.<\/p>\n

Wiesenfeld, a prosecutor in the Investor Protection Bureau section of the AG\u2019s Financial District headquarters on Liberty Street, has been placed on paid administrative leave.<\/p>\n

He was unavailable for comment. Reached by phone on Sunday, his father, also Daniel Wiesenfeld, said his son was not talking to the media at this stage. He would not elaborate on what his son meant by having \u201cf\u2013k you money,\u201d but said he is a \u201cvery good person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wrong priorities<\/h2>\n

Wiesenfeld, 34, was a J.D. candidate, Class of 2018, at NYU Law School and editor of Quorum, NYU\u2019s online-only Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. He moved from the Brooklyn DA\u2019s Office, where he earned a salary of $115,000 working on domestic violence and other criminal cases, to join the state AG\u2019s office in June 2024 so that he could be of greater service to New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a very, very good solid guy, very dedicated,\u201d says his \u00adfather.<\/p>\n

Wiesenfeld is spot on in his criticism of James\u2019 abuse of her office. Since coming to office in 2019, she has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on selective prosecutions and political games that do nothing to keep New Yorkers safe.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the antisemitism that has engulfed this city for the past three years, she has been AWOL. She ignored the plight of New York Jews harassed in the street and blocked from entering synagogues by pro-Hamas mobs. Yet she found the time to go after Betar, a small Zionist group that used to stage counterprotests to defend Jews, with James accusing them of waging a \u201ccampaign of violence, harassment, and intimidation against Arab, Muslim, and Jewish New Yorkers.\u201d Under the threat of a $50,000 fine, her office forced Betar to close down its New York operations.<\/p>\n

Medicaid fraud convictions have plummeted on James\u2019 watch to one or two a year, but nobody believes that the $100 billion a year program is squeaky clean, least of all the Department of Health and Human Services, which has frozen federal grant money over allegations of uninvestigated fraud. The Department of Justice is suing New York over a $10 billion home-care program.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the same with homeless-shelter fraud in New York, with nepotism, no-bid contracts and astronomical executive pay going unchecked.<\/p>\n

The double standards are staggering. It\u2019s only surprising that more prosecutors haven\u2019t quit.<\/p>\n

Every week<\/em>, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on \u2018Pod Force One.\u2019 Subscribe here!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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