Hypocrite NY Attorney General Letitia James running afoul of campaign finance laws

ALBANY, NY - What is it with these prosecutors who have made it their life’s work to get former President Donald Trump? First, there was Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, who carried on a sordid affair with the lead prosecutor in the Trump case and who ostensibly used campaign finance money to fund romantic getaways. 

Now, according to ZeroHedge, the insufferable New York attorney general, Letitia James, has spent tens of thousands of dollars on a bevy of personal benefits, much of them funded by mysterious “ghost donors.” 

 An X user named “Mel” (@Villagecrazylady) analyzed one of James’ financial disclosures. “Mel” is Mel Witte, a political scientist and small business owner. ZeroHedge called the findings “damning.” Among expenses dropped by James includes over $15,000 at luxury hotels in Puerto Rico, $20,000 per year in meals (completely believable given James’ physique), $7,000 spent at a New York City nightclub, which she billed as an “office,’ and $84,000 in airfare to jetset about the country. 

 Mel also brought the receipts and posted them on X. One interesting expense was $3,622 at the Hilton in Albany, New York. It should be noted that the capital of New York is in Albany. She dropped another $2,545 in Saratoga Springs, a mere 38-minute commute from the state capitol. One must wonder whom James was entertaining in those two hotels on what must have been many occasions. 

Mel also found James spent over $84,000 on airfare to travel around the U.S., including flights on private jets. 

All told, between 2018 and 2023, James spent $117,648 on hotels, $84,038 on airfare, $101,187 on meals/catering (no surprise there), and $15,913 on car rentals, for a grand total of $384,495. 

One of James’ forays saw her stay at the Beverly Hills Wilshire Hotel, while she also claimed $65,000 in “reimbursements” to “campaign consultants.” One would be curious to know if those “consultants” served in the same capacity as Willis’ love toy, Nathan Wade. 

X user Jim Weed said those reimbursements “could literally be anything.” 

Speaking of campaign consultants, can anyone tell me why a state Attorney General would spend over $300,000 in a single year (2023) on campaign consultants when she *just* won re-election the previous November? What could she possibly be consulting on? Furthermore, why do these million-dollar “campaign consultancy firms” always seem to be run out of random 2-bedroom apartments? 

To be clear, Ms. James isn’t breaking the law with her expenditures. But considering the high bar she set for Trump in his civil fraud case, it’s more than a little galling that she plays so fast and loose with what she deems to be “legitimate campaign expenses.”-@JimBobW49

Mel also found that James claimed office expenses at places such as the New York nightclub, Target, and BJ’s Wholesale Club. 

Last August, James spent $4,335 at Nathan’s Luxlifestyle on Martha’s Vineyard, while in September, she spent $5,122 at the “48 Lounge” in the Big Apple, both coded as “office expenses.” 

So, where does all this money come from? According to America Out Loud News, “ghost donors.” 

What exactly is a “ghost donor?” It is a “sophisticated bot program that uses the names and addresses of real Americans to make donations to political campaigns.” By doing so, people running those donor programs can defeat campaign finance laws. By listing the donations in small-dollar increments, they tend to evade further scrutiny. 

For example, one woman named “Suzanne” from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, made 3,232 individual donations to ActBlue, the Democratic Party's fundraising mechanism, in only one year (2022), totaling $46,193. “Suzanne” from South Dakota also felt compelled to make 25 separate donations totaling $266 to Letitia James and another nine totaling $305 to Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York. 

“Suzanne” is evidently a very busy lady. The outlet reported that she also made donations in Nevada, Idaho, and Virginia. 

“Barbara,” a 71-year-old widow from Silver Springs, Maryland, was also busy. She made 1,547 federal donations to ActBlue totaling over $370,000 and sent $610 among 34 separate transactions to Letitia James. She also made donations in Nevada, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.

Don’t worry…nothing to see here, folks. 

America Out Loud noted that nearly every name researched on Letitia James’ 2022 donor list had at least 200+ donations at the federal level in 2022, with many of them having over 2,000. 

It’s ironic that Letitia James, who is trying to destroy Donald Trump’s life and take away everything he has because he allegedly overvalued his properties (a common occurrence according to many), yet nobody was defrauded, is herself playing fast and loose with campaign money. What a freaking hypocrite, and not a smart one at that. 

Ghost donors are a huge stain on our electoral process, and in most cases, forging names to skirt campaign finance laws would be illegal. However, the election process in our country is clearly broken and desperately needs fixing. Free and fair elections are a hallmark of our Republic. If we have neither, the future isn’t bright for our country. 

Peter Bernegger and his team at www.electionwatch.info have tracked and documented the scourge of ghost donors.