WATCH: MSNBC Guest Admits Letitia James Is In Serious Legal Trouble

An MSNBC legal analyst was forced to admit that New York Attorney General Letitia James is in serious legal jeopardy after the Trump Administration announced that it is ramping up its investigations into her conduct on Friday.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had opened a grand jury investigation into New York’s top lawyer focused on possible deprivation of rights allegations surrounding James’ civil case against the president. James — who campaigned on prosecuting Trump by any means necessary — secured a highly controversial civil fraud judgement against Trump and his business organization in 2022.

A jury ruled in the highly controversial verdict that the president’s Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida was only worth between 18 and 35-million-dollars. Trump and his organization is currently appealing the verdict, while real estate experts have admitted the property is worth well north of $400 million.

As a result of the controversial and seemingly politically-motivated nature of the case, Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed a formal investigation into the conduct of James’ office in bringing it against the Democratic Party’s leading political opponent. While the investigation is in its early stages, James’ office has received subpoenas for documents, including those related to her civil fraud case against Trump.

A spokesperson for the far-left New York Attorney General’s Office claimed the investigation was a result of Trump’s “weaponization” of the U.S. Justice Department. “Any weaponization of the justice system should disturb every American,” the spokesperson said. “We stand strongly behind our successful litigation against the Trump Organization and the National Rifle Association, and we will continue to stand up for New Yorkers’ rights.”

Despite James’ denials, a legal analyst on the hyper-partisan MSNBC network admitted that the federal investigations into her conduct are nothing to sneeze at.

“There is nothing scarier for a citizen to get a subpoena or find out that they’re being investigated by a federal criminal grand jury. It’s terrifying,” said Danny Cevallos, a Philadelphia-based attorney and legal analyst for MSNBC.

He then explained that the broad nature of grand jury investigators can often steer prosecutors towards conduct that is outside the scope of the initial basis for any given investigation.

“Grand jury investigations sweep broadly. They gather terabytes of information and they’re very efficient at going through it. And the problem there for people is that they may be investigating issue number one and then stumble across never before known issue number two when going through all those documents,” he said.

“That is why if somebody is the subject, the target of a grand jury investigation, that is not a good sign. So given that the federal government has such tremendous power to investigate, Letitia James should be very concerned.”

Cevallos noted that while an investigation is not evidence of James’ guilt, federal probes often yield results in one form or another. “Not that she necessarily did anything wrong, but because that kind of scrutiny of financial records, of business records, everything, going back probably years, might yield something that the government finds interesting,” the attorney added.

James has already been referred to the Department of Justice for potential criminal investigation in regards to allegations of mortgage fraud.

The New York attorney general stands accused of listing a Virginia property she purchased in 2023 as her “principal residence” despite serving as attorney general of New York at the time. New York requires its attorneys general to live in the state for five years before running for office, and requires them to reside there during their time in office.

A criminal referral sent by Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director William Pulte further alleged that James previously purchased a Brooklyn home in 2001, but has “consistently misrepresented the same property as only having four units in both building permit applications and numerous mortgage documents and applications,” Pulte noted. This could have allowed James to receive a lower mortgage rate and led to lower payments under the federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).

James has enlisted high-powered attorney Abbe Lowell — whose hefty price tag will likely be paid by New York taxpayers — in order to defend herself against the allegations.