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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has acquiesced to President Trump’s demands that mortgage fraud investigation of New York Attorney General Letitia James move forward.

According to a Bloomberg report sourced from unnamed “people familiar with the matter,” the case is still active within the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia despite the resignation of Interim US Attorney General Erik Siebert, who determined there was a lack of credible evidence to warrant bringing the case to trial. Trump publicly demanded Siebert’s ouster, insisting that James was “very guilty of something.”

Lindsey Halligan, a Trump aide who has no experience as a prosecutor, took over Siebert’s former office on Monday.

The probe into James was sparked by a criminal referral made by Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and is now being led by Ed Martin, who runs the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group. Last month, Martin sent a letter to James’ attorney Abbe Lowell demanding that she resign as an “act of good faith.” Lowell responded with a letter stating Martin was “not conducting a serious investigation or review” but was only trying to serve Trump’s desire to bring revenge on his political adversaries.