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The American Center for Law and Justice says it has obtained internal emails exposing alleged rampant corruption inside New York Attorney General Letitia James's office — including a whistleblower's account that prosecutors were ordered to dig up crimes against President Trump even when no evidence existed.
Watch: The ACLJ's Sekulow team breaks down the whistleblower email.
The whistleblower is Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld, a prosecutor in the office's Investor Protection Bureau. According to the emails, Wiesenfeld sent a message to more than 2,000 of his colleagues saying his bureau chief, Shamiso Maswoswe, had instructed him to "find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump" — without, in his words, "a credible reason for targeting these individuals and organizations." The email named the targets: Trump himself, Truth Social, and Hewlett Packard.
What happened next is part of the scandal. The email was quickly deleted from the office's servers and vanished from employees' inboxes. Attorney General James's general counsel, Kumiki Gibson, then sent a follow-up agency-wide message telling staff the episode was an "internal" matter and that nobody was "in danger." A copy of Wiesenfeld's original email was obtained by the Times Union, which made it public.
Wiesenfeld has since gone further. In an exclusive interview, he said the Trump probe was kept alive even after a yearlong investigation turned up no wrongdoing — and that the call came from the top. Bureau Chief Maswoswe, he said, agreed the case should be closed but lacked the authority: the decision belonged to James herself. "Tish was the boss, and what Tish wanted, Tish got. So we had to keep going," Wiesenfeld said. He also accused the office of threatening him over documents he described as evidence of the alleged corruption.
James's office has pushed back hard. It placed Wiesenfeld on paid administrative leave, called the dispute a "personnel matter," and said he was terminated for cause after violating legal and professional requirements. The office strongly rejected any suggestion of politically motivated law enforcement, saying it enforces New York law regardless of political beliefs.
The backdrop is years of legal warfare between James and Trump. As New York's attorney general, James brought the civil fraud case against the Trump Organization that produced a massive judgment in 2024 — a penalty later deemed unconstitutional and overturned. She campaigned on pursuing Trump, and her office has been a central engine of the lawfare against him. The ACLJ, the conservative legal organization founded by Jay Sekulow, has now taken up Wiesenfeld's cause, arguing the emails prove what Trump's supporters long claimed: the target was picked first, and the crime was supposed to follow.
If the whistleblower's account holds, it means one of the most powerful law enforcement offices in the country was run as a hit squad with a name already filled in. James's office says that's false and that Wiesenfeld is a disgruntled ex-employee. Either way, the emails are out — and the question of who was hunting whom isn't going away.