🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION 🚨
How Letitia James paid the Governor's husband's law firm — and got a $10 million legal shield in return.
📄 Full exposé with source documents:
➡️ https://whitecollarfraud.com/2025/06/17/the-483000-question-how-james-directed-funds-to-the-governors-husbands-firm-before-her-10m-shield/
Here’s what the records show:
🔸 For 14 months, Davis Polk (now employer of William Hochul) had a dormant $325K contract with James’s office.
🔸 $0 in payments. Nothing moved.
🔸 Then in Jan 2024, Gov. Hochul’s husband joined Davis Polk’s White Collar Defense unit.
🔸 One month later, the expired contract was filed or approved — 401 days after it began, 37 days after it expired.
🔸 By April 30, 2024, payments began:
✔️ $231K first payment
✔️ $483,404 total by June 2025 — from James’s office alone
📅 May 8, 2025:
▪️ The Guardian reports a federal grand jury investigating James
▪️ NY Post confirms an FBI probe
▪️ Same day: Hochul’s budget passes — with a $10M taxpayer-funded legal shield for state officials under federal investigation
This isn’t speculation.
It’s a documented financial exchange:
🧾 A contract goes dormant
👔 The Governor’s husband joins the firm
💰 Payments start flowing
🛡️ Then comes the $10M protection — the same day federal scrutiny escalates
