TISH BOMBSHELL: Letitia James Prosecutor Says AG’s Office Ordered Political Hit Job on Trump and His Allies

Shamiso Maswoswe, a top aide to New York Attorney General Letitia James, allegedly ordered a prosecutor to target President Trump’s allies and organizations affiliated with him. Maswoswe had previously been fired by Trump’s Justice Department in 2017, then sued for race, sex and childcare discrimination—winning a $795,000 settlement from the Biden administration in 2023. The prosecutor who exposed the alleged political targeting was placed on paid leave, while James’ office dismissed the scandal as a “personnel matter.”

And the Letitia James Aide accused of targeting Trump pocketed $795K From Biden DOJ After Trump fired her. Yes, the Biden regime paid him off.

TISH WITCH HUNT

Aide claims AG ordered him to find dirt on Don, allies

By: NY Post, August 31, 2026:

A vet­eran pro­sec­utor in state Attor­ney Gen­eral Leti­tia James’ office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups “affil­i­ated with Don­ald Trump,” accord­ing to a bomb­shell report.

Daniel Wiesen­feld, a former Brook­lyn pro­sec­utor who now works in James’ Investor Pro­tec­tion Bur­eau, said his boss instruc­ted him “to find and pur­sue crimes” com­mit­ted by Trump allies, accord­ing to a since-deleted email obtained by the Albany Times-Union.

PERSECUTORS: In state Attor­ney Gen­eral Leti­tia James’ office, Investor Pro­tec­tion Bur­eau Chief Sham­iso Mas­woswe (above) allegedly dir­ec­ted her team to tar­get Pres­id­ent Trump and his allies, accord­ing to an ex-pro­sec­utor.

Wiesen­feld alleged in his email that Bur­eau Chief Sham­iso Mas­woswe spe­cific­ally dir­ec­ted him to tar­get “Trump him­self, Truth Social, Hew­lett Pack­ard (DOJ approved mer­ger) . . . without hav­ing a cred­ible reason for tar­get­ing the organ­iz­a­tions and indi­vidu­als,” the out­let repor­ted.

The feds recently approved a $14 bil­lion mer­ger between Hew­lettPack­ard and Juni­per Net­works.

“If you believe Trump is using the [Depart­ment of Justice] attor­neys to pro­sec­ute his enemies and fur­ther his polit­ical interests, you should find it equally troub­ling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing,” Wiesen­feld allegedly wrote in the mes­sage, which went to some 2,000 staffers Fri­day before being yanked.

“I ask you that you not serve as Tish’s per­sonal attor­neys by tar­get­ing her polit­ical enemies,” he allegedly wrote. “Instead, I hope you choose to pro­sec­ute crimes and find the indi­vidu­als account­able, rather than tar­get­ing indi­vidu­als and then find­ing crimes.”

‘Weapon­ized’ office
Wiesen­feld asked that col­leagues focus on pro­sec­ut­ing “rampant non­profit home­less shel­ter fraud and anti­semitic crimes in and around syn­agogues,” and accused James of wast­ing “sig­ni­fic­ant pub­lic tax­payer dol­lars to tar­get con­veni­ent pub­lic enemies,” the Times-Union repor­ted.

Pres­id­ent Trump and James are long-stand­ing, bit­ter adversar­ies.

Dur­ing her 2018 cam­paign, James vowed to “pro­sec­ute the pres­id­ent for crimes com­mit­ted in New York state” if she was elec­ted — and kept her word after tak­ing over the office.

In 2024, the state Attor­ney Gen­eral’s Office won a $360 mil­lion civil case against Trump, his sons and his former com­pany for over­stat­ing Big Apple prop­erty val­ues and lying about his wealth — a case later upheld on appeal but without the massive fin­an­cial pay­out.

Trump has cited the case as just one example of James’ attempts to tar­get him unfairly.

Mean­while, Wiesen­feld was placed on paid admin­is­trat­ive leave, with a rep for James call­ing the con­tro­versy “a per­son­nel mat­ter” in a state­ment to the TimesUnion.

“The office of the attor­ney gen­eral is com­mit­ted to uphold­ing New York’s laws and pro­tect­ing the rights and freedoms of all New York­ers, regard­less of polit­ical beliefs,” the state­ment said. “We strongly reject any asser­tion to the con­trary.”

However, state GOP lead­ers slammed James over the leaked email’s claims.

“Leti­tia James weapon­ized the attor­ney gen­eral’s office into a polit­ical hit squad and then tried to cover up her tracks,” state Repub­lican Chair­man Ed Cox told The Post on Sunday. “She is utterly unfit to serve.

“New York­ers deserve an attor­ney gen­eral who pro­sec­utes crim­in­als, pre­serves pub­lic records and enforces the law without fear or favor,” Cox added.

“When Saritha is attor­ney gen­eral, she will instruct her attor­neys to lock up repeat offend­ers, build res­id­en­tial treat­ment for the home­less and root out fraud — not tar­get people because of their polit­ics,” said Nicole Kiprilov, spokes­per­son for Repub­lican attor­ney gen­eral can­did­ate Saritha Komatireddy.

“It’s good to see that even the rank-and-file in the AG’s office agree that this is the right way for­ward. Let’s work together — across par­tisan lines — and cre­ate a safer, more afford­able New York.”