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There is a possibility of digging in the Department of Justice Sen. Adam Shif’s hostage paperwork for the purchase of Maryland’s house from the beginning of the 2000s, as it is an airtight case as it is an airtight case, according to the Professor of the Cornell Law School, President Donald Trump has an airtite case to prosecute a long political enemy.
William Jacobson told Fox Digital in a zoom interview, “One thing they do not want to do is to bring a case that fails.” Jacobson is a clinical professor and director of Securities Law Clinic at Cornell.
“Either it legally fails, or it fails in court. They don’t want to lose the case if you are going against a major political rival. And it is part of the calculation that will happen.”
Jacobson talked about the INS and outsiders of the possible legal crisis of the Democratic California Senator after the US Federal Housing Finance Agency, and sent a letter to the DOJ this year, claiming that Chif listed two houses by listing two houses and listed the documents of banking and property documents on two separate coasts – allegedly with their primary efforts to get more favorable locations.
The DOJ has not yet said whether the matter will be raised, but is probably digging in the paper trail of Shif because it weighs what to move forward, Jacobson explained.
Trump accused ‘Scam Artist’ Shif of lying about Maryland’s house
President Donald Trump highlighted 2024 allegations of hostage fraud against Sen Adam Shif, claiming that Shif has refused. (Getty image)
He said, “I hope the first thing is that the Department of Justice is going to collect documents. There will be a paper trail. There will be many things that are documents worthy, and not ‘he said, he said, he said,” he said, “as Adam Shif was really living,” he said.
As investigators undergo documents, they will ask questions such as: What was his real primary residence? What did he sign? Who was present when he signed? Did he talk about it with people?
Professor of law, who founded the popular orthodox legal blog legal rebellion, stated that the case would be likely to be a “important paper trail” due to the case for more than 20 years and due to companies having tight record after the 2008 financial accident.
“Horticulture companies preserve all these things due to financial crisis and other things. They have to maintain these records.
US Attorney General Palm Bondi and President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Shif first fell under investigation in May this year, when the American Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a letter to the Department of Justice, which seemed alarm, “in many examples,” in many examples, “in many examples,” Allegedly “A Potomac, affecting payment from 2003–2019 for a Maryland-based assets, obtained bank documents and property records incorrectly to acquire more favorable debt terms.”
The center of the issue has two properties purchased by Shif: a house purchased in Potomac, Maryland in 2003, $ 870,000 for $ 870,000 for $ 870,000 for $ 610,000 for $ 610,000 for $ 610,000 for $ 610,000 at a rate of 5.625% in a period of 30 years, and 2009 Berbank, California. SCFF confirmed the Potomac property as its major residence in the hostage refinance paperwork in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013, according to the FHFA letter to Doj.
At the same time, Shif took a tax exemption of a homeowner on Berbank Condo, while also claimed that 1% of the house was written in a letter to DOJ, as FHFA Director William Pulte, as his primary residence for a decrease of $ 7,000 in the house.
In 2023, the letter continued, a spokesperson of Shif claimed that “Adam’s primary residence is Burbank, California, and he lives when he wins the Senate seat.”
FHFA is an independent federal agency that oversees Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac and Federal Home Loan Bank System.
Trump called Russia’s connivance Hocx, calling the enemy Chif for a long time to face the prison time.
In 2020, Shif reinforced his hostage, listed his Maryland house as his secondary residence.
Trump publicly slammed Shif on his hostage on Truth Social in July, accused him of cheating and put back the issue on public radar after 2023 news reports at Shif’s homes in Maryland and California.
Trump posted Satya Savest Social Tuesday, Trump posted, “I was always a scam artist.” “And now I know that Fanny Mae’s Financial Crime Division has concluded that Adam Shif has been engaged in a continuous pattern of potential mortgage fraud.”
American Sen Adam Shif was accused of hostage fraud and DOJ was referred to. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“Adam Shif said that his primary residence was to get a cheap hostage in Maryland and to rip the US when he should live in California as he was a Congressman CaliforniaI always knew that Adam Shif was a crook. The fraud began on February 6, 2009 with the refinance of her Maryland property, and continued through several transactions until Maryland’s wealth was correctly nominated as a second home on 13 October 2020. ,
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On July 16, Shif refused and closed the allegations, including refusing to answer questions of Fox News Digital about his alleged mortgage fraud when confronted in the country’s capital.
“Since I led his first impeachment, Trump has repeatedly called me to be arrested for treason. So, a way, I think it’s a lethargy. And this baseless effort on political vengeance will not stop me from justifying him.”
He said, “This is just the latest attempt of Donald Trump on political vengeance against his alleged enemies. So it is not surprising, only how weak this false accusation is.
Shif’s primary residence discrepancies first hit the public radar in 2023, when Shif eventually started a successful campaign to serve the Senate after decades in the US House. CNN published the first news article, stating that Shif claimed Maryland’s house as a primary residence, while the tax exemption of a house owner was also taken on Berbank Condo.
The campaign said at the time that two assets of Shif were listed as primary residences “for debt purposes because they both occupy the whole year and to separate them from the holiday property.”
Trump and Shif have long been a political enemies, which was underlined during Trump’s first administration when Shif served as the chief house manager during the first impeachment test against Trump in 2020, and when Shif repeatedly promoted claims that in Trump’s 2016 campaign. Bumped to Russia,
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Trump first posted about the hostage of Shif in Maryland and California, the President of the National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who allegedly shows “heavy evidence”, which the then President Barack Obama and his national security team did ground work for Trump over the years.Russia’s connivance investigation After Trump’s election victory against former Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Amid claims of Russian collusion, Shif was an incredibly vocal legalist, especially when the House stopped him in his promotion in 2023 that Trump’s 2016 campaign collided with Russia. Shif served in the House representing California from 2001 to 2024, when she was sworn in as a senator after her successful 2024 campaign to serve in the upper chamber of the nation.
Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, talked to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room about the release of declared documents related to Russia Hawks. (Chip Somodeville/Getty Images)
Before the committee’s chair was formed from 2019 to 2023, Shif served as a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee from 2015 to 2019. In that role, he was updated on classified materials around the claims of Russian collusion.
Trump recently invaded Shif on his hostage in another true social post and called for the alleged revelation of Gabbard.
Federal Housing Officer presented a criminal referral to DOJ on hostage documents
Trump warned during a White House program last week that Shif had done a lot of other things than “his mortgage inquiries”.
“They cheated on banks and insurance companies and federal government, but it is very simple. It is very simple. It is hostage debt fraud … but he has a lot of other things. So there is no adam chiff, he has 100% on hostage fraud,” Trump said that Tram was said to be a meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Market Junior on the last Tuesday.
Jacobson said the Democrats boxing themselves with an attempt to claim that Trump hostage is targeting a political enemy on criminal referrals as the party spent starting “Lafe” in Trump in the last decade.
He said, “Here is one of the irony that I think everyone thinks that Democrats launched a lofty campaign against Donald Trump. And this year he did not start it after taking office once. It has been going on for a decade,” he said.
“They have used every tool available to try to destroy her, including criminal prosecution, including a federal investigation. Legally, it is sound.
President Donald Trump arrives in the South Lawn of the White House from Camp David on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.)
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Jacobson estimated that there would be more crisis for Shif in the coming days, but potential legal matters resting on prosecutors.
“We don’t know from where it is moving forward, of course, but it appears that Adam Shif is in the places of Donald Trump. There is no surprise about this, because Donald Trump has been in Adam Chif sites for a decade. Therefore, I fully hope that this will be really more. This question will be really more. What are you doing?”
The Department of Justice refused to comment on a potentially investigating and taking out the Chif case. Shif’s office did not respond to Fox Digital’s request to comment.
Fox News Digital’s Danielle Walece and Peter Doki contributed to the report.