A relative of Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James became a fugitive from North Carolina authorities after she moved to a Virginia house that has become the focus of James’ federal fraud case, documents show.
Nakia Monique Thompson violated her post-trial supervision after being convicted of assault and battery, second-degree trespass and other threat and assault charges in North Carolina, where authorities are actively seeking her, according to state Department of Adult Correction records. Thompson, James’ great-niece, lived at a Norfolk, Virginia, property owned by James for the past five years, The New York Times reported.
Nakia Monique Thompson is seen in a photo kept by North Carolina authorities. (Image courtesy of North Carolina Department of Adult Correction)
The Democratic prosecutor falsely stated that she lived at the Norfolk home while securing a $109,600 loan for it in 2020, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment against her. The Daily Caller News Foundation stopped by the Norfolk house in April, and James was seemingly nowhere to be found.
James’ office and North Carolina’s Department of Adult Correction did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF. The DCNF could not reach Thompson.
Thompson’s most recent conviction in North Carolina was in 2011 for assault and battery, prison records show. By 2019, she had been charged in Virginia with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, possession of burglary tools, grand larceny, petit larceny and two traffic offenses, according to court records that listed her address in Portsmouth at the time. She was convicted of grand larceny, the burglary tools case was dropped and the two other non-traffic charges were referred to grand jurors with no outcome stated on Virginia’s statewide court database.
Traffic and vehicle-related cases from June 2024 through July 2025 list Thompson living in her Norfolk zip code where James’ property is located.
James brought a civil fraud case against Trump in New York that led to a more than $500 million fine against the president, but an appeals court called it “excessive” in August and threw it out. She previously campaigned on promises to bring legal action against Trump during his first presidency.
The attorney general portrayed her federal charges as a political weaponization of government on Thursday.
“I’m a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today I’m not fearful. I’m fearless,” she said. “And as my faith teaches me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights, and I will continue to do my job,” James said.
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