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Fired prosecutor to Letitia James: your threats will not compel me to destroy evidence

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Fired Prosecutor Tells Letitia James He Won’t Destroy Evidence, Says Her Detectives Came to His Door

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M.A. Rothman

By M.A. RothmanOctober 6, 2026 · 4 min read
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A fired prosecutor who accused New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office of targeting President Trump without cause says he will not destroy the files he kept, and that James sent detectives from her own protection detail to his front door. In an email to James on Monday, Oct. 5, Daniel Wiesenfeld wrote: “These documents are simply evidence and your threats will not compel me to destroy such evidence.”

The email, obtained by the Albany Times Union and reported by the New York Post, is the latest turn in a fight that began in late August, when Wiesenfeld blasted an accusation across the entire attorney general’s office and was gone within days.

The email that vanished

Wiesenfeld worked in the office’s Investor Protection Bureau. On Aug. 28, he sent an agencywide message alleging that his bureau chief, Shamiso Maswoswe, had instructed him “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump,” according to the Times Union’s copy as reported by Fox News. He said the targets included “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)” and that there was no credible reason to go after them.

He drew the comparison Democrats least want to hear. “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,” he wrote, according to the Post. The Federalist reported that the message also charged that James was “prioritizing political theater and getting re-elected in November.”

The email reached some 2,000 staffers before it was deleted from inboxes. A follow-up message to employees described the matter as “internal.” The office placed Wiesenfeld on administrative leave, and the Times Union reported he was fired on Sept. 5.

The letters, the deadline and the knock on the door

According to Wiesenfeld’s Monday email, the attorney general’s office then escalated. “I am in receipt of your September 18th letter threatening me with ‘professional discipline, as well as civil and/or criminal action’ and your subsequent September 30th letter providing a deadline by 5pm today for me to confirm my destruction of your ‘confidential and/or privileged information’,” he wrote.

Then came the detail that stands out. “You have also commissioned your ‘protection detail’ detectives to repeatedly hound me by banging on my front door,” Wiesenfeld wrote. “Attached is the business card one of them left in my door after their latest intrusion.” The email included a photo of the card, from a detective with the office’s Executive Protection Detail, according to the Post. It was also sent to Kumiki Gibson, the office’s general counsel.

Wiesenfeld said he understands that James is “fearful” of what he might do with the materials ahead of this year’s election, in which she is on the ballot. And he turned her threat around: “If anything, carrying out your threats by bringing this to a legal forum will make this information public.”

The office’s answer

James’ office has treated the episode as an employment dispute. In August, a spokesperson called it “a personnel matter” and said: “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. We strongly reject any assertion to the contrary.”

The office has the right to protect genuinely privileged legal material, and a lawyer’s duties to a former employer do not vanish when he is fired. Wiesenfeld’s allegations have not been tested in any court or independent review, and he has not made the documents public.

The White House has already weighed in. After the August email surfaced, spokesperson Lauren Bis told Fox News it was “more proof of the weaponization of the justice system by Letitia James to target President Trump and her political opponents.”

Why it matters

Letitia James is President Trump’s longtime rival, and her office insists it acts regardless of political beliefs. That makes the accusation from inside her own office especially serious: that the targets came first and the crimes were supposed to be found afterward.

If Wiesenfeld is wrong, the cleanest answer is transparency, not detectives at his door. If, as he says, members of the attorney general’s protection detail were sent to repeatedly knock on the home of a former employee who is accusing the attorney general of political targeting, that is exactly the kind of move that makes an accusation look more credible, not less. An office confident in its own conduct does not need to issue deadlines for a whistleblower to confirm he has destroyed the files.

Wiesenfeld has now said, in writing, that he will not comply, and that if James takes him to court, the documents come out. New Yorkers voting this November should want to know what is in them.

If those files were harmless, James’ office would not be setting deadlines for him to destroy them.

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