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A prosecutor handpicked by President Trump secured an indictment of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, on bank fraud and false statement charges in the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday after the president publicly demanded she be charged.

The five-page indictment accused Ms. James of falsely claiming in loan documents that she would use a home she purchased in Norfolk, Va., as a secondary residence, and using it instead as a rental investment property, allowing her to receive favorable terms that would save her close to $19,000.

Ever since President Trump took office, New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, has been suing his administration to block policies that she says threaten access to health care or violate privacy laws and the Constitution.

Just nine days ago, her office sued the Department of Homeland Security and its head, Kristi Noem, after it diverted millions in antiterrorism funds from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York’s subways, buses, and commuter rails. On Oct. 1, a judge temporarily blocked the transfer of money.

When Letitia James ran for New York attorney general in 2018, one of her promises was to sue Donald Trump. She called him an “illegitimate president.” She suggested that he could be criminally charged with obstruction of justice.

She said that her decision to seek office was largely “about that man in the White House who can’t go a day without threatening our fundamental rights.”

The animosity between Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, and President Trump goes back years, to Mr. Trump’s first term in office. Here is what led to Ms. James’s indictment on Thursday.

Nov. 6, 2018: Speaking to supporters in Brooklyn on the night she was elected attorney general, Ms. James announced to Mr. Trump: “We here in New York — and I, in particular — we are not scared of you.” She promised to shine “a bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings, and every dealing, demanding truthfulness at every turn.”

For months, high-ranking officials in the Trump administration have accused several of the president’s enemies of mortgage fraud. The two-count indictment of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, is the first of those allegations to appear in the form of criminal charges.

The indictment refers to a home Ms. James purchased in Norfolk, Va., in 2020. It accuses her of having said in loan documents that she would use the home as a secondary residence, but instead she used the home as a rental property. That, they say, violated her mortgage agreement — which barred her from renting the property — and allowed her to receive favorable loan terms.

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President Trump demanded publicly that Attorney General Letitia James of New York be charged. Credit…Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

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