In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Antar said he worked alone and was the first to unearth documentation of James’ alleged mortgage fraud and posted it to his White Collar Fraud website weeks ago.

He said the strength of his findings, backed by his renowned reputation in the field of uncovering white-collar fraud for the government, eventually led to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) picking up the case and sending a criminal referral to the Justice Department.

“It’s not the Trump administration at war with Tish James, it’s me bringing her to accountability and justice,” Antar told Fox News Digital. “I’m not the Trump administration. I was investigating Tish James because that is what I do.”

“I took all kinds of risks doing it, from retaliation, to libel, to reputational risk. But I stand by everything.”

New York State Attorney General Letitia James is being accused of mortgage fraud. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Antar said his findings were all uncovered independently by him and that he is not working for the government by looking into James. Fox News Digital asked the FHFA and the White House to corroborate his claims but did not receive a response. 

“Everything that I’ve done is thoroughly documented,” said Antar, who said he’s a Democrat. “This is not bullying. This is not the Trump administration at war. Trump has his own agenda. I don’t care. I am not Donald Trump. All I did was, I did my forensic accounting and I thoroughly documented everything that I did.”

Antar’s investigations uncovered documents stretching back as far as 1983, which he said indicate James may have been misrepresenting her financial situation for decades in order to nail sweetheart loans from lenders.

The FHFA accuses James of falsifying records to meet certain lending requirements and score favorable loan terms. 

James, 66, denies the allegations and claims Trump is behind the move, calling it a “revenge tour” for the $454 million civil fraud lawsuit she successfully spearheaded against him last year. Trump and the Trump Organization are currently appealing. 

In Trump’s civil fraud case, the then-presidential candidate was accused of financial misrepresentation and providing false statements about his real estate, the same types of crimes James is being accused of by the FHFA. 

Antar told Fox News Digital that he started digging into James’ records months ago after he looked into the costs of her private flight travel as attorney general.

President Donald Trump, center, sits in the courtroom at New York Supreme Court on Oct. 2, 2023, in New York, during the start of a civil trial alleging he committed fraud in his business dealings. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Meanwhile, James, who never married, is also accused of saying her father was her husband to obtain two mortgages in Queens as a married couple. The documents allegedly show that the property James purchased with her father had both parties listed as “husband and wife” in 1983 and 2000. 

“While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James representations on mortgage applications,” Pulte wrote.

Lowell, who accused the FHFA of “cherry-picking,” writes the deed lists her father “and Letitia James, his daughter.'” 

“As I have set forth, the exhibits Director Pulte included with his letter are notable for the fact that he omitted numerous other records (some of which we have included) which refute the allegations of impropriety, and make clear that a mistake on one line had no significance,” Lowell wrote.

“If there is anything that you believe I have not addressed in the real facts and documents provided, please let me know. Otherwise, we would expect a quick response confirming that this referral matter has been closed by the Department.” 

Antar, meanwhile, continues to back his findings. 

“I documented everything that I did,” he said. “And I stand by everything I did. I did this on my own time, my own dime.”