In Letitia James Case, Some Black Women See Their Own Family Sacrifices NYT | Top Stories By: Troy Closson and Jeffery C. Mays 25 October 2025 at 15:00 The federal indictment of New York’s attorney general centers on a home she purchased for a relative. It is an act that rings deeply familiar to many. © Kent J. Edwards for The New York TimesLupe Todd-Medina, left, a Democratic strategist, and Tyquana Henderson-Rivers, a political consultant, said they are familiar with Letitia James’s impulse to help relatives. “I think it’s in our genetics,” Ms. Henderson-Rivers said.