Mortgage fraud case reignites debate over Lisa Cook’s Federal Reserve role
By Randy DeSoto | The Western Journal
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte shared a journalist’s video on Tuesday that he said offers proof that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook engaged in mortgage fraud.
President Donald Trump fired Cook, a Biden appointee, last month over allegations of wrongdoing in relation to two mortgages she took out in 2021. In loan applications filled out within weeks of each other, she allegedly listed both a home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a condo in Atlanta, Georgia, as her primary residence.
Loans for “primary residences,” as the Reuters news agency noted, “can carry easier terms than those for second homes or investment properties.”
Cook has refused to leave her job as governor, and the Federal Res...

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