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Embattled Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook hit with 2nd criminal referral from Trump housing director
NY Post ^ | 8/29/25 | Victor Nava

Posted on 08/29/2025 12:35:08 AM PDT by Libloather

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Pulte discovered that in April 2021, Cook entered a 15-year mortgage for a condominium in Cambridge, Mass., for $361,000, and attested to the lender that the property would serve as a “second home.”

Eight months later, Cook signed a government ethics form and disclosed that the Cambridge property was being used as an “investment/rental property,” according to the Trump administration official.

In four subsequent disclosures, between 2022 and 2025, Cook continued to list her condo as a rental property and not as her “second home.”

“Second homes receive lower mortgage costs than investment properties, because investment properties are inherently riskier,” Pulte noted in his complaint.

“This is extremely troubling because, in addition to other reasons, by potentially falsely representing the property as a second home, Cook may have received savings by not declaring it as an investment property.”

The housing director also found that Cook listed a property in Atlanta as her “personal residence” on government documents from 2022 to 2025, despite evidence suggesting it was being rented out to tenants.”

Similarly, Pulte informed the DOJ that the Federal Housing Finance Agency “has reason to believe” that an Ann Arbor, Mich., property owned by Cook and listed on mortgage documents and on her government disclosures as a personal residence “is being used as a rental property.”

Pulte asked the DOJ to investigate whether Cook “made further potential criminal violations as well as material misrepresentations to the United States Senate and the United States Government in order to, amongst other things, acquire and retain her position as Governor.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: cook; criminal; housing; lisacook; reserve

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The Fed governor responded by suing the president on Thursday, arguing that Trump’s action was illegal and suggesting that she accidentally “mislabeled” one of her homes as a primary residence on a mortgage application four years ago.

It was an accident. Really.

1 posted on 08/29/2025 12:35:08 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

[Joe has just found out that Mike was sleeping with his wife]
Mike Mathews: It just happened, Joe. It...
Joe Hallenbeck: Sure, sure, I know... it just happened. Coulda happened to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, slipped on the floor and accidentally stuck your d**k in my wife. “Whoops! I’m so sorry, Mrs. H. I guess this just isn’t my week.”


2 posted on 08/29/2025 12:54:46 AM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Libloather

Put the lying beotch in jail. Cell block D, your primary home. Prison yard your secondary home. Don’t bitch you’re making $12.58 cents prison pay/day after taxes. 😁


3 posted on 08/29/2025 1:34:38 AM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS )
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To: Libloather

...or the appearence of impropriety...


4 posted on 08/29/2025 1:44:05 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Libloather

And was the income from the rental property reported on her tax returns?


5 posted on 08/29/2025 1:52:42 AM PDT by abb
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To: Libloather

Nobody above the law that includes indignant black women. She still thinks her race card hasn’t been maxed out


6 posted on 08/29/2025 2:51:05 AM PDT by datricker (Go Trump/Vance! )
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To: Libloather

She better pack her crap and get the hell out of that damn office. Handcuffs are coming.


7 posted on 08/29/2025 2:52:59 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Libloather

She continued to do this AFTER Trump was sworn in?!

Note to Deep State: Boy, you REALLY don’t hire the front office appearance types for brains, do you...


8 posted on 08/29/2025 4:18:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

Wanna bet a whole lotta Deep State fraudsters are now desperately trying to amend their paperwork...

NYS has the STAR program for property tax relief for residents.

I wonder how many pols and bureaucrats are cheating on that paperwork...


9 posted on 08/29/2025 4:21:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: Libloather

She will claim it was an “innocent oversight”, and they will let her slide. Anyone else would face repercussions.


10 posted on 08/29/2025 4:43:29 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: abb

Income and depreciation ( required)


11 posted on 08/29/2025 4:50:44 AM PDT by silverleaf (M:“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: datricker

“..Nobody above the law that includes indignant black women. She still thinks her race card hasn’t been maxed out...”

The communist left’s sacred ghettopotumai are above the law due to being a sacred, protected species. The “law” is for the great unwashed masses (that’d be us), NOT the sacred ghettopotomai. No one amongst the great unwashed masses is above the law. The ghettopotomai are not considered part of the great unwashed masses...they’re sacred and very special and are to be treated as such.....Spit.


12 posted on 08/29/2025 4:51:27 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Libloather
Just another GP(Ghettopotamus) making Black Americans look bad.
13 posted on 08/29/2025 4:53:28 AM PDT by 55Ford
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To: Libloather

It sounds like she “mislabeled” her name on the application also. It should have read Crook.


14 posted on 08/29/2025 5:29:10 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Trannies! The Official Haters of the U.S. A.)
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To: Libloather

rules are for peasants


15 posted on 08/29/2025 5:50:25 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: mewzilla

LOTS, this is classic MORTGAGE FRAUD.

Every real estate investor knows that if you buy a rental property you have to put down 25% and will not typically get as low an interest rate. By stating these properties were “second homes” she got a lower payment.
Just like you get better rates and lower down payment on your primary residence.

In addition, multifamily houses with more than three apartments are considered a commercial loan. Again, you have to put down at least 25%. Plus, you will not get as cheap an interest rate.

These are all well known by ANY lender or real estate investor. By lying on the mortgage application, she committed Federal Mortgage Fraud.
She needs to be prosecuted.


16 posted on 08/29/2025 5:59:37 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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By lying on the mortgage application, she committed Federal Mortgage Fraud. She needs to be prosecuted.

I have a sense that this is prevalent in the Dem circles as a way to invest in real estate and I'd look into who is renting these properties. Cambridge, I suspect these are rented to fellow liberal travelers probably on some liberal list floating around. Allows the perp to arrange a friendly solid lease, no riff raff, probably a Harvard employee - thus in 15 years they have a $750,000 asset with hardly any work. It's a payoff scheme I bet.

17 posted on 08/29/2025 6:06:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: know.your.why

LOLOLOL!


18 posted on 08/29/2025 6:27:24 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: 1Old Pro

One of my son’s buddies lives in Cambridge. His rent is over $3500/month for a two bedroom. He splits it with another guy. They are both robotics engineers.
A single bedroom apartment there is at least $2400/month.

Cross the Charles river into Boston and rents are over $4k for a two bedroom.

Boston/Cambridge/Sommerville have 30+ colleges/universities. With many of the kids come from very wealthy families from all around the world. A lot of those Browns stones on Commonwealth Ave are all rented to College students. Sometimes up to 5 or 6 in a two bedroom.

A couple summers back I went to a Red Sox game and parked in the garage under Copley/Back Bay Sheraton. There was a Lambourghini parked in the garage covered in dust. I asked the attendant how long it had been there? He said at least six months(how long he worked there). He said it was some Asian kid going to Harvard or MIT. It hadn’t been moved since he worked there. Someone had written WASH ME and a smiley face on the windshield.


19 posted on 08/29/2025 6:27:30 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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parked in the garage under Copley/Back Bay Sheraton

I know the place, scratched my wife's tailgate lift on the low concrete ceiling there. Very popular, I'd hate to see the bill for parking long term there.

20 posted on 08/29/2025 6:30:09 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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