Fed’s Cook Contests ‘Baseless’ Mortgage Fraud Claims to DOJ (3)

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook offered a detailed rebuttal to mortgage fraud allegations made by President Donald Trump and other US officials, arguing in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that the claims “fail on even the most cursory look at the facts.”

Cook’s attorney Abbe Lowell sent a letter on Monday to Bondi and Ed Martin, a senior Justice Department official tapped as a “special attorney” to investigate mortgage fraud, as she presses a legal fight to keep her job. The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Jan. 21 on Cook’s challenge to Trump’s move ...