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No. of Recommendations: 25
Turns out the Federal Reserve governor did tell her lender that the property she was purchasing was not her primary residence but would be used as a vacation home.
WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
The document, dated May 28, 2021, was issued to Cook by her credit union in the weeks before she completed the purchase and shows that she had told the lender that the Atlanta property wouldn’t be her primary residence. The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence, two independent real-estate experts said.Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, should resign.
Trumpedo should apologize.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fed-governor-cook...
No. of Recommendations: 11
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, should resign.
For those who did not make the connection, he is the grandson of the founder of Pulte Group, a major builder of mcmansions. So, he is now in charge of a major part of the home financing industry, because conflict of interest is a "traditional American family value".
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 9
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, should resign.
There should be a full and transparent investigation into how Pulte's investigation came about. Why were we looking at everyone's mortgages? Not everyone's, just hers? Off with his head! (Not really, just a reference to Alice.)
No. of Recommendations: 3
Sorry. I agree completely, but still, the hope that there is a shred of integrity or honesty in this administration is a hope misplaced and always unfounded.
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, should resign.
Trumpedo should apologize.
No. of Recommendations: 10
Sorry. I agree completely, but still, the hope that there is a shred of integrity or honesty in this administration is a hope misplaced and always unfounded.Recall how fast "his nibs" laid off most of the departmental Inspector Generals, who look for corruption in departmental operations.
2025 dismissals of U.S. inspectors generalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_U...Steve
No. of Recommendations: 9
not only are several trump officials also suspected (cook seems innocent) of such mortgage claims.
but it seems pulte fits right on with the importance and quality of typical MAGA strategic sessions :
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/549224...dont worry, no actual gop are ever in danger of being hurt in the trump man-o-sphere.
No. of Recommendations: 1
If she DID IT -good for her, Many people do it, banks look the other way, AND, barring all that I am a firm believer in and practitioner of the mindset that all of your shit institutions, laws, and normas ----should be circumvented when it's to one's benefit. So i'd have applauded her smarts for doing it and i'm sort of disappointed in her for not doing it.'
BUT if she's innocent I would hope somebody gets on hell of a libel suit.
It's bullshit to accuse her of a crime so publicly ----people who did it should not get away with it.
But then again who knows - it's not like you people are a first world society :)
No. of Recommendations: 8
Recall how fast "his nibs" laid off most of the departmental Inspector Generals.
It was pretty brutal. Add to that the purge of JAG Corps judge advocates.
Trump has truly set himself up as The Decider.
Checks and balances?
We don’t need no stinkin’ checks and balances.
No. of Recommendations: 1
A Constitutional way of life requires checks and balances.
What you got .....partially due to culture and arrogance.....doesn't require that many checks.
But, one day it might again.
Just not today.
Isn't it a pleasure to watch? Sadly the fun times will end but until then.... :)
No. of Recommendations: 3
When we bought our eventual retirement home we did so with the plan to use it as a vacation rental - that way we would still use it when we wanted but could earn some income to take the edge off the 2nd mortgage.
When it came time to do the financing we were looking at rates with our mortgage lender guy. He showed us the rates for renting vs. not renting. Renting the property costs a half a point on your APR.
His advice was to not tell the bank we were planning on renting. I looked at him and said, “You understand that’s mortgage fraud, right?”
We disclosed the intent to rent and paid the extra half point. We eventually stopped renting it and re-fi’d it down.
So Lisa Cook damn well committed mortgage fraud. What makes it worse is that she a Fed governor, one of the people in charge of the economy and more than anyone else should be held accountable for what goes on in the financial markets.
Integrity. Sometimes it costs you half a point on your mortgage but I’d rather have that than the money.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Integrity.
Kudos to you, Dope.
Seriously.
No. of Recommendations: 5
So Lisa Cook damn well committed mortgage fraud.
How? Did she rent out the property? If you get a vacation home and don't have the intent to rent it, then later decide to rent it and are not thinking about the mortgage - what then? You haven't shown how you think she committed fraud.
No. of Recommendations: 10
So Lisa Cook damn well committed mortgage fraud.
You lie--again.
The filed paperwork shows the property as a "vacation" home.
Thus, the only people lying are the ones KNOWINGLY committing libel against her.
YOU committed libel against her--and you know it.
No. of Recommendations: 6
Thus, the only people lying are the ones KNOWINGLY committing libel against her.Ah, but, that faction insists, they have unlimited "free speech" rights. It's only the other side that does not have "free speech".
Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting
Among those to have been fired, suspended or censured in recent days for their opinions include teachers, firefighters, journalists, politicians, a Secret Service employee, a junior strategist at Nasdaq and a worker for a prominent NFL team.
The dismissals come as the administration of Donald Trump promises to take action against foreign nationals it deems to be “praising, rationalizing or making light of” Kirk’s killing, himself a fervent free speech advocate.https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/articles/seve...Sean Hannity libels people as part of his daily routine, but he is part of the faction that enjoys unlimited "rights".
Steve...."rights" for the right, but no-one else?
No. of Recommendations: 6
Thus, the only people lying are the ones KNOWINGLY committing libel against her.
YOU committed libel against her--and you know it.
Yes, but he did it with integrity!
No. of Recommendations: 2
Yes, but he did it with integrity!
All things at all times, baby.
No. of Recommendations: 8
Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting
And why should Kirk, even now, be above criticism? He's held some truly awful political positions and said many truly hateful things.
Fine...that was his right, but people should be free to criticize him.
WTF is happening to our country?
No. of Recommendations: 1
And why should Kirk, even now, be above criticism? Because only the right has "rights"? Kirk becomes deified as the new Horst Wessel, a martyr to the cause, murdered by "Commies".
Remember the first verse of the "Horst Wessel" song, written by Wessel, a year before he was murdered?
Raise the flag! The ranks tightly closed!
The SA marches with calm, steady step.
Comrades shot by the Red Front and reactionaries
March in spirit within our ranks.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-LiedSteve
