Bill Pulte Sends Second Criminal Referral on Embattled Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook

Housing regulator Bill Pulte sent a second criminal referral on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook after she was allegedly caught lying about a third property.

Bunk had her eye on Cook way back in the day. Back in 2022 from a previous post:

Did Radical Fed Reserve Candidate Pad Resume?

Senator Hagerty calls for further investigation into candidate Lisa Cook. She is not the only one. There are three nominees for the Federal Reserve that should give us pause. Biden is determined to put radical candidates in positions that control our monetary policies. A recent hearing got zero news coverage of the three candidates for the Federal Reserve but it should have. One candidate in particular, Lisa Cook could spell dire consequences. Tucker Carlson this week commented on one aspect of a little thing of her padding her resume. But the bigger issues remains. Included in the post is Senator Hagerty’s questioning of her at the Senate hearing.

Breitbart:

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) called for a more “fulsome investigation” into accusations Federal Reserve nominee Dr. Lisa Cook embellished her resume. Cook swore under oath she had not embellished her record.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran a segment on Tuesday in which he reviewed Dr. Lisa Cook’s tenure packer.

Of course the tweet is now gone, but wouldn’t it be swell if we had real journalists that would sniff it out. Lying to congress would put the icing on the cake. Back to the post:

Cook has also supported many controversial policies, including studies for reparations, targeting the federal funds rate to improve the black unemployment rate, and claimed that alleged disparities in coronavirus aid are due to “systemic racism.”

She has also indicated support for reparations, instituting affirmative action at California universities, corporate board diversity quotas, and job guarantees.

After University of Chicago economics professor Harald Uhlig criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, Cook took to Twitter to accuse Uhlig of “racial harassment” and called on the economics professor to be fired as the editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

She claimed “free speech has its limits.”

Carlson’s segment is particularly revealing considering that Hagerty had asked every Federal Reserve nominee, including Cook, during the February 3 Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing if they had ever embellished any part of their resume, background, or publications.

Hagerty’s call to further investigate Cook could complicate her confirmation vote. Other Biden banking nominees have been withdrawn after facing strong scrutiny from Republicans and Democrat reluctance to confirm controversial nominees.

Biden announced in mid-March he would withdraw Sarah Bloom Raskin’s bid for the Federal Reserve after she had called to bankrupt the oil and natural gas industry.

The 46th president also withdrew the nomination of Saule Omarova to serve as the Comptroller of the Currency after Republicans and Democrats opposed her controversial views to eliminate community banks and fossil fuel companies.

Now the latest:

Pulte:

Today, U.S. Federal Housing sent a 2nd Criminal Referral in the matter of Lisa D. Cook, related to a mortgage on a 3rd property and alleged misrepresentations about her properties to the United States Government during her time as Governor of the Federal Reserve. On April 7, 2021, Cook entered a 15-year mortgage for a condominium in Cambridge, MA, representing it as her “Second Home”. Only eight months later, on December 1, 2021, Cook signed an ethics form with the U.S. Government that this property was an “investment/rental property”. In subsequent filings from 2022 to 2025, Cook consistently listed this property as an investment/rental property, not a second home. Representing the property as a second home may have allowed Cook to secure a lower “Second Home” mortgage down payment and rates, as investment properties typically carry higher down payments and higher rates due to increased risk. Additionally, Cook allegedly misrepresented her Atlanta, GA property from 2022-2025 to the U.S. Government as her residence, despite evidence suggesting it was being rented out to tenants. Similarly, Cook declared in a 2025 government filing that her Ann Arbor, MI property was her personal residence, however, we have reason to believe that as of 2025, the Ann Arbor property is being used as a rental property, not a personal residence. These inconsistencies appear Cook made additional, multiple false representations, including to the U.S. Government, regarding the status of her mortgages and properties.

We have to figure out what to do about these D.C. District Judges.

For more on Cook see Bunk’s latest post:

The Strange Background of the Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Accused of Mortgage Fraud

After she lawyered up with the latest high voltage attorneys to sue for her job, this is getting rich.

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