Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 2025 Jackson Hole economic symposium, “Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy” in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, U.S., August 23, 2025.
Jim Urquhart | Reuters
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte on Thursday night said he had filed a second criminal referral against Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, whom President Donald Trump is trying to fire.
Pulte said the new referral relates to a mortgage relates to a mortgage on third property “and alleged misrepresentations about her properties to the United States Government during her time as Governor of the Federal Reserve.”
Earlier Thursday, Cook sued Trump, asking a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to block the president from removing her from the board of the central bank.
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