27 h. ago Trump admin opens criminal mortgage fraud probe into Fed governor Lisa Cook

The US Justice Department has launched a criminal mortgage fraud probe into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and has issued grand jury subpoenas out of both Georgia and Michigan, according to documents seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the matter. The investigation, which followed a criminal referral from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, is being conducted by Ed Martin, who was tapped by Attorney General Pam Bondi as a special assistant US attorney to assist with...

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2 d. ago US House Oversight Committee releases batch of files in Epstein, Maxwell cases

The US House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. The folders contained hundreds of image files of years-old court filings related to Epstein and Maxwell. They also contained video files appearing to be body cam footage from police searches, as well as law enforcement interviews with victims with their faces obscured. The Justice...

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8 d. ago Trump sued by Fed Governor over removal, sparking independence fight

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming US President Donald Trump has no power to remove her from office, setting up a legal battle that could reset long-established norms for the US central bank’s independence. Cook’s lawsuit said Trump violated a federal law allowing him to remove a Fed governor only “for cause” when the Republican president took the unprecedented step on August 25 of announcing he would fire her. Trump has accused Cook of committing mortgage...

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1 week ago US Fed governor Lisa Cook to sue Trump, saying he cannot legally fire her

US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s lawyer said she will launch a court challenge against US President Donald Trump’s effort to fire her. A member of Trump’s administration filed a referral to the Justice Department over allegations involving mortgages Cook obtained in Georgia and Michigan. “President Trump has no authority to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook,” lawyer Abbe Lowell said in a statement emailed to reporters. “His attempt to fire her, based solely on a referral letter,...

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1 week ago Fed governor will sue to keep her job as Trump mulls replacement

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook will file a lawsuit to prevent US President Donald Trump from firing her, a lawyer for the embattled central bank official said on Tuesday, kicking off what could be a protracted legal fight over the White House’s effort to shape US monetary policy. “His attempt to fire her, based solely on a referral letter, lacks any factual or legal basis. We will be filing a lawsuit challenging this illegal action,” Cook’s lawyer, prominent Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell,...

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1 week ago Trump sacks Fed Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud allegations

President Donald Trump moved to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her post at the US central bank in the wake of allegations that she falsified documents on mortgage applications. “The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve,” Trump said in a letter he posted to Truth Social. “In light of your deceitful and possibly criminal conduct in a financial matter, they cannot and I do...

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2 w. ago US Justice Department to investigate Fed’s Lisa Cook, urges her removal

The US Justice Department signalled possible plans to investigate Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, with a top official informing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of the probe and encouraging him to remove her from the board in a letter sent on Thursday. Ed Martin, a Justice Department official who has led similar investigations into Senator Adam Schiff of California and New York Attorney General Letitia James, told Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that Cook’s case “requires further...

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2 w. ago US Justice Dept probes whether Washington police falsified crime data

The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington have falsified data to make crime rates appear lower than they are, according to two people familiar with the investigation who were not authorised to publicly discuss an open investigation. The investigation comes amid an escalating – and political – showdown between the Trump administration and the city over control of the police department. It was not immediately clear which federal laws could...

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2 w. ago US Justice Department probes whether Washington police falsified crime data

The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington have falsified data to make crime rates appear lower than they are, according to two people familiar with the investigation who were not authorised to publicly discuss an open investigation. The investigation comes amid an escalating – and political – showdown between the Trump administration and the city over control of the police department. It was not immediately clear which federal laws could...

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