1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs
2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads
3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James
4) IG and ethics officials are all fired.
Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to people familiar with the matter.
Fannie’s ethics and investigations group had received internal complaints alleging senior officials had improperly directed staff to access the mortgage documents of James and others, according to the people. The Fannie investigators were probing to find out who had made the orders, whether Pulte had the authority to seek the documents and whether or not they had followed proper procedure, the people said.
That group elevated the probe about the James documents to the more senior Office of Inspector General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that Pulte heads, the people said. The acting inspector general then passed the report to the U.S. attorney’s office in eastern Virginia, some of the people said.
That office, under the leadership of a Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan, had brought a criminal case alleging mortgage fraud against James. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office hasn’t responded to a request for comment.
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The FHFA acting inspector general sent the office the report at least in part because it could be considered material information for James’s defense in the case, one of the people said.
In the wake of the probes, and other investigations inside Fannie, about a dozen members of the ethics and internal investigations unit of Fannie were fired, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Suzanne Libby, Fannie Mae’s chief ethics officer, was removed and Danielle McCoy, who served as general counsel, also stepped down after being pressured by leadership, the Journal reported.
The FHFA’s acting inspector general, Joe Allen, who sent the internal investigation to the prosecutors, was asked to step down from his role shortly after, the people said.
The rule o’ law presidency.
The word is that Pulte is detested by virtually everyone but Trump. So there’s no stopping him. They are now investigating Eric Swalwell. I’m going to guess that eventually everyone on Trump’s enemies list will have a mortgage fraud investigation.