(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s legal team offered a detailed rebuttal to mortgage fraud allegations made by President Donald Trump and other US officials, arguing in a new letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that the claims “fail on even the most cursory look at the facts.”
Cook’s attorney Abbe Lowell sent a letter on Monday to Bondi and Ed Martin, a senior Justice Department official tapped as a “special attorney” to investigate mortgage fraud, as she presses a legal fight to keep her job. The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Jan. 21 on Cook’s challenge to Trump’s move to fire her.
Lowell wrote that criminal referrals by a senior administration official were “baseless.”
“The full record makes clear that what he claims to be contradictions in loan applications were not contradictions at all but were cherry-picked, incomplete…
