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Financial fraud is a big deal. Don't do it. No, it's not a personal service announcement. That's what Bill Pulte has been saying on his social media. That's the Nepo baby who bought his way onto a Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac jop with Donald Trump. This is what he says in order to go after Letitia James, the New York Attorney General's office, and go after Lisa Cook on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and go after Adam Schiff. Except there's some problems with the Lisa Cook part of it as she battles and wins in court to keep her job and Donald Trump runs to the appellate court to try to get her bounced by next week. Not only is Bill Pulte's parents guilty of the quote unquote same crime as he's accused her of, which is checking the box on her mortgage applications for a couple of properties and saying that they're both her primary residents in order to get a little bit of a financial benefit from a mortgage interest rate standpoint, maybe from a tax standpoint. Except Reuters just determined that she didn't do that and that there's documents that demonstrate that she was upfront with the credit union that lent her the money on the Atlanta house, she's got a house in Michigan, she's got a house in Atlanta. She got a house in Massachusetts, Bill Pulte says, I see documents where she signed it and she said stipulated this will be your primary residence. But you didn't see all the docs, Bill. You missed the one where she filled out the questionnaire and on the loan proposal it she listed it the Atlanta home as her second home or her vacation home. And she never took the tax deduction on the Atlanta property that she's renting out, demonstrating that she thought it was her primary residence. She only did that in Michigan. So now what do you do? I am sure the Department of Justice is not going to reverse course and submit to the judge, Judge Leah Cobb. Judge, Judge Cobb, that Lisa Cook did not commit, quote, unquote, mortgage fraud. No, they just doubled down on it in a filing at the D.C. court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals for the Circuit Court, and saying there's, there's material good cause and just cause and for cause to fire her from her position, even though the judge, Judge Cobb, got through saying none of what you're alleging is relevant because it happened before she became on the board of governors. And the misconduct that you're trying to toss her over has to happen while she's on the job about her statutory duties. But now Reuters has come out and blown the door wide open and blown the scandal wide open and pointed the finger right back at Bill Pulte. I'm going to cover it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal af. How do we get here? Donald Trump, like a toddler in a high chair, couldn't get rid of Jay Powell on the Federal Reserve because he wouldn't go. There was no for cause reason to get rid of him, which the supreme, even the Supreme Court says you need to get rid of somebody on the board of governors. So he looked around, he said, who's, who's black? I mean, this is my artist rendering. Okay, look into her mortgages. So they looked into her mortgages. They said, oh, she's got three properties. Oh, check the mortgages. Maybe she took her primary residence. She declared it twice. Bill Pulte would know all about that because his father, Mark Pulte, and his stepmother, Julia Pulte, have this, have checked the box, not only checked the box for two primary residences, one that they rent out in Michigan and one in Boca Raton, Florida, but they've gotten tremendous tax benefits in Michigan and in Florida because they've named them the primary residences to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In fact, Michigan has already back charged them to get back the money. Based on Reuters reporting and other Reporting says that 20% of the cabinet for Donald Trump, labor secretary, transportation secretary, EPA administrator, have two loans that both check the box to say that their primary residences. Now let's go back to Lisa Cook. Lisa Cook said, I'm not guilty. I don't have two primary residences that I take advantage of. And now Reuters has determined that in the questionnaire that she filled out effectively that listing what the property uses would be in the stipulation that they and they got this from the credit union. She listed it as her vacation home not her primary residence. Right? So on a loan appraisal or a loan approval estimate, it's listed on 5 18, 20, 21 the Atlanta property as a vacation home with the credit union. And in Atlanta and in Georgia and Fulton county, she never took the primary residence tax deduction or tax classification that would have helped her on that property. But she did in Michigan. You see how this is all falling apart before our very eyes. And now we then return to the in the filing that Mark Polti was all Bill Pulte sorry of Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac was all hot and bothered about which said that there was a stipulation in both loans that she signed that this would be her primary residence. If you look closely at the fine print, it also said that that property is stipulated to be a primary residence unless the lender agrees otherwise. Unless the lender agrees in writing and they've got the writings from within the credit union acknowledging that the underwriting of the loan that committee inside the credit union knew or should have known that it was a primary it was not a primary residence. The Atlanta property the Weather it's heating up and your nighttime bedroom temperature has a huge impact on your sleep quality. If you wake up too hot or too cold, I highly recommend you check out Miracle Maid's bedsheets. 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He wants four out of seven so that he has the majority, so he can fire all of the regional bank presidents and replace them with his lackeys, so he can get the majority to lower interest rates whenever he so pleases and to re overhaul the Federal Reserve in his image that that's what we're watching. That's why this fight is so important. But if you're going to come, if you're going to come at Lisa Cook, you better come heavy and you better come correct. And they're not correct about primary residences. First of all, the judge said if you're looking at a 4 cause termination of a governor on the Federal Reserve, it has to be based on the case law. It has to be for one of three things happening on the job, not before the job, not before she was confirmed. They have to prove she was inefficient, neglect of duty or malfeasance, maybe moral turpitude problems while she was on and in the governor position, not before. So they have to show she sucks at her job, she's slow at her job or she does. You know, I gave the example inefficiency, neglect of duty and malfeasance. And the difference between the three, the three states is, I'll put it this way, inefficiency is they give you 20 reports to prepare and you only get to five. Neglect of duty is they give you 20 reports to prepare and you don't do any. And finally, malfeasance is you do the 20 reports but you suck. And that's the grounds to get rid of somebody, not they check the box in this murky area of prime residents versus succeeding second homes back before she became on the Federal Reserve through a confirmation and due diligence process. And it's especially wrong given the fact that Bill Pulte's own family, who has close connections back to Donald Trump, did the exact same thing. So badly though, that Michigan Had a back charge, Bill Pulte's father, a couple hundred thousand for basically tax fraud. So I agree with Bill Pulte and which, which started this financial fraud is a big deal. Don't do it. Pulte family. Now, what's the relationship between Bill Pulte, Mark Pulte and Donald Trump? Well, you're going to like this one. Bill Pulte, the son, 40 year old son, Nepo, baby of Mark Polti, who was the builder who did all the construction Pulte homes and all of that. Pulte friends with Donald Trump, moved in those circles in Palm beach, now living in Boca Raton. They both bid over the same property with Epstein that Epstein identified in Palm Beach. Mark Pulte was the loser of that purchase by Donald Trump for $41 million. That led to the destruction of the relationship between Epstein and Trump. However, several years later, Mark Pulte bought what was then the highest priced house in Palm beach county on that same piece of land, which was 122 million. That's how far back the Pulte, Trump family go. And now you're talking about don't throw stones in a glass house, especially when you have multiple houses, some in Michigan and some in Boca Raton. Now, if I'm the lawyers, of course, for Lisa Cook, I rush this back in an emergency filing with the Judge Cobb, who's still presiding over the case. And getting to the bottom, she found that the firing under the Federal Reserve act was wrong because there was no for cause that was appropriate even if this mortgage thing was true. And also found that Lisa Cook was not given proper due process rights to be able to put in this type of evidence in a hearing under due process. When your property rights like employment are being taken away from you, you get the right to defend yourself. This is where her lawyers would have said, here's the, here's my full submission to the credit union. It says this says vacation home. This says second home. Here's my tax filing in Michigan and in Atlanta. You see, I only took one primary home tax exemption. She didn't get due process. That's why the judge blocked her firing. Now, you got to hurry up and get that there and then transmit it over to the district court, court of Appeals because Donald Trump filed an emergency application late last night asking them to rule by Monday to kick her out of her job before the 16th of September. So there's one less vote he's got to worry about on rate cutting. Well, thank you to Reuters for doing a great job. They're on this man. They took down Mark Pulte, the parents of Bill Pulte. They took down the cabinet, 20% of the cabinet doing the same thing. And now they've vindicated Lisa Cook with this new information. That of course would have been part of a due process process had Donald Trump given her one. I'm going to cover it all. Continue to follow it on Legal AF Substack Live as this is a fast moving story. As soon as I see that filing by Lisa Cook's lawyers, Abby Lowell, etc. You'll be the first one to know. 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