Barbara McQuade

But it requires more than conflicting statements.

So it appears that Adam Schiff may have checked the box on two different properties to say they would be his primary residence.

And logic tells us that a person cannot have more than one primary residence.

So on its face, it's a red flag, and it might merit further investigation.

But that alone is not evidence of mortgage fraud.

Mortgage fraud requires that a person make a false statement.

That could be false.

But they do so knowingly, so not a mistake, not an error.

That they do so willfully.

That is, I knew it was illegal, and I did it anyway.

And that the statement is material.

That means it mattered.

The person got either better loan terms or they qualified for a loan that otherwise would have been rejected.

So it requires a great deal of investigation before that happens.

Most of the time when you get a referral for these things, they come from a bank that says we've noticed this false statement in these documents and we are referring it to the FBI for further investigation.

That's the predication we talked about earlier that's required in the DIOG, the Domestic Investigations Operations Guide.

What appears to have happened here is the process in reverse, to reverse engineer these cases.

So who are Trump's enemies?

And let's dig through all of their records and see if we can find anything we can pin on them.

Yes, certainly.