Bill Pulte

There's stuff in the media all the time as it relates to mortgage fraud.

So we will take it from anywhere and everywhere.

And again, our main focus is on the safety and soundness of the mortgage market.

As I have said publicly, there was a tip that we received.

I do not comment on the source, identity, or any other means that we use during a federal investigation as it pertains to things that are outside of the referral letter.

You can imagine that if we start exposing, whether it be on this investigation or other investigations, where we receive tips from, where we get whistleblowers from, this is a very serious thing.

And so when people are trying to, in my view, intimidate whistleblowers, intimidate tipsters...

I strongly condemn that.

And if people have mortgage fraud, I encourage them to go to fraud tips at FHFA.gov and send us those mortgage tips.

Again, I'm not going to comment on any specific investigations other than the ones that either have been made public by other people or that we feel comfortable speaking to, and that pertains to things within the confines of the referral letter.

But that is the issue, because we've spent, that is the issue, because you've been interviewing me now for two minutes, and you keep asking me about all of these tangential issues instead of asking about, you know, did she sign these documents?

I believe she did sign these documents.

Is it

Is it mortgage fraud to say that you live in one area and not another area?

Yes, it is mortgage fraud.

So you're not focusing on the fraud.

You're focusing on the investigators for purposes of trying to undermine what it is that she did, allegedly, and what it is that mortgage fraud and the risk that mortgage fraud poses to the system.

And we're not going to be intimidated.

I mean, we swore an oath and we are going to continue to prosecute mortgage fraud.

It doesn't matter whether it's a Republican, a Democrat, a public official, or Joe Blow on the street.