Lev Menand
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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This is about the rest of the board.
This is about the president's determination to subordinate one of the most powerful parts of the government as part of a larger campaign to control as much of the government as possible.
And the move against Cook is a preview.
Of coming events for other board members if in fact the firing is able to take effect.
Okay, so what is the specific case against Cook?
It has to do with two mortgages that she took out before she became a governor of the Federal Reserve.
And so it appears as though the administration has been digging around in mortgage records and they found, I don't know whether they were looking at Lisa Cook in particular or government officials, they found that Lisa Cook had
had two mortgage applications, both of which claimed that she intended to make the property that was collateral for the loan her primary residence.
And so the allegation is that this is mortgage fraud.
Of course, fraud requires an intent.
And so on its face, just the two documents is not sufficient to convict somebody of a crime, nor can you be sort of convicted of a crime, you know, on the Twitter sphere.
The ordinary way in which it would get worked out whether there was fraud here is there would be.
Uh, private government uh investigation by prosecutors.
They could get an indictment, etc.
None of that has happened, right?
Right.
This is guilty until proven innocent.
And it doesn't seem to even be the goal of the administration to run a proper proceeding to determine whether this private misconduct took place.
The point is to point to this private misconduct and say, now I can fire you from the Federal Reserve.
And that's where there's just a big disconnect because allegations of private misconduct, there's just no precedent that supports a removal for cause from a government position on that basis.
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