Lisa Cook's lawyer fires back at Bill Pulte: 'They won't succeed'
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Comments: by Ashleigh Fields - 06/30/26 11:33 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Ashleigh Fields - 06/30/26 11:33 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING The attorney for Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook on Monday said President Trump and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte “won’t succeed” in pursuing her prosecution on allegations of mortgage fraud.
After the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Trump’s efforts to oust Cook, both the president and Pulte, who is also acting Director of National Intelligence, promised to continue their legal campaign against her. Abbe Lowell, who’s serving as legal counsel to Cook, said those efforts would ultimately fail. “Do I think that there’s grounds to indict her?
Do I think that any real prosecutor in America would present it? Do I think in a different era this could even be something that you and I would talk about? No,’ Lowell said during a Monday appearance on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins.” “Do I think somebody that takes whatever Donald Trump does and does it, whether it used to be Alina Habba in New Jersey or Lindsey Halligan in Virginia, will try to do something that he says?
It’s quite possible. As in those other cases, they won’t succeed,” he added, referring to two U.S. attorneys who have since been forced out of their positions.
Lowell said the Trump administration actively attempts to “basically mislead or misdirect or do things to get indictments where they don’t belong,” but pointed to the unsuccessful mortgage fraud case of New York Attorney General Letitia James, whom he also represents, as an indicator of where the Cook case is heading. The majority of justices in the Cook case said earlier on Monday she was “entitled to notice and some opportunity to respond prior to her termination,” in the decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the high court’s three liberals in preventing Trump from immediately dismissing Cook.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett dissented. As a result of their decision, Cook will remain on the board for now, while Pulte and Trump launch another attempt to have her criminally indicted for mortgage fraud.
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