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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell declined Wednesday to touch upon the continuing authorized battle between Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook dinner and the Trump administration over her function on the central financial institution.
“I see it as a court docket case that it could be inappropriate for me to touch upon,” Powell mentioned when requested on the conclusion of the two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) assembly.
Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Jerome Powell speaks with Lisa Cook dinner, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, on the Federal Reserve Board constructing in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP//Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
The Federal Reserve has beforehand acknowledged the potential authorized feud and wrote in an Aug. 26 assertion that the Fed will “abide by any court docket resolution.”
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On Tuesday, the Trump administration vowed to take its struggle over Cook dinner to the Supreme Courtroom after a decrease court docket blocked the president’s effort to dismiss her. The transfer was the most recent in a string of makes an attempt to dismiss her from the Fed board forward of the FOMC rate-setting assembly.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks throughout a information convention after a Federal Open Market Committee assembly in Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
On the coronary heart of the authorized struggle are unsubstantiated allegations of mortgage fraud in opposition to Cook dinner, raised by Invoice Pulte, a Trump appointee to the company overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Pulte tied Cook dinner to a trio of properties in Michigan, Georgia and Massachusetts, which prompted scrutiny over whether or not Cook dinner had misrepresented how the houses can be used. The three mortgage loans have been issued in 2021, earlier than she was nominated by former President Joe Biden to hitch the Fed board.
A mortgage estimate for the Atlanta residence bought by Cook dinner, reviewed by Reuters, reveals she declared the property as a “trip residence” in 2021, a element that undercuts the Trump administration’s accusations.
President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook dinner. (Chip Somodeville/Al Drago/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
Pulte made two separate referrals to the Justice Division over these mortgage functions.
President Donald Trump seized on these allegations and ousted Cook dinner on Aug. 25, which prompted her to sue him in federal court docket three days later. Her lawsuit didn’t deal with the allegations in regards to the a number of houses listed as a main residence.
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The Justice Division opened a felony investigation on Sept. 4 into Cook dinner over allegations of mortgage software fraud. Her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, wrote in a submitting on Sept. 2 that she “didn’t ever commit mortgage fraud.”