Author name: Hannah Levintova

Bill Pulte, the embattled head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), once promoted a dubious memecoin created by a social media influencer facing fraud charges. The previously unreported episode raises additional questions about the 37-year-old construction heir, who over the past few months has lobbed allegations of mortgage fraud against President Donald Trump’s political […]

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If you had never heard of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—a small niche of the government that oversees much of the mortgage industry—this might be the week that put the FHFA on your radar, all because of its director, a 37-year-old official named Bill Pulte who was this week’s Washington Main Character (Non-Epstein Division). Over […]

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For the past month, Donald Trump has been trying to fire Lisa Cook—a renowned economist serving as a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors—over claims that she committed mortgage fraud. Trump’s attempt ended up before the Supreme Court, where last month lawyers for the administration told the justices that Cook’s firing is merited […]

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