Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook’s lawyers told the White House that she did not knowingly commit fraud, denying that she falsified mortgage documents, as President Donald Trump has claimed in his attempt to fire her.
Cook’s lawyers, Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen, framed the situation as an “inadvertent error” on Cook’s part, rather than fraud, according to a response to Trump’s threat to fire her submitted just ahead of a deadline imposed by the Trump administration. They also took a swing at the Trump administration itself.
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