The Government Accountability Office, an independent and non-partisan investigative watchdog for Congress, says it has opened an investigation into Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte.
In November, top Senate Democrats wrote to the agency asking that it “promptly investigate recent actions undertaken at the Federal Housing Finance Agency” by director Bill Pulte.
Specifically, actions related to “recent referrals of New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and Congressman Eric Swalwell to the U.S. Department of Justice for mortgage fraud.”
All the officials that Pulte has referred to the Justice Department have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
“I can confirm that GAO has accepted this request following our standard process,” a GAO spokesperson told NBC News.
“The first thing GAO does as any work begins is to determine the full scope of what we will cover and the methodology to be used,” the spokesperson added. “This can take a few months, and until that is done, we cannot provide any estimates on a completion date.
The FHFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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