After Pulte made two criminal referrals against James in March, her lawyer, Abbe D. Lowell, accused “Trump and his political enablers” of “abusing their power to pursue a vendetta against her by trying to rename, refile, and repeat baseless allegations.”
Swalwell sued Pulte in November, claiming he used his power to “concoct fanciful allegations of mortgage fraud.”
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) launched a probe into Pulte in December after a group of Senate Democrats asked the watchdog to investigate whether he misused his authority in making the referrals.
Beyond the criminal referrals, Pulte also joined Trump in attacking former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling for his resignation and blasting him for not lowering benchmark interest rates as much as the President wanted.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, accused Pulte in a letter last July of straying from his responsibilities as FHFA director amid an American housing crisis.
