I'll Fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook If She Doesn't Resign
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The first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve board, Ms. Cook has long been a pathbreaker in a field dominated by white men.
President Donald Trump has called on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to resign amid a claim by a top administration official that she may have engaged in so-called mortgage occupancy fraud by falsely labeling a secondary home as her primary residence to get better loan terms.
A new report says the president might try to fire Cook, the first woman of color to sit on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Trump administration officials have accused the Federal Reserve governor of mortgage fraud and called for her to resign.
A lone protester interrupted the serene morning at Jackson Lake Lodge as Fed governor Lisa Cook tried to slip into the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic symposium through a side entrance. Bill Pulte,
President Donald Trump has threatened to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook if she does not resign over mortgage fraud allegations.