Swalwell files suit to block criminal referral on alleged mortgage violations
11/25/25 4:51 PM ET

 

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) has filed a suit against the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), arguing its leader abused his authority in forwarding a criminal referral regarding the lawmaker’s mortgage.  

 

The suit is the first of its kind after FHFA Director Bill Pulte has made four criminal referrals for Democrats alleging they committed some type of mortgage fraud. Swalwell’s suit goes on the offense, asking the courts to force the director to withdraw the referral in arguing the director wrongly obtained the information.

 

“Pulte has abused his position by scouring databases at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — two government-sponsored enterprises — for the private mortgage records of several prominent Democrats. He then used those records to concoct fanciful allegations of mortgage fraud, which he referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution,” Swalwell’s legal team wrote in the suit, calling the lawmaker “one of the president’s most vocal and visible critics in Congress.”

 

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5622573-swalwell-fhfa-pulte-trump-schiff-california/

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession.

Underscoring how common the practice is, ProPublica found that at least three of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. We discovered the loans while examining financial disclosure forms, county real estate records and publicly available mortgage data provided by Hunterbrook Media.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud

So they should be prosecuted just the same as anyone else.

Its very common to have more than one mtg though and doesn't mean theres fraud at all