Claim Misleads About 'Mortgage Fraud' on Trump's Cabinet
A liberal commentator on a CNN roundtable stated that three Trump Cabinet members committed 'mortgage fraud,' which is misleading.
According to ProPublica, an investigative media outlet, documents show that three Trump administration Cabinet members signed mortgages classifying separate houses as their principal residences. However, the documents required that they make the homes their principal residence for a year, and there's no information showing they failed to do that.
Federal prosecutors did indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges related to mortgage fraud, but this was due to how she classified a house in Norfolk, Virginia, on a document.
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- No government officials' statements or news reports indicate that these Cabinet members were targeted for prosecution.
Author's summary: Misleading claim about Trump's Cabinet and mortgage fraud.