A senior Trump administration official has referred East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Castro Valley, to the U.S. Department of Justice for an investigation over alleged mortgage and tax fraud tied to a Washington, D.C., home, NBC News reported Thursday.

Swalwell, a former Dublin councilmember, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated.

“As the most vocal critic of Donald Trump over the last decade and as the only person who still has a surviving lawsuit against him, the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me,” he said in a statement, adding that he will not withdraw his 2021 lawsuit alleging President Trump incited the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.

Swalwell, who represents the 14th Congressional District — covering most of easte

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